Choi Dong-hoon
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Career
After graduating from the prestigious Korean Academy of Film Arts, Choi Dong-hoon first worked as an assistant director on Im Sang-soo's Tears (he subsequently appeared in acting cameos in several of Im's films).[2]
After working on the screenplay for two years, Choi made his feature film directorial debut in 2004 with The Big Swindle and single-handedly re-imagined the heist and crime thriller genre into something uniquely Korean. His follow-up Tazza: The High Rollers, a gambling flick adapted from Huh Young-man and Kim Se-yeong's manhwa, was the second highest grossing Korean film of 2006, and producer/Sidus FNH CEO Cha Seung-jae praised Choi as "a genius storyteller for his spectacular ability to develop elaborate stories." 2009's Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard was lauded as the first Korean fantasy/superhero blockbuster movie, earning Choi a reputation as an artistically innovative and commercially successful writer-director.[3]
He returned to the heist genre in 2012 with the star-studded crime caper The Thieves,[4] which attracted almost 13 million viewers in 70 days to become the second all-time highest grossing movie in Korean film history.[5][6][7][8] Tazza and Thieves leading lady Kim Hye-soo described him as "a genius who also works extremely hard. I think he knows who he is, the exact kind of films that he wants to make, and how to make them."[2]
Choi made his first period film with 2015's Assassination, about freedom fighters during Japan's colonial rule, and it was once again a box office hit, crossing the 10 million admissions milestone on the 70th anniversary of South Korean independence.[9][10]
In 2017, Choi began production on his next film Wiretap, a remake of the 2009 Hong Kong film Overheard.[11] However, production was halted so Kim Woo Bin could undergo treatment for cancer.[12] At the end of 2019, the director was then reported to be working on a two-part science fiction film.[13] The first part titled Alienoid which depicts a story unfolding as the door of time open between late Goryeo and the present day, when aliens appear, was released in July 2022.[14]
Filmography
As director
- A Short Trip (short film, director; 2000)
- The Big Swindle (director, screenwriter; 2004)
- Tazza: The High Rollers (director, screenwriter; 2006)
- Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard (director, screenwriter; 2009)
- The Thieves (director, screenwriter; 2012)
- Assassination (director, screenwriter, producer; 2015)
- Alienoid (director, screenwriter, producer; 2022)
- Alienoid: Return to the Future (director, screenwriter, producer; 2024)
- Wiretap (director, screenwriter; TBA)
Other
- Tears (assistant director, cameo; 2000)
- A Good Lawyer's Wife (cameo; 2003)
- Boy Goes to Heaven (screenwriter; 2005)
- The President's Last Bang (cameo; 2005)
- The Restless (screenwriter; 2006)
Awards
| Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3rd Korean Film Awards | Best New Director | The Big Swindle | Won |
| Best Screenplay | Won | |||
| 2004 | 25th Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best New Director | Won | |
| Best Screenplay | Won | |||
| 2004 | 7th Director's Cut Awards | Best New Director | Won | |
| 2004 | 24th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards | Best New Director | Won | |
| 2004 | 41st Grand Bell Awards | Best New Director | Won | |
| Best Screenplay | Won | |||
| 2005 | 2005 SBS Gayo Daejeon | Music Video of the Year | MV | Won |
| 2006 | 14th Chunsa Film Art Awards | Best Film | Tazza: The High Rollers | Nominated |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| 2006 | 27th Blue Dragon Film Awards[15] | Best Film | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| 2007 | 43rd Baeksang Arts Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) | Won | |
| Best Film | Nominated | |||
| Best Director | Won | |||
| 2007 | 8th Newport Beach Film Festival[16] | Best Feature | Won | |
| Best Director | Won | |||
| 2007 | 44th Grand Bell Awards | Best Director | Nominated | |
| 2007 | 8th Busan Film Critics Awards | Best Screenplay | Won | |
| 2007 | 6th Korean Film Awards | Best Film | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| Best Screenplay | Won | |||
| 2012 | Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Best Director | The Thieves | Nominated |
| Buil Readers' Jury Award | Won | |||
| 2012 | Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Best Director | Nominated | |
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| Audience Choice Award for Most Popular Film | Won | |||
| 2012 | 20th Korean Culture and Entertainment Awards[19] Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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| 2013 | Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Best Director | Nominated | |
| 2015 | 24th Buil Film Awards | Best Film | Assassination | Nominated |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| 2015 | Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Best Film | Nominated | |
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| Top 10 Films of the Year | Won | |||
| 2015 | 52nd Grand Bell Awards | Best Film | Nominated | |
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| 2015 | 36th Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best Film | Won | |
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| 2016 | 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Film | Won | |
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| 2015 | 21st Chunsa Film Art Awards | Best Director | Won | |
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| 2015 | 11th Max Movie Awards | Best Film | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| Best Poster | Nominated |
See also
Notes
References
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External links
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