Bong Joon-ho, Black Lives Matter founders land on TIME’s 100 Most Influential People list

Bong Joon-ho and the Black Lives Matter founders, among other prominent personalities, have made it to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People list.

On Tuesday, Time Magazine released its prestigious annual list for this year, naming the multi-awarded “Parasite” director Bong Joon-ho among the world’s most influential people in the “Artists” category.

“This is the filmmaker who, this year, has risen into the 2020 vision of the entire cine­passionate planet like a new sun,” said his profile written by none other than Tilda Swinton, who he worked with on “Snowpiercer” and “Okja.”

“Whip-smart, highly skilled, supremely cine­literate, exuberant, irreverent, self-determining, deeply romantic, with a voracious delight in the absurd, highly principled, precision-tuned, compassionate to the last: his films have always been all this. It just seems to be time for the world to catch up.”

Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi were listed under the “Icons” category.

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“There are only three of them, but they are everywhere,” wrote Sybrina Fulton, an advocate for social good and mother of Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watchman in 2012.

Also included in TIME’s list are “Savage” rapper Megan Thee Stallion, Michael Jordan, The Weeknd, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Chinese President Xi Jin Ping, US President Donald Trump, Hong Kong’s pro-democratic activist Nathan Law, and Chinese scientist Zhang Yongzhen. – Kaela Malig/RC, GMA News