Yang Jin-mo () 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. This made Parasite the first non-English-language film to win the top prize at the American Cinema Editors' Eddie Awards. 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 graduated in 1995 from Cherry Hill East High School in Cherry Hill, New JerseyZhang, Alena. "Academy Award nominee and East alumni Yang Jin-mo retraces his film-editing career", Eastside Online, January 28, 2022. Accessed December 28, 2025. "Somewhere along the way, Yang Jin-mo’s (‘95) clear-cut path of becoming a movie director diverged.... Yang did not know that 26 years after graduating Cherry Hill East, he would be a well-known film editor and an Academy Award nominee for best film editing for his work on Parasite." and he graduated from Bard College in New York. His dream was to work for Disney. Yang speaks fluent English.
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. 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. This made Parasite the first non-English-language film to win the top prize at the American Cinema Editors Awards. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Editing for his work on the film.
Filmography +Film making creditYearTitleDistributorEnglishKorean2013Snowpiercer설국열차CJ Entertainment2015 The Beauty Inside 뷰티 인사이드 Next Entertainment World2016 Train to Busan 부산행 Next Entertainment World2016 The Age of Shadows 밀정 Warner Bros. Pictures2016 Luck Key 럭키 Showbox2017The Tooth and the Nail석조저택 살인사건CineGuru2017Okja옥자Netflix20171987: When the Day Comes1987CJ Entertainment2018Psychokinesis염력Next Entertainment World2018Believer독전Next Entertainment World2018Illang: The Wolf Brigade인랑Warner Bros. Pictures2019Parasite기생충CJ Entertainment2019The Battle: Roar to Victory봉오동 전투Showbox2020Peninsula반도Next Entertainment World2020Pawn담보CJ Entertainment2020The Call콜Next Entertainment World/Netflix2022Life Is Beautiful인생은 아름다워Lotte Entertainment2023Jung_E정이Netflix2023Cobweb거미집Barunson E&A2025Mickey 17미키 17Warner Bros. Pictures2026Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub타짜: 벨제붑의 노래CJ Entertainment2027Ally앨리CJ Entertainment
Awards and nominations Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result36th Blue Dragon Film Awards2015Best EditingBeauty InsideAsian Film Awards 21 March 2017 Best Editor Train to Busan Blue Dragon Film Awards25 November 2016 Best Editing Academy Awards9 February 2020Best Film Editing Parasite Alliance of Women Film Journalists10 January 2020 Best Editing American Cinema Editors17 January 2020Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Asian Film Awards28 October 2020Best Editing Austin Film Critics Association6 January 2020 Best Editing BFE Cut Above Awards 5 March 2021 Best Edited Single Drama Blue Dragon Film Awards21 November 2019 Best Editing Columbus Film Critics Association Awards2 January 2020 Best Film Editing Critics' Choice Movie Awards12 January 2020Best Editing Grand Bell Awards3 June 2020 Best Film Editing Hollywood Critics Association Awards9 January 2020 Best Editing Hollywood Professional Association 19 November 2020 Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature International Cinephile Society Awards5 February 2020 Best Editing Online Film Critics Society6 January 2020Best Editing San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle16 December 2019 Best Editing Saturn Awards26 October 2021Best Editing St. Louis Film Critics Association15 December 2019 Best Editing Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association8 December 2019 Best Editing
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