'Minari' Youn Yuh-jung's Oscar Best Supporting Actress Signal

Boston Critics Association Best Supporting Actress... 'Minari' Also Wins Best Original Song
Named in 'IndieWire' Best 13 Leading Actresses of the Year

The film "Minari," emerging as a dark horse for next year's Academy Awards in the United States, has won two awards at the Boston Critics Association as well.

Distributor Plan Cinema announced on the 14th that "Minari" received the Best Supporting Actress award (Youn Yuh-jung) and Best Original Song award from the Boston Critics Association. This achievement has further raised expectations for an Oscar win. "Parasite," which won four Oscars last February (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature Film), previously received Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film awards from this association.

Interest in actress Youn Yuh-jung is the hottest in "Minari." She claimed the trophy, surpassing Amanda Seyfried from "Mank," a strong contender for next year's Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Last year's winner in this category, Laura Dern from "Little Women" and "Marriage Story," rode the momentum to also win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Youn Yuh-jung also won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Sunset Circle Awards hosted by the Sunset Film Critic Circle, an association of Hollywood journalists, on the 2nd. Recently, she was also named among the "Top 13 Best Actresses of the Year" selected by the prominent American entertainment media outlet IndieWire.

"Minari" is a drama based on the autobiographical story of director Lee Isaac Chung (Jeong Isaak). It highlights a Korean-American family who migrated to Arkansas, USA, in the 1980s. The film has already been recognized for its artistic merit, winning the Audience Award and Best Actor (Steven Yeun) at the Denver International Film Festival, the Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, the Audience Award and Actor's Guild Award at the Middleburg Film Festival, and the Audience Award and Jimmy Stewart Legacy Award at the Heartland Film Festival.

The production was handled by Plan B, which led "Moonlight" and "12 Years a Slave" to Academy Award wins for Best Picture. North American distribution is managed by A24, which has spearheaded Oscar campaigns for "Moonlight," "Room," "Lady Bird," "The Lobster," and "The Florida Project."

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