Biography
Bong Joon-ho (Korean: 봉준호), born September 14, 1969, is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. His films are characterised by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, 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 Award-winning black comedy social thriller Parasite (2019), all of which are among the highest-grossing films in South Korea, with Parasite also being the highest-grossing South Korean film in history.
All of Bong's 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 Festival—Okja in 2017 and Parasite in 2019; the latter earned the Palme d'Or, 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 Metacritic's list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century. In 2020, Bong was included in Time's annual list of 100 Most Influential People and Bloomberg 50.
Filmography
all 58
Movies 50
self 19
Director 17
TV Shows 8
Writer 5
Producer 4
Mickey 17 (2025)
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club (2023)
Kultur-King Korea (2022)
보는 것을 사랑한다 (2021)
Next Entertainment, Visionary (2021)
Snowpiercer (2020)
봉준호, 장르가 되다 (2020)
Parasite (2019)
Your Song (2019)
You Quiz On The Block (2018)
Memories (2018)
The Clouzot Scandal (2017)
Okja (2017)
Crunchyroll Anime Awards (2017)
Searching for Bong (2015)
Sea Fog (2014)
Understanding Movies (2014)
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen (2014)
Where is my DVD? (2013)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema (2012)
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer (2012)
Doomsday Book (2012)
A Brave New World (2012)
3.11 A Sense of Home (2011)
Kurosawa's Way (2011)
Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother (2010)
Mother (2009)
Can I Borrow a Light? (2009)
Crush and Blush (2008)
Tokyo! (2008)
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight (2008)
Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young (2007)
The Host (2006)
Making Memories of Murder (2005)
Antarctic Journal (2005)
Jeonju Digital Project 2004 (2004)
Influenza (2004)
Sink & Rise (2004)
Memories of Murder (2003)
No Blood No Tears (2002)
Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
Phantom: The Submarine (1999)
Motel Cactus (1997)
7 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than a Lover (1996)
White Man (1994)
The Memories in My Frame (1994)
Incoherence (1994)
2001 Imagine (1994)
The Love of a Grape Seed (1994)
Looking For Paradise (1992)
The Oscars (1953)
Untitled Lee Isaac Chung Project
The Host : Histoires de famille
The Host 2
Sounds from Heaven and Earth
Parasite
Untitled Bong Joon-ho Animated Film
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1969-09-14 (54 years old)
Birth PlaceDaegu, South Korea
MotherPark Soyeong
CitizenshipsSouth Korea
Also Known As봉준호, 奉俊昊, Bong Jun-ho, ポン・ジュノ, بونگ جون-هو, בונג ג'ון-הו, Пон Чжун Хо, Bong Joon Ho, Joon Ho Bong
AwardsHo-Am Prize in the Arts, Grand Bell Awards, Palme d'Or, Academy Award for Best Director, Officer of Arts and Letters
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