Actor Yoon Yeo-jung, who appeared in the movie’Minari’, received the American Actor Guild Award (SAG) Best Supporting Actor Award on the 4th (local time).
Yoon Yeo-jung was selected as a recipient of the Best Supporting Actress Award in the movie category at the 27th American Actors Guild Awards ceremony held that day.
At last year’s American Actors Guild Award, the entire cast of director Bong Joon-ho’s film “Parasite” received the first Asian film ensemble award.
However, Yun Yeo-jung is the first Korean actor to receive an award given to an individual actor rather than an ensemble.
Yoon Yeo-jung said in his impression of the award, “I don’t know how to explain the feeling of being recognized by the Westerner,” and “I am especially honored that my fellow actors have chosen as the Best Supporting Actor Award winners.”
He expressed his gratitude to the other nominees who competed for Best Supporting Actress nominations, saying, “I am happy and happy,” with tears.
Yoon Yeo-jung fought for the award with Maria Bakalova (Borat 2), Glen Clos (Hilville’s Song), Olivia Coleman (The Father), and Helena Zegel (News of the World) for the Best Supporting Actor Award in the movie category.
The winners of this award, hosted by the American Actors Association, often win the Academy Award, the highest honor in Hollywood, and are also evaluated as’Oscars in Preview’.
Accordingly, Yoon Yeo-jeong, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, has raised the possibility of winning the Academy Award.
The film’Minari’ is directed by Korean American Lee Isaac Jeong (Korean name Jeong Isaac), and calmly portrays the joys of life encountered by a family of Korean immigrants who want to take root in American society in the background of rural Arkansas.
In this work, Yeo-jung Yoon played the role of’Soonja’, a grandmother who came to the United States to care for the children of his immigrant daughter and his wife. Sun-ja is a compassionate and humorous grandmother, but she is often neglected by her grandchildren because she’smells like Korea’.
On the other hand, Korean-American actor Stephen Yeon, who played the role of father’Jacob’ in’Minari’, was nominated for Best Actor in the movie category, and all cast members of’Minari’ were nominated for the Ensemble Award in the movie category, but the award was missed.
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