Tae-oh Yoo, British Academy Award Best Actor nominee “DiCaprio fails”… Korea’s first [Ex’s issue]

(Xports News Reporter Oh Seung-hyun) Actor Yoo Teo was the first Korean actor to be nominated for Best Actor at the British Academy Awards.

On the 18th (local time), the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced the final candidate list for the 77th British Academy Awards.

Among them, the film “Fast Lives,” directed by Korean-Canadian director Celine Song, was nominated in three categories: Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Foreign Language Film.

In particular, Teo Yoo’s nomination for Best Actor received attention both at home and abroad. Teo Yoo became the first Korean actor to be nominated for the Best Actor Award.

Teo Yoo, Cillian Murphy of ‘Oppenheimer’, ‘Saltburn’ Barry Kiergan, ‘Maestro Bernstein’ Bradley Cooper, ‘Rustin’ Colman Domingo, ‘Barton Academy’ He was nominated alongside Paul Giamatti.

‘Fast Lives’ is a film scheduled to be released domestically in the first half of the year and is receiving favorable reviews after being released overseas first. This film depicts the fateful two days of a man and woman who reunite in New York 20 years after being separated in childhood, and stars Teo Yoo and American actress Greta Lee.

In 2021, actress Yoon Yeo-jeong became the first Korean actor to win the Best Supporting Actress award at the British Academy Awards.

Expectations are high whether Yoo Tae-oh will follow in Yoon Yeo-jeong’s footsteps and write a new history as ‘the first leading actor award’.

The BAFTA Awards will be held on February 19th. At the time of the first nomination for Best Actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, the star of ‘Flower Killing Moon’, was also on the list, but he was omitted from the final list.

Meanwhile, Teo Yoo stars in the American Netflix series ‘The Recruit’ He joined the role of a National Intelligence Service agent in Season 2 and is expanding his global career.

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Reporter Seunghyeon Oh ohsh1113@xportsnews.com