Minari

The fierce appeal of Yuh-Jung Youn: How the actress endeared herself to South Koreans years before Minari

Yuh-Jung Youn's life story and work made her Oscar win resonate deeply in South Korea, particularly among women who have long struggled under the country’s male-dominant hierarchical order.

Oscars 2021: Minari's Youn Yuh-jung becomes first Korean performer to win Best Supporting Actress

Youn plays Soon-ja, a card-playing grandmom with a knack for swearing, who’s moved from Korea to join her daughter and stepson in his seemingly quixotic quest to trade dispiriting work in California for farming in Arkansas.

Oscars 2021 predictions: Who will take home top honours at 93rd Academy Awards?

Will Chole Zaho's Nomadland continue its dominance on awards season success, or find its charming voyage cut short? Here is the final list of predictions for all 23 categories.

Oscars 2021: Diverse nominees in top categories make it a landmark year for cinema, but will Hollywood reset post pandemic?

It took a pandemic for the Academy's vow to do better with respect to racial, ethnic and gender representation. But there's still a long way to go.

From Minari stars Yuh-Jung Youn and Alan Kim to Jodie Foster, six best acceptance speeches from this year's award season

Here are six people who mined unexpected levels of emotion and humour from a remote awards format practically designed to stamp all of those good things out

Minari star Yuh-Jung Youn recounts her journey to becoming an actor, earning her first Oscar nomination

"Me, a 73-year-old Asian woman could have never even dreamed about being nominated for an Oscar. Minari brought me a lot of gifts," says veteran Korean star Yuh-Jung Youn, who plays Soonja in Lee Isaac Chung’s immigrant drama.

Oscars 2021: Minari, Nomadland leading noms indicate shift in focus on underrepresented communities, stories

Coming off the Golden Globes, the Oscars field stands apart with several milestones and firsts, broadening the range of storytelling that Hollywood celebrates

Oscars 2021: Minari's depiction of migrant culture underlines human need to seek home away from home

The surge of right-wing politics around the world is a natural response to the liberal movement of people, the inter-change and subsequent mixing of cultures and heritages. Minari, therefore, is a beautifully time-fitted capsule.

Minari movie review: Intimate, poignant portrayal of a Korean immigrant family's strife with its American dream

Stitched together in an effortlessly organic manner, Minari unfolds as a series of beautifully observed vignettes of a Korean immigrant family trying to stake their claim for a piece of the American dream.

Oscars 2021: Nominations of Minari, Sound of Metal show dominance of the prestige film got diluted this awards season

At a time when the size of screens have blurred, so has the movie-watching experience, allowing films to be primarily judged on their inherent ability to bring alive a world.