PARK Chan-Wook

Director, Script Writer, Producer, Actor

South Korea

Park Chan-wook © SEO Ji-hyoung

Ever since his Korean box office record breaking Joint Security Area in the year 2000, Park Chan-wook’s diverse body of work has garnered recognition both at home and abroad. These include his successes at the Festival de Cannes in 2004 with the prestigious Grand Prix for Old Boy and the Jury Prize for Thirst in 2009. In 2013, Park expanded his œuvre to include English language films with Stoker, released worldwide by Twentieth Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures to critical acclaim. He also produced Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s first English language film, Snowpiercer in the same year. With his most recent work, The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook returned to Cannes in 2016. After winning the Vulcan Prize, the film went on to receive enthusiastic response from critics and audience world over, once again establishing him as one of the most significant talents working in cinema today.

Jury attendance

  • Member Feature films, 2017

Feature films

HEOJIL KYOLSHIM

In Competition - Feature Films, 2022Director, Screenplay

MADEMOISELLE

In Competition - Feature Films, 2016Director

BAK-JWI

In Competition - Feature Films, 2009Director, Screenplay

OLD BOY

In Competition - Feature Films, 2004Director, Screenplay

Awards

HEOJIL KYOLSHIM

(DECISION TO LEAVE) In Competition - Feature Films, 2022
2022 Award for Best Director
Director, Screenplay

BAK-JWI

(THIRST) In Competition - Feature Films, 2009
2009 Jury Prize (Ex-Aequo)
Director, Screenplay

OLD BOY

In Competition - Feature Films, 2004
2004 Grand Prix
Director, Screenplay