Actor Kim Yoon-seok won the Best Actor Award at the 54th Baeksang Arts Awards held on March 3. It is the first achievement in six years after the 3rd Best Actor of the Year award, which was held in 2012. “I think this award was given to everyone who made the movie 1987
,” Kim said after receiving the trophy. “In fact, I thought I needed two words, talent and effort, while making movies, but I thought of another word while doing this work. Kim Yoon-seok, who had no relationship with Baek Sang, was awarded the Best Actor Award through 1987
and washed away his regrets. Although the movie The Chaser (2008) won the grand prize at the 44th Baeksang Arts Awards, there was no personal trophy. This year, Kim Yoon-seok's main film Namhansanseong (2017) also won the award for his film. For Kim Yoon-seok, 1987
is a movie with a special meaning. He has been actively participating in the planning stage and has been revised since he received the proposal from director Jang Jun-hwan, starting with the late Park Jong-cheol, who is a senior high school student. In a drinking party with director Jang, he cooperated with actors Kang Dong Won and Ha Jung Woo to present '1987
' on the 30th anniversary of the June Democratic Uprising. '1987
' contains the history from January 1987
to June. College students and citizens who mourned the death of Lee Han-yeol, who was hit by tear gas on June 9, 1987
, and the innocent death of a young man, boiled hot in June 1987
. The June uprising, which led to the 6th and 29th declarations, It is a long extension of the relatively short history that took place in six months, but it is not boring or awkward. Kim Yoon-seok, who has firmly built his own character with his unique acting in various works, showed a unique presence in '1987
'. He played the role of the head of the anti-aircraft investigation department, and he realistically reproduced the situation of the time by drawing the process of making a choice that was different from his will under the dictatorship from the personal pain of a person.