"The Grandmaster" leads the 8th Asian Film Awards nominations
13 Feb – Wong Kar Wai's "The Grandmaster" receives the most nominations once again, and this time it's for the 8th Asian Film Awards.
As reported on Mingpao, according to the nominations that were announced on 11 February, the martial arts movie was revealed to have been nominated for 11 out of the 14 categories, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.
Tony Leung, who will be facing Japanese Masaharu Fukuyama ("Like Father, Like Son") and South Korean Song Kang-ho ("The Attorney"), expressed his happiness for the opportunity to compete in the awards.
Speaking to the media at the Berlin Film Festival where he is currently serving as a judge, Tony expressed, "I am delighted for the nominations, but the credit does not belong to me alone. This is all the hard work of the cast and crew."
The 8th Asian Film Awards will be held in Macau on 27 March 2014.
The list of nominations is as follows:
BEST FILM:
No Man's Land
The Grandmaster
The Great Passage
The Lunchbox
Snowpiercer
Stray Dogs
BEST DIRECTOR:
Wong Kar Wai (THE GRANDMASTER)
Bong Joon-Ho (SNOWPIERCER)
Anthony Chen (ILO ILO)
Hirokazu Koreeda (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON)
Tsai Ming-Liang (STRAY DOGS)
BEST ACTOR:
Tony Leung Chiu Wai (THE GRANDMASTER)
Masaharu Fukuyama (LIKE FAHTER, LIKE SON)
Irrfan Khan (THE LUNCHBOX)
Lee Kang Sheng (STRAY DOGS)
Song Kang-Ho (THE ATTORNEY)
BEST ACTRESS:
Zhang Ziyi (THE GRANDMASTER)
Eugene Domingo (BARBER'S TALES)
Han Hyo-Joo (COLD EYES)
Nina Paw Hee Ching (RIGOR MORTIS)
Maki Yoko (THE RAVINE OF GOODBYE)
BEST NEWCOMER
Babyjohn Choi Hon-Yick (THE WAY WE DANCE)
Im Si-Wan (THE ATTORNEY)
Jiang Shuying (SO YOUNG)
Misaki Kinoshita (THE BACKWATER)
Keita Ninomiya (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mark Chao (SO YOUNG)
Huang Bo (NO MAN'S LAND)
Jung Woo-Sung (COLD EYES)
Joe Odagiri (THE GREAT PASSAGE)
Satoshi Tsumabuki (TOKYO FAMILY)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Yu Aoi (TOKYO FAMILY)
Mavis Fan (WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW?)
Kim Young-Ae (THE ATTORNEY)
Fumi Nakaido (WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL?)
Yeo Yann Yann (ILO ILO)
BEST SCREENWRITER
Wong Kar Wai, Zou Jingzhi, Xu Haofeng (THE GRANDMASTER)
Ritest Batra (THE LUNCHBOX)
Bong Joon-Ho, Kelly Masterson (SNOWPIERCER)
Li Qiang (SO YOUNG)
Kensaku Watanabe (THE GREAT PASSAGE)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Philippe Le Sourd (THE GRANDMASTER)
Kim Byung-Seo, Yeo Kyung-Bo (COLD EYES)
Liao Pen Jung, Shong Woon Chong, Lu Qing Xin (STRAY DOGS)
Ng Man-Ching (RIGOR MORTIS)
Aziz Zhambakiyev (HARMONY LESSONS)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGNER
William Chang Suk Ping, Alfred Yau Wai Ming (THE GRANDMASTER)
Hao Yi (NO Man'S LAND)
Hisao INAGAKI (WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL?)
Ken Mak (YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON)
Ondrej Nekvasil (SNOWPIERCER)
BEST COMPOSER
Shigeru Umebayashi, Nathaniel Mechaly (THE GRANDMASTER)
Zeke Khaseli, Yudhi Arfan (WHAT THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT LOVE)
Ehsaan Noorani, Shakar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa (RUN MILKHA RUN)
BEST EDITOR
William Chang Suk Ping, Benjamin Courtines, Poon Hung Yiu (THE GRANDMASTER)
Du Yuan (NO MAN'S LAND)
Junichi ITO (WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL?)
David M. Richardson (RIGOR MORTIS)
Shin Min-Kyung (COLD EYES)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Pierre Buffin (Buf) (THE GRANDMASTER)
Shuji Asano (REAL)
Enoch Chan (RIGOR MORTIS)
Jeong Seong-Jin (MR. GO)
Kim Wook (YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON)
BEST COSTUME DESIGNER
William Chang Suk Ping (THE GRANDMASTER)
Catherine George (SNOWPIERCER)
Pik Kwan Lee, Bruce Yu (YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON)
Shim Hyun-Sub (THE FACE READER)
