Golden Horse Awards 2009 Nominations

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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 2006

2006 Hong Kong Film Awards
2006 Hong Kong Film Award nominations: February 9, 2006
2006 Hong Kong Film Award winners: April 8, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

A leadership dispute between mobsters Big D (Tony Leung) and Lok (Sam Yang) threatens to destroy the internal unity of Hong Kong’s underworld, which results in some nasty politicking and even nastier gang warfare.
 

Best Film
Seven Swords, Beijing Ciwen Film & TV Production Co Ltd, Boram Entertainment Inc, City Glory Pictures Ltd, Executive Producer Tsui Hark, Lee Joo Ick, Ma Zhong Jun & Pan Zhizhong
Perhaps Love, Astro-Shaw, Astro-Shaw, Television Broadcasts Ltd & Stellar Megamedia Group Ltd, Executive Producer Andre Morgan & Peter Chan Ho Sun
The Myth, JCE Movies Ltd & [...]

by Andre Soares | April 8, 2006   
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Hong Kong Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
2006 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award winners: January 17, 2006
 

Johnnie To’s well-received Election revolves around a power struggle within Hong Kong’s organized crime during their own election time.
 

Best Film: Election
Best Director: Johnnie To, Election
Best Actor: Tony Leung Ka-fai, Everlasting Regret
Best Actress: Zhou Xun, Perhaps Love
Best Screenwriter: Wong Jing, Color of the Loyalty
Films of Merit: Seven Swords, Color of the Loyalty, Crazy and the City, Initial D, Sha Po Lang, Home Sweet Home, Perhaps Love, Everlasting Regret
 
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Site
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

by Andre Soares | January 21, 2006   
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