2025 Buil Film Awards Nominations: Hyun Bin’s Harbin bags 8 nods, Kim Go Eun up for Best Actress with Love in the Big City

The prestigious 2025 Buil Film Awards has formally released its closing list of nominees. Peek-thriller Harbin has emerged as a frontrunner with nominations in multiple important classes. They embody Most efficient Image, Most efficient Director, and Most efficient Actor.

The ceremony is scheduled to happen on September 18, 2025, on the Signiel Hotel in Busan. It’ll bring together one of the most important most eminent names in Korean cinema.

Full nomination highlights

Most efficient Image

• What Does Nature Direct to You?
• The Seagulls of the Morning Sea
• Rental of the Seasons
• Revolt
• Harbin

Most efficient Director

• Ian Hee – Like in the Mammoth Metropolis
• Jeong Yun-cheol – Sea Tiger
• Kim Hyung-joo – The Match
• Hwang Byung-guk – Yadang: The Snitch
• Woo Min Ho – Harbin

Most efficient Actor

• Lee Byung Hun – The Match
• Yoon Joo Sang – The Seagulls of the Morning Sea
• Hyun Bin – Harbin
• Ahn Jae Hong – High 5
• Jo Jung Suk – Land of Happiness

Most efficient Actress

• Kim Traipse Eun – Like in the Mammoth Metropolis
• Shim Eun Kyung – The Killers
• Oh Min Ae – Referring to My Daughter
• Han Ye Ri – Spring Evening
• Lee Hye Younger – Leap forward

Most efficient Supporting Actor

• Jung Hae In – Out of date 2
• Oh Man Seok – Rental of the Seasons
• Park Jeong Min – Revolt
• Jo Woo Jin – Harbin
• Yoo Jae Myung – Land of Happiness

Most efficient Supporting Actress

• Jeon Yeo Bin – Sad Nuns
• Ha Yoon Kyung – Referring to My Daughter
• Claudia Kim – A Fashioned Household
• Yang Hee Kyung – The Seagulls of the Morning Sea
• Chae Obtained Bin – Yadang: The Snitch

Most efficient Contemporary Director

• Lee Mirang – Referring to My Daughter
• Kim Tae Yang – Widow
• Lee Jong Soo – Fogeys Are Fools
• Jang Byeong Gi – Yeoreum-i Jinagamyeon
• Oh Jeong Min – Rental of the Seasons

Most efficient Contemporary Actor

• Moon Woo Jin – Sad Nuns
• Noh Sang Hyun – Like in the Mammoth Metropolis
• Choi Hyun Jin – Yeoreum-i Jinagamyeon
• Kang Seung Ho – Rental of the Seasons
• Jang Seong Beom – Following

Most efficient Contemporary Actress

• Lee Myeong Ha – Widow
• Hong Ye Ji – A Fashioned Household
• Lee Hyeri – Victory
• Jo Aram – Victory
• Roh Yoon Seo – Assertion

Most efficient Screenplay

• Park Lee Woong – The Seagulls of the Morning Sea
• Oh Jeong Min – Rental of the Seasons
• Shin Chul, Park Chan Wook – Revolt
• Park Hong Jun – Work to Place
• Heo Jun Seok – Land of Happiness

Most efficient Cinematography / On the Shoot

• Kim Jin Hyung – Widow
• Lee Jin Geun – Rental of the Seasons
• Joo Sung Rim – Revolt
• Lee Jae Woo – Leap forward
• Hong Kyung Pyo – Harbin

Track Award

• Foremost – Like in the Mammoth Metropolis
• Cho Younger Wook – Revolt
• Jo Younger Wook – Harbin
• Kim Jun Seok – High 5
• Kwon Hyun Jung – Attributable to I Abhor Korea

Art work / Technology Awards

• Particular Effects: Hong Jang Pyo – The Firefighters
• Manufacturing Assemble: Eunyoung Jeong – The Match
• Costume Assemble:
  • Ancestors – Revolt
  • Kwak Jeong Ae – Harbin
• Lighting: Park Jeong Woo – Harbin