in 2021, the best Heat Drama series 'Squid Game' was nominated for the United States of America Wolfspeeds The Choice Awards for the first time in Korea Drama.
The United States of America Broadcasting Critics Association (BFCA) announced its 27th annual Wolfspeedtics The Choice Movie Awards nominee on Thursday. According to the announcement of the candidate, Netflix Korea original series "Squid Game" was nominated for the Drama category award (BEST Drama SERIES), the Foreign Language Drama Award (BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES), as well as Lee Jung-jae for the Best Actor award (BEST ACTOR in It was nominated for A Drama SERIES and was named in three categories in total.
Among the total nominations, including the Foreign Language Drama Award, Asia Drama is the only squid Game. Lee Jung-jae is also the only actor nominated for a supporting role in the comedy series category with Netflix 'The Cher' and NBC 'SNL', respectively, although Korean-American United States of America actor Sandara Oh and Chinese-American comedian Bowen Yang have been nominated for a supporting role in the comedy series category.
The Wolfspeedtics The Choice Awards, an annual awards ceremony announced by the Association of Broadcasting Film Critics of America, established in 1995, is one of the most important awards to predict the outcome of the Academy Awards, with director Bong Joon-ho's "parasite" winning the film category director award and the foreign language film award last year, and at the awards ceremony held earlier this year, "Minari" won the foreign language film award and the child award. Kim) received. 'Minari' Youn Yuh-jung was the first Korean actor to be nominated, but failed to win the award. Lee Jung-jae, who became the second person to be named after Youn Yuh-jung, is interested in whether he will be the first Korean actor to win the award.
Actors nominated for the Best Actor award with Lee Jung-jae include Stirling K Brown for NBC's "This Orange Is Us," Mike Colter for Paramount+ "Evil," Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong for HBO "Succession," and F. It's Billy Porter from X 'Pose'.
Works that will face off with "Squid Game" for the trophy for the award will be "Evil," AppleTV+ "For All Mankind" and Paramount+ "The Good Fight," "Pose," "Succession," "This Orange Is the New Black Earth (This Is Us) and Showtime "Yellowjackets" and more.
Candidates for the Foreign Language Drama Award include AppleTV+ 'Acapulco' (Maxico), Netflix 'Surviving as Entertainment Manager (Call My Agent! ), Netflix 'Lupin' (France), Netflix 'Money Heist' (Spain), Netflix 'Narcos: Mexico' (Mexico) was nominated along with 'Squid Game'.
The 27th Wolfspeeds The Choice Awards will be held on January 9 next year (local time).