Golden Globes Roasted for Shutting ‘Minari’ Out of Best

Nominations for the 2021 Golden Globes gained’t be introduced till February, however the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is already beneath fireplace after reportedly shutting Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” out of the Best Picture race.

As first reported by Variety, the A24 drama can be relegated to the Best Foreign Language Film class as a result of it’s primarily in Korean. An analogous state of affairs occurred final 12 months with Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell,” which was barred from competing within the Best Picture class on the Globes due to its largely Mandarin dialogue.

The HFPA didn’t instantly return TheWrap’s request for remark. The Golden Globe eligibility rule states that any movie with at the least 50% of non-English dialogue goes into the Foreign Language class. According to an insider with data of the nomination course of, the HFPA didn’t transfer the movie into this class; fairly, “Minari” was entered within the Best Foreign Language Award Category on Nov. 25 and has been in that class ever since.

The preliminary report prompted a wave of concern from movie critics and from celebrities like Wang, Daniel Dae Kim and “Shang-Chi” star Simu Liu.

“Just for the record, ‘Minari’ is an American movie written and directed by an American filmmaker set in America with an American lead actor and produced by an American production company,” Liu identified on Twitter.

Kim tweeted “the film equivalent of being told to go back to your country when that country is actually America.”

“I have not seen a more American film than ‘Minari’ this year,” Wang, director of “The Farewell,” mentioned. “It’s a story about an immigrant family, in America, pursuing the American dream. We really need to change these antiquated rules that characterizes American as only English-speaking.”

In “Minari,” Steven Yeun (“The Walking Dead”) performs Jacob, the daddy of a bunch of Korean-American immigrants who discover a new begin in rural Arkansas within the 1980s. Chung wrote his interval drama primarily based on his personal childhood rising up within the Midwest.

“Minari” gained Sundance’s high two prizes — the narrative characteristic jury prize and the viewers award — when it premiered on the pageant earlier this 12 months.

Below, see extra reactions to Wednesday’s “Minari” information.

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