Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Foreign Language Film

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 it takes to reach the top of that small (and nasty) world.

The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke (Germany)
As a prelude to both World War I and World War II, a German village unexpectedly becomes the setting of numerous acts of cruelty.

Quality (much like fairness) is in the brain of the judge. (Of course, if we’re lucky enough to have a judge [...]

by Andre Soares | October 18, 2009   
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Golden Horse Awards 2009 Nominations

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 films received seven Golden Horse nods: Taiwanese filmmaker Leon Dai’s No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti and Chinese filmmaker Guan Hu’s Cow.
No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti is based on the true story of a poor waterfront worker who fought Taiwan’s heartless bureaucrats for custody of his daughter. Among its Golden Horse nominations [...]

by Irene Young | October 7, 2009   
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Hong Kong Film Awards 2009

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 Woo)
CJ 7 (prods: Stephen Chow, Chui Po Chu, Han San Ping, Vincent Kok, Shi Dong Ming, Connie Wong)
Painted Skin (prod: Gordon Chan Ka Seung)
* Ip Man (prod: Raymond Wong Pak Ming)
Best Asian Film
If You Are The One (China)
Cape No. 7 (Taiwan)
Suspect X (Japan)
Forever Enthralled (China)
* Assembly (China)
Best Director
* Ann Hui On Wah [...]

by Irene Young | April 19, 2009   
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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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