The 47th Blue Dragon Film Awards will name its winners on November 25, 2026, at the KBS Hall in Yeouido, Seoul, with a live broadcast on KBS 2TV (Star News; Blue Dragon schedule). This year’s list has 18 films across 15 categories (Star News). Nominee lists are easy to find, so this guide adds what they leave out. It shows what the past decade of top prizes looks like, and how each nominee for the major awards has done at Blue Dragon before. The history comes from the awards’ own year-by-year archive.
How this year’s nominees were chosen
The nominees came from expert voting and a first round of online voting held from October 13 to October 25 (Star News). Fan voting opens on November 2 in the Celeb Champ mobile app and covers 16 categories (Star News). Combined, the fan vote counts the same as one expert juror’s vote (Star News).
The front-runners by nomination count
| Film | Nominations |
|---|---|
| HOPE | 10 |
| Possible Love | 8 |
| The King’s Warden | 7 |
| Colony | 6 |
| The World of Love | 5 |
| The Assassin(s) | 5 |
Source: Star News. English titles follow Soompi.
HOPE’s ten nominations include Best Picture, Best Director, and nods for Zo In Sung, Um Mun Suk and Jung Ho Yeon (Star News). Possible Love is the only film with a nominee in all four acting categories: Sul Kyung Gu, Jeon Do Yeon, Zo In Sung and Cho Yeo Jeong (Star News).
The five Best Picture nominees are Colony, The World of Love, The Assassin(s), The King’s Warden and HOPE. The directors of those five films are also the five Best Director nominees (Star News).
The last ten Best Picture and Best Director winners
| Ceremony | Best Picture | Best Director (film) |
|---|---|---|
| 37th (2016) | Inside Men | Na Hong Jin (The Wailing) |
| 38th (2017) | A Taxi Driver | Kim Hyun Seok (I Can Speak) |
| 39th (2018) | 1987: When the Day Comes | Yoon Jong Bin (The Spy Gone North) |
| 40th (2019) | Parasite | Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) |
| 41st (2020) | The Man Standing Next | Lim Dae Hyung (Moonlit Winter) |
| 42nd (2021) | Mogadishu | Ryoo Seung Wan (Mogadishu) |
| 43rd (2022) | Decision to Leave | Park Chan Wook (Decision to Leave) |
| 44th (2023) | Smugglers | Um Tae Hwa (Concrete Utopia) |
| 45th (2024) | 12.12: The Day | Jang Jae Hyun (Exhuma) |
| 46th (2025) | No Other Choice | Park Chan Wook (No Other Choice) |
Source: official archive pages for the 37th, 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 44th, 45th and 46th ceremonies.
Two patterns stand out. First, Best Picture and Best Director have gone to the same film only four times in ten years: at the 40th, 42nd, 43rd and 46th ceremonies. Second, Park Chan Wook has won Best Director twice in the last four ceremonies (43rd; 46th).
Na Hong Jin, who leads this year’s field with HOPE, is the only one of the five 2026 directing nominees to appear in the decade table above. He won Best Director at the 37th ceremony for The Wailing (37th archive).
Best Director nominees: prior Blue Dragon record
Counts below cover nominations in the nine main competitive categories (Best Picture, Best Director, Best New Director and the six acting awards). They are taken from the official archive.
| Nominee (2026 film) | Earlier nominations | Earlier wins |
|---|---|---|
| Na Hong Jin (HOPE) | 2 | Best Director, 37th, The Wailing (37th) |
| Yeon Sang Ho (Colony) | 3 | None (37th, 41st, 46th) |
| Yoon Ga Eun (The World of Love) | 1 | Best New Director, 37th, The World of Us (37th) |
| Jang Hang Jun (The King’s Warden) | 1 | None (23rd) |
| Hur Jin Ho (The Assassin(s)) | 4 | Best New Director, 19th, Christmas in August (19th); Best Director, 28th, Happiness (28th) |
Yeon Sang Ho has been nominated three times and has not won yet. He was up for Best New Director at the 37th and Best Director at the 41st and 46th ceremonies.
Best Actor and Best Actress nominees: prior record
| Nominee (2026 film) | Earlier nominations | Earlier wins |
|---|---|---|
| Koo Kyo Hwan (Once We Were Us) | 3 | None (38th, 42nd, 45th) |
| Park Hae Il (The Assassin(s)) | 5 | Best Actor, 32nd (32nd) and 43rd (43rd) |
| Sul Kyung Gu (Possible Love) | 11 | Best Actor, 21st (21st), 23rd (23rd) and 42nd (42nd) |
| Yoo Hae Jin (The King’s Warden) | 9 | Best Supporting Actor, 31st (31st) |
| Zo In Sung (HOPE) | 4 | Best Supporting Actor, 44th (44th) |
| Ko A Seong (Pavane) | 4 | Best New Actress, 27th (27th) |
| Mun Ka Young (Once We Were Us) | 0 | None (archive) |
| Shin Min Ah (The Eyes) | 1 | None (41st) |
| Lee Jung Eun (The Journey to Gyeongju) | 3 | Best Supporting Actress, 40th (40th) |
| Jeon Do Yeon (Possible Love) | 17 | Best New Actress, 18th (18th); Best Actress, 20th (20th) and 28th (28th) |
Jeon Do Yeon has the deepest Blue Dragon history in this year’s field. The archive lists 17 earlier nominations in the main categories, starting with the 18th ceremony (18th). Her most recent Best Actress nomination came at the 45th ceremony (45th).
Sul Kyung Gu has won Best Actor three times already: at the 21st, 23rd and 42nd ceremonies. Park Hae Il has won it twice, at the 32nd and 43rd. Their films Possible Love and The Assassin(s) also compete for other major awards this year (Star News).
Two actors are nominated twice this year. Zo In Sung is up for Best Actor for HOPE and Best Supporting Actor for Possible Love. Koo Kyo Hwan is up for Best Actor for Once We Were Us and Best Supporting Actor for Colony (Star News).
Supporting nominees: prior record
| Nominee (2026 film) | Earlier nominations | Earlier wins |
|---|---|---|
| Oh Jung Se (Wild Sing) | 1 | None (44th) |
| Um Mun Suk (HOPE) | 0 | None (archive) |
| Lee Min Ho (The Assassin(s)) | – | – (not confirmed; see note) |
| Kim Shin Rock (Colony) | 0 | None (archive) |
| Park Ji Hyun (Wild Sing) | 2 | Best Supporting Actress, 46th (46th) |
| Jang Hye Jin (The World of Love) | 0 | None (archive) |
| Jeon Mi Do (The King’s Warden) | 0 | None (archive) |
| Cho Yeo Jeong (Possible Love) | 3 | Best Actress, 40th (40th) |
Note: the archive lists an actor named Lee Min Ho among earlier nominees, but we could not confirm that it is the same person, so his row is left blank.
Park Ji Hyun won Best Supporting Actress last year for Hidden Face, so she is defending the title (46th archive). Cho Yeo Jeong won Best Actress at the 40th ceremony and now competes in the supporting category (40th archive).
According to the archive, this is the first nomination in a main category for Mun Ka Young, Um Mun Suk, Kim Shin Rock, Jang Hye Jin and Jeon Mi Do (archive).
What to watch on November 25
- Whether HOPE turns ten nominations into Best Picture. In the last decade, the top prize went to a film that also won Best Director only four times (archive).
- Whether Yeon Sang Ho wins for the first time on his fourth nomination (archive).
- Whether Sul Kyung Gu or Park Hae Il wins another Best Actor award (archive).
Sources
- Star News, 47th Blue Dragon Film Awards nominees (official announcement, Korean): https://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/108/0003482316
- Blue Dragon Film Awards, official schedule: https://www.blueaward.co.kr/awards/
- Blue Dragon Film Awards, official history archive: https://www.blueaward.co.kr/awards/history.php
- Archive pages by ceremony: https://www.blueaward.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=blue_2021_awards&history_no= followed by the ceremony number (18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 27, 28, 31, 32, 37 to 46)
- Soompi (secondary source, English titles and names): https://www.soompi.com/article/1882064wpp/47th-blue-dragon-film-awards-announces-nominees
Last checked: 2026-10-30
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