At the Emmy Awards, Beef won a total of five awards, including two acting awards: Outstanding Lead Actor (Miniseries/Anthology) and Outstanding Lead Actress (same category) for Steven Yeun and Ali Wong.
Steven Yeun on stage accepting an Emmy for his outstanding performance in Beef
Since its online release, Beef (created by Lee Sung Jin) has continuously achieved success, not only on online platforms (in the first week of its release, the film reached nearly 1 billion minutes of online viewing) but also won many awards.
Prior to the Emmys, Beef won the 81st Golden Globe for Best Miniseries/Anthology Series, with actors Steven Yeun and Ali Wong also winning Best Actor and Best Actress in the same category.
At the Critics' Choice Television Awards, the film also received awards such as: Best Miniseries, Best Actor (for Steven Yeun) and Best Actress (for Ali Wong).
Steven Yeun and Ali Wong in Beef
What contributed to the success of this work, besides the film's cast and its engaging, layered storytelling?
In the film, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong play two "enemies" who, because of a small mistake on the road, become enemies and try to harm each other in all sorts of ways. This toxic relationship drags the two into a never-ending war.
The idea for the film came from the creator of the work - Lee Sung Jin, when he himself experienced that ironic incident on the street. When he put this idea into the film, he "fanned" the flames of conflict between the characters, however, the story he touched did not stop there.
The filmmaker touches on an issue that has recently received much attention in Hollywood: the problem of Korean immigrants in America, those of the second generation here, or more broadly, the problem of Asians in their 30s and 40s who are building their own "American dream".
Steven Yeun in Minari , a work that made a splash 3 years ago
Pixar's Turning Red is a Different Look at Asians in America
Beef is a typical "case" of the situation that Asian immigrants face, exploited by filmmakers in recent times, with high relevance and relevance.
Three years ago, Lee Isaac Chung's film Minari , about the struggles of Korean immigrants in America and starring Steven Yeun, won big at film awards, including the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
Or the animated film Turning Red directed by Domee Shi, which tells the story of the conflicts of second-generation Chinese people living in America, is also another lens on the lives of Asians in the land of the flag. Those troubles have been skillfully and emotionally exploited by filmmakers in different film genres.
The film Beef is special in the way it develops its theme, it portrays the "ugly people" - regardless of class - to talk about the "serious illness" that people have to live with in modern society. The embers can flare up into a fire and swallow them up at any time...
Up to now, the film Beef has received important film awards such as: Golden Globe (nominated in 3 categories, won all 3), Emmy (nominated in 7 categories, won 4), Critics' Choice Television Awards (nominated in 4 categories, won 4) and many other awards.
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