‘Squid Game’ high contender for US year-end awards

By IANS

SEOUL: The South Korean breakout hit ‘Squid Game’ has emerged as a giant contender within the US year-end awards season, presumably to turn into the primary Korean-made TV sequence successful a trophy at prestigious awards ceremonies.

The extremely aggressive race for excellent TV exhibits and films of the yr is the largest celebration for the US leisure business eying for the Emmys and Oscars subsequent yr, says Yonhap information company.

In the previous two years, the American awards season unprecedentedly caught the eyes of Korean individuals, after Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ swept the awards-positioning autumn movie festivals and the eventual Academy Awards, and Youn Yuh-jung of ‘Minari’ introduced residence the primary performing Oscar.

Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the nine-part Netflix sequence about contestants engaged in lethal Korean kids’s playground video games to win the equal of $38.5 million in prize cash, has turn into a world phenomenon, seen by 142 million households over the primary 4 weeks of its launch on September 17.

Last month, the organisers of the 2021 Gotham Awards nominated ‘Squid Game’ for 2 classes — Breakthrough Series: Long Format (over 40 minutes) and Outstanding Performance in a New Series for its lead, Lee Jung-jae.

The awards for lower-budget movies and TV sequence are thought-about the start of the harvest season, and its winners are seen as key precursors for subsequent awards exhibits.

Since Gotham Awards nominations, U.S. media retailers have elevated the chances of ‘Squid Game’ successful an excellent variety of recognitions in big-name accolades, together with the Critics Choice Awards and likewise the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.

According to Gold Derby, an American awards prediction web site, ‘Squid Game’ has been included in its high 5 candidates for the SAG Awards TV drama ensemble prize, together with HBO’s black comedy ‘Succession’, the Apple TV+ drama ‘The Morning Show’, Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and FX’s ‘Pose’.

“If ‘Squid Game’ makes the final five, a win is definitely not out of the question,” mentioned Gold Derby, including the SAG has given its high prizes in TV and movie to in style hits of the yr, equivalent to ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.