Kakao Entertainment smiled at the Blue Dragon Series Awards for the second consecutive year. Following last year's When Life Gives You Tangerines winning the grand prize, this year Kim Go-eun took the grand prize for You and Everything Else.
On July 31, held at Paradise City in Incheon, the honor of the grand prize at the 5th Blue Dragon Series Awards went to actress Kim Go-eun. Kim Go-eun received the grand prize for the Netflix series You and Everything Else (director Jo Young-min, writer Song Hye-jin, production Kakao Entertainment).
The Blue Dragon Series Awards said, "Kim Go-eun in 'You and Everything Else' linked multilayered emotions spanning years through restrained expression and a low vocal tone, showing a strong presence while raising the work's completeness and revealing the actor's true worth that resonates across generations."
You and Everything Else is a work that portrays every moment of two friends, Eun-jung and Sang-yeon, who like and admire each other most of all, while also being jealous and hateful, and whose lives become entangled over a lifetime; it was released in September last year and rose to No. 5 on Netflix's global top 10 non-English shows. In particular, Kim Go-eun and Park Ji-hyun's performances received praise, and the script and direction, which delicately captured the friends' emotional lines, were also lauded as a well-made work.
With this, Kakao Entertainment now holds the grand prize work and grand prize actor for two consecutive years. At last year's 4th Blue Dragon Series Awards, the Netflix series When Life Gives You Tangerines, produced by Kakao Entertainment's label Baram Pictures (writer Im Sang-chun, director Kim Won-seok, production Pan Entertainment, co-producer Baram Pictures), swept the awards, winning the grand prize as well as best actress (IU) and best supporting actress (Yeom Hye-ran), taking three crowns.
When Life Gives You Tangerines received rave reviews for its solid story, stylish direction and the actors' passionate performances, and as a result took the grand prize at the 4th Blue Dragon Series Awards. With Kim Go-eun's win for You and Everything Else this year, Kakao Entertainment set a record of winning the Blue Dragon Series Awards grand prize two years in a row.
Attention is also focused on works Kakao Entertainment will release in the future. Kakao Entertainment released the Netflix series The Wonder Fools in May and the Netflix series Notes from the Last Row in June, and in August it is also set to release the Netflix series Deer Mouse, based on the Kakao Webtoon of the same name.
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