Blue Dragon Awards 2009

2009 Blue Dragon Awards
2009 Blue Dragon Awards – Nominations: Nov. 14, 2009
2009 Blue Dragon Awards – Winners: KBS Hall in Seoul on Dec. 2, 2009
 

Directed by Joon-ho Bong, Mother chronicles the fight of a middle-aged mother to clear the name of her son, accused of a vicious crime. Mother is South Korea’s submission for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Awards.
 

Best Film
Take Off – Yong-hwa Kim
Good Morning President – Jang Jin
Mother – Joon-ho Bong
Thirst – Chan-wook Park
Haeundae – Je-gyun Yun
Best Director
Yong-hwa Kim – Take Off
Jang Jin – Good Morning President
Joon-ho Bong – Mother
Chan-wook Park – Thirst
Je-gyun Yun – Haeundae
Best New Director
Hyeong-cheol Kang – Scandal Makers
Keon-hong Park – Lifting King Kong
Ik-jun Yang – Breathless
Yong-ju Lee – Possessed
Ki-hun [...]

by Irene Young | November 14, 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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