Wong Kar Wai's “The Grandmaster” leads Taiwan's Golden Horse noms

Wong Kar Wai's “The Grandmaster” leads Taiwan's Golden Horse noms

PanARMENIAN.Net - Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster dominates this year's list of nominees for Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, which were announced in Taipei, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The Hong Kong auteur's elegant work of martial arts hagiography earned 11 nominations, including best film, best director, best actor, best actress and best cinematography.

Also making a strong showing is Chinese director Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin, which played to acclaim at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where it won the best screenplay award. Jia's multinarrative meditation on the violence and dehumanizing undercurrents of China's breakneck economic development earned six nominations, including best film, best director and best original screenplay.

Debut Singaporean director Anthony Chen's Ilo Ilo -- a subtle domestic drama about a middle class Singaporean family who hire a Filipino maid to care for their son during the 1990s Asian financial crisis -- also nabbed six noms, including best director and best film. The film won the Camera d'Or at Cannes this year -- a first for Singapore -- and is the city state's official nominatio Three other titles earned six nominations: Feng Xiaogang's famine epic, Back to 1942, Dante Lam's MMA actioner, Unbeatable, and Stephen Chow's Chinese box-office smash hit Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons.

The Golden Horse Awards, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, will be held in Taipei on Nov. 23, with hometown hero Ang Lee presiding over this year's jury as president.

Japan-born Taiwanese screen legend Chen Chen will receive the event's lifetime achievement award.

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