2009 Hong Kong Film Award Winners

As Hong Kong celebrates 100 years of filmmaking, Wilson Yip’s biopic Ip Man (above, top image), starring Donnie Yen as Bruce Lee’s kung fu master, was chosen best picture of the year at the 2009 Hong Kong Film Awards.
However, the small-scale docudrama The Way We Are (above, bottom image), set in the working-class town of Tin Shui Wai near the border with China, took home most of the top awards, including best director (Ann Hui), actress (Paw Hee-ching), supporting actress (Chan Lai Wun) and screenplay (Lou Shiu Wa).
The best actor winner was Nick Cheung, who plays a kidnapper in the action thriller The Beast Stalker, while Liu Kai Chi received [...]

by Andre Soares | April 19, 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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