Asian Film Awards Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 / [...]