Trivisa scoops five awards including best film, while Mad World takes best new ditrector prize.Scroll Down For Full List Of Winners
Hong Kong’s new wave of filmmakers scored big at the Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday night, where films from first-time directors walked off with most of the major prizes.
Johnnie To-produced crime drama Trivisa (pictured) was the big winner of the night, scooping five awards including best film and best director for its three first-time co-directors - Jevons Au, Frank Hui and Vicky Wong. The film, about a trio of notorious gangsters, also won best actor for Gordon Lam’s performance, best screenplay and best editing.
Wong Chun’s Mad World, also a first-time effort, picked up three awards, including best new director, best supporting actor for Eric Tsang’s performance and best supporting actress for Elaine Jin. The film tells the story of a former stockbroker living with his father (Tsang...
Hong Kong’s new wave of filmmakers scored big at the Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday night, where films from first-time directors walked off with most of the major prizes.
Johnnie To-produced crime drama Trivisa (pictured) was the big winner of the night, scooping five awards including best film and best director for its three first-time co-directors - Jevons Au, Frank Hui and Vicky Wong. The film, about a trio of notorious gangsters, also won best actor for Gordon Lam’s performance, best screenplay and best editing.
Wong Chun’s Mad World, also a first-time effort, picked up three awards, including best new director, best supporting actor for Eric Tsang’s performance and best supporting actress for Elaine Jin. The film tells the story of a former stockbroker living with his father (Tsang...
- 4/10/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Irrfan Khan in The Lunchbox
Irrfan Khan won the Asian Film Award for Best Actor (The Lunchbox) at the 8th Asian Film Awards held in Macau on March 27. The other nominations in this category were Fukuyama Masaharu for Like Father, Like Son, Lee Kang Sheng for Stray Dogs, Tony Leung Chiu Wai for The Grandmaster and Song Kang-ho for The Attorney.
Ritesh Batra, the writer-director of The Lunchbox won the award for Best Screenplay. The other nominations in this category were Bong Joon-ho and Kelly Masterson for Snowpiercer, Li Qiang for So Young, Watanabe Kensaku for The Great Passage, and Wong Kar-wai, Zou Jingzhi and Xu Haofeng for The Grandmaster.
Chinese Martial arts fantasy The Grandmaster dominated the awards with seven wins including Best Film and Best Director for Wong Kar-Wai.
Full list of awards:
Best Film: The Grandmaster
Best Director: Wong Kar-Wai (The Grandmaster)
Best Actor: Irrfan Khan (The Lunchbox...
Irrfan Khan won the Asian Film Award for Best Actor (The Lunchbox) at the 8th Asian Film Awards held in Macau on March 27. The other nominations in this category were Fukuyama Masaharu for Like Father, Like Son, Lee Kang Sheng for Stray Dogs, Tony Leung Chiu Wai for The Grandmaster and Song Kang-ho for The Attorney.
Ritesh Batra, the writer-director of The Lunchbox won the award for Best Screenplay. The other nominations in this category were Bong Joon-ho and Kelly Masterson for Snowpiercer, Li Qiang for So Young, Watanabe Kensaku for The Great Passage, and Wong Kar-wai, Zou Jingzhi and Xu Haofeng for The Grandmaster.
Chinese Martial arts fantasy The Grandmaster dominated the awards with seven wins including Best Film and Best Director for Wong Kar-Wai.
Full list of awards:
Best Film: The Grandmaster
Best Director: Wong Kar-Wai (The Grandmaster)
Best Actor: Irrfan Khan (The Lunchbox...
- 3/28/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Wong Kar Wai made a heartfelt plea to the Malaysian government to shed more light on the fate of missing Malaysian plane MH370 at the close of the Asian Film Awards on Thursday night, revealing that the The Grandmaster’s stuntman Ju Kun was travelling on the flight.
The Grandmaster swept the awards, winning seven prizes including best film, best director and best actress for Zhang Ziyi.
“This horrible tragedy weighs heavily on us as we think of him and all the passengers,” said Wong. “We urge the Malaysian authorities do all possible and take a more transparent approach to clarifying this situation. Our thoughts are with him and all the other passengers and their families.” Zhang also referred to the tragedy in her speech.
The Grandmaster also won best cinematographer (Philippe Le Sourd), best production designer (William Chang Suk-ping, Alfred Yau Wai-ming), best composer (Nathaniel Mechaly, Umebayashi Shigeru) and best costume designer (William Chang Suk-ping).
Ritesh Batra...
The Grandmaster swept the awards, winning seven prizes including best film, best director and best actress for Zhang Ziyi.
“This horrible tragedy weighs heavily on us as we think of him and all the passengers,” said Wong. “We urge the Malaysian authorities do all possible and take a more transparent approach to clarifying this situation. Our thoughts are with him and all the other passengers and their families.” Zhang also referred to the tragedy in her speech.
The Grandmaster also won best cinematographer (Philippe Le Sourd), best production designer (William Chang Suk-ping, Alfred Yau Wai-ming), best composer (Nathaniel Mechaly, Umebayashi Shigeru) and best costume designer (William Chang Suk-ping).
Ritesh Batra...
- 3/27/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster was the big winner at the Asian Film Awards on Thursday night, taking seven prizes including best film, best director and best actress for Zhang Ziyi.
The film also won best cinematographer (Philippe Le Sourd), best production designer (William Chang Suk-ping, Alfred Yau Wai-ming), best composer (Nathaniel Mechaly, Umebayashi Shigeru) and best costume designer (William Chang Suk-ping).
During his acceptance speech for best film, Wong made a heartfelt plea to the Malaysian government to shed more light on the fate of missing Malaysian plane MH370, revealing that one of The Grandmaster’s martial arts directors was travelling on the flight. Zhang also referred to the crisis in her speech.
“This horrible tragedy weighs heavily on us as we think of him and all the passengers,” said Wong. “We urge the Malaysian authorities do all possible and take a more transparent approach to clarifying this situation. Our thoughts...
The film also won best cinematographer (Philippe Le Sourd), best production designer (William Chang Suk-ping, Alfred Yau Wai-ming), best composer (Nathaniel Mechaly, Umebayashi Shigeru) and best costume designer (William Chang Suk-ping).
During his acceptance speech for best film, Wong made a heartfelt plea to the Malaysian government to shed more light on the fate of missing Malaysian plane MH370, revealing that one of The Grandmaster’s martial arts directors was travelling on the flight. Zhang also referred to the crisis in her speech.
“This horrible tragedy weighs heavily on us as we think of him and all the passengers,” said Wong. “We urge the Malaysian authorities do all possible and take a more transparent approach to clarifying this situation. Our thoughts...
- 3/27/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster scooped the most nominations for this year’s Asian Film Awards with 11 nods, followed by Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer with five.
Nominations for The Grandmaster included best film, best director, best actor (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), best actress (Zhang Ziyi), best screenwriter and best cinemtographer (see full list below). Snowpiercer’s nominations included best film, best director, best screenwriter, best production designer and best costume designer.
Also nominated for best film are Chinese director Ning Hao’s No Man’s Land, which is screening at the Berlin film festival, The Great Passage from Japan, The Lunchbox from India and Taiwan’s Stray Dogs.
Rounding out the best director category are Stray Dogs director Tsai Ming-liang, Singapore’s Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo and Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda for Like Father, Like Son.
Multiple nominees also included No Man’s Land, Stray Dogs, Cold Eyes and Rigor Mortis which each picked up four...
Nominations for The Grandmaster included best film, best director, best actor (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), best actress (Zhang Ziyi), best screenwriter and best cinemtographer (see full list below). Snowpiercer’s nominations included best film, best director, best screenwriter, best production designer and best costume designer.
Also nominated for best film are Chinese director Ning Hao’s No Man’s Land, which is screening at the Berlin film festival, The Great Passage from Japan, The Lunchbox from India and Taiwan’s Stray Dogs.
Rounding out the best director category are Stray Dogs director Tsai Ming-liang, Singapore’s Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo and Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda for Like Father, Like Son.
Multiple nominees also included No Man’s Land, Stray Dogs, Cold Eyes and Rigor Mortis which each picked up four...
- 2/11/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards is expected to be a hell of a show with some great films going head to head. Leading the way with nominations is The Grand Master with 14, followed by Unbeatable (Dante Lam).
There were complaints last year, that the show didn’t live up to expectations, mainly due to the fact the movie Cold Wars, won nearly every award. Best actor award see the likes of these guys going head to head, Tony Leung (The Grandmaster), Louis Koo (The White Storm) and also Anthony Wong (Ip Man: The Final Fight).
Take a look at the list and comment who you think will win. The winners will be announced on April 13.
Best Film:
- The Grandmaster
- Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
- The Way We Dance
- The White Storm
- Unbeatable
Best Director:
- Wong Kar Wai (The Grandmaster)
- Johnnie To...
There were complaints last year, that the show didn’t live up to expectations, mainly due to the fact the movie Cold Wars, won nearly every award. Best actor award see the likes of these guys going head to head, Tony Leung (The Grandmaster), Louis Koo (The White Storm) and also Anthony Wong (Ip Man: The Final Fight).
Take a look at the list and comment who you think will win. The winners will be announced on April 13.
Best Film:
- The Grandmaster
- Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
- The Way We Dance
- The White Storm
- Unbeatable
Best Director:
- Wong Kar Wai (The Grandmaster)
- Johnnie To...
- 2/7/2014
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
Oscar nominations 2014: Quite a few surprises (photo: Best Actress Oscar nominee Amy Adams in ‘American Hustle’) The Oscar 2014 nominations were announced early on Thursday morning, January 16, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Was Amy Adams shortlisted for American Hustle? Did Meryl Streep break another Oscar record? Did Robert Redford nearly break the record for longest gap between nominations in the acting categories? Was Jennifer Lawrence snubbed? Did Scarlett Johansson make Oscar history for her voice performance as Joaquin Phoenix’s love interest in Her? Was Peter Jackson-Ian McKellen’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug shortlisted in the technical categories? Well, below you’ll find the answers to all these questions. Be prepared: as usual, there were quite a few surprises. (You can compare the Academy’s choices to our Oscar 2014 predictions.) Full list of Oscar 2014 nominations Best Picture: American Hustle,...
- 1/16/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Watch Oscar 2014 nominations announcement live streaming online (photo: shirtless Leonardo DiCaprio seducing/seduced by Margot Robbie in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’) You can watch the Oscar 2014 nominations announcement live streaming online in the embedded video link below. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences countdown clock, we’re 2 hours 16 minutes and 50 seconds, 42 seconds, 34 seconds … from the time of the announcement of those in the running for the 86th Academy Awards. Will Golden Globe winners American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Matthew McConaughey, Alfonso Cuarón, Spike Jonze, and The Great Beauty be included? Check out the 2014 Oscar nominations announcement below (once it goes live, of course). Oscar 2014 predictions "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Picture, Best Director." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Actor." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Actress." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Supporting Actress." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Supporting Actor". Once made available, the full list of Oscar 2014 nominations will be posted here.
- 1/16/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox has bagged six nominations at the 56th Asia-Pacific Film Festival including Best Film and Best Director.
Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui have secured nominations in Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor categories respectively.
Rajeev Ravi has been nominated in Best Cinematography category for Monsoon Shootout.
The awards will be announced on December 15 in Macau. The Asia-Pacific Film Festival (Apff) is an annual event hosted by the Federation of Motion Picture Producers in Asia-Pacific (Fpa).
Best Picture:
“The Grandmaster” (Hong Kong)
“Like Father Like Son” (Tokyo)
“The Lunchbox” (Mumbai)
“Stray Dogs” (Taipei)
“Ilo Ilo” (Singapore)
“In Bloom” (Tbilisi)
Best Director:
Tsai Ming-liang, “Stray Dogs” (Taipei)
Bong Joon-ho, “Snowpiercer” (Seoul)
Ritesh Batra, “The Lunchbox” (Mumbai)
Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi, “Closed Curtain” (Tehran)
Wong Kar-wai, “The Grandmaster” (Hong Kong)
Hirokazu Kore-eda, “Like Father Like Son” (Tokyo)
Best Actor:
Irrfan Khan, “The Lunchbox” (Mumbai)
Nick Cheung,...
Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui have secured nominations in Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor categories respectively.
Rajeev Ravi has been nominated in Best Cinematography category for Monsoon Shootout.
The awards will be announced on December 15 in Macau. The Asia-Pacific Film Festival (Apff) is an annual event hosted by the Federation of Motion Picture Producers in Asia-Pacific (Fpa).
Best Picture:
“The Grandmaster” (Hong Kong)
“Like Father Like Son” (Tokyo)
“The Lunchbox” (Mumbai)
“Stray Dogs” (Taipei)
“Ilo Ilo” (Singapore)
“In Bloom” (Tbilisi)
Best Director:
Tsai Ming-liang, “Stray Dogs” (Taipei)
Bong Joon-ho, “Snowpiercer” (Seoul)
Ritesh Batra, “The Lunchbox” (Mumbai)
Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi, “Closed Curtain” (Tehran)
Wong Kar-wai, “The Grandmaster” (Hong Kong)
Hirokazu Kore-eda, “Like Father Like Son” (Tokyo)
Best Actor:
Irrfan Khan, “The Lunchbox” (Mumbai)
Nick Cheung,...
- 12/2/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Grandmaster wins six awards in Taipei.Scroll down for full list of winners
Celebrating the 50th Taipei Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese-speaking film industry was out in full force Saturday night (Nov 23) at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei.
Anthony Chen’s debut film Ilo Ilo took Best Feature with a cash prize of $16,900 (Nt$500,000).
“Singapore is a very little country and we did this on a very little budget and never had we thought of winning Best Feature Film,” said Chen, who thanked jury president Ang Lee and the other nominees in the category, whose works he said he had all studied in film school.
About a Singaporean family and their newly arrived Filipino maid around the time of the Asian Financial Crisis, Ilo Ilo also won Best Original Screenplay, Best New Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Yeo Yann-Yann.
Yeo, who played a beleaguered working mother, thanked the director...
Celebrating the 50th Taipei Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese-speaking film industry was out in full force Saturday night (Nov 23) at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei.
Anthony Chen’s debut film Ilo Ilo took Best Feature with a cash prize of $16,900 (Nt$500,000).
“Singapore is a very little country and we did this on a very little budget and never had we thought of winning Best Feature Film,” said Chen, who thanked jury president Ang Lee and the other nominees in the category, whose works he said he had all studied in film school.
About a Singaporean family and their newly arrived Filipino maid around the time of the Asian Financial Crisis, Ilo Ilo also won Best Original Screenplay, Best New Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Yeo Yann-Yann.
Yeo, who played a beleaguered working mother, thanked the director...
- 11/24/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
The Grandmaster wins six awards in Taipei.
Celebrating the 50th Taipei Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese-speaking film industry was out in full force Saturday night (Nov 23) at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei.
Anthony Chen’s debut film Ilo Ilo took Best Feature with a cash prize of $16,900 (Nt$500,000).
“Singapore is a very little country and we did this on a very little budget and never had we thought of winning Best Feature Film,” said Chen, who thanked jury president Ang Lee and the other nominees in the category, whose works he said he had all studied in film school.
About a Singaporean family and their newly arrived Filipino maid around the time of the Asian Financial Crisis, Ilo Ilo also won Best Original Screenplay, Best New Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Yeo Yann-Yann.
Yeo, who played a beleaguered working mother, thanked the director who is said to have altered the story to reflect her actual...
Celebrating the 50th Taipei Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese-speaking film industry was out in full force Saturday night (Nov 23) at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei.
Anthony Chen’s debut film Ilo Ilo took Best Feature with a cash prize of $16,900 (Nt$500,000).
“Singapore is a very little country and we did this on a very little budget and never had we thought of winning Best Feature Film,” said Chen, who thanked jury president Ang Lee and the other nominees in the category, whose works he said he had all studied in film school.
About a Singaporean family and their newly arrived Filipino maid around the time of the Asian Financial Crisis, Ilo Ilo also won Best Original Screenplay, Best New Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Yeo Yann-Yann.
Yeo, who played a beleaguered working mother, thanked the director who is said to have altered the story to reflect her actual...
- 11/24/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – Highly anticipated! In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 40 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to “The Grandmaster,” which is inspired by the true story of Bruce Lee’s master!
“The Grandmaster,” which is rated “PG-13” and opens on Aug. 23, 2013, stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Hye-kyo Song, Cung Le and Chen Chang from writer and director Kar Wai Wong.
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“The Grandmaster,” which is rated “PG-13” and opens on Aug. 23, 2013, stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Hye-kyo Song, Cung Le and Chen Chang from writer and director Kar Wai Wong.
To win your free “The Grandmaster” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition or lower your odds!
Preferably, use your computer to enter rather than your smartphone.
- 8/18/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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