The new edition of the annual celebration of Korean movies, ensuing after the recent broadcast of the Grand Bell Awards 2023 aka Daejon Film Awards, has now announced the 2023 Blue Dragon Film Awards winners list (제44회 청룡영화상). Taking place on November 24, 2023, the main show event kicked off at 8:30 PM KST, right after the red carpet event, which began at 7 PM KST. Hosted by the versatile actress Kim Hye-soo for the 30th and final time, alongside A Bloody Lucky Day‘s Yoo Yeon-seok, the show began with a grand-scale performance by Street Woman Fighter 2′s dance crew 1MILLION that instantly fired up the audience’s interest in what was to follow.
Soon after that, the awarding ceremony, being held at the KBS Hall in Yeouido (Seoul), picked up pace, and here are the winners of the night! While the Ryoo Seung-wan directorial Smugglers had previously bagged the highest number of nominations with the count rising as high as 12, movies Cobweb and Concrete Utopia came in second with 11 nominations each. Did these nominations convert into actual wins? Scroll down to find out!
2023 Blue Dragon Film Awards Winners List
Best New Actor
Hong Xa-bin for Hopeless
Best New Actress
Go Min-si for Smugglers
Best New Director
Ahn Tae-jin for The Night Owl
Audience Choice for Most Popular Film
The Roundup: No Way Out (directed by Lee Sang-yong)
Chung Jung-won Popular Star Award
Song Joong-ki (Hopeless)
Kim Seon-ho (The Childe)
Park Bo-young (Concrete Utopia)
Zo In-sung (Smugglers)
Best Supporting Actor
Zo In-sung for Smugglers
Best Supporting Actress
Jeon Yeo-been for Cobweb
Best Actor
Lee Byung-hun for Concrete Utopia
Best Actress
Jang Yu-mi for Sleep
Best Director
Uhm Tae-hwa for Concrete Utopia
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Best Screenplay
Jung Ju-ri for Next Sohee
Best Editing
Kim Sun-min for The Night Owl
Best Cinematography and Lighting
Kim Tae-kyeong and Hong Seung-chul for The Night Owl
Best Music
Chang Kiha for Smugglers
Technical Award
Jin Jong-hyun for The Moon
Best Film
Smugglers
Special Award
Kim Hye-soo was honoured for her long-running stint as the Blue Dragon Film Awards MC, holding this post since 1993. She’s now stepped down from the position after her 30th year as the show’s host.
Congratulations to all 44th Blue Dragon Film Awards winners!
Blue Dragon Film Awards 2023 Red Carpet event and the main show were live streamed on KBS YouTube channels – KBS Kpop and KBS Entertain, at 7 PM and 8:30 PM KST respectively.