`Spring' Wins Best Picture at Daejong Awards
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By Joon Soh
Staff Reporter
Kim Ki-duk's lyrical film that parallels a Buddhist monk's passage through life with the changing of the seasons won the best picture award at the 41st Daejong Film Festival Friday.
"Pom Yorum Kaul Kyoul Kurigo Pom (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring)" took home the award for best picture at the ceremony, which was held at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. The film was also given the same award in December at the Blue Dragon Awards, the nation's other significant film awards ceremony.
It has been a fruitful year so far for Kim, whose quiet, contemplative ...ing was a work decidedly different from his usually tortured and violent dramas. Earlier in the year, Kim's most recent work "Samaria", a disturbing narrative that mixed teenage prostitution and religion, garnered him the best director award at the Berlin Film Festival.
As many expected, Daejong's best director prize went to Park Chan-wook for "Oldboy", a film that traces one man's search for vengeance after being mysteriously held captive for 15 years. Choi Min-sik's performance in the film as a man bent on exacting revenge garnered the veteran performer the best actor award.
Despite missing out on the best picture prize, "Oldboy" took home a total of five awards, including best music, best editing and best lighting, making it the night's big winner.
Moon So-ri, who led an ensemble cast in "Paramnan Kajok (A Good Lawyer's Wife)", received the best actress award for her portrayal of a dissatisfied housewife who has an affair with a younger man.
"Silmido" and "Taegukgi", the two military blockbusters that set local box-office records by each breaking the 11-million-viewer barrier earlier in the year, were respectively given four and three awards.
The event has been regarded as one of the most prestigious film festivals in the nation but its fame was damaged by the alleged lobbying by film companies and a bribery scandal in the 1990s.
Since then, the event has allowed ordinary citizens take part in the nomination process along with seven people working in the film industry by giving them the power to vote for award nominees to make the selection process more transparent. But the winners of the awards were still chosen by a nine-member jury consisting of film critics, directors, professors and other experts in the film field.
Many people also argued this year's event was poorly organized since all the winners in each category had been made public through the websites of Daejong Film Festival and Seoul Broadcasting System, the official broadcaster of the annual festival, right after the ceremony began. So some nominees didn't show up or left early, who knew they wouldn't win an award.
Staff Reporter
Kim Ki-duk's lyrical film that parallels a Buddhist monk's passage through life with the changing of the seasons won the best picture award at the 41st Daejong Film Festival Friday.
"Pom Yorum Kaul Kyoul Kurigo Pom (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring)" took home the award for best picture at the ceremony, which was held at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. The film was also given the same award in December at the Blue Dragon Awards, the nation's other significant film awards ceremony.
It has been a fruitful year so far for Kim, whose quiet, contemplative ...ing was a work decidedly different from his usually tortured and violent dramas. Earlier in the year, Kim's most recent work "Samaria", a disturbing narrative that mixed teenage prostitution and religion, garnered him the best director award at the Berlin Film Festival.
As many expected, Daejong's best director prize went to Park Chan-wook for "Oldboy", a film that traces one man's search for vengeance after being mysteriously held captive for 15 years. Choi Min-sik's performance in the film as a man bent on exacting revenge garnered the veteran performer the best actor award.
Despite missing out on the best picture prize, "Oldboy" took home a total of five awards, including best music, best editing and best lighting, making it the night's big winner.
Moon So-ri, who led an ensemble cast in "Paramnan Kajok (A Good Lawyer's Wife)", received the best actress award for her portrayal of a dissatisfied housewife who has an affair with a younger man.
"Silmido" and "Taegukgi", the two military blockbusters that set local box-office records by each breaking the 11-million-viewer barrier earlier in the year, were respectively given four and three awards.
The event has been regarded as one of the most prestigious film festivals in the nation but its fame was damaged by the alleged lobbying by film companies and a bribery scandal in the 1990s.
Since then, the event has allowed ordinary citizens take part in the nomination process along with seven people working in the film industry by giving them the power to vote for award nominees to make the selection process more transparent. But the winners of the awards were still chosen by a nine-member jury consisting of film critics, directors, professors and other experts in the film field.
Many people also argued this year's event was poorly organized since all the winners in each category had been made public through the websites of Daejong Film Festival and Seoul Broadcasting System, the official broadcaster of the annual festival, right after the ceremony began. So some nominees didn't show up or left early, who knew they wouldn't win an award.
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