The 74-year-old actor Yoon Yeo-jung, who celebrated 50 years of film debut, was the first Korean actor to raise an Oscar trophy at the American Academy Awards.
Director Bong Joon-ho held the first Golden Palm Award (Cannes Film Festival) as a ``parasite'' in 2019, the 100th anniversary of Korean cinema, and won the Academy 4 crowns the following year. It is continuing.
Yun Yeo-jung's Best Supporting Actress Award is the only achievement that'Parasite', which has caused a disruption in Hollywood and the world film industry by sweeping the Best Film, Director, Screenplay and International Film Awards, has not achieved.
He also wrote a record of being the first Korean actress and the second Asian female actress to receive an Academy Award for Acting in 64 years after Miyoshi Umeki in Sayonara (1957).
In addition, Peggy Ashcroft of'The Road to India' (1984), who won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the age of 77, and Georgepin Hull of'Harby' (1950), won 74, and is the third (73 years old). He is also a winner.
Acting awards for non-English ambassadors include Sophia Loren from'Two Women' (1961), Robert de Niro from'The Godfather 2'(1974), Roberto Benini (ideally Italian) from'Life is Beautiful' (1998), ' It is the sixth following the Venezio del Toro (Spanish) in'Traffic' (2000) and Marion Cotillare (French) in'Ravian Rose' (2007).
Yun Yeo-jeong's award is a somewhat predicted surprise.
'Minari', an autobiographical film directed by Korean-American director Lee Isaac Jeong (Isak Jeong), has been consistently well received by receiving the Jury Awards and Audience Awards at the Sundance Film Festival, an independent film festival in the United States in January of last year.
For over a year, the awards have been marched at large and small film festivals and awards ceremonies, and 30 of the 100 awards awarded to'Minari' are the acting awards received by Yoon Yeo-jung.
In this atmosphere, Yoon Yeo-jeong began to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
However, it was controversial because Golden Globe, called the Academy Preliminary, classified'Minari' as a foreign language film and did not even put Yoon Yeo-jung on the nomination.
Last month, Yeo-Jung Yoon was selected as a prominent winner at Critix Choice hosted by the American Broadcasting and Film Critics Association (BFCA), but the award was missed and left a regret.
Golden Globe won the trophies to Jodie Foster of'Mauritanian' and Critix's Choice to Maria Bacalova of'Borat Subsequence Movie Film'.
Amanda Seyfried from Mank and Olivia Coleman from The Father were also tough competitors.
This month, it has solidified its dominance in the academy by winning the American Actors Guild Award (SAG) and the British Academy.
In particular, SAG's award results are an important barometer in predicting the results of the academy as many of the actors in SAG overlap with the academy members, and the profession that occupies the largest proportion of the academy members is also the actor.
On the 22nd, three days before the Academy Awards, we added trophies at the'Film Independent Spirit Awards'.
American entertainment media Variety named Yoon Yeo-jeong as the most prominent award nominee for the American Academy before and after the British Academy, and commented that "the British Academy Award winner is likely to win an Oscar."
Gold Derby, who predicts the results of various awards ceremonies in Hollywood, was also named Yoon Yeo-jung at the top of the list of possible awards, and this month, it has maintained an overwhelming advantage in various predictions of local media.
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