Yuh-JungYoun has made history at the 2021 Oscars. The Minari star won best supporting actress at the annual awards ceremony on Sunday night and, in doing so, became the first Korean actor or actress to win an Oscar in the show's 93-year history. "Usually, when I'm living in the other part of the world, I just watch the television and there is the Oscar," said the 73-year-old actress in her acceptance speech. "But me, being here, myself.
I cannot believe I'm here. OK, let me pull myself together." In thanking her Minari "family," she called directorLee Isaac Chung "my captain," and joked of her fellow nominees, "I'm luckier than you," crediting "American hospitality" for her win, to big laughs.
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