Director Lee Isaac Jung’s autobiographical film “Minari” reported a series of good news, winning his first film award at the Critics’ Association Film Awards announced ahead of the Academy Awards.

According to U.S. entertainment media variety and distributors on the 5th, the North Carolina Critics Association announced on the 4th (local time) that it has selected “Minari” for the best award.

In addition, Yoon Yeo-jung won the Best Supporting Actress Award, director Chung won the Best Screenplay Award, and won four gold medals including actor Will Patton’s “Ken Hank Memorial Tahill Award.”

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Earlier in the new year, “Minari” won the Best Supporting Actress Award (Yoon Yeo-jung) and the Best Supporting Actress Award and the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Greater Western New York Critics Association, led by Western New York critics.

The movie “Minari” is written and directed by director Chung, a Korean-American, based on his autobiographical experience, and tells the story of a Korean family who moved to Arkansas in the 1980s. Korean-American Steven Ye-yeon and Han Ye-ri played a couple, while Yoon Yeo-jung played a grandmother from Korea.

“Minari,” which is expected to win the Golden Globe and Academy Awards, the two major film awards in the U.S. in the new year, is scheduled to be released in Korea in the first half of this year.