April 29, 2023 | Issue 3220
He Han awards are presented every year, and this year is especially lively.
In the past year, the gods of the Korean drama circle have fought, and this Baeksang Art Awards has frequently appeared in hot searches since its nomination. Last night, all the awards were settled, "Tang Wei Second Movie Queen", "Song Hye Kyo First Won Baeksang Vision", "Park Eunbin won the Baeksang Korean Drama Award"... The end result is upset, expected, and unexpected.
Baeksang Art Awards (hereinafter referred to as Baeksang) and Blue Dragon Award and Grand Bell Award are known as the three highest honors in the Korean film and television industry, the latter two vertical film fields, Baeksang is a comprehensive award including films, TV series, variety shows and dramas, is the TV drama award TOP, the highest gold content, more authoritative than KBS, SBS, MBC TV Awards.
Compared with last year's controversy over works and candidates, this year's awards in the TV series and film departments have made most people happy, especially the "sweep" of female themes and female creators.
Song Huiqiao and Tang Wei won the post-film film respectively and wrote new career milestones. Tang Wei once became a Baeksang film for the first time with "Late Autumn" in 2011, this second letter is not unexpected, as a Korean daughter-in-law, she has always been popular with the audience in South Korea, and may be expected to become the first Chinese actress to win three awards in the Korean film industry.
Song Huiqiao has been debuting for 27 years, and every age group has masterpieces with both word of mouth and popularity, but four times shortlisted, four times to accompany the run, this time with the nemesis Wen Dongen finally fulfilled her dream, for this low-key and diligent national actress, it is undoubtedly the most weighty praise.
Before the draw, the most intense discussion among the audience was the post-viewing attribution. In addition to Song Hye Kyo, Kim Ji-won ("My Liberation Log") and Park Eun-bin ("Very Lawyer Woo Young-woo") nominated this time are the finishing touches in high-scoring dramas. But the characteristics of Baeksang are that the award criteria pay more attention to ratings and social influence, and slow hot works such as "My Liberation Journal" that focus on inner portrayal, although novel, but the ratings are not outstanding, it is difficult to get such heavyweight awards as the rear of the scenes.
Before the lottery, many people were optimistic about Park Enbin, and the autistic lawyer she played in "Very Lawyer Yu Yingyu" reshaped many audiences' cognition of marginalized groups, and the body and demeanor were restored accurately and naturally, and at the same time, because her temperament was too cute, she once became the public's "female goose". The ratings of the show's finale soared to 17%, creating a ratings miracle for small TV stations on the eighteenth line. Therefore, Park Eunbin's award-winning reputation once surpassed that of Song Hye Kyo.
When the queen was awarded to Song Hye-kyo, few people guessed that Park Eunbin would win the grand finale TV series award.
The "Grand Award" is not a similar competition, works, actors, directors, screenwriters can be shortlisted, so it is the best of the best, rarely awarded to individual actors, unless the acting skills are outstanding and the role has extraordinary cultural influence. For example, last year's TV series awards went to "Squid Game" instead of the male lead Lee Jung-jae. It is no wonder that Park Eunbin cried when she won the award, born in 1992, she is currently the youngest actress in the history of the "Grand Awards".
Several key Korean dramas shortlisted this time include "My Liberation Journal", "Dark Glory", "Very Lawyer Yu Yingyu", "Little Ladies" and "Our Blues", the first four of which are innovative explosions with female themes, and film and television monologues have previously published detailed film reviews. "Dark Glory" was nominated for eight times, and finally won Best Work, Best Actress and Best Actress, "My Liberation Journal" won the Best Screenplay Award (Park Hye Young), "Very Lawyer Woo Young-woo" won the Best Director Award (Yoo In-sik), and "Little Ladies" also won the Best Art Award despite its unfinished life. "Our Blues" is nothing.
It is not so much that Baeksang intends to encourage women's creation this year, but that it is the result of feminism in the creation of Korean dramas. Since about a few years ago, the image of the heroine of Korean dramas is no longer single, there are drunks, evil women, and weak marginalized people. The narrative no longer takes love as the main line, talking about feelings is just piggyback, revenge, madness, fighting chaebols, and messing around are the right things. The soil of the track is becoming more and more abundant, and when you win the award, you will naturally "win numb".
Compared with the "female frequency" that is more and more radiant with the curl, this year's Baeksang male works are slightly disappointed.
The emperor was pocketed by Li Xingmin ("The Little Son of the Chaebol Family"), which made people almost forget that the male protagonist of this drama is actually Song Joong-ki. The actor awarded Yoo Junyeol ("Night Scoundrel"), that is, "Dog Hwan" in "Please Answer 1988". In the hearts of many domestic audiences, although Liu Junyeol has good acting skills, there is still a gap between him and the actor. This time, he won the award for the thriller crime movie "Night Lord" with a Douban score of 7.1, low popularity, and not high recognition.
In the past year, Korean films have been relatively quiet, and the shortlisted works with a good reputation this time "Determination to Break Up" and "The Next Sohee" are also women's themes. In fact, there were not many male word-of-mouth Korean dramas last year, such as "Weak Heroes" and "The King of Pigs", but they were not selected due to various restrictions such as streaming media production.
However, as a mainstream award, should producers be treated equally? Recently, Korean dramas and Korean movies have had the problem of broken funds, and the decline in TV drama production capacity is inevitable, I don't know if the next Baeksang nomination, streaming media has a chance to get more relaxed entry criteria?
【Text/Kwai Chung】