10.04.2012

FILMBIZ ASIA: MAINLAND CHINA FILMS LEAD THE "GOLDEN HORSE" RACE



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Awards News
LOU Ye 婁燁's French-China co-production Mystery 浮城谜事 (pictured) has received the most nominations for this year's Golden Horse Awards 金馬獎.
Feature films directed by Mainland directors received 37 nominations, compared to 35 for Taiwan-based directors and 25 for Hong Kong directors. The jury — which are primarily local critics and film-makers — typically favours Taiwan films, notably in the newcomer categories.
Mystery competes for best feature film with another Mainland film, GAO Qunshu 高群書's Beijing Blues 神探亨特張. Also nominated in the top category are YANG Ya-che楊雅喆's Gf*Bf 女朋友 男朋友 and, from Hong Kong, Johnnie TO 杜琪峰's Life Without Principle 奪命金 and LO Chi-leung 羅志良's The Bullet Vanishes 消失的子彈.
Lou, Gao, Yang and To also compete for best director, where they are joined by Doze NIU 鈕承澤 for Taiwan-China co-production Love 愛. Six local Taiwan directors have the new director category for themselves, including Hero LIN 林世勇, TSAI Yueh-hsun蔡岳勳 and CHANG Rong-ji 張榮吉.
Hong Kong actors dominate the actor categories with nominations for Nick CHEUNG 張家輝 (Nightfall 大追捕), LAU Ching-wan 劉青雲 (Life Without Principle), Chapman TO杜汶澤 (Vulgaria 低俗喜劇) and Nicholas TSE 謝霆鋒 (The Viral Factor 逆戰). They are joined by Taiwan's Joseph CHANG 張孝全, recognised for his role in GF*BF.
Other Mainland films recognised in the nominations shortlist include GUAN Hu 管虎'sDesign of Death 殺生 with six nominations, TENG Huatao 滕華濤's Love Is Not Blind失戀３３天 with five nominations and WANG Quanan 王全安's White Deer Plain 白鹿原with four nominations.
Mainland films that were submitted but received no nominations include The Last Supper 王的盛宴, People Mountain People Sea 人山人海 and Guns and Roses 黃金大劫案. Organisers previously informed the Taiwan that ZHANG Yimou 張藝謀's The Flowers of War 金陵十三釵 was not submitted for consideration.
Hong Kong films that were submitted by not shortlisted include The Great Magician 大魔術師, and Love in the Buff 春嬌與志明. Taiwan films that failed to secure nominations include Young Dudes 騷人, The Fierce Wife 犀利人妻最終回：幸福男．不難 and Westgate Tango 西門町.
No films from Singapore or Malaysia received nominations. All nominated films receive a single public performance, which will likely represent the only screenings of several Chinese films in Taiwan. Only ten Mainland films are permitted to open in Taiwan each year, and domestic festivals largely ignore the huge market on their doorstep despite its increasing importance to Taiwan cinema.
Mystery, which premiered in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard sidebar, opens in China on 19 Oct, however Lou Ye has said that he would remove his name from the film because of cuts he was required to make. Beijing Blues won a best director prize at the Shanghai International Film Festival 上海國際電影節 in June.
The 49th Golden Horse Awards ceremony will be held on 24 Nov in Taiwan's Yilan County.
Update: Six hours after announcing the nominations list, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee 台北金馬影展執行委員會 disqualified Mystery andBeijing Blues in the original film song category. Films produced by Taiwan- and China-based directors now equal 35 each.
2012 GOLDEN HORSE AWARDS NOMINATIONS:

BEST FILM
  • Beijing Blues; dir. GAO Qunshu [China]
  • The Bullet Vanishes; dir. LO Chi-leung [Hong Kong]
  • GF*BF; dir. YANG Ya-che [Taiwan]
  • Life Without Principle; dir. Johnnie To [Hong Kong]
  • Mystery; dir. LOU Ye [China, France]
BEST DIRECTOR
  • GAO Qunshu for Beijing Blues [China]
  • LOU Ye for Mystery [China, France]
  • Doze NIU for Love [Taiwan, China]
  • Johnnie TO for Life Without Principle [Hong Kong]
  • YANG Ya-che for GF*BF; dir. [Taiwan]
BEST NEW DIRECTOR
BEST LEADING ACTOR
  • Joseph CHANG for GF*BF [Taiwan]
  • Nick CHEUNG for Nightfall [Hong Kong]
  • LAU Ching-wan for Life Without Principle [Hong Kong]
  • Chapman TO for Vulgaria [Hong Kong]
  • Nicholas TSE for The Viral Factor [Hong Kong, China]
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST NEW PERFORMER

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