News1 reported that Netflix's "Squid Game 2" series won the best foreign television award at the 30th Critics Choice Awards, taking place on 7.2 in California, USA (local time).
Netflix's work competes with top candidates like "Pachinko 2" and "Citadel: Honey Bunny" to win. This recognition strengthens the position of "Squid Game 2" as a global phenomenon and is an important achievement in the history of online film.
Launched in December 2024, "Squid Game 2" followed the male lead Gi Hoon (Lee Jung Jae) back to the game of death again to learn about the power behind it, especially the mysterious man Front Man (Lee Byung Hun).
The film dominated Netflix's global ranking for weeks, reaching more than 1.5 billion views accumulated in the first 3 weeks and became one of the top sequels of this platform.
Earlier, the first "Squid Game" launched in 2021 also won the same category at the 27th Critics Choice Awards, and Lee Jung Jae won the Best Actor Award in the TV series.
"Squid Game 3" will be released on June 27, 2025.
Meanwhile, Critics Choice Awards (Cinema Critics selection) is a prestigious film award, held since 1995, by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, including highly - Binh comes from nearly 200 television stations, radio in the US and Canada.
This year, Critics Choice honored "Anora" as the best movie. Adrien Brody ("The Brutalist") and Demi Moore ("Substance") won the Best Male/Actress of the movie.
In the television segment, "Shogun" won 4 awards, including the best drama and acting awards for Hiroyuki Sanada (Best Actor - Drama drama), Tandanobu Asano ( Best Supporting Actor - Drama Drama) and Moeka Hoshi (Best Supporting Actress - Drama Drama).
