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The 52nd Grand Bell Awards aka Daejong Film Awards. Ode to my Father Steals Show!

Ode to my Father
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The Grand Bell Awards , also known as Daejong Film Awards, is an awards ceremony presented annually by The Motion Pictures Association of Korea for excellence in film in South Korea.

The 52nd ceremony was held on November 20, 2015 in the KBS Hall in Seoul and hosted by and . To promote the awards beyond the borders of Korea, the show was also broadcasted live online in China and a new category was added, regarding foreign actors. Furthermore, the head of the steering committee announced that they were pressing for North Korean directors and actors to attend and compete.

Gao Yuanyuan
Gao Yuanyuan

However, the ceremony was an utter disaster, chiefly due to a number of mishandling and much controversy. Roughly a month before the ceremony, the organizers announced that they would present awards only to the winners that attended the ceremony. Otherwise, the award would be given to another nominee. As expected, the announcement shocked the industry, thus resulting in the absence of the 11 of the 22 winners, although the organizers had retracted the rule, a week before the ceremony.

Han Go Eun
Han Go Eun

Furthermore, the competition, which had been repeatedly accused for lack of meritocracy and transparency, had an additional crisis this year due to the indictment of the former chief of the steering committee, Lee Kyu-tae for fraud over defense procurement deals.

To weather the storm, the committee named  as public relations ambassador, along with actress Son Ye Jin, in an attempt to draw from their popularity.

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Best Picture:

Director Award: (Ode to My Father)

Screenplay: Ode to My Father (Park Su Jin)

Actor Award: Hwang Jung Min (Ode to My Father)

Actress Award: Jeon Ji Hyun (Assassination)

Supporting Actor: Oh Dal Soo (Ode to My Father)

Supporting Actress: Kim Hae Sook (Sado)

New Actor: Lee Min Ho (Gangnam 1970)

New Actress: Lee Yoo Young (Spring)

New Director: Baek Jong Yeol (Beauty Inside)

Cinematography: Ode to My Father (Choi Young Hwan)

Lighting: The Silenced (Kim Min Jae)

Editing: Ode to My Father (Lee Jin)

Music: The Tenor Lirico Spinto (Kim Joon Sung)

Costuming: The Royal Tailor (Jo Sang Kyung)

Art Direction: The Royal Tailor (Chae Kyung Sun)

High Technology Special Award: Ode to My Father

Sound Recording Award: Ode to My Father (Lee Seung Chul, Han Myung Hwan)

Foreign Category Award: Sun Honglei, Gao Yuanyuan

Popularity Award: Kim Soo Hyun, Gong Hyo Jin

Korean Film Lifetime Achievement Award: Jung Chang Hwa (director), Yoon Il Bong (actor)

Planning: Ode to My Father

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About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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