Bong Joon-ho

Bong Joonho Korean 봉준호 born September 14 1969 is a South Korean film director producer and screenwriter His films are characterised by emphasis on social themes genremixing black humor and sudden tone shifts He first became known to audiences and achieved a cult following with his directorial debut film the black comedy Barking Dogs Never Bite 2000 before achieving both critical and commercial success with his subsequent films the crime thriller Memories of Murder 2003 the monster film The Host 2006 the science fiction action film Snowpiercer 2013 and the Academy Awardwinning black comedy social thriller Parasite 2019 all of which are among the highestgrossing films in South Korea with Parasite also being the highestgrossing South Korean film in history All of Bongs films have been South Korean productions although both Snowpiercer and Okja 2017 are mostly in the English language Two of his films have screened in competition at the Cannes Film FestivalOkja in 2017 and Parasite in 2019 the latter earned the Palme dOr which was a first for a South Korean film Parasite also became the first South Korean film to receive Academy Award nominations with Bong winning Best Picture Best Director and Best Original Screenplay making Parasite the first film not in English to win Best Picture In 2017 Bong was included on Metacritics list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century In 2020 Bong was included in Times annual list of 100 Most Influential People and Bloomberg 50