The first Korean actor to challenge the Academy… Buttercup…

Yoon Yeo-jung, Korean actor’s first academy challenge… 6 candidates for’Buttercup’ (2 total reports)
Stephen Year First Asian American… Competition with’Nomadland’ for work and director awards

Actor Yun Yeo-jung was the first Korean actor to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The autobiographical film’Minari’, directed by Korean-American director Lee Isaac Jung (Isak Jeong), was announced on the 15th (local time) at the 93rd Academy Awards Nomination for Best Prestige Award, as well as Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress, Screenplay, Music Awards. He was nominated for six categories including.

Yoon Yeo-jung wrote a record of being the first Academy Award nominee in the history of 102 Korean films at the age of 74, 50 years after her film debut.

This is the only achievement that director Bong Joon-ho’s’Parasite’, who won six nominations for the first time in a Korean movie last year and won four awards, including the Best Film Awards.

Yoon Yeo-jung competed for trophies with prominent actors such as Maria Bacarova (Borat Subsequence Movie Film), Glen Claus (Hilville’s Song), Olivia Coleman (The Father) and Amanda Seyfried (Mank).

In the movie’Buttercup’, a movie about a Korean family who moved to a farm in Arkansas in the southern United States in the 1980s, Stephen Yeun, the first Asian-American actor, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Stephen Yeon, who immigrated to Canada at the age of 5 and then moved to the United States, made his name known as Glenn in the American TV series The Walking Dead.

He has appeared in director Lee Chang-dong’s’Burning’ (2018) and director Bong Joon-ho’s’Okja’ (2017), which was submitted in the 91st Academy of Foreign Languages.

In addition to Stephen Yeon, Liz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), Chadwick Bosman (Mar Rainey, she is the Blues), Anthony Hopkins (The Father), and Gary Oldman (Mank) were nominated for the Best Actor Award.

In the Best Prize category, in addition to’Buttercup’,’Nomadland’ by director Chloe Zhao, the most influential competition,’The Father’,’Mank’,’Judas and the Black Messiah’,’Promising Young Woman’,’The Sound of Eight works such as’Metal’ and’Trial of the Chicago 7’will be competing.

‘Nomadland’, which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival last year and won the Best Film and Director Awards at the Golden Globe, was nominated for the Best Actress, Best Actress, Cinematographer and Editor in addition to the Best Picture and Director Awards.

Only five women have been nominated for the Director’s Award so far, and Chloe Zhao is the first Asian woman to be nominated for the Director’s Award.

Two female directors, including Emerald Penel of’Promising Young Woman’, were also nominated.

Changes are also noticeable in the acting awards category, which was criticized for being white.

Among a total of 20 actor candidates, the late Chadwick Bosman (Mar Rainey, she is the Blues), Yun Yeo-jung of’Buttercup’, Stephen Yeon, Liz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), Daniel Kaluya and Lakeris Stanfield (Judas) And the Black Messiah), Leslie Odham Jr. (One Night in Miami), Viola Davis (Mar Rainey, she is the Blues), and Andrew Day (Billy Holliday vs. United States of America).

In addition to Viola Davies and Andrew Day, the Best Actress Awards will compete with Vanessa Kirby (her sculptures), Frances McDormond (Nomadland) and Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman).

Director David Fincher’s’Mank’ became the most nominated film by being named in 10 categories, including the Best Picture, Director, Best Actor, and Cinematographer.

As for Korean films, Korean American director Eric Oh (37)’s’Opera’ was named in the short animation section.

‘Opera’ is a work designed for an installation media art exhibition projected on a wall or structure, and made by a Korean production company.

It was awarded the’Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award’ in the animation section at the Korea Contents Awards last year.

The 93rd Academy Awards Ceremony will be held on the 25th of the following month (local time), which has been delayed by two months from the previous year due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

/yunhap news