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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Tags: Cow, Face, Film Awards, Forever Enthralled, Golden Horse Awards, Golden Horse Awards 2009, Like a Dream, No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti, Tsai Ming-liang, Zhou Xun, Ziyi Zhang
Asian Film Awards 2007 Nominations
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 across Asia, in the company of distinguished celebrities from around the world as guests and presenters."
"From across Asia"?
The vast majority of the nominated films hail from East Asia. India received only one nomination, while apart from Iran’s two nods, West Asia was completely ignored and so was Central Asia. (Not to mention northern Asia, though [...]
by Andre Soares | February 1, 2007
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Tags: Asian Film Awards, Bong Joon-Ho, Curse of the Golden Flower, Film Awards, Gong Li, Ken Watanabe, Memories of Tomorrow, The Host, Zhang Yimou, Ziyi Zhang
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA – Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Direction: Rob Marshall
Screenplay: Robin Swicord; from Arthur Golden’s novel
Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Mako, Tsai Chin
There are some movies that are released before their time. Only years or decades later, do they come to be appreciated. In the case Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha, based on Arthur Golden’s bestseller about the life and love of a young geisha in pre-World War II Japan, it’s the other way around. It is a movie released after – way after — its time.
As long as its makers chopped off about a third of its 145-minute running time, Memoirs of a Geisha would have worked beautifully as a silent film, [...]
by Andre Soares | December 9, 2005
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Tags: Dion Beebe, Film Reviews, Gong Li, John Williams, Ken Watanabe, Memoirs of a Geisha, Michelle Yeoh, Oscar 2005, Oscar Movies, Period Movies, Rob Marshall, Robin Swicord, Ziyi Zhang
Hong Kong Film Critics Awards 2005
2005 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
2005 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award winners: January 16, 2005.
In Toe Yuen’s McDull, prince de la bun — a follow-up to his 2001 cult hit My Life as McDull — Mrs. Mc tells her son, the pig-faced McDull, the stories she’s written about his father, McBing, Prince de la Bun.
Best Film: McDull, prince de la bun / McDull, the Pineapple Bun Prince
Best Director: Derek Yee, One Nite in Mongkok
Best Actor: Tony Leung, 2046
Best Actress: Ziyi Zhang, 2046
Best Screenwriter: Gordon Chan and Chung Kai-Cheung, A-1 Headline
Films of Merit: 2046, A-1 Headline, Love Battlefield, Breaking News, Kung Fu Hustle, Three. . . Extremes (for the segment "Dumplings"), Color Blossoms, One Nite in Mongkok, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 19, 2005
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Tags: 2046, A-1 Headline, Breaking News, Derek Yee, Film Awards, Kung Fu Hustle, Mcdull Prince De La Bun, One Nite in Mongkok, Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang
