‘Minari’ Star Yuh-Jung Youn Honored With Spotlight Award at Palm Springs Film Awards

First-time nominee Andra Day won the Golden Globe award tonight for her first major acting role as legendary blues artist and civil rights icon Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday.

's journey continues to be bountiful, winning the award for Best Motion Picture — Foreign Language during Sunday's 78th annual Golden Globe Awards.Director Lee Isaac Chung's semi-autobiographical film tells the story of a Korean-American family as they settle on an Arkansas farm in the 1980s in search of the American Dream. The cast includes Steven Yeun, Yeri Han and newcomers Noel Cho and Alan S.

Watch Video: The Notorious BIG Saves 'A Lot of People's Lives But His' in Trailer for Netflix Doc“Biggie” also tells the classic story of an immigrant’s kid made good in the United States; Vonetta Wallace shares her experiences of moving from Jamaica to New York City in the hopes of finding opportunity, and of working multiple jobs so that she could send young Christopher to Catholic school.

Steven Yeun, who happens to be his cousin by marriage, and the actor signed on as Jacob. He cast Yeri Han as Monica and newcomers Noel Cho and Alan S.

Minari, which opens today, is the most autobiographical film of this award season — a distinction that only highlights how painstakingly, yet disarmingly, the multigenerational drama was made.

Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” follows a family of Korean-American immigrants who try to reboot their lives on a farm in 1980s Arkansas. The semi-autobiographical drama finds Steven Yeun essentially playing Chung’s father.

Tim Gray Senior Vice President“Minari,” from Plan B and A24, is writer-director Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical tale of a Korean-American family starting a new life in 1980s Arkansas. The characters, played by Steven Yeun, Yeri Han and Yuh-jung Youn, among others, live in a small mobile home on isolated patch of land; one of the challenges was to convey both the sense of home and the vast, green area.

This story about “Minari” and composer Emile Mosseri first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s Awards Magazine.Music is key from the very first minute of writer-director Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari,” when we hear a gentle musical score by composer Emile Mosseri as a little boy named David (Alan Kim) peeks out of the window from the back seat of a station wagon.

Student filmmakers from USC dominated the 26th Annual DGA Student Film Awards for African American, Asian American, Latino and women directors, which are designed to honor, encourage and bring attention to exceptional diverse directors in film schools and universities across the country. A national awards ceremony will take place virtually on Tuesday.

Jennifer Lawrence has been left with an eye injury after a stunt went wrong during filming for a new film, it has been reported.The 30 year old American actress is said to have been injured on Friday 5 February as she filmed new flick Don’t Look Up. According to TMZ, sources said Jennifer was shooting a scene in Boston, Massachusetts with Timothée Chalamet.

The Palm Springs International Film Awards will honor “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” star Andra Day with the 2021 Breakthrough Performance Award, the festival’s organizers announced on Friday.Day will receive the award for her performance as Holiday in the Lee Daniels film about the iconic but tortured jazz singer, who was relentlessly pursued by the FBI while fighting drug addiction in the 1940s and ’50s.