A New York Minute

Born in South Korea and raised in Canada, Celine Song is a New York-based director, playwright and screenwriter known for intimate, emotionally rich stories drawn from her own life. She first made her mark in theater with her play Endlings and a live production of Chekhov's The Seagull staged entirely within The Sims 4. She then wrote for Amazon's The Wheel of Time.

Her feature debut, Past Lives (A24), premiered at Sundance and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, making her the first Asian woman nominated in the screenplay category. The film also won her the DGA Award for Outstanding Directing of a First-Time Feature and the Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature and Best Director, alongside Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Her second feature, Materialists, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans, became a box-office hit, the first independent film of 2025 to pass $100 million worldwide.

She brings the same intimacy to fashion and commercial work. She directed Balenciaga's Fall 26 campaign "A New York Minute" starring Sarah Pidgeon, Giorgio Armani's short film The Waiting Room, and films for Tiffany & Co. and Marina Bay Sands. Her first music video, Laufey's "Goddess", starring Heartstopper's William Gao, won a Clio Music Award.