Blue Dragon Film Awards

The Blue Dragon Film Awards is an annual South Korean film award ceremony created in 1963 by "The Chosun Ilbo" newspaper and discontinued in 1973. "Sports Chosun", a Korean sports daily, resurrected the ceremony in 1990 and it has been held annually since then. [cite web |url=http://koreanfilm.org/awards.html|title=Film Awards Ceremonies in Korea|accessdate=2008-02-02|publisher= [http://koreanfilm.org/ koreanfilm.org] |language=English]

The Blue Dragon Film Awards considers only blockbusters and popular movies of high artistic value released during the previous year. During the selection process, about forty movies that have made it to the final list are screened to the public for free. After the screening of each selection, the awards ceremony opens.

Awards

The categories are
*Best Film
*Best Director
*Best New Director
*Best Leading Actor
*Best Leading Actress
*Best Supporting Actor
*Best Supporting Actress
*Best New Actor
*Best New Actress
*Best Cinematography
*Best Music
*Best Art Direction
*Technical Award
*Best Original Screenplay
*Best Lighting

Other interesting categories are the Most Popular awarded to the star that received the most Netizen votes and the Most Popular Film awarded to the movie with the highest viewership throughout the previous year. A week prior to the award ceremony, the previous year's award recipients gather for a handprint event to immortalize their Blue Dragon award.

Best Film

Best Leading Actor

Notes

External links

* [http://sports.chosun.com/bluedragon2006/index.htm Official website (2006 awards)]
* [http://www.koreasociety.org/content/view/287/86/ The 27th Blue Dragon Awards at "Tracking the Blue Dragon Dumplings"]
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