A South Korean filmmaker of international prominence. His films feature social themes, genre-mixing, black humour and sudden mood shifts. He first gained recognition for his second feature film, the crime drama Memories of Murder (2003), before achieving commercial success with his subsequent films, the black comedy monster movie The Host (2006) and the dystopian thriller Snowpiercer (2013), both of which are among the highest-grossing films in South Korea. Two of his films have screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival - Okja in 2017 and Parasite in 2019, the latter of which earned the first Palme d'Or for a South Korean film. For Parasite, Bong received Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (shared with Han Jin-won), and, on behalf of South Korea, Best International Feature Film.