'Minari' wins best foreign film Golden Globe after being regarded ineligible for best picture
'Minari', a semi-autobiographical dilemma about a family of Korean immigrants aiming to realise their North american aspiration in the 1980s, has won the best foreign film Golden Globe carrying out a controversy around its classification that led the movie to be overlooked in the best picture competition. The Hollywood Foreign Press Connection (HFPA), your body that conducts the Globes, courted sharp criticism from several personalities, including Lulu Wang, Simu Liu, and Phil Lord after it relegated the Lee Isaac Chung directorial to the foreign-language category considering that the film was financed and made by American companies, A24 and Plan B, respectively.
The cast, led by 'The Walking Dead' alum Steven Yeun, and crew were also majority consisting of American talent. Also starring Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and can Patton, "Minari" was only nominated in one category. It really was a family group affair for Chung, whose seven-year-old daughter was sitting in his lap, as accepted the honor, his first. The filmmaker thanked the 'Minari' team, his cousins, his parents, his sister, and his wife, who he said was "covering".
"And this one here," he said patting his little princess who continued to hug him tightly, adding "she is the reason I made this film."Chung, that has received rave reviews for the film, also addressed the controversy around its nomination. The second-generation Korean American said 'Minari' is approximately a family group that is trying to speak a dialect of its.
"It travels deeper than any North american or spanish," he added. "From the terms of the heart and I'm learning it myself and move it on. I expectation a whole lot of (people) understand how to speak this language of want to the other person especially this season. God bless you all and thank you," Chung said as he shut down his acceptance talk.As per the guidelines of the HFPA, the contenders to discover the best play or comedy/musical categories must feature at a minimum of 50 % English dialogues.
