'Minari' Shakes Off Golden Globe Disappointment at Critics Choice Awards

Ten category nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay
'Maengkeu' ranks second for most nominations... Oscar race resumes smoothly

The film "Minari," which depicts the settlement of a Korean immigrant family in the United States, wiped away its Golden Globe disappointment at the Critics' Choice Awards.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), which hosts the awards, announced on the 8th (local time) that "Minari" was nominated in ten categories including Best Picture, Best Director (Lee Isaac Chung), Best Actor (Steven Yeun), Best Supporting Actress (Youn Yuh-jung), Best Young Actor (Alan Kim), Best Ensemble, Best Original Screenplay (Lee Isaac Chung), Best Cinematography (Lachlan Milne), Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Score (Emile Mosseri). It was the second most nominated film after David Fincher's "Mank" with 12 nominations. George C. Wolfe's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and Paul Greengrass's "News of the World" followed with eight and seven nominations respectively.

With these nominations, "Minari" has resumed its smooth journey toward the Academy Awards. It has overcome the disappointment of being nominated only in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Golden Globes and has emerged once again as a strong contender. Gold Derby, a Hollywood awards prediction site, commented, "It is impressive that 'Minari' received double-digit nominations at the Critics' Choice." The local media Deadline also reported, "'Minari' is a kind of underdog story that the Academy likes," adding, "It seems to have gained momentum ahead of the Oscar nominations."

"Minari" is directed by Korean-American Lee Isaac Chung (Jeong Isaac), based on his autobiographical experiences. It portrays the life and hardships of a Korean family who migrated to Arkansas in the 1980s. The film was recognized for its artistic merit by winning the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at last year's Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the U.S., and is considered a dark horse for the Academy Awards ceremony to be held on April 25. In particular, Youn Yuh-jung is regarded as the closest to winning a trophy, having received twenty-one Best Supporting Actress awards at various major and minor U.S. awards ceremonies, including the Washington D.C. Critics Association, on this day.

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