Oscar-winning Korean actress promises to make history at Emmy with movie Pachinko

Academy Award-winning Korean actress Youn Yuh Jung has emerged as an Emmy Award-winning main contender for her role in the TV series. Pachinko. According to The Heraldif won, the actress will be a Korean who steps up to the prestigious podium of both the Oscar and the Emmy Award.

At last year’s Academy Awards, Youn Yuh Jung was named Best Actress for her supporting role as a grandmother in the movie about American immigrants. Minari (2020). She became the first Korean to win an acting Oscar.

About a year later, she starred in the latest original series of Apple TV + Pachinko. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Korean-American author Min Jin Lee. The story follows Sunja, who has to go through a difficult life in Korea during the Japanese occupation and in Japan after the Second World War.

The film Pachinko, co-directed by Kogonada and Justin Chon, a Korean-American, has won critical acclaim from critics and viewers alike. In addition, Youn’s performance as Grandma Sunja, who lives in Japan as Zainichi, a Japanese word for an ethnic Korean who has a permanent residence status in Japan but does not have a Japanese passport. Copy, also praised without regret.

“Youn Yuh Jung benefits from the free-spirited expansion of Sunja’s story. No actor can fully convey the extremes of sadness and wit in the script, sometimes just with a precious little conversation like Youn Yuh Jung”, magazine Hollywood Reporter write in review about Pachinko.

Based on contributions in Pachinkoshe has emerged as a “heavyweight” candidate for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the upcoming Primetime Emmy Awards, the most prestigious award for primetime television programming in the United States. America.

According to Gold Derby, an American awards prediction website, Youn Yuh Jung placed 9th in the supporting actress category in drama, up from 12th place about three weeks earlier. The turn of actors Sarah Snook’s Succession and Julia Garner’s Ozark leading the race.

“If Pachinko receiving the same attention from the audience as the praise from the critics, it is possible that Youn Yuh Jung will be recognized again for her contribution to the film.” Gold Derby identify.

Besides, the super popular product Squid Game Netflix’s is likely to win multiple nominations at this year’s Emmy including Best Drama Series, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

The survival drama series ranked second in the category of Best Drama after Succession on Emmy’s prediction chart Gold Derby. Squid Game has won numerous nominations and honors at previous awards ceremonies such as the Critics Choice Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Lead role Lee Jung Jae placed third in the competition for Best Actor at this year’s Emmy, while Jung Ho Jeon was also in third place for Best Supporting Actress.

Just one nomination by an actor or a movie at an Emmy would make history because no Korean or Korean-produced TV series released in the US has ever done so. Several Korean TV shows and actors have previously won or been nominated at the International Emmy Awards, honoring films produced and broadcast outside of the United States.

Nominations for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on June 12 and the awards ceremony will take place on September 12.