Minari,’British Academy’ also nominated for 6 categories… Foreign Language Film Awards, etc. (Comprehensive)
Best Director, Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, Music Award, Casting Award… Glasgow Film Festival opening film selection
(London = Yonhap News) Correspondent Yoon-jung Choi = The movie’Minari’ was nominated in six categories, including the Foreign Language Film Award, the Director’s Award, and the Supporting Actor Award, at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), which is called the British Academy.
BAFTA announced 50 nominations on the 9th (local time) prior to the ‘2021 BAFTA Awards’ held at the Royal Albert Hall on April 11th without audiences.
‘Minari’ has been named the Best Director, Foreign Language Film, Best Supporting Actress (Yeo-jung Yoon), Best Supporting Actor (Alan Kim), Music Awards, and Casting Awards.
Chinese director Chloe Zhao’s’Nomadland’ and’The Rocks’ were registered as nominations in 7 categories, and’The Father’,’Mank’, and’Promising Young Woman’ were nominated in 6 categories, such as’Buttercup’. . 
‘The Father’,’The Mauritania’,’Nomadland’,’Promising Young Woman’, and’The Trial of the Chicago 7’were nominated for the best work awards.
‘Buttercup’ will compete with’Quovadis, Aida?’ from Denmark’s’Another Round’, Russia’s’Deer Comrade’, France’s’Remiserable’ and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s.
Actor Yoon Yeo-jung is Niam Alga from’The End’, Ko Sar Ali from’The Rocks’, Maria Bakarova from’Borat Subsequence Movie Film’, Dominic Fishbag from’Judas and the Black Messiah’, Ashley Mather from’County Lines’ He was nominated along with Quiet.
BAFTA is regarded as an opportunity to gauge the direction of the American Academy Awards.
‘Buttercup’ is already setting an award-winning record at major film festivals around the world.
After receiving the Foreign Language Film Awards from the two major American film awards, Golden Globe, the same awards were held in Critics’ Choice, which is chosen by American critics. 
In BAFTA, last year, director Bong Joon-ho’s’Parasite’ was nominated for four categories, including Best Picture, Director’s Award, Foreign Language Film Award, and Original Screenwriting Award, and received the Foreign Language Film Award and the Original Screenwriting Award.
Prior to this, director Park Chan-wook won the 2018 Foreign Language Film Awards for her’Girl’.
‘Buttercup’ was selected as the opening film at the 17th Glasgow Film Festival, one of the UK’s representative film festivals that opened on the 24th of last month, and was screened online.
With great interest in the UK’s first public release, tickets were sold out early and had to be sold.
The BBC gave a perfect score for’Buttercup’ in a movie review, saying, “The film is full of warmth and sincerity, so it will reach the hearts of the audience anywhere.”
The Glasgow Film Festival selected Korea in the’Country Focus’ category this year. Director Woo Min-ho’s’Namsan’s Directors’, Hong Ui-jung’s’No Sound’, Choi Jae-hoon’s’Swordsman’, Shim Chan-Yang’s ‘The Days We Met Again’, Director Lim Jung-eun’s’Hour Midnight’ was chosen.
On the 5th, the Korean Cultural Center in Seoul and the Glasgow Film Festival co-hosted an event in which British programmer Anton Bitel and director Woo Min-ho and Hong Ui-jeong talked to local filmmakers online.
Meanwhile, Korean director Isaac Jung (Korean name Jeong Isaac), who directed’Minari’, was nominated for the Director’s Award awarded by the American Supervisory Association (DGA).
The film is also nominated for a Best Picture awarded by the American Producers’ Association (PGA).
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