Hong Kong Film Awards - 2007 Nominations
April 11th, 2007 by Andre Soares
The 2007 Hong Kong Film Award winners will be announced this coming Sunday, April 15.
A huge box-office hit in China, Zhang Yimou’s historical epic-cum-dysfunctional family drama Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia / Curse of the Golden Flower (top) leads the pack of nominees, with a total of 14 nods including best film, best director, best actor (Chow Yun Fat), and best actress (Gong Li). Curiously, Curse of the Golden Flower is conspicuously absent from the best screenplay category.
Earlier this year, the film received one Academy Award nomination — for best costume design (Yee Chung Man) — and won awards for costume design (period film) and art direction (period film, Huo Tingxiao) from, respectively, the U.S.-based Costume Designers Guild and Art Directors Guild.
Other top Hong Kong Film Award nominees are Patrick Tam’s Fu zi / After This Our Exile (left), with 10 nominations including best film, best director, and best actor (Aaron Kwok).
The tale of a young man’s convoluted relationship with his no-good father, After This Our Exile won three 2006 Golden Horse awards: Best film, best actor, and best supporting actor (Gouw Ian Iskandar). The family drama also won awards for best Asian film and best artistic contribution in an Asian film at the 2006 Tokyo Film Festival.
Rounding out the list of five best film nominees are the Jet Li martial-arts actioner Huo Yuan Jia / Fearless (with a total of seven nominations), Johnnie To’s crime thriller Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai / Election 2 / Triad Election (with five), and another Johnnie To crime flick, Fong juk / Exiled (with four). To, in fact, is competing against himself in the best director category.
Zhang Yimou’s Chinese-made drama Qian li zou dan qi / Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Shusuke Kaneko’s Japanese supernatural crime thriller Desu nÁ´to / Death Note, and Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean comedy-horror-ecological family drama Gwoemul / The Host – this year’s Asian Film Awards big winner — are among the five best Asian film nominees.
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