19h02 PST 2/28/2021
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Mia Galuppo
“Minari is about a family. It’s a family trying to learn to speak their own language,” said director Lee Isaac Chungs during his acceptance speech.
MinariThe achievement of the category of best foreign language at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony tonight comes after a controversy over the classification of the film that left him out of the race for the best film.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was severely criticized for its decision to place the drama directed by Lee Isaac Chung in the foreign language category, as the film was financed and produced by American companies, A24 and Plan B, respectively. The cast and crew were also mostly made up of American talent.
At the time, people turned to social media to criticize the HFPA decision, including Hollywood players like Daniel Dae Kim, Lulu Wang and Simu Liu. Wang movie 2019 The Goodbye it was also placed in the foreign language category, despite being financed and produced by American companies.
Minari follows a Korean family moving to Arkansas, where they hope to build a farm.
HFPA rules state that any film with at least 50 percent of dialogues other than in English must compete for the award in a foreign language, not one of the two categories of best film. Minari it is predominantly in Korean.
Said Chung when accepting the award, “Minari it’s about a family. It is a family trying to learn to speak their own language. It is deeper than any American language and any foreign language – it is a language of the heart. “
The Golden Globe Awards ceremony is produced by Dick Clark Productions, a division of MRC, which is co-owner of The Hollywood Reporter through a joint venture with Penske Media entitled P-MRC.