SEOUL — Veteran actor Youn Yuh-jung clinched the best supporting actress award at the 93rd Academy Awards on Monday for her performance in US film “Minari” as an eccentric grandmother.
With the win, Youn became the first South Korean to win an Oscar for acting. No other Korean actor, including those in the Oscar-winning “Parasite,” has ever been nominated for an Academy Award.
The four other actors vying for the prize were Maria Bakalova for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” Glenn Close for”Hillbilly Elegy,” Olivia Colman for “The Father” and Amanda Seyfried for “Mank.”
In Lee Issac Chung’s largely autobiographical film “Minari,” the 73-year-old actor portrays a Korean grandmo…
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