The 82nd Golden Globe Awards were held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in LA, USA at 10 am on the 6th (Korean time, 5 pm on the 5th local time).
‘Squid Game 2’ includes ‘Shogun’, ‘The Diplomat’, ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’, ‘The Day of the Jackal’, It was nominated for ‘Best Television Series – Drama’ along with ‘Slow Horses’, but the award honor went to ‘Shogun’.
The production team and actors of Disney+’s ‘Shogun’ appeared to cheer for the award. Previously, ‘Shogun’ swept the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards in the TV drama category, followed by the Best Picture award, and won awards in the four categories in which it was nominated, winning a total of 4 awards.
‘Squid Game 2’ is the follow-up to ‘Squid Game’, which was released in September 2021 and became Netflix’s highest-grossing hit, and features Ki-hoon (played by Lee Jung-jae), who vows revenge and returns to participate in the game, and the frontman (played by Byung-hun Lee) who welcomes him. ) depicts a fierce battle between ‘Squid Game 2’ not only immediately ranked first in the global TV show category on Netflix immediately after its release, but also showed its ability to take the top spot in all 93 countries where Flix Patrol, a global OTT ranking research site, counts Netflix viewing.
In particular, Season 1 of ‘Squid Game’ was nominated in three categories, including Best Picture in the TV Series category, Best Actor (Lee Jung-jae), and Best Supporting Actor (Oh Young-soo) at the Golden Globe Awards held in 2022, and at the time, Oh Young-soo became the first Korean actor to win a Golden Globe. He has been honored with an award. Accordingly, attention was focused on whether it would be able to achieve another award at the Golden Globe Awards, which has a special relationship with ‘Squid Game’.
In relation to this, director Hwang Dong-hyuk said about being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in a recent interview with domestic reporters, “I actually gave up my expectations of an awards ceremony for Season 2,” and “It wasn’t completed, and the message I wanted to convey wasn’t fully revealed.” “Because it doesn’t,” he said. He then confessed, “In order to receive such an award at the awards ceremony, the story I want to say must be perfectly revealed, but since that was not the case, I actually had no expectations at all,” and “I was very shocked and surprised just to be nominated.” He said, “During Season 1, I was nominated for the Golden Globes because of the issue of diversity, but in fact, I was unable to attend and only actor Oh Young-soo received the award. But this time, I had the opportunity to go again, so I am very happy and grateful, and I am looking forward to winning the award. “In fact, it’s not that big,” he emphasized, adding, “If we’re aiming for it, I think we’ll be able to aim for something with Season 3.”
Meanwhile, the US Golden Globes is an awards ceremony hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and awards are given to films from around the world and American TV dramas. Along with the Academy Awards, it is considered a representative awards ceremony held in the United States.
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