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Yoon Yeo-jung, Sunja, nominated for supporting actor
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Yoon Yeo-jeong (center) of the movie’Minari’ was the first Korean actor to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Actor Yoon Yeo-jung (74) wrote the record of being the first Korean actor to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 50 years after the film’s debut film, Director Kim Ki-young’s’Hwa-nyeo’ (1971).
‘Minari’, starring Yoon Yeo-jung, is an autobiographical film by Korean-American director Lee Isaac Jung (Isak Jeong), and was nominated in six categories, including the Academy Award for Best Honor, Director, Best Supporting Acting, Best Actor, Screenplay, and Music.
Last year, director Bong Joon-ho’s’Parasite’ was nominated for six academies and won four awards, including Best Works, but this is the first time a Korean actor has been nominated for the Academy Award for Actor.
Yoon Yeo-jeong played Sun-ja, a grandmother who passed away from Korea to help her daughter Monica (Ye-ri Han) who moved to the countryside of Arkansas in the southern United States in’Buttercup. Director Jung said there was no need to imitate his grandmother, and Yoon Yeo-jung also said he liked it. Yun Yeo-jeong, who was well received by acting unconventionally, adding vitality to the film and making dramatic changes, won 32 award trophies at various film festivals.
Yun Yeo-jung has played numerous characters so far, but it is difficult to find a typical character. As he said, “Whatever you do, you do it differently,” he has put his own color on the character in most of his works.
In’Hwa Nyeo,’ as a housekeeper seducing a man from the host’s house, he showed an unprecedented performance at the time, and in Director Im Sang-soo’s’Cheating Family’ (2003), as a mother-in-law who publicly declares an affair with her husband who is struggling. Revealed. After that, he played a greedy hostess (the taste of money) of a chaebol family, and Bacchus grandmother (a woman who kills) dealing with poor elderly people in Jongno, and completed a character that reveals human desires in his own way.
Yoon Yeo-jeong is the director Im Sang-soo, who made a relationship as a’cheating family’, and later’Then Those People’ (2005)’The Old Garden’ (2006),’The Maid’ (2010),’The Taste of Money’ (2012),’My Best Friend Villain Field’ (2015) and’Heaven: To the Land of Happiness’ (2021).
I also met with director Jae-yong Lee through’Actresses’ (2009) and’A Woman Who Kills’ (2016), and in the works of Hong Sang-soo,’Hahaha’ (2009),’In another country’ (2011),’Hill of Freedom’ ( 2014),’Right Now, Wrong Then’ (2015), etc.
Last year’s beloved independent film’Chansil has a lot of corridors’ (director Kim Cho-hee) appeared without a guarantee, and’Minari’ also said, “It’s obvious that it’s an independent film, so I hate to do it.” “And showed affection and trust.
Recently, he has also accepted entertainment with his straightforward speech and pleasant sense of humor.
After establishing a relationship with PD Na Young-seok in’Sister Over Flowers’ (2013),’Yoon Sikdang’ (2017-2018), followed by’Yoon Stay’ (2021), led a variety of entertainment programs that made their name in their 70s. I am proud of a phosphorus presence.
Prior to the movie’Minari’, they are continuing their overseas activities, from Netflix’s American drama’Sense 8′, starring Bae Doona in 2015, and Apple TV Plus’s drama’Pachinko’, which is currently being filmed. The awards ceremony will be held on the 25th of next month (local time).
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