Husband & Wife Winners at The Blue Dragons!

by Nathaniel R

Son Ye Jin and Hyun Bin win BEST ACTRESS and BEST ACTOR at the Blue Dragon Awards. IMG SRC

We told you about the nominations at South Korea's Blue Dragon Awards earlier this month. As expected given its hefty nomination tally, Park Chan Wook's genius Oscar submission No Other Choice (opening on Christmas day in US theaters) took home Best Picture and Best Director among other prizes. The film also won Best Actress for Son Ye Jin. Its internationally successful leading man Lee Byung Hun lost Best Actor but we can't be too sad about it as he has dozens of acting trophies already.  In a fun twist of fate, though, he lost Best Actor to his screen wife Son Ye Jin's real life husband Byun Hin (Harbin - streaming on Hulu). "Husband and Wife Best Actor and Best Actress Wins?!?" Yep. how wild is that? That's something that's never happened at the Oscars as much as we wish it would have long before our Oscar time with Liz & Dick for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). 

After the jump all the winners and a few more comments...

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Prizes for the Parasite actors... and other Korean Awards

Jo Yeo Jeong wins Best ActressWith the SAG Awards approaching TONIGHT and our hopes not high for an all-Korean win for "Outstanding Cast" (even though Parasite features an absolute dream of an ensemble performance), we've been thinking about whether the cast has been truly undervalued or whether we've just got American blinkers on. So let's take a look at the prizes and nominations that the cast has actually won.

At Korea’s two big awards ceremony, the Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Buil Film Awars, Parasite was the big winner. The best part of its dominance at both was that some of the actors won prizes. The winners of those two awards shows and a few other accolades for Parasite after the jump...  

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