'Minari' Youn Yuh-jung Wins 26 Awards Ahead of the Oscars
Southeastern U.S. and Vancouver Critics Associations Award Best Supporting Actress
Youn Yuh-jung (74) from the film 'Minari' continued her winning streak ahead of the American Academy Awards.
According to distributor Pan Cinema on the 23rd, Youn was recently selected as the Best Supporting Actress by the Southeastern Film Critics Association and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. She has won a total of twenty-six trophies for 'Minari' alone. She previously received acting awards from the National Society of Film Critics, the Sunset Film Circle Awards, the Gold List Awards, and critics associations in Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, and Oklahoma. Pan Cinema added, "This latest win has accelerated her sprint toward the Oscars."
Youn played Soon-ja in 'Minari,' directed by Lee Isaac Chung (Jeong Isaak), based on his autobiographical story. Soon-ja is a grandmother who moves to Arkansas in the United States after being invited by her daughter Monica (Han Ye-ri). With her warm face and clear Korean language, she shows deep family love. Her pure love is sometimes transformed into discord in the film. The cold atmosphere created by the quarrel between her son-in-law Jacob (Steven Yeun) and her daughter is instantly lifted by her presence, while also intensifying the tension caused by cultural differences. The minari in the film symbolizes resilient vitality. Soon-ja plants and nurtures minari by the stream, revealing the film’s thematic essence.
The Academy Awards ceremony will be held on April 25 in Los Angeles, USA. Youn is currently filming the Apple TV+ drama 'Pachinko' in Canada. If she joins the Academy race immediately after filming, her chances of winning could increase. This is because she has demonstrated a unique charm off-screen with her straightforward speech and witty humor.
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The only Asian actor to have won the Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards is Miyoshi Umeki, a Japanese-American, for the 1957 film 'Sayonara.' The only Asian actors nominated have been Umeki, Shohreh Aghdashloo (Iranian-American) in 2003 for 'House of Sand and Fog,' and Rinko Kikuchi (Japanese) in 2007 for 'Babel'?just three in total.
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