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No Other Choice
Theatrical release poster
Hangul
어쩔수가없다
Lit.It Cannot Be Helped
RREojjeol suga eopda
MRŎtchŏl suga ŏpta
Directed byPark Chan-wook
Screenplay by
Based on
The Ax
by Donald Westlake
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyKim Woo-hyung
Edited by
Music byJo Yeong-wook
Production
companies
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release dates
  • August 29, 2025 (2025-08-29) (Venice)
  • September 24, 2025 (2025-09-24) (South Korea)
Running time
139 minutes[1]
CountrySouth Korea
Language
  • Korean
Budget₩17 billion
(~$12.2 million)[2]
Box office$40.2 million[3][4]

No Other Choice (Korean: 어쩔수가없다) is a 2025 South Korean black comedy thriller film co-written, produced, and directed by Park Chan-wook. Based on The Ax by Donald Westlake, the film stars Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, and Cha Seung-won. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, after the 2005 French-language feature The Axe directed by Costa-Gavras, to whom No Other Choice is dedicated in the closing credits.[5][6][7] The film follows a desperate paper industry expert who decides to kill off his competition to be assured of the job he seeks to maintain his way of life.

The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2025, where it garnered critical acclaim. At the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, it was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Lee Byung-hun). It was also selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature Film category for the 98th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist,[8] but was not nominated.[9]

No Other Choice had its domestic premiere as the opening film of the 30th Busan International Film Festival on September 17, followed by its theatrical release in South Korea on September 24 by CJ Entertainment. It grossed a total of $19,881,918 in South Korea becoming the third highest-grossing film in the country in 2025.[10]

Plot

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Man-su, an award-winning veteran employee at a papermaking company, lives happily in his beloved childhood home with his wife Mi-ri and their children: Si-one, Mi-ri's teenage son from a previous marriage, and Ri-one, an autistic cello prodigy. The company is bought out and a devastated Man-su is laid off after defending his fellow workers, but assures his family he will resume papermaking within three months.

Thirteen months later, Man-su has been unable to find another job in the papermaking industry. His family is forced to minimize their spending, including rehoming their two dogs with Mi-ri's parents, upsetting Ri-one, whose cello teacher recommends her for expensive advanced classes. The family considers selling their home to the parents of Si-one's friend Dong-ho, and Mi-ri takes a part-time job as a dental assistant to suave dentist Jin-ho, while Man-su endures a toothache he cannot afford to treat.

Man-su attempts to join the successful Moon Paper company, but is humiliated by manager Seon-chul. Wanting his job, Man-su nearly kills Seon-chul with a potted plant, but realises this will not matter unless he is the best candidate to replace him. Instead, Man-su uses a fake job advertisement to identify his chief competitors: Beom-mo and Si-jo. Retrieving his father's Vietnam War gun, he prepares to kill Seon-chul, Beom-mo, and Si-jo to eliminate his competition.

Spying on Beom-mo, an unemployed drunkard, Man-su is bitten by a snake and treated by Beom-mo's dissatisfied wife, A-ra, and is later unable to stop Beom-mo from discovering A-ra's infidelity. A-ra finds Man-su confronting Beom-mo at gunpoint, leading to a struggle for the gun, but A-ra shoots Beom-mo dead and Man-su escapes. He arrives late to a costumed party, where Mi-ri dances with Jin-ho instead. A-ra and her lover bury Beom-mo, but Man-su recovers the gun.

Man-su and Mi-ri accuse each other of infidelity, and she reminds him that he was a violent drunk when Si-one was very young, but they reconcile. At the shoe store where Si-jo works, Man-su recognises him as a kindred devoted father, but tricks him into staying late and feigns car trouble; when Si-jo stops to help, Man-su reluctantly shoots him and drives away with his corpse.

Si-one and Dong-ho are arrested for stealing iPhones from Dong-ho's father's store, but Man-su and Mi-ri blackmail Dong-ho's father, who used the store for his own infidelity, into having Dong-ho take the blame. Detectives question Man-su about Beom-mo and Si-jo's disappearances, having linked them as unemployed paper men. Smoking on the roof, Si-one witnesses Man-su in his greenhouse trying to dismember Si-jo's corpse with a chainsaw. Unable to do so, Man-su buries the body in his garden, alongside Si-one's stolen iPhones, and plants an apple tree.

Plying Seon-chul with alcohol at his remote cabin, Man-su breaks his sobriety and drunkenly extracts his own tooth. Haunted by nightmares about his father and the chainsaw, Si-one informs his mother, who digs up the tree and calls Man-su. Determined to protect his family, Man-su suffocates Seon-chul with meat and stages his death to appear as if he choked on his own vomit. Mi-ri tells Si-one that Man-su dismembered and buried a pig to nourish the apple tree, and she and Man-su come to a tense understanding.

Moon Paper hires Man-su to replace Seon-chul, allowing the family to keep their home and reunite with their dogs. Ri-one's antisocial behavior improves, and Mi-ri realises her unusual drawings are actually musical compositions. The detectives reveal that A-ra has implicated Beom-mo as a gun-owner, and conclude that he murdered Si-jo and went on the run, lifting suspicion off Man-su. At his new job, Man-su celebrates alone in a modern paper mill run by machines instead of workers.

Cast

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  • Lee Byung-hun as Yoo Man-su, Mi-ri's husband and Si-one and Ri-one's father, who is a paper industry expert who is struggling to find employment[11]
  • Son Ye-jin as Lee Mi-ri, Man-su's wife and Si-one and Ri-one's mother, who works as a dental assistant
  • Park Hee-soon as Choi Seon-chul, Man-su's third target and the divorced line manager of Papyrus Paper who also is an influencer on social media
  • Lee Sung-min as Goo Beom-mo, Man-su's first target and another paper expert who is also struggling to find a job
  • Yeom Hye-ran as Lee A-ra, Beom-mo's frustrated and unfaithful wife and a struggling veteran actress
  • Cha Seung-won as Ko Si-jo, Man-su's second target who works at a shoe store to provide for his family
  • Yoo Yeon-seok as Oh Jin-ho, a dentist and employer of Mi-ri
  • Kim Woo-seung as Si-one, Man-su and Mi-ri's teenage son
  • Choi So-yul as Ri-one, Man-su and Mi-ri's prodigious young daughter
  • Oh Dal-su as Detective #1
  • Lee Suk-hyeong as Detective #2
  • Im Tae-poong as Dong-ho, Si-one's friend
  • Kim Hyung-mook as Dong-ho's father
  • Woo Jeong-won as Dong-ho's mother
  • Kim Hae-sook as Ok Sang-yep

Production

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Development

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During the 14th Busan International Film Festival in 2009, it was announced that Park would remake Costa-Gavras's 2005 film The Axe.[12] Park would later clarify that he had read Donald Westlake's 1997 novel The Ax upon which the film was based and decided to adapt it prior to knowing about Costa-Gavras's film.[13] However, the project was delayed when Park received the screenplay for his 2012 film Stoker.[14] In 2012, Park said he planned to make the film his next project but it still needed "more work on the casting and attracting investors".[14][15]

During a live discussion with Costa-Gavras at the 24th Busan International Film Festival in 2019, Park told audiences that he was still working on his adaptation of Westlake's novel.[13] The film was described by Park as a "lifetime project" and that while he hadn't begun filming it yet, he wished "to make this film as my masterpiece".[16] Gavras, who still held the rights to the book, had helped Park to develop the project. The film was set to be an English-language picture, with Don McKellar co-writing the script alongside Park.[13]

Park's team told The Hollywood Reporter that he was approaching the project with the intent to "strengthen the moral dilemma in this story as much as possible, and he will increase the role of protagonist's wife".[13]

At the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Park stated that the project was still in development and followed "a heartbreaking story about a middle-aged man who lost a job, and now he needs to bring the bread to the table to feed his family. So, he struggles in the process of looking for a job in a specialized field, and he becomes a serial killer."[17]

In March 2024, Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin were announced as the film's leads.[18] Park and Son previously worked together in the 2016 movie The Truth Beneath, while Park collaborated with Lee on Joint Security Area (2000). Park revealed that the film would now be set in Korea.[19]

In August 2024, Park's frequent collaborators Lee Kyoung-mi and Lee Ja-hye were also announced as writers on the project.

Filming

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Principal photography began in August 2024.[20][11] Filming wrapped in January 2025, lasting a total of five months.[21]

Soundtrack

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The film's soundtrack includes classical, Korean pop ballads, and American soul music.[22][23] The opening credits and the first few minutes of the opening scene feature Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23.[24][25] "Redpepper Dragonfly" by Cho Yong-pil,[26] "Let's Walk On" by Kim Chang-wan, and "Le badinage" by Marin Marais feature in the film.[22]

Release

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In June 2025, Neon acquired North American distribution rights to No Other Choice, with Mubi taking rights to the film in the U.K., Ireland, Latin America, Spain, Turkey, the SAARC, Australia, New Zealand and the Benelux, the latter in association with its subsidiary Cinéart.[27] According to CJ ENM and Moho Film, the film was pre-sold to over 200 countries around the world, including North America, the UK, France, Germany, and Japan. It surpasses the pre-sale record of 192 countries held by Park Chan-wook's 2022 film Decision to Leave.[28]

The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2025.[29][30] It had its North American premiere on September 5, 2025, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival,[31] where Lee Byung-hun received a Special Tribute Award at the TIFF Tribute Awards event.[32] It was also screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2025 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, Sudbury, Ontario, on September 17, 2025.[33][34]

It opened the 30th Busan International Film Festival on September 17, 2025, where both Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin were honoured with the "Actors' house", a special career retrospective.[35] Theatrical release in South Korea followed on September 24, by CJ Entertainment.[36][37] The film was screened in IMAX theaters in South Korea,[38] while in the United States, a one-night screening was held on December 8.[39]

On October 4, 2025, No Other Choice was presented in the "Galas & Special Presentations" and "Spotlight on Korea" sections at the 2025 Vancouver International Film Festival.[40] It had its US premiere at the Main Slate of 2025 New York Film Festival on October 12, 2025.[41] On October 14,[42] the film competed in the 58th Sitges Film Festival in the Oficial Fantàstic Competició section, vying for the various awards given in the section.[43][44] It was presented in the Galas section of the 2025 BFI London Film Festival on October 15, 2025,[45][46] and would also be screened as a late addition to the Adelaide Film Festival on October 24,[47] and in the Special Presentations of the 61st Chicago International Film Festival on October 25, 2025.[48]

It was screened in the Masters section of the 2025 Stockholm International Film Festival on November 12, 2025,[49] and in the "From the Festivals – 2025" section of the 56th International Film Festival of India in November 2025.[50]

Reception

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Box office

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No Other Choice recouped its 17 billion won production budget before its release through overseas presales, making its financial success unaffected by its domestic performance.[2][51]

The film was released on September 24, 2025, on 2,114 screens.[52] It opened at the top recording 331,518 viewers on its opening day at the Korean box office. The film achieved the highest opening of all time for a film directed by Park, surpassing Decision to Leave and his highest-grossing film The Handmaiden.[53] On September 28, it surpassed 1 million cumulative viewers in five days of its release by registering 1,042,800 cumulative audience.[54]

As of 26 February 2026, the film has grossed $39 million worldwide,[4] including US$19.7 million from 2,938,283 domestic admissions only in South Korea.[52][55]

Critical response

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After earning a nine-minute standing ovation and applause at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival,[56][57] The Dong-A Ilbo stated that the film left a significant mark on the Korean film industry, receiving rave reviews from international critics and media and helping to revitalize Korean cinema.[58]

The film continued to attract critical acclaim;[a] Variety reported that critics "have hailed No Other Choice as one of Park's most humane and mordantly funny works to date."[63]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 234 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "Directed with pristine precision by Park Chan-wook, No Other Choice is a wickedly clever takedown of the corporate rat race that finds a perfect avatar in Lee Byung-Hun's skillfully hapless performance."[64]

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 86 out of 100, based on 46 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[65] This movie scored 7.17 out of 10 on Cine21.[66]

Time Out rated the film 5 out of 5 stars, describing it as "a masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook's masterpiece. And given this is the man who directed The Handmaiden that's saying a lot."[67] According to Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian, who rated the film 4 stars out of 5, "it may not be Park's masterpiece but it is the best film in the Venice competition so far".[68] Reviewing it for the Financial Times, Danny Leigh sees it as a critique of capitalism, concluding "Capitalism may offer much less choice than advertised, he tells us. The future may take even that away."[69] Eileen Jones of Jacobin praised the film's themes, writing: "atomization, the process by which we are all forced apart into terrifying isolation, so that we each wind up playing a lone hand against the impossible forces of our own creation, has rarely been illustrated with such powerful imagery and narrative clarity."[70]

Accolades

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No Other Choice was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature Film category for the 98th Academy Awards.[71]

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Venice International Film Festival September 6, 2025 Golden Lion Park Chan-wook Nominated [72]
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TIFF Tribute Awards September 7, 2025 Special Tribute Award Lee Byung-hun Honored [74]
Toronto International Film Festival September 14, 2025 International People's Choice Award No Other Choice Won [75]
Sitges Film Festival October 18, 2025 Best Feature Film Nominated [76]
Best Director Park Chan-wook Won
Newport Beach Film Festival October 22, 2025 Global Impact Award Honored [77]
Artist of Distinction Award Lee Byung-hun Honored
Outstanding International Feature No Other Choice Won [78]
Outstanding Editing Feature Won
Savannah Film Festival October 25, 2025 International Auteur Award Park Chan-wook Honored [79]
International Audience Award No Other Choice Won [80]
Adelaide Film Festival October 26, 2025 Audience Award for Feature Fiction Won [81]
Miami Film Festival October 31, 2025 Master of the Precious Gem Award Park Chan-wook Honored [82]
Korean Association of Film Critics Awards November 6, 2025 Best Supporting Actor Park Hee-soon Won [83]
FIPRESCI Award (Domestic) No Other Choice Won
Stockholm International Film Festival November 14, 2025 FIPRESCI Award Won [84]
Blue Dragon Film Awards November 19, 2025 Best Film Won [85]
Best Director Park Chan-wook Won
Best Actor Lee Byung-hun Nominated
Best Actress Son Ye-jin Won
Best Supporting Actor Lee Sung-min Won
Best Supporting Actress Yeom Hye-ran Nominated
Best Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, Lee Ja-hye Nominated
Best Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin Nominated
Best Cinematography and Lighting Kim Woo-hyung, Kim Min-jae Nominated
Best Art Direction Ryu Seong-hie Nominated
Best Music Jo Yeong-wook Won
Technical Award Jo Sang-gyeong (Costume) Won
Gotham Independent Film Awards December 1, 2025 Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee and Don McKellar Nominated [86]
Best International Feature Park Chan-wook, Alexandre Gavras, Michèle Ray-Gavras, and Back Jisun Nominated
Outstanding Lead Performance Lee Byung-hun Nominated
Atlanta Film Critics Circle December 3, 2025 Top 10 Films No Other Choice 7th Place [87]
Best International Feature Runner-up
Toronto Film Critics Association December 7, 2025 Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee and Don McKellar Runner-up [88]
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association December 7, 2025 Foreign Language Film No Other Choice Nominated [89]
The New York Times Magazine December 9, 2025 10 Best Performers of 2025 Lee Byung-hun Won [90]
Astra Creative Arts Awards December 11, 2025 Best Film Editing Kim Sang-bum and Kim Ho-Bin Nominated [91]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards December 11, 2025 Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Lee Ja-hye Nominated [92]
Best Foreign Language Film No Other Choice Nominated
Best Editing Kim Sang-bum and Kim Ho-bin Nominated
Phoenix Critics Circle December 11, 2025 Best Foreign Language Film No Other Choice Nominated [93]
Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Best Cinematography Kim Woo-hyung Nominated
St. Louis Film Critics Association December 14, 2025 Best International Feature Film No Other Choice Nominated [94]
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle December 14, 2025 Best International Feature Film Nominated [95]
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don Mckellar, Jahye Lee Nominated
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards December 15, 2025 Best International Feature No Other Choice - Park Chan-wook Nominated [96]
New York Film Critics Online December 15, 2025 Best Picture No Other Choice Nominated [97]
Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Best Actor Lee Byung-hun Nominated
Best Ensemble Cast No Other Choice Nominated
Best Cinematography Kim Woo-hyung Nominated
Best International Feature No Other Choice Nominated
Indiana Film Journalists Association December 15, 2025 Best Film Finalists Top 10 [98]
Best Foreign Language Film Won
Phoenix Film Critics Society December 15, 2025 Won [99]
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 17, 2025 Best Foreign Language Film 4th Place [100]
Korean Film Producers Association Awards December 18, 2025 Best Actor Lee Byung-hun Won [101]
Best Cinematography Kim Woo-hyung Won
Best Lighting Kim Min-jae Won
Sound Award Kim Seok-won, Kim Hyeon-jun, Hong Yun-seong Won
Austin Film Critics Association December 18, 2025 Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar, Donald E. Westlake Nominated [102]
Best International Film No Other Choice Nominated
Florida Film Critics Circle December 19, 2025 Best Picture Runner-up [103]
Best Director Park Chan-wook Won
Best Actor Lee Byung-hun Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar, Donald E. Westlake Runner-up
Best International Film No Other Choice Won
Best Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin Nominated
Best Visual Effects No Other Choice Nominated
Las Vegas Film Critics Society December 19, 2025 Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar, Donald E. Westlake Nominated [104]
Best Foreign Language Film No Other Choice Nominated
Online Association Of Female Film Critics December 19, 2025 Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar, Donald E. Westlake Nominated [105]
Best Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin Nominated
Best International Film No Other Choice Nominated
Boston Online Film Critics Association December 20, 2025 Top Ten Films of 2025 4th Place [106]
Best International Film Won
Black Film Critics Circle December 20, 2025 Top Ten Films of 2025 5th Place [107]
Kansas City Film Critics Circle December 21, 2025 Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [108]
Chunsa Film Art Awards December 23, 2025 Best Actor Lee Byung-hun Won [109]
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Best Cinematography Kim Woo-hyung Won
Special Jury Prize Lee Sung-min Won
Georgia Film Critics Association December 27, 2025 Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Jahye Lee Nominated [111]
Best International Film No Other Choice Runner-up
North Texas Film Critics Association December 29, 2025 Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [112]
New Jersey Film Critics Circle December 31, 2025 Best Picture Nominated [113]
Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don Mckellar, Jahye Lee Runner-up
Best Cinematography Kim Woo-hyung, Kim Min-jae Nominated
Best Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin Nominated
Best International Film No Other Choice Won
Portland Critics Association December 31, 2025 Best Picture Nominated [114]
Top 10 Films of 2025 Placed
Best Film Not in the English Language Won
Best Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don Mckellar, Jahye Lee Nominated
Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Alliance of Women Film Journalists December 31, 2025 Best International Film No Other Choice Nominated [115]
Puerto Rico Critics Association January 2, 2026 Best Comedy/Musical Nominated [116]
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don Mckellar, Jahye Lee Nominated
Best International Film No Other Choice Nominated
Best Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin Runner-up
Minnesota Film Critics Association January 2, 2026 Best International Feature No Other Choice Nominated [117]
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don Mckellar, Jahye Lee Nominated
Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 4, 2026 Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don Mckellar, Jahye Lee Nominated [118]
Best Foreign Language Film No Other Choice Nominated
Columbus Film Critics Association January 8, 2026 Best Film 2nd Place [119]
Best Foreign Language Film Runner-up
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-Wook, Lee Kyoung-Mi, Don McKellar, and Jahye Lee Runner-up
Astra Film Awards January 9, 2026 Best International Feature No Other Choice Nominated [120]
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, and Lee Ja-hye Nominated
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Lee Byung-hun Nominated
Honorary awards - Filmmaking Achievement Award Park Chan-wook Honored
Critics Association Of Central Florida January 9, 2026 Best International Film No Other Choice Won [121]
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards January 10, 2026 Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [122]
Greater Western New York Film Critics Association January 10, 2026 Best Picture Nominated [123]
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, and Lee Ja-hye Nominated
Best Foreign Language Film No Other Choice Nominated
Golden Globe Awards January 11, 2026 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nominated [124]
Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Lee Byung-hun Nominated
North Dakota Film Society January 12, 2026 Best Actor Lee Byung-hun Nominated [125]
Best Editing Kim Sang-beom, Kim Ho-bin Nominated
Best International Feature Film No Other Choice Nominated
Palm Springs International Film Festival January 12, 2026 Best International Feature Film Nominated [126]
Music City Film Critics Association January 12, 2026 Best International Feature Film Nominated [127]
Hawaii Film Critics Society January 12, 2026 Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [128]
Golden Tomato Awards January 13, 2026 Best Limited Movies Nominated [129]
Best International Nominated
Chicago Indie Critics January 15, 2026 Best International Film Nominated [130]
Utah Film Critics Association January 17, 2026 Best Non-English Language Feature Nominated [131]
Houston Film Critics Society January 20, 2026 Best Foreign Language Feature Nominated [132]
Denver Film Critics Society January 24, 2026 Best Non-English Language Feature Nominated [133]
DiscussingFilm’s Global Film Critics Awards January 24–25, 2026 Best Picture 3rd Place [134]
Best Director Park Chan-wook 2nd Place
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, and Lee Ja-hye 3rd Place
Best Actor Lee Byung-hun Nominated
Best Film Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin 3rd Place
Online Film Critics Society January 26, 2026 Best Picture No Other Choice 8th Place [135]
Best Film Not in the English Language Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, and Lee Ja-hye Nominated
Best Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin Nominated
North Carolina Film Critics Association January 26, 2026 Best Narrative Film No Other Choice Nominated [136]
Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, and Lee Ja-hye Nominated
Best Cinematography Kim Woo-hyung, Kim Min-jae Nominated
Best Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin Nominated
Midnight Critics Circle January 28, 2026 Best Picture No Other Choice Nominated [137]
Best International Feature Nominated
Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Best Actor Lee Byung-hun Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Son Ye-jin Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, and Lee Ja-hye Runner-up
Best Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin Runner-up
Best Cinematography Kim Woo-hyung, Kim Min-jae Nominated
London Film Critics Circle Awards February 1, 2026 Foreign Language Film of the Year No Other Choice Nominated [138]
International Cinephile Society February 8, 2026 Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee Nominated [139]
The Online Film & Television Association February 15, 2026 Best Foreign Language Film No Other Choice Nominated [140]
Best Movie Poster Runner-up
British Academy Film Awards February 22, 2026 Best Film Not in the English Language Longlisted [141]
Gold Derby Film Awards February 26, 2026 Best International Feature Nominated [142]
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, and Lee Ja-hye Nominated
Best Film Editing Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin Nominated
Dorian Award March 3, 2026 Non-English Language Film of the Year No Other Choice Nominated [143]
Unforgettable Awards March 7, 2026 Director Award Park Chan-wook Honored [144]
Satellite Award March 10, 2026 Best International Film No Other Choice Nominated [145]
Best Adapted Screenplay Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, and Lee Ja-hye Nominated
Academy Awards March 15, 2026 Best International Feature Film No Other Choice Shortlisted [146]
Baeksang Arts Awards May 8, 2026 Best Film Won [147]
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Best Director Park Chan-wook Nominated
Best Actor Lee Byung-hun Nominated
Best Actress Son Ye-jin Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Lee Sung-min Won
Best Supporting Actress Yeom Hye-ran Nominated
Best Technical Achievement Kim Woo-hyung Nominated
Director's Cut Awards May 19, 2026 Best Director (Film) Park Chan-wook Won [149]
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Best Screenplay (Film) Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyung-mi, Don McKellar, Lee Ja-hye Nominated
Best Actress (Film) Son Ye-jin Nominated
Best Actor (Film) Lee Byung-hun Nominated
Best New Actress (Film) Yeom Hye-ran Won
Best New Actor (Film) Park Hee-soon Nominated
Golden Trailer Awards May 28, 2026 Best Independent Trailer No Other Choice – Deep Breaths, NEON, Requiem Nominated [151]
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Best Foreign Teaser No Other Choice – The Axe Teaser, NEON, Aspect Won
Golden Cinematography Awards June 8, 2026 Best Actress Son Ye-jin Won [153]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Multiple references:[29][30][59][60][61][62]

References

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  3. ^ "No Other Choice (2025) - Box Office and Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
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