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59th Baeksang Arts Awards

59th Baeksang Arts Awards

The 59th Baeksang Arts Awards (Korean: 제59회 백상예술대상) ceremony, organised by JoongAng Group, was held at Incheon Paradise City, Incheon on April 28, 2023, at 17:30 KST. The event was hosted by Shin Dong-yup, Bae Suzy, and Park Bo-gum and was broadcast live in South Korea by JTBC and internationally by TikTok. The annual awards ceremony is one of South Korea's most prestigious award shows, recognizing excellence in film, television, and theatre, through strict screening conducted by 60 professional evaluators, judges in the industry, and a group of experts representing TV, film, and theater through a fierce screening process.

The nominees were announced on April 7, 2023, via its official website. All works released between April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023, were eligible for nominations. The final candidates for the Grand Prize – Film category were the movie Decision to Leave and its director, Park Chan-wook. For the Grand Prize – Television, the finalists included actress Park Eun-bin, the legal drama Extraordinary Attorney Woo, actor Lee Sung-min, screenwriter Kim Eun-sook, and the revenge series The Glory.

The night's highest honors, the Grand Prize (Daesang), were awarded to Decision to Leave in the film category and Park Eun-bin in the television category, respectively. Decision to Leave and The Night Owl were the most decorated films of the ceremony with three awards each, while The Glory was the most-awarded television series, also receiving three.