The 2019 Blue Dragon Awards were presented on Nov. 21 in Paradise City Hotel and Resort in Incheon, South Korea, with several awards going to the international hit film
Parasite
.
The annual event was hosted for the second time by actress Kim Hye-soo and actor Yoo Yeon-sook.
Parasite
won five awards. Cho Jo-yeong was awarded Best Actress for her role as the clueless mother of the wealthy Park family, while Lee Jeong-eun, who plays Gong Hyo-jin’s mother in the TV drama
When Camellia Blooms
, won Best Supporting Actress for her role as the Park family’s secretive housekeeper. Bong Joon-ho won for Best Director, Lee Ha-jun won for Best Art Direction and
Parasite
won the Best Film award, beating out the films
Swing Kids, Extreme Job, House of Hummingbird,
and
Exit
.
The Best New Director award went to Lee Sang-geun for the film
Exit
, a disaster action comedy, starring Jo Jung-suk and Im Yoon-ah.
Jung Woo-sung won Best Actor for his role in the film
Innocent Witness
and Jo Woo-jin won Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film
Default
.
Kim Hye-joon won Best New Actress for her work in
Another Child
, which was the directorial debut of veteran actor Kim Yoon-seok, while Park Hae-soo won Best New Actor for his role in
By Quantum Physics, a Nighttime Ventur
e.
Park Hyung-sik and Lee Kwang-woo won Most Popular Actor awards, while the most popular female stars were Im Yoon-ah and Lee Han-na aka Honey Lee, who played an enthusiastic detective in another best film contender,
Extreme Job
.
Best cinematography and lighting award went to the musical drama film
Swing Kids
, which stars EXO’s D.O.
The best screenplay award went to Kim Bo-ra for her coming-of-age film
House of Hummingbird
and the Best Music was awarded to Kim Tae-seong for
Svaha;The Sixth Finger
.
The technical award went to Yoon Jin-yool and Kwon Ji-hoon for the stunts performed in
Exit.
The Blue Dragon Film Awards considers popular movies of high artistic value released during the previous year, and along with the Grand Bell Awards, are the most popular awards in South Korea.
The annual awards ceremony was created in 1963 by the Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.