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Best Foreign Language Film Baaria, Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy) An autobiographical tale set in the director's Sicilian hometown Forever Enthralled, Chen Kaige (China) Biopic chronicling the life of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star. I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan (Canada) A young gay man has some serious issues with his mother. A Prophet, Jacques Audiard (France) Prison drama in which a young hood learns what [...]

Face by Tsai Ming-liang With nine nominations, including best film and best director, Hong Kong filmmaker Clara Law’s romantic fantasy Like a Dream (right) leads the 2009 Golden Horse Awards. Starring Daniel Wu and Yolanda Yuan (aka Quan Yuan), both of whom are up for acting awards, Like a Dream chronicles a man's search for a woman who keeps popping up in his dreams. Two [...]

2009 Hong Kong Film Awards 2009 Hong Kong Film Award nominations: Feb. 12 2009 Hong Kong Film Award winners: Apr. 19 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Donnie Yen in Wilson Yip's Ip Man, a biopic of Bruce Lee's kung fu master.   Best Film The Way We Are (prods: Ann Hui & Wong Yat Ping) Red Cliff (prods: Terence Chang & John [...]

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 [...]