British Academy Award, DiCaprio excluded, Teo Yoo nominated for Best Actor [Oh!Shen Issue]

[OSEN=Reporter Choi Yi-jeong] Actor Teo Yoo of the movie ‘Fast Lives’ (directed by Celine Song) was nominated for the Best Actor Award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

On the 18th (local time), the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced the candidates for the 76th British Film Academy Awards, which will be held at the Southbank Center on February 19.

Tae-oh Yoo was nominated in the Best Leading Actor category for ‘Fast Lives’ at this awards ceremony. Nominees in this category include Colman Domingo for ‘Rustin’, Cillian Murphy for ‘Oppenheimer’, Barry Keoghan for ‘Saltburn’, Paul Giamatti for ‘Barton Academy’, and Bradley Cooper for ‘Maestro’.

In particular, movie fans are showing a surprising and meaningful response to the fact that Leonardo DiCaprio, the protagonist of the movie ‘Flower Killing Moon’, was omitted and Teo Yoo was added.

Previously, actress Yoon Yeo-jeong won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2021 movie ‘Minari’. However, no Korean actor has ever won the Best Actor Award.

Additionally, ‘Fast Lives’ was nominated in three categories, including Best Male Lead Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Foreign Language Film. It was previously nominated for the Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Awards, raising expectations, but it failed to win the award.

‘Fast Lives’, directed by Korean-Canadian director Celine Song, depicts the fateful two days of a man and a woman who reunite in New York 20 years after being separated as children. It also had the honor of winning Best Picture at the 58th National Association of Film Critics Awards. Tae-oh Yoo and Greta Lee, a Korean-American, played the lead roles. It is scheduled to be released in Korea in the first half of the year.

Meanwhile, at this year’s British Academy Awards, ‘Oppenheimer’ won 13 categories, ‘Poor Things’ won 11 categories, ‘Flower Killing Moon’ won 9 categories, ‘Barbie’ was nominated in 5 categories.

Meanwhile, Teo Yoo is attracting attention for his full-fledged global move, including the Netflix American series ‘The Recruit’ He is scheduled to appear as the main character in season 2.

After living in obscurity for about 15 years, Teo Yoo was reborn as a full-fledged leading actor through the 2018 Russian film ‘Leto’ (directed by Kirill Seribrennikov).

‘Leto’ In a related interview commemorating the competition section of the 71st Cannes International Film Festival, he said, “It’s so good. I had been walking in obscurity for 15 years, but entering Cannes was like a dream, shaking off the sorrow of being an unknown actor. It’s great to get attention in a place like this. Of course, it’s hard to adjust to the time difference, but it’s nice to be illuminated like this in a place like this. “It’s like a dream,” Bada said with a smile. He has appeared in films including ‘Leto’, ‘Black Money’, ‘New Year’s Eve’, and ‘Decision to Break Up’ Appeared in etc. TV appearances include Netflix Korea’s ‘Love Battle’, ‘Health Teacher Ahn Eun-young’, ‘Money Game’, ‘Vagabond’ ;, ‘Arthdal ​​Chronicles’, ‘Chocolate’ etc.

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