Asian Film Awards 2009

2009 Asian Film Awards
2009 Asian Film Award nominations: Jan. 21, 2009
2009 Asian Film Award winners: March 23, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

In Kyoshi Kurosawa’s best Asian Film Award winner Tokyo Sonata, a middle-class worker (Teruyuki Kagawa) loses his job (it’s outsourced to China), but can’t get himself to tell his family about his predicament. Slowly, however, both his ruse and the family itself begin to disintegrate.
 

Best Film
Forever Enthralled, China
The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea
Ponyo on the Cliff, Japan
The Rainbow Troops, Indonesia
Red Cliff, China
* Tokyo Sonata, The Netherlands / Japan / Hong Kong
Best Director
FENG Xiao-gang, If You Are the One, China
KIM Jee-woon, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea
* KOREEDA Hirokazu, Still Walking, Japan
Brillante MENDOZA, Service, [...]

by Deborah Arthur | March 23, 2009   
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Asian Film Awards 2007 Nominations

The Host by Bong Joon-Ho

The nominees for the 1st Asian Film Awards were unveiled on Jan. 29. The awards ceremony, to be held on March 20, will open the 31st Hong Kong Film Festival.
According to the Asian Film Academy’s mission statement, the awards were created to "to acknowledge the finest of Asian Cinema, and bestow honor in various categories to film artists from across Asia, in the company of distinguished celebrities from around the world as guests and presenters."
"From across Asia"?
The vast majority of the nominated films hail from East Asia. India received only one nomination, while apart from Iran’s two nods, West Asia was completely ignored and so was Central Asia. (Not to mention northern Asia, though [...]

by Andre Soares | February 1, 2007   
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Asian Film Awards 2007

2007 Asian Film Awards
2007 Asian Film Award nominations: January 29, 2007
2007 Asian Film Award winners: Grand Hall, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, March 20, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

Best Film
Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia / Curse of the Golden Flower, Hong Kong / China
Fong juk / Exiled, Hong Kong
* Gwoemul / The Host, South Korea
Bushi no ichibun / Love and Honor, Japan
Opera Jawa, Indonesia / Austria
Sanxia Haoren / Still Life, China
Best Director
HONG Sang-soo, Haebyonui yoin / Woman on the Beach, South Korea
* JIA Zhangke, Sanxia Haoren / Still Life, China
Jafar PANAHI, Offside, Iran
Johnnie TO, Exiled, Hong Kong
TSAI Ming-liang, I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, Taiwan / France / Austria
Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL, Sang sattawat / Syndromes and [...]

by Andre Soares | January 29, 2007   
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