Past Lives star Yoo Teo, Peninsula’s Kang Dong Won are set to become new members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Actors Kang Dong Won and Yoo Teo were invited to be half of the Academy of Motion Report Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the prestigious group that hosts the Academy Awards (Oscars). AMPAS announced its list of 487 recent invitees on June 25, expanding its membership to encompass diverse abilities from the realm movie alternate.

Yoo Teo and Kang Dong Won receive invitation from the Academy of Motion Report Arts and Sciences

On June 26, AMPAS announced its list of 487 recent member invitees for this twelve months, which contains Kang Dong Won and Yoo Teo. Kang Dong Won, smartly-known for his roles in Broker, Dr. Cheon, Misplaced Talisman, and Peninsula, and Yoo Teo, known for his work in Past Lives, had been invited to be half of the actor category. Furthermore, director and screenwriter Celine Music, the Korean-Canadian filmmaker within the aid of Past Lives, moreover got an invitation.

If they teach about out settle for the Academy’s invitation, Kang Dong Won and Yoo Teo will formally turn out to be members and construct voting rights for the Academy Awards. Since 2015, Korean filmmakers possess more and more joined the Academy as members, led by actors delight in Music Kang Ho and Choi Min Sik and administrators comparable to Bong Joon Ho and Im Kwon Taek, who full of life the ground.

They had been later joined by administrators in conjunction with Park Chan Wook, Lee Chang Dong, Hong Sang-Soo, and Yim Quickly Rye, along with actors Lee Byung Hun, Bae Doona, Ha Jung Woo, Kim Min Hee, and Jo Jin Woong, all turning into esteemed members.

In 2020, actors Choi Woo Shik, Jang Hye Jin, Jo Yeo Jeong, Lee Jung Eun, and Park So Dam, smartly-known for their roles within the movie Parasite, got simultaneous invites to be half of the Academy of Motion Report Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). That twelve months, Youn Yuh Jung moreover changed into an official AMPAS member. In 2023, actor Park Hae Il was the sole Korean actor invited to be half of AMPAS.

More about Yoo Teo and Kang Dong Won

Kim Chi Hun, professionally is named Yoo Teo, is a German-born South Korean actor. He garnered acclaim for his portrayal of Viktor Tsoi within the musical movie Leto in 2018, which earned him the Blue Dragon Movie Award for Supreme Fresh Actor in 2021. Yoo Teo gained extra recognition in 2023 for his role within the romantic drama Past Lives, receiving a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Supreme Actor in a Main Role.

Kang Dong Won is a prominent South Korean actor who started his occupation after being chanced on by a modeling agent on the road. Initially starting up as a model, Kang Dong Won chanced on his passion for performing after exhibiting in Jo Sung Mo’s tune video titled I Issue. He made his performing debut in 2003 with roles in Nation Princess and One thing About 1%, and carried out stardom thru his role within the 2004 movie Temptation of Wolves.