My Case Of posts in the Best Actor field at the Oscars reaches its end with Steven Yeun in Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari. If you didn’t catch the first four posts, you can find them here:
https://toddmthatcher.com/2021/04/04/oscars-2020-the-case-of-chadwick-boseman/
https://toddmthatcher.com/2021/04/10/oscars-2020-the-case-of-anthony-hopkins/
The Case for Steven Yeun
The first Asian-American thespian to receive a Best Actor nomination, Yeun’s career has been on a hot streak lately and that includes a critically heralded supporting performance in 2018’s Burning. That work prompted some Oscar chatter that never came to fruition. Minari performed as well as expected (maybe even a bit better) with 6 nods including Yeun and his costar Yuh-jung Youn in Supporting Actress. He was also given nominations at the Critics Choice Awards and SAG Awards.
The Case Against Steven Yeun
Yeun was ignored at the Golden Globes. Best Actor appears to be a two-person competition between Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) and Anthony Hopkins (The Father) and Yeun has yet to log a significant victory in the precursors.
The Verdict
Minari‘s best chance at a win in the major categories lies with Youn and not Yeun.
My Case Of posts will continue with Yeun’s costar Yuh-jung Youn…
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