Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho
14.09.1969 (54 years) (Daegu, South Korea)
Bong Joon-ho (Korean: 봉준호, Korean pronunciation: [poːŋ tɕuːnho → poːŋdʑunho]; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He garnered international acclaim for his second feature film Memories of Murder (2003), before achieving commercial success with his subsequent films The Host (2006) and Snowpiercer (2013), both of which are among the highest-grossing films of all time in South Korea.Two of his films have screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival—Okja, which premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and Parasite, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. He became the first Korean director to win the Palme d'Or.In 2017, Metacritic ranked Bong thirteenth on its list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century. His films feature timely social themes, genre-mixing, black humor, and sudden mood shifts.