SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean screen veteran Youn Yuh-jung has risen to become a safe front-runner in the race for the 2021 Oscars’ best supporting actress for her role in the immigration film “Minari,” a poll by an American awards prediction website showed Wednesday. As of 10 a.m., the 74-year-old actress garnered [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Bong Joon-ho, the Oscar-winning director of South Korean black comedy “Parasite,” will be part of a 15-member “ensemble cast” that will present at the Academy Awards later this month. Bong, who directed the 2019 film that fetched four Oscars, including best picture and best director, will join former winners [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — As the immigration film “Minari,” directed by Korean American Lee Isaac Chung, has been on a roll in the award season, hopes are high that its supporting South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung could get an Oscar nod. Youn, who took the role of the eccentric grandmother in Chung’s semi-autobiographical [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Director Bong Joon-ho of “Parasite” anticipates a future in which world cinema is so connected and diverse that a non-English-language winner of the Oscar for best picture will not make news any longer. The South Korean dark comedy on class division made movie history on Sunday (U.S. time) by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — It took about 40 years for a timid 12-year-old South Korean boy who dreamed of becoming a film director to grow up and capture four Oscar statuettes, including the most prestigious best picture. His black comedy “Parasite” was the biggest winner of this year’s Academy Awards held at Dolby [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Bong Joon-ho’s sensational black comedy “Parasite” has bagged four Oscar titles, becoming the first non-English language film to win best picture. At the 92nd Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday (U.S. local time), Bong’s seventh feature film, a tale of class division, won [...]