The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) presents the annual Outstanding Director of the Year award to a director (or directors, in some previous years) not afraid to push the envelope in the cinematic world, and with an expertise that is both gracious and bold. In 2020, nobody embodies that sentiment more than South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, whose film Parasite is nominated for six Academy Awards, including both Best Picture and Best International Film. During the two-hour presentation, featuring clips from all of director Bong’s films, the filmmaker (accompanied by his translator Sharon Choi) spoke in-…