The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society announced the nominees for this year’s Asian Film Awards on Wednesday. Korean western The Good, the Bad, the Weird leads the race with eight nominations. The winners will be announced at the AFA ceremony in Hong Kong on March 23.
Here is the complete list of the nominees:
BEST FILM
“Forever Enthralled”
“The Good, the Bad, the Weird”
“Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea”
“The Rainbow Troops”
“Red Cliff”
“Tokyo Sonata”
BEST DIRECTOR
Feng Xiaogang, “If You Are the One”
Kim Jee-woon, “The Good, the bad, the Weird”
Koreeda Hirokazu, “Still Walking”
Brillante Mendoza, “Service”
Hayao Miyazaki/Frank Marshall, “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea”
John Woo, “Red Cliff”
BEST ACTOR
Ge You, “If You Are the One”
Ha Jung-woo, “The Chaser”
Akshay Kumar, “Singh is Kinng”
Matsuyama Kenichi, “Detroit Metal City”
Motoki Masahiro, “Departures”
Song Kang-ho, “The Good, the Bad, the Weird”
BEST ACTRESS
Fukatsu Eri, “The Magic Hour”
Jiang Wenli, “And the Spring Comes”
Deepika Padukone, “Chandni Chowk to China”
Yoshinaga Sayuri, “Kabei: Our Mother”
Zhou Wei, “Painted Skin”
Zhou Xun, “The Equation of Love and Death”
BEST NEWCOMER
Matsuda Shota, “Boys Over Flowers: The Movie”
Sandrine Pinna, “Miao Miao”
So Ji-sub, “Rough Cut”
Xu Jiao, “CJ7”
Jeeja Yanin, “Chocolate”
Yu Shaoqun, “Forever Enthralled”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Nick Cheung, “Beast Stalker”
Jung Woo-sung, “The Good, the Bad, the Weird”
Lee Byung-hun, “The Good, the Bad, the Weird”
Tsutsumi Shinichi, “Suspect X”
Wang Xueqi, “Forever Enthralled”
BEST SCREENWRITER
Na Hong-jin, “The Chaser”
Li Qiang, “And the Spring Comes”
Tom Lin/Henry Tsai, “Winds of September”
Kurosawa Kiyoshi/Max Mannix/Tanaka Sachiko, “Tokyo Sonata”
Mitani Koki, “The Magic Hour”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Ato Shoichi, “Paco and the Magical Book”
Cheng Siu-keung, “Sparrow”
Lee Mo-gae, “The Good, the Bad, the Weird”
Jola Dylewska, “Tulpan”
Wang Yu/Nelson Yu, “24 City”
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Nitin Chandrakant Desai, “Jodhaa Akbar”
Kuwajima Towako, “Paco and the Magical Book”
Daniel Lee Yan-kong, “Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon”
Bill Liu, “Painted Skin”
Taneda Yohei, “The Magic Hour”
BEST COMPOSER
Dalpalan/Jang Young-gyu, “The Good, the Bad, the Weird”
Hanno Yoshihiro/Lim Giong, “24 City”
Hisaishi Joe, “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea”
Henry Lai Wan-man, “Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon”
A.R. Rahman, “Jodhaa Akbar”
BEST EDITOR
Chan Ki-hop, “Beast Stalker”
William Chang Suk-ping, “Miao Miao”
Darya Danilova, “Native Dancer”
Waluyo Ichwandiardono, “The Rainbow Troops”
Kim Sun-min, “The Chaser”
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Craig Hayes, “Red Cliff”
Kim Wook, “The Good, the Bad, the Weird”
Yanagawase Masahide, “Paco and the Magical Book“