"The Face Reader," which has garnered over nine million viewers, was nominated for Grand Bell Award 11 times.
The 50th Grand Bell Award team had its second press conference in Grand Hayatt hotel in Han-nam dong, Seoul, and presented the 21 movies that they had handpicked out of the 51 previously nominated movies. "The Face Reader" was nominated under 11 categories out of 19 categories the Grand Bell Award offers last Thursday.
Some of the categories the movie was nominated for include the best actor's award (Song Kang Ho, Lee Jung Jae) and best supporting actor's award (Baek Yoon Sik, Jo Jung Suk).
In addition to "The Face Reader," 21 other movies including "Gift of the Room Number Seven," "Old Family," "Snowpiercer," and "The New World" were nominated.
The 21 movies will be reviewed for 11 days until October 28. The 50th Grand Bell Movie Award will take place in KBS hall and will be aired lived on KBS2 on November 1, 2013.