"Burning" was selected for the first prize in the 91st Academy Awards Foreign Language Film Prize

The movie "Burning" was included in the first prize of the 91st Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film. 

Burning was selected for the first prize in the 91st Academy Awards Foreign Language Film Prize announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Academy on June 18. It is the first time in Korean film history. 'Burning' is a short list with 'Rome', 'Cold War', 'Capernaum', 'Aika', 'Any Family', 'Never Look Away', 'Birds on the Road' ) Was included in the first candidate. 

The Academy Association will select 5 finalists from nine films on January 22nd next year and the awards ceremony will be held on February 24th. 

'Burning' is the only Korean film to be invited to the competition of the 71st Cannes Film Festival and received the International Critics' League Award and the Vulcan Award. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) and the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) He won the acting award. In addition, the youngest actor in Korea was the only Korean actor to be named to the New York Times' 12 Actors of the Year. 

"Burning" is a horror film directed by Lee Chang-dong, who won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was based on the short story Barn Burning in The New Yorker Haruki Murakami describes the insecurity, helplessness and anger of young people in Korea through the story of Jong Soo (Yoo Ah In), a part-time worker who is also a full-fledged novelist. ambition and his two friends are Hae Mi (Jeon Song Seo) and Ben (Steven Yeun).