Yang Jin-mo

Yang Jin-mo
Born
Alma materFilm Major Bard College New York
Occupationfilm editor
Years active2005-present
Notable workParasite
Korean name
Hangul
양진모
Revised RomanizationYang Jin-mo
McCune–ReischauerYang Chinmo

Yang Jin-mo (Korean양진모) is a South Korean film editor. He is best known internationally for his work on multiple Academy Award winner Parasite as editor, which earned him critical appraisal and recognition including an American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic at the American Cinema Editors Awards in 2020 and the 2019 Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing.[1][2] This made Parasite the first non-English-language film to win the top prize at the American Cinema Editors' Eddie Awards.[3] He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Editing for his work on Parasite.

Life and career

Yang was educated in the United States; he attended Cherry Hill East High School in New Jersey[4] and he graduated from Bard College in New York.[5] His dream was to work for Disney. Yang speaks fluent English.[5]

He started as an assistant editor on many productions, then proceeded to be the editor of several well-known Korean films, including Bong Joon-ho's Okja (2017), as well as films like The Tooth and the Nail (2017), the 2016 hit The Age of Shadows, the highly acclaimed 2016 zombie thriller Train to Busan, the 2016 action comedy Luck Key, and the 2015 romantic comedy The Beauty Inside.[5] He then became the editor of Parasite (2019), which earned him critical appraisal and recognition including an American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic at the American Cinema Editors Awards in 2020.[1] This made Parasite the first non-English-language film to win the top prize at the American Cinema Editors Awards.[3] He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Editing for his work on the film.[6]

Filmography

Film making credit
Year Title Distributor
English Korean
2013 Snowpiercer 설국열차 CJ Entertainment
2015 Beauty Inside 뷰티 인사이드 Next Entertainment World
2016 Train to Busan 부산행 Next Entertainment World
2017 Okja 옥자 Netflix
2019 Parasite 기생충 CJ Entertainment

Awards and nominations

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
36th Blue Dragon Film Awards 2015 Best Editing Beauty Inside Won
Asian Film Awards 21 March 2017 Best Editor Train to Busan Nominated [7]
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Blue Dragon Film Awards 25 November 2016 Best Editing Nominated [9]
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Academy Awards 9 February 2020 Best Film Editing Parasite Nominated [12][13]
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 10 January 2020 Best Editing Nominated [14][15]
American Cinema Editors 17 January 2020 Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Won [16]
Asian Film Awards 28 October 2020 Best Editing Won [17]
Austin Film Critics Association 6 January 2020 Best Editing Nominated [18][19]
BFE Cut Above Awards 5 March 2021 Best Edited Single Drama Won [20]
Blue Dragon Film Awards 21 November 2019 Best Editing Nominated [21]
Columbus Film Critics Association Awards 2 January 2020 Best Film Editing Nominated [22]
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 12 January 2020 Best Editing Nominated [23][24]
Grand Bell Awards 3 June 2020 Best Film Editing Nominated [25][26]
Hollywood Critics Association Awards 9 January 2020 Best Editing Nominated [27][28]
Hollywood Professional Association 19 November 2020 Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature Won [29]
International Cinephile Society Awards 5 February 2020 Best Editing Runner-up [30]
Online Film Critics Society 6 January 2020 Best Editing Won [31]
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle 16 December 2019 Best Editing Nominated [32][33]
Saturn Awards 26 October 2021 Best Editing Nominated [34][35]
St. Louis Film Critics Association 15 December 2019 Best Editing Nominated [36]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 8 December 2019 Best Editing Nominated [37]

References

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