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The Man Standing Next wins best picture at Blue Dragon Awards
Posted : 2021-02-10 13:58
Updated : 2021-02-14 10:10 The winners of the 41st Blue Dragon Awards pose with their trophies during the ceremony held at Paradise City in Incheon, Tuesday. / Yonhap
By Kwak Yeon-soo The Man Standing Next, a political thriller about the 1979 assassination of President Park Chung-hee, won the Best Picture award at the 41st annual Blue Dragon Awards, Tuesday. Park was assassinated by his right-hand man Kim Jae-gyu, who was the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA).
The film received a total of 10 Blue Dragon nominations, but ended up winning only one award. This is director Woo Min-ho s second Best Picture award following the 2016 political crime-action film Inside Men. The Man Standing Next, the national contender for the 93rd Academy Awards, failed to make the shortlist of 15 films.
Posted : 2020-12-30 14:12
Updated : 2020-12-30 14:14
Comedian Yoo Jae-suk shows off his trophies after receiving the grand prize at the MBC Entertainment Awards held at the MBC Public Hall, Seoul, Tuesday. Courtesy of MBC
By Dong Sun-hwa
Comedian Yoo Jae-suk has won an entertainment award grand prize for the 15th time.
Yoo, 48, took the honor at this year s MBC Entertainment Awards, Tuesday, for his performance on the channel s reality show Hangout with Yoo. He was competing against several comedians and TV personalities including Park Na-rae and Jun Hyun-moo.
Yoo previously won the biggest prize at the country s three largest broadcasters ― KBS in 2005 and 2014, SBS in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2019, and at MBC in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2016.
MBC has celebrated the variety stars and shows that lit up the network this year!
The 2020 MBC Entertainment Awards were held on December 29, with Jun Hyun Moo, Jang Do Yeon, and Ahn Bo Hyun as MCs. Restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 were put in place, including everyone wearing masks, social distancing, individual partitions set up between tables, and trophies being placed on a table for the winners to pick up, reducing hand-to-hand contact.
Yoo Jae Suk took home the Daesang (Grand Prize) during the night’s ceremony, following his notable work on MBC’s “How Do You Play?” this year. This is Yoo Jae Suk’s seventh time winning the Daesang from the MBC ceremony (including winning with the “Infinite Challenge” cast in 2007).