Lee Chang-dong

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Lee Chang-dong
Lee Chang-dong

Korean spelling
Hangeul 이창동
Hanja 李滄 東
Revised
Romanization 		I Chang-dong
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yi Ch'angdong

Lee Chang-dong (born April 1, 1954 in Daegu , South Korea ) is a South Korean film director , writer and screenwriter .

biography

Lee studied Korean and Literature at Kyungpook University . After graduating in 1980, he worked for a short time as a Korean teacher at a high school. From 1983 he made a name for himself as a writer. At the age of over 40 he switched to the film business. After experience at the theater, he established himself in the Korean film scene with the socially critical scripts for To the Starry Island (1993) and Ein Single Funke (1996), both of which were filmed by Park Kwang-su .

He made his directorial debut in 1997 with Green Fish , which was unexpectedly successful with audiences and critics. Peppermint Candy (2000), his second feature film, has already brought him awards at film festivals. The international breakthrough came in 2002 with Oasis , which won an award at the Venice Film Festival . Actors Moon So-ri and Sol Kyung-gu gained notoriety through their work on Peppermint Candy and Oasis .

In 2003 he became Minister of Culture of South Korea, but resigned from this office in June 2004. In 2006 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor when he was awarded the French Order of Merit . In 2007 he was represented with his film Secret Sunshine in the competition of the 60th Cannes Film Festival , which was awarded the Actor Award for leading actress Jeon Do-yeon . The film was also selected as the official South Korean entry for a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2008 Academy Awards. In 2009 he was appointed to the competition jury of the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival . A year later he competed with poetry again in the competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival and won the award for best screenplay.

In 2011 he won the Regard d'or with poetry at the Freiburg International Film Festival .

In 2018 he was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year. In 2019 he was recognized for his life's work at the Asian Film Awards . There he also received the award for best director for the third time, this time for Burning .

Filmography

Director

Screenwriter

  • 1993: To the Starry Island (Geu seome gago sipda)
  • 1996: One Spark (Jeon Tae-il)
  • 1997: Green Fish (Chorok mulkogi)
  • 2000: Peppermint Candy (Bakha satang)
  • 2002: Oasis (Oasiseu)
  • 2007: Secret Sunshine (Milyang)
  • 2018: Burning

Web links

Commons : Lee Chang-dong  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 이창동 감독, 프랑스 최고 훈장 레지옹 도뇌르 수훈 . NewsWire dated October 27, 2006 (Korean).
  2. ↑ Oscar welcoming foreign contenders . In: Daily Variety, September 21, 2007, News, p. 4
  3. ^ "Regard d'Or" goes to "Poetry" by South Korean Lee Chang-Don . suedostschweiz.ch of March 26, 2011.
  4. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
  5. ^ A b Joan MacDonald: Lee Chang Dong Wins Best Director For 'Burning' At Asian Film Awards. In: Forbes . March 18, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Chang-dong is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Chang-dong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 이창동 (Korean, Hangeul); 李滄 東 (Korean, Hanja); I, Chang-dong (Revised Romanization); Yi, Ch'angdong (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Daegu , South Korea