Gong Li Articles

Julianne Moore, Far from Heaven For decades, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards have been considered a precursor of the Academy Awards. Movies, performers, directors — and later cinematographers and screenwriters — singled out by the NYFCC usually have gone on to receive Oscar nominations, oftentimes the golden statuette itself. The New York critics awards also have the reputation of being "snooty" and "artsy." [...]

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (2005) Direction: Rob Marshall Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Mako, Tsai Chin Screenplay: Robin Swicord; from Arthur Golden's novel Oscar Movies Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Memoirs of a Geisha There are some movies that are released before their time. Only years or decades later, do they come to be appreciated. In the case [...]

Gong Li, John Cusack, Shanghai Golden Horse winner Feng Xiaogang (right), among whose credits are A World Without Thieves, Assembly, and If You Are the One, called US mogul Harvey Weinstein "a cheater in the eyes of many Chinese moviemakers," according to Jonathan Landreth at The Hollywood Reporter. Feng voiced his criticism at a discussion held at the 2010 Shanghai International Film Festival. Weinstein wasn't [...]

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 [...]