Choi Min-sik
South Korean actor
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| 2024 | Choi Min-sik will portray Kim Sang-deok in the upcoming film 'Exhuma'. |
| 2024 | Choi Min-sik won the Best Actor award at the 25th Busan Film Critics Awards for 'Exhuma'. |
| 2023 | Choi Min-sik won the Golden Bird Prize (Individual) at the Seoul International Drama Awards for 'Big Bet'. |
| 2023 | The 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival organized a special actor exhibition titled 'I Saw Choi Min-sik' showcasing his acting career that spans over 30 years. The exhibition featured ten feature films personally selected by Choi Min-sik, along with the digital restoration and release of two of his short films, Steam and Winter Road, in collaboration with the Korean Film Archive. |
| 2023 | Choi Min-sik won the Best Actor in a Series award at the 59th Grand Bell Awards for 'Big Bet'. |
| 2023 | Choi Min-sik was ranked 11th in Gallup Korea's Film Actor of the Year. |
| 2022 | Choi Min-sik starred in the Disney+ series Big Bet, marking his first drama series appearance in 26 years since Love and Separation in 1997. Seventy percent of the filming was conducted in the Philippines, and he earned nominations for best actor at the 59th Baeksang Arts Awards and the 2nd Blue Dragon Series Award for his role as Cha Mu-sik. |
| 2022 | Choi Min-sik played Lee Hak-seong in 'In Our Prime'. |
| December 10 2021 | Choi's contract with C-JeS Entertainment ended, and he decided to remain a free agent moving forward. |
| 2019 | Choi Min-sik was ranked 14th in The Screen's 2009–2019 Top Box Office Powerhouse Actors in Korean Movies. |
| 2019 | Choi starred alongside Han Suk-kyu in Hur Jin-ho's period film Forbidden Dream, which depicts the relationship between King Sejong the Great and scientist Jang Yeong-sil. |
| 2019 | Choi Min-sik made a cameo appearance as Hong Beom-do in 'The Battle: Roar to Victory'. |
| 2017 | Choi played an unscrupulous mayor in the political film The Mayor and headlined the remake crime thriller Heart Blackened. |
| 2017 | Choi Min-sik played Im Tae-san in 'Heart Blackened'. |
| 2017 | Choi Min-sik portrayed Byeon Jong-gu in 'The Mayor'. |
| 2017 | Choi Min-sik won the Top Star Award at the 6th Korea Film Actors Association Awards for 'Heart Blackened'. |
| 2016 | Choi Min-sik was featured as himself in the documentary 'Old Days'. |
| 2015 | Choi starred in the period film The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale, where he portrayed a hunter. |
| 2015 | Choi Min-sik won the Best Actor award at the 51st Baeksang Arts Awards (Grand Prize) for 'The Admiral: Roaring Currents'. |
| 2015 | Choi Min-sik was ranked 24th in the Herald Economy's Pop Culture Power Leader Big 30. |
| 2015 | Choi Min-sik won the Best Actor award at the 6th KOFRA Film Awards for 'The Admiral: Roaring Currents'. |
| 2014 | Choi Min-sik won the Top Star Award at the 3rd Korea Film Actors Association Awards for 'The Admiral: Roaring Currents'. |
| 2014 | Choi Min-sik won the Best Actor award at the 34th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards for 'The Admiral: Roaring Currents'. |
| 2014 | For his performance in The Admiral: Roaring Currents, Choi Min-sik won the Grand Prize at the 51st Baeksang Arts Awards. |
| 2014 | Choi played the historical figure Yi Sun-sin in the blockbuster film The Admiral: Roaring Currents, which became the most-watched film in South Korean history. |
| 2014 | Choi was also named Gallup Korea's Film Actor of the Year. |
| 2014 | Choi Min-sik was ranked 7th in the Herald Economy's Pop Culture Power Leader Big 30. |
| 2014 | Choi gained prominence in Hollywood with his role in the film Lucy. |
| 2014 | Choi Min-sik won the Grand Prize (Daesang) at the 4th SACF Artists of the Year Awards for 'The Admiral: Roaring Currents'. |
| 2014 | Choi Min-sik was ranked 9th in Sisa Journal's Next Generation Leader—Film Industry. |
| 2014 | Choi Min-sik won the Best Actor award at the 51st Grand Bell Awards for 'The Admiral: Roaring Currents'. |
| 2014 | Choi Min-sik won the Actor of the Year award at the 2nd Marie Claire Asia Star Awards for 'The Admiral: Roaring Currents'. |
| 2013 | Choi Min-sik made a voice cameo as a Doctor in 'In My End Is My Beginning'. |
| 2013 | Choi Min-sik won the Best Actor award at the 4th KOFRA Film Awards for 'Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time'. |
| 2013 | Choi starred in Park Hoon-jung's New World, a noir film about an undercover cop in the gangster world, which received critical and commercial acclaim. |
| 2012 | Choi earned the Best Performance by an Actor award at the 2012 Asia Pacific Screen Awards for his role in Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time, which was both critically and commercially successful. |
| 2012 | Choi Min-sik won the Best Actor award at the 21st Buil Film Awards for 'Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time'. |
| 2012 | Choi Min-sik won the Best Actor award at the 33rd Blue Dragon Film Awards for 'Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time'. |
| 2011 | Nominated for Best Villain at the Scream Awards for 'I Saw the Devil'. |
| 2011 | Choi provided voice acting for Leafie, A Hen into the Wild, which became the highest-grossing South Korean animated film in history. |
| 2011 | Choi Min-sik appeared as himself in the documentary 'Ari Ari the Korean Cinema'. |
| 2010 | Choi Min-sik was ranked 4th in Sisa Journal's Next Generation Leader—Film Industry. |
| 2010 | Choi starred in Kim Jee-woon's action thriller I Saw the Devil, receiving praise for his performance as a serial killer, with the film achieving box office success. |
| 2010 | Choi Min-sik won the Best Actor award at the 13th Director's Cut Awards for his role in 'I Saw the Devil'. |
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