2021 SBS Drama Awards

South Korean annual drama awards

Shin Dong-yup
Kim Yoo-jung

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Ratings: 5.4%
Viewership: 1.143 million people^[1]

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The 2021 SBS Drama Awards (Korean: 2021 SBS 연기대상의; Hanja: 2021 SBS 演技大賞; RR: 2021 SBS Yeon-gi Daesang), presented by Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS), was held on December 31, 2021, at 21.00 (KST) at SBS Prism Tower, Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. The show was hosted by Shin Dong-yup and Kim Yoo-jung consecutively for 2nd year.^[2]^[3] The prelude to drama awards to be aired on SBS TV was released on December 13, 2021.^[4] Grand Prize (Daesang) was awarded to Kim So-yeon.^[5]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and denoted in bold
Sources:^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Grand Prize (Daesang)	Director's Award
Kim So-yeon – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3 Song Hye-kyo – Now, We Are Breaking Up Lee Je-hoon – Taxi Driver Lee Hanee – One the Woman	Kim Da-mi – Our Beloved Summer Choi Woo-shik – Our Beloved Summer
Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Genre/Fantasy Drama	Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries Genre/Fantasy Drama
Lee Je-hoon – Taxi Driver Kim Sang-kyung – Racket Boys Um Ki-joon – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3	Kim Yoo-jung – Lovers of the Red Sky Kim So-yeon – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3 Eugene – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3 Lee Ji-ah – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3
Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama	Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama
Lee Sang-yoon – One the Woman Jang Ki-yong – Now, We Are Breaking Up Choi Woo-shik – Our Beloved Summer	Lee Hanee – One the Woman Kim Da-mi – Our Beloved Summer Song Hye-kyo – Now, We Are Breaking Up
Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Genre/Fantasy Drama	Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries Genre/Fantasy Drama
Ahn Hyo-seop – Lovers of the Red Sky Gong Myung – Lovers of the Red Sky Park Eun-seok – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3	Esom – Taxi Driver Oh Na-ra – Racket Boys Yoon Joo-hee – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3 Pyo Ye-jin – Taxi Driver
Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama	Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama
Kim Joo-hun – Now, We Are Breaking Up Kim Sung-cheol – Our Beloved Summer Lee Won-keun – One the Woman Lee Jun-young – Let Me Be Your Knight	Jin Seo-yeon – One the Woman Park Jin-joo – Our Beloved Summer Choi Hee-seo – Now, We Are Breaking Up
Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries Genre/Fantasy Drama	Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries Genre/Fantasy Drama
Kim Eui-sung – Taxi Driver Shin Jung-geun – Racket Boys Jo Sung-ha – Lovers of the Red Sky	Cha Ji-yeon – Taxi Driver Moon Sook – Lovers of the Red Sky Cha Mi-kyung – Racket Boys
Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama	Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama
Song Won-seok – One the Woman Kim Won-hae – One the Woman Jang Hyuk-jin – Now, We Are Breaking Up	Park Hyo-joo – Now, We Are Breaking Up Na Young-hee – One the Woman Ye Soo-jung – One the Woman
Best Couple Award	Scene Stealer Award
Ahn Hyo-seop & Kim Yoo-jung – Lovers of the Red Sky Uhm Ki-joon & Kim So-yeon – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3 Lee Sang-yoon & Lee Hanee – One the Woman Jang Ki-yong & Song Hye-kyo – Now, We Are Breaking Up Choi Woo-shik & Kim Da-mi – Our Beloved Summer	Shim So-young – Taxi Driver Jung Ah-mi [ko] – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3 Jo Ye-rin – Lovers of the Red Sky Heo Sung-tae – Racket Boys Hwang Young-hee – One the Woman
Best New Actor	Best New Actress
Kim Young-dae – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3 Son Sang-yeon – Racket Boys Choi Hyun-wook - Racket Boys and Taxi Driver	Choi Ye-bin – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3 Han Ji-hyun – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3 Roh Jeong-eui – Our Beloved Summer
Best Character Award, Actor	Best Character Award, Actress
Kwak Si-yang – Lovers of the Red Sky Kim Chang-wan – One the Woman On Joo-wan – The Penthouse: War in Life 2 and 3	Oh Na-ra – Racket Boys Jung In-sun – Let Me Be Your Knight Choi Hee-seo – Now, We Are Breaking Up
Best Young Actor	Best Young Actress
Tang Jun-sang – Racket Boys	Lee Jae-in – Racket Boys
Lifetime Achievement Award	Best Supporting Team
Kim Soon-ok – Writer of The Penthouse: War in Life	Racket Boys One the Woman Taxi Driver

Presenters

Order	Presenter	Award	Ref.
1	Jo Byeong-kyu and So Joo-yeon	Best New Actor/Actress	^[10]
2	Ahn Ji-ho and Kim Hyun-soo	Best Young Actor/Actress
3	Jin Seon-kyu and Kim So-jin	Scene Stealer Award
4	Im Won-hee and Jin Kyung	Best Supporting Actor/Actress in a Mini-Series Romance/Comedy Drama
5	Kim Joo-hun and Park Eun-seok	Best Supporting Actor/Actress in a Mini-Series Genre/Fantasy Drama
6	Lee Jun-hyeok and Cha-yeop	Best Supporting Team
7	Ahn Hyo-seop and Kim Se-jeong	Best Couple Award
8	Oh Jung-se and Lee Sung-kyung	Excellence Award for an Actor/Actress in a Mini-Series Romance/Comedy Drama
9	Bong Tae-gyu and Yoon Jong-hoon	Excellence Award for an Actor/Actress in a Mini-Series Genre/Fantasy Drama
10	Hwang In-youp and Bae In-hyuk	Best Character Award
11	Uhm Ki-joon and Kim So-yeon	Top Excellence Award for an Actor/Actress in a Mini-Series Romance/Comedy Drama
12	Lee Joon-gi and Kim Ji-eun	Top Excellence Award for an Actor/Actress in a Mini-Series Genre/Fantasy Drama
13	Joo Won	Director's Award
14	Han Jeong-hwan (CEO of Studio S) and Namkoong Min	Grand Prize (Daesang)

Performances

Order	Artist	Act performed	Ref.
1	Cha Ji-yeon	"Earth Song"	^[11]
2	Choi Hyun-wook, Kim Kang-hoon and Kim Min-ki with The Boyz	"Will Be" (지금처럼; Like Now) (Racket Boys OST)
3	STAYC	"ASAP" + "Stereotype"

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