Editor's note:
'Minari' won a Golden Globe in 2021 for 'Best Foreign Language Film' and has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Our original story continues below.
When director Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, word-of-mouth about it being one of the best movies traveled fast. The recommendations bore out and the film eventually won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic category. It would go on to win a number of festival awards, including two from the Denver Film Festival, before its Feb. 12 premiere in theaters.