Park Chan-wook

South Korean filmmaker

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2025 Park Chan-wook is nominated for Best Film at the 61st Baeksang Arts Awards for his film 'Uprising'
2024 Park Chan-wook is set to release the Netflix film 'Uprising'.
2024 Park began filming his adaptation of The Ax, titled No Other Choice.
2024 Park directed The Sympathizer, which is set to premiere.
2023 'Decision to Leave' won the Grand Prize – Film at the 59th Baeksang Arts Awards.
2023 Park Chan-wook won the 2023 Visionary Award.
2023 In 2023, Park Chan-wook was recognized again, achieving 3rd place in Sisa Journal's Korea's Most Influential Cultural Artists list.
2022 Decision to Leave, directed by Park, won the Best Director award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
2022 Park Chan-wook was awarded the Eugwan Order of Cultural Merit at the Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards.
2022 'Decision to Leave' won the Director Award at the Critics Choice Awards for Asian Pacific Cinema & Television.
2022 Park Chan-wook ranked 2nd in Sisa Journal's list of Korea's Most Influential Cultural Artists in 2022.
2022 'Decision to Leave' won Best Film at the 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards.
2022 Park Chan-wook worked on 'Life Is But a Dream'.
2022 'Decision to Leave' won Best Film at the Korean Association of Film Critics Awards.
2022 Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook's latest film at the time, was released, and editor Kim Sang-bum won the José Salcedo Award for Best Editing at the Valladolid International Film Festival for his work on the film.
2021 In 2021, Park Chan-wook was acknowledged as the 5th Most Influential Cultural Artist in Korea by Sisa Journal.
April 2021 A24 announced that Park would direct a TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer.
2020 Park began working on the screenplay for his next film, tentatively titled Heeojil gyeolsim (The Decision to Break Up).
2020 Park Chan-wook was ranked 3rd in 2020 on the list of Korea's Most Influential Cultural Artists by Sisa Journal.
2020 Park Chan-wook began working on the series 'Snowpiercer', credited as a director.
2019 In 2019, Park Chan-wook continued to be recognized, placing 6th in Sisa Journal's Korea's Most Influential Cultural Artists list.
2018 Park Chan-wook was ranked 6th in Sisa Journal's list of Korea's Most Influential Cultural Artists in 2018.
2018 'The Handmaiden' won Best Film Not in the English Language at the 71st British Academy Film Awards.
October 2018 The TV miniseries adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl, directed by Park, aired on BBC One.
2017 In 2017, Park Chan-wook was included in Sisa Journal's list of Next Generation Leaders in Culture, Arts, Sports, achieving 22nd place.
2017 He was involved in the project 'Decades Apart'.
2017 Park Chan-wook supported Justice Party candidate Sim Sang-jung in the South Korean presidential election.
2017 Park Chan-wook's 'The Handmaiden' won the Grand Prize – Film at the 53rd Baeksang Arts Awards.
2017 'The Handmaiden' won Best International Film at the 43rd Saturn Awards.
2016 'The Handmaiden' won Best Foreign Language Film at the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards.
2016 The Handmaiden, directed by Park, earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language.
2016 'The Handmaiden' won Best Foreign Language Film at the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards.
2016 Park Chan-wook directed the film 'The Truth Beneath'.
2016 'The Handmaiden' won Best Foreign Language Film at the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards.
2016 'The Handmaiden' won Best Foreign Language Film at the Houston Film Critics Society Awards.
2016 'The Handmaiden' won Best Foreign Language Film at the Online Film Critics Society Awards.
2016 'The Handmaiden' received multiple nominations at the Austin Film Critics Association Awards, but won Best Foreign Language Film.
2016 'The Handmaiden' won Best Foreign Language Film at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.
2016 The Handmaiden was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won several awards at the Buil Film Awards.
2016 Premiered 'The Handmaiden' at Cannes Film Festival, receiving nominations for Palme d'Or and Queer Palm.
2015 Park Chan-wook was recognized as a Next Generation Leader in Pop Culture by Sisa Journal in 2015, placing 7th.
October 31 2015 Filming for The Handmaiden concluded, which premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
2014 Park Chan-wook directed the documentary 'Bitter, Sweet, Seoul'.
2014 Park directed a short film for luxury brand Ermenegildo Zegna, which screened at the Rome International Film Festival.
2013 Park Chan-wook directed the film 'Snowpiercer'.
2013 Park's film Stoker was released, noted for being the only film edited by Kim Sang-bum that did not feature his editing.
2013 Park Chan-wook's film 'Stoker' was nominated for Best International Film at the 40th Saturn Awards.
2013 He worked on the music video 'V' for Lee Jung-hyun.
2013 Collaborated on the film 'Snowpiercer' as a writer
March 2 2013 Park participated in a panel discussion about his first English-language film, Stoker, at the Freer Gallery of Art in the Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art.

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