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37th Blue Dragon Awards

With 2016 being one of the most impressive seasons for S. Korean cinema, there was much competition among the nominees and the awards were, as usually, spread among a number of films. Among the highlights was the fact that won for the first time, despite his many nominations and that the award for supporting actor went to Japanese Jun Kinimura for his role in “The Wailing.”

The 37th ceremony took place on November 25th at the Grand Peace Palace of Kyung Hee University and was hosted by Kim Hye-soo and Yoo Jun Sang.

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Best Picture: Inside Men ()

Best Director: Na Hong-jin (The Wailing)

Best Actor: Lee Byung-hun (Inside Men)

Best Actress: (The Handmaiden)

Best Supporting Actor:  (The Wailing)

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Jun Kunimura

Best Supporting Actress: Park So-dam (The Priests)

Best New Actor: Park Jung-min (Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet)

Best New Actress: Kim Tae-ri (The Handmaiden)

Best Screenplay: Shin Yeon-sik (Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet)

Best New Director: Yoon Ga-eun (The World of Us)

Box Office Audience Award: Train to Busan

Best Cinematography: Lee Mo-gae, Lee Sung-hwan (Asura: The City of Madness)

Best Original Score: Jang Young-kyu, Dalparan (The Wailing)

Best Art Direction: Ryu Sung-hee (The Handmaiden)

Best Technical Achievement: Kwak Tae Yong, Hwang Hyo Gyun (Special Effects in Train to Busan

Best Film Editing: Kim Sung-min (The Wailing)

Most Popular Stars: Jung Woo-sung (Asura: The City of Madness), Son Ye-jin (The Last Princess), Bae Doona (Tunnel), Jun Kunimura (The Wailing)

Best Short Film: Summer Night ( Lee Ji-won)

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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