The Films of Bong Joon HoBong Joon Ho won the Oscar for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme dOr at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with 2006s monster movie The Host and whose forays into English language film with Snowpiercer (2013) and Okja (2017)