Telluride Diary: Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Parasite’ and the Academy’s Next Barrier1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnly one Asian director — Ang Lee — has ever earned a best picture nomination. It’s a remarkable omission for the vast, cinema-steeped continent that has produced filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Wong Kar-Wai, Hayao Miyazaki, Park Chan-Wook and on and on and on.
That lonely number may grow this year, because of the genial man resting under the shade of a pine tree at a picnic table on Telluride’s main drag, having just made a 27-hour journey from Seoul to this remote box canyon in the Rockies.
South Korean director Bong Joon Ho, 49, is in Telluride for the North American premiere of his movie Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May, grossed more than $90 million internationally since it started rolling out over the summer and opens in North America on Oct. 11, courtesy of Neon.
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