Lee Isaac Chung is an American film director and screenwriter. His debut feature
Munyurangabo (2007) was an Official Selection at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and the first narrative feature film in the Kinyarwanda language. He also directed the feature films
Lucky Life (2010) and
Abigail Harm (2012). His semi-autobiographical film
Minari (2020) won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. For
Minari, he received numerous other major awards and nominations, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 93rd Academy Awards.