Yang Jin-mo

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In this Korean name, the family name is Yang.

Yang Jin-mo (Korean: 양진모) 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. 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.

Yang speaks fluent English.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "ACE 70th Annual Eddie Award Nominees". American Cinema Editors. 12 December 2019. Archived from the original on 4 January 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  2. ^ "2019 Awards (23rd Annual)". Online Film Critics Society. 2019-12-23. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "'Parasite' Makes History as First Foreign Language Film to Win Top Prize Ace Eddie Awards". Finance.yahoo.com. 2020-01-18. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  4. ^ "'Parasite' Oscar Wins in LA Thrill Nominee's Mom in Haddon Township". njpen.com. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c "<옥자> 양진모 편집감독 - 리듬과 타이밍". Cine 21. 2017-07-17. Retrieved 2020-02-11.

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