[2014.02.12] TONY LEUNG CHIU WAI WILL RUN INTO LEE KANG SHENG AGAIN

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Tony Leung Chiu Wai (THE GRANDMASTER)

Lee Kang Sheng (STRAY DOGS)

Masaharu Fukuyama (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON)

Song Kang-Ho (THE ATTORNEY)

Zhang Ziyi, THE GRANDMASTER

Nina Paw (RIGOR MORTIS)

Han Hyo-Joo (COLD EYES)

Donnie Yen thanks everyone for THE MONKEY KING's 1 billion RMB box office

Peter Chan says that the Asian Film Awards is no longer an event that belongs to just Hong Kong
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The 8th Asian Film Awards will take place on March 27 in Macau. Yesterday the nominations were announced. Among the 14 categories, Wong Kar Wai's THE GRANDMASTER (YUT DOI JUNG SI) received the most nomination with 11. They included Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress; SNOWPIERCER, STRAY DOGS and RIGOR MORTIS each received 4 nominations. Tony Leung Chiu Wai with THE GRANDMASTER was nominated for Best Actor. He will not only run into the Golden Horse and Asia Pacific Film Festival winner Lee Kang Sheng but also face LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON's Masaharu Fukuyama and THE ATTORNEY's Song Kang-Ho.

Nina Paw Hee Ching with RIGOR MORTIS will compete against the multiple Best Actress award winner with THE GRANDMASTER, Zhang Ziyi, and COLD EYES' Han Hyo-Joo. Sister Paw's performance in RIGOR MORTIS was outstanding and received overall raves, international actress Zhang Ziyi ultimately had a better chance as many considered the award as good as hers.

The Best Director competition will also be fierce. THE GRANDMASTER's Wong Kar Wai will battle STRAY DOGS' Tsai Ming Liang, SNOWPIERCER's Bong Joon-Ho, LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON's Hirokazu Koreeda and ILO ILO's Anthony Chen.

Wong Kar Wai was very happy to hear about THE GRANDMASTER's 11 nominations. Currently at the Berlin Film Festival, Leung Chiu Wai was just as happy about the nominations. He was happy that he was nominated for Best Actor, but the credit did not belong to him alone. It was the result of the team's hard work.

Best Actress nominee Sister Paw said that she was very happy to receive an Asian award nomination, but she did not long for winning; she instead picked Zhang Ziyi and felt that Zhang Ziyi could be said as invincible and having no competition. She said, "I am used to being support, this time I don't mind continuing to play green leaf."

Always against an Asian Film Award, Peter Chan Ho Sun this year will be the jury chair. Chan Ho Sun yesterday at the press conference explained that because starting this year, the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society will form the Asian Film Award Academy with the Tokyo Film Festival, the Busan Film Festival and others to make the Asian Film Award into an Asian film event. He said, "Because previously the Asian Film Awards lacked legitimacy. No one would make the trip until they caught wind of their victory, which was meaningless but very normal; now it is different. The Asian Film Awards is no longer a film festival that belongs to Hong Kong." Speaking of the nominations seemingly repeating the Asia Pacific Film Festival nominations, Chan Ho Sun said, "I don't know how to answer, I don't know why Asia Pacific has been operated for so many years."

Donnie Yen Chi Tan was also one of the jury members, but when Asian Film Award Academy executive committee and Hong Kong International Film Festival Society chair Alfred Wong Ying Wai introduced Yen Chi Tan he turned star class juror into "star wet juror"; later, Yen Chi Tan said that he did not mind and did not feel awkward. First time on the jury, Yen Chi Tan said that he had an idea about Best Actor and Best Actress but he could not say. He would not favor Hong Kong film either and would be just and fair. Speaking of THE MONKEY KING (SAI YAU GEI ji DAI LAU TIN GUNG)'s Mainland cumulative box office of 1 billion RMB, Yen Chi Tan expressed thanks to everyone for their support; "At first the boss said that both success and failure would be attributed to me. I had a lot of pressure. I have already done my best, I didn't disappoint anyone."

THE 8TH ASIAN FILM AWARDS NOMINATIONS
BEST FILM
NO MAN'SLAND
THE GRANDMASTER
THE GREAT PASSAGE
THE LUNCHBOX
SNOWPIERCER
STRAG DOGS

BEST DIRECTOR
Bong Joon-Ho (SNOWPIERCER)
Anthony Chen (ILO ILO)
Hirokazu Koreeda (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON)
Tsai Ming-Liang (STRAY DOGS)
Wong Kar Wai (THE GRANDMASTER)

BEST ACTOR
Masaharu Fukuyama (LIKE FAHTER, LIKE SON)
Irrfan Khan (THE LUNCHBOX)
Lee Kang Sheng (STRAY DOGS)
Tony Leung Chiu Wai (THE GRANDMASTER)
Song Kang-Ho (THE ATTORNEY)

BEST ACTRESS
Eugene Domingo (BARBER'S TALES)
Han Hyo-Joo (COLD EYES)
Nina Paw Hee Ching (RIGOR MORTIS)
Maki Yoko (THE RAVINE OF GOODBYE)
Zhang Ziyi (THE GRANDMASTER)

BEST NEWCOMER
Babyjohn Choi Hon-Yick (THE WAY WE DANCE)
Im Si-Wan (THE ATTORNEY)
Jiang Shuying (SO YOUNG)
Misaki Kinoshita (THE BACKWATER)
Keita Ninomiya (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mark Chao (SO YOUNG)
Huang Bo (NO MAN'S LAND)
Jung Woo-Sung (COLD EYES)
Joe Odagiri (THE GREAT PASSAGE)
Satoshi Tsumabuki (TOKYO FAMILY)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Yu Aoi (TOKYO FAMILY)
Mavis Fan (WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW?)
Kim Young-Ae (THE ATTORNEY)
Fumi Nakaido (WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL?)
Yeo Yann Yann (ILO ILO)

BEST SCREENWRITER
Ritest Batra (THE LUNCHBOX)
Bong Joon-Ho, Kelly Masterson (SNOWPIERCER)
Li Qiang (SO YOUNG)
Kensaku Watanabe (THE GREAT PASSAGE)
Wong Kar Wai, Zou Jingzhi, Xu Haofeng (THE GRANDMASTER)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Kim Byung-Seo, Yeo Kyung-Bo (COLD EYES)
Liao Pen Jung, Shong Woon Chong, Lu Qing Xin (STRAY DOGS)
Philippe Le Sourd (THE GRANDMASTER)
Ng Man-Ching (RIGOR MORTIS)
Aziz Zhambakiyev (HARMONY LESSONS)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGNER
William Chang Suk Ping, Alfred Yau Wai Ming (THE GRANDMASTER)
Hao Yi (NO Man'S LAND)
Hisao INAGAKI (WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL?)
Ken Mak (YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON)
Ondrej Nekvasil (SNOWPIERCER)

BEST COMPOSER
Zeke Khaseli, Yudhi Arfan (WHAT THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT LOVE)
Ehsaan Noorani, Shakar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa (RUN MILKHA RUN)
Shigeru Umebayashi, Nathaniel Mechaly (THE GRANDMASTER)

BEST EDITOR
William Chang Suk Ping, Benjamin Courtines, Poon Hung Yiu (THE GRANDMASTER)
Du Yuan (NO MAN'S LAND)
Junichi ITO (WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL?)
David M. Richardson (RIGOR MORTIS)
Shin Min-Kyung (COLD EYES)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Shuji Asano (REAL)
Pierre Buffin (Buf) (THE GRANDMASTER)
Enoch Chan (RIGOR MORTIS)
Jeong Seong-Jin (MR. GO)
Kim Wook (YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON)

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER
William Chang Suk Ping (THE GRANDMASTER)
Catherine George (SNOWPIERCER)
Pik Kwan Lee, Bruce Yu (YOUNG DETECTIVE DEE: RISE OF THE SEA DRAGON)
Shim Hyun-Sub (THE FACE READER)