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Lee Isaac Chung‘s critical darling “Minari” earned a 2021 foreign-language Golden Globe nomination Wednesday morning, yet emerged one of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s most glaring snubs as an acclaimed picture made by and about Asian Americans was shut out from top prize contention by rules for films not in the English language for the second year in a row.
The omission of “Minari” from any nominations other than foreign-language reignited criticism of the HFPA’s classification rules, sparking a recurring outcry on social media: “‘Minari’ is an American film.”
The family drama, which won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury and Audience prizes last year, stars Steven Yeun and Yeri Han in the poignant tale of Korean American immigrants who move to a rural Arkansas farm in the 1980s with their children (Alan S. Kim and Noel Cho) in pursuit of the American dream.