 Bong Joon-ho (pictured in 2017) has won three Academy Awards, the most out of all South Koreans. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This list details South Koreans working in the film industry who have been nominated for, or won, Academy Awards (also known as Oscars). These include artists and filmmakers, both naturalized and diaspora , or South Korean film production companies. North Korea has never sought to participate in the awards due to tensions with the United States and South Korea.
Contents
- Production
- Best Picture
- Best Documentary Feature
- Best Documentary Short Subject
- Best Animated Feature
- Best Animated Short Film
- Best International Feature Film
- Performance
- Best Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Craft
- Best Director
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Film Editing
- Best Production Design
- Best Original Song
- References
South Koreans had not received any nominations for almost six decades following the inauguration launch of Academy Award, until Christine Choy was nominated in 1988. In 2004, Sejong Park was the second. [1]
In the late 2010s, South Korean consecutive entrants Chang-dong's Burning and Joon-ho's Parasite shortlisted the International Feature Film category: The former became the first to make it to the final nine-film shortlist of the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film but it didn't make for the nomination. [2] The latter became the first South Korean film to earn a nomination for Best International Feature Film, but not limited to; it also was the first South Korean film to be nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Production Design; it won all the first four including Best Picture.
Out of eleven non-English international films who have been previously nominated for, Parasite is the first non-English language film ever to win Best Picture, established in 2019/2020; this led to local recognition and global phenomenon at the start of the 2020s, boosted popularity by rising the form of a new wave of South Korean films. [3] [4]
As of 2024, Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae, Han Jin-won and Youn Yuh-jung are the only competitive winners appeared on the list; Joon-ho is currently only person to win more than once.
