How to Watch and Vote for the Blue Dragon Film Awards 2026

The Blue Dragon Film Awards (청룡영화상, Cheongnyong Yeonghwasang) are presented by the sports daily Sports Chosun. The Chosun Ilbo newspaper started them in 1963 and stopped them in 1973; Sports Chosun, owned by the same group, revived them in 1990, and they have been held every year since.⁷

They are for films only. TV and streaming series have a separate show, the Blue Dragon Series Awards, and the two share one official YouTube channel, "청룡영화상 · 청룡시리즈어워즈".¹⁰ Winners are picked by a panel of experts, and the online fan vote counts as one extra ballot (Step 4).³ Every Best Film winner since 1963 is in our Blue Dragon Best Film archive.

The 47th ceremony is on Wednesday, November 25, 2026, at KBS Hall in Yeouido, Seoul,¹³ and airs live on KBS2, one of KBS's free-to-air (terrestrial) channels.⁴⁵ The start time hadn't been announced when we checked on November 11. Last year's ceremony aired in the evening, Korea time.⁸

Korea Standard Time (KST) is UTC+9 all year; South Korea doesn't use daylight saving time.⁹ To convert, take 9 hours off KST to get UTC. For example, if the show started at 8 PM KST on November 25, that would be:

1. 11:00 UTC, and 11:00 in London (GMT);
2. 6:00 AM in New York (EST) and 3:00 AM in Los Angeles (PST), the same calendar day as in Korea;
3. 10:00 PM in Sydney (AEDT).

That's an example, not the announced time. We'll add the real start time here once it's published.

In Korea: KBS2 carries the ceremony live.⁴⁵ Last year Naver's live-streaming service Chzzk also carried it live online, alongside KBS2.⁸

Outside Korea: no official overseas live stream had been announced in the reports we checked on November 11. Whether Chzzk will stream it again, and whether that stream can be watched outside Korea, hadn't been announced either.

Afterwards: KBS's entertainment channel, KBS Entertain, posted clips of individual awards from last year's ceremony, such as the Best Film award below. The awards' own channel, 청룡영화상 · 청룡시리즈어워즈, posts its own videos, such as this year's handprinting event.¹⁰ Stick to these official channels; re-uploads elsewhere aren't official.

Final fan voting runs on the mobile app Celeb Champ (셀럽챔프). It opened on November 2 and covers 16 categories, with two deadlines:⁴⁵

1. Midnight KST at the end of Thursday, November 12: the six craft categories, which are cinematography and lighting, screenplay, music, art direction, editing and technical achievement.
2. Midnight KST at the end of Tuesday, November 24: the other ten, which are Best Film, Best Director, Best New Director, the six acting awards (lead, supporting and new, for actors and actresses) and the Chung Jung One Popular Star Award.

How much it counts: in the 15 categories other than the Popular Star Award, the expert judges decide, and the combined fan vote counts the same as one judge's vote.⁴⁵

The Popular Star Award goes to four actors, two men and two women. One man and one woman are chosen by the Celeb Champ vote alone; the other two by the Celeb Champ vote combined with votes from Sports Chosun's reporters and experts.⁴⁵

The nominees themselves were chosen from an earlier round, October 13–25, that combined expert votes with a first online vote.²¹¹ Vote only in the Celeb Champ app, and check in the app whether your account can vote from your country.

The nominees were announced on October 28 in 15 categories.²³ Na Hong-jin (나홍진)'s HOPE (호프) leads with 10 nominations, followed by Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love (가능한 사랑) with 8, The King's Warden (왕과 사는 남자) with 7 and Colony (군체) with 6. The World of Love (세계의 주인) and The Assassin(s) (암살자(들)) have 5 each.¹¹

1. Best Film: Colony, The World of Love, The Assassin(s), The King's Warden and HOPE.²¹¹
2. Best Director: Na Hong-jin (HOPE), Yeon Sang-ho (Colony), Yoon Ga-eun (The World of Love), Jang Hang-jun (The King's Warden) and Hur Jin-ho (The Assassin(s)).²¹¹
3. Best Actor: Koo Kyo-hwan (Once We Were Us), Park Hae-il (The Assassin(s)), Sul Kyung-gu (Possible Love), Yoo Hae-jin (The King's Warden) and Zo In-sung (HOPE).²¹¹
4. Best Actress: Ko A-sung (Pavane), Moon Ga-young (Once We Were Us), Shin Min-a (The Eyes), Lee Jung-eun (The Journey to Gyeongju) and Jeon Do-yeon (Possible Love).²¹¹

Possible Love has nominees in all four lead and supporting acting categories, and Zo In-sung (조인성) is nominated twice: Best Actor for HOPE and Best Supporting Actor for Possible Love.¹¹ The full list, all 15 categories, is in the Soompi announcement.²

The Blue Dragon Film Awards publish their judges' names and the judging results after each ceremony, a policy they call "judging by real name" (심사 실명제).⁵ We'll add the 2026 Best Film winner to the Best Film archive once it's announced.

Last year's six acting winners came back for this year's handprinting event on November 3. They included Hyun Bin (현빈; Best Actor, Harbin) and Son Ye-jin (손예진; Best Actress, No Other Choice), the first married couple to win both lead awards at Blue Dragon.⁶ Last year's Best Film was Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다).⁶¹⁰