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It is the most prestigious film awards ceremony in the United States. The Academy Awards Ceremony is two days ahead. Actor Yoon Yeo-jung, who has already achieved 38 crowns at various film festivals, is interested in whether he will be able to receive the Best Supporting Actress Award. If he wins the award, he will become the first Korean actor to receive the Academy Award in Korean film history in 102.



This is reporter Jusang Lee.



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Yoon Yeo-jeong, a maternal grandmother who came from Korea in the movie'Minari', a movie about a Korean immigrant family in the southern United States in the 1980s.



In the American Independent Film Awards Independent Spirit Awards, announced just before the Academy Awards, the Best Supporting Actress was Yun Yeo-jung.



This has resulted in 38 awards for acting at film festivals around the world.



At the American Academy Awards, which can be said to be the pinnacle of film awards, they compete with the world's top actresses.



Maria Bakalova from'The Borat Sequel', Glenn Kloss of'Hilvillely's Song', Amanda Seyfried from'Mank', and Olivia Coleman from'The Father' have stood side by side as nominations for Best Supporting Actress.



Currently, Yeo-Jung Yoon is the most promising candidate.



Hollywood's awards ceremony prediction site'Gold Derby' predicted that Yoon Yeo-jung would be able to surpass other nominees and win the prize.



The variety of American entertainment media also confirmed Yeo-Jung Yoon's award, and the New York Times predicted that Yeo-Jung Yoon's award would be the warmest moment at this year's Academy Awards.



[Yeojung Yoon/As Grandmother of the movie'Minari' (Last February, video press conference): It is surprising to say that I received several awards, and I did not imagine and make this. So it's just a surprise.] When



Yoon Yeo-jung receives the Best Supporting Actress Award, she becomes the first American Academy of Acting winner in the 102-year history of Korean film.



It is also the second Asian actor after Miyoshi Umeki in the 1957 movie Sayonara.



(Video coverage: Lee Chan-su, Video editing: Won-hee Won, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)