At the 78th Golden Globe Awards held on the 28th, the movie’Minari’ was nominated for one foreign language film award. [연합뉴스]
– ‘Minari’, an autobiographical family film directed by Isak Jung, the second generation of Korean Americans, was nominated for the Golden Globe Foreign Language Film Awards. This is the announcement of the nominations for the 78th Golden Globe Film Awards announced by the Hollywood Foreign Journalists Association (HFPA) on the 3rd (local time). The nomination of Yoon Yeo-jeong,’Minari’, who was predicted as the first Korean actor to be nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Award, was missed.
The 78th Golden Globe candidate announced on the 3rd
– The Golden Globe Awards Ceremony is regarded as an outpost to judge the Academy Award. Director Bong Joon-ho’s’Parasite’ was the first Korean movie to be nominated for the Golden Globe Foreign Language Film Award, Director Award, and Screenwriting Award in three categories and won the Foreign Language Film Award. This year’s awards ceremony will be held on the 28th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
![Sun-ja, the maternal grandmother of an American immigrant family, played by Yoon Yeo-jung in the movie'Minari'. [사진 판씨네마]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202102/04/6be8904a-c67f-4396-868d-dd6358b35c46.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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Sun-ja, the maternal grandmother of an American immigrant family, played by Yoon Yeo-jung in the movie’Minari’. [사진 판씨네마]
– ‘Minari’, starring and produced by Korean-American actor Stephen Yeon, who appeared in’Burning’ and’Okja’, is the story of a family of Korean immigrants trying to build a farm in the Arkansas countryside. After the first screening at the Sundance Film Festival in January last year in the United States, it was well received by American critics. It was selected as ‘2020 Top 10 Movies of the Year’ by the American Film Institute (AFI), and the Sundance Jury Award/Audience Award, the National Critics Committee Best Supporting Actress Award/Screenwriter Award, the North Carolina Critics Association Best Works Award, Actress Supporting Actress Award, Screenwriter Award, etc. It has won 59 American Film Awards. Of these, 20 are Yoon Yeo-jung’s best supporting actors. In addition to this, Yoon Yeo-jung also received two awards at the Middleburg Film Festival and the New Mexico Critics Association’s Acting Ensemble Awards. In’Minari’, Yoon Yeo-jeong played Sun-ja, a grandmother who visited the family of her daughter (Han Ye-ri) who had immigrated to the United States. American entertainment media variety said, “Yeo-jung Yoon, who plays the role of a lovely grandmother in’Minari’, is leading the awards of critics.”
Yoon Yeo-jung, a white person nominated for the Misfired Supporting Actor Award
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![All of the nominations for the 78th Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress this year were filled with white actors. [사진 골든글로브]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202102/04/8ec6674f-188d-40e2-baf5-219514b10572.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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All of the nominations for the 78th Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress this year were filled with white actors. [사진 골든글로브]
– However, even with such a response,’Buttercup’ did not cross the barrier of Golden Globe. Until now, the Golden Globe has been evaluated as more conservative than the Academy Awards. There was no Asian winner for 63 years after Miyoshi Umeki, a Japanese actor in the 1957 movie “Sayonara,” won the first supporting actor award, which was expected to be nominated for Yoon Yeo-jung. There are only three Asian nominations in Golden Globe’s 78-year history, including Miyoshi, Iranian-American actor Agdashulu Shore of’House of Sand and Fog’, and Japanese actor Rinko Kikuchi of’Babel’. This year, white actors such as Glenn Close of the Netflix movie “Hillville’s Song”, Amanda Seyfried of the Netflix movie “Mank,” and Jodie Foster of “Mauritanian” filled the nominations.
For foreign language film awards, it would have been a surprise unless’Minari’ was nominated. On December 23, last year, racial discrimination controversy arose as it became known that’Minari’ was nominated for a foreign language film award rather than an award at the Golden Globe Awards. Even though American films produced by Hollywood star Brad Pitt’s film company Plan B and directed by Asian Americans, more than 50% of the conversations are not English, they are classified as foreign language films according to the Golden Globe standard, which is a foreign language film. At that time, filmmakers such as director Lulu Wang of the movie’Fairwell’ continued to point out, and the Washington Post also published criticism columns, but the organizers did not respond much.
Meanwhile, Hollywood actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P Henson were in charge of the nominations for the day. Actor Jane Fonda won the Cecil B DeMille Award, the Golden Globe Award for Achievement this year.
The most nominated film in the movie category was David Fincher’s Netflix movie’Mank’, which was called the Best Actress Award, Best Actor Award, Best Supporting Actress Award, Director Award, Screenplay Award, and Music Award in the drama category. Netflix, which steadily released new films last year, closed due to Corona 19, became the most nominated film company with its original film nominated for a total of 22 categories.
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