Wong Kar Wai's “The Grandmaster” leads Taiwan's Golden Horse nomsOctober 2, 2013 - 11:25 AMT 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. Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |