Asian Film Award 2015

The Asian Film Award 2015 was the ninth edition of the Asian Film Award to date . The award for outstanding achievements by Asian filmmakers, which has been presented annually since 2007, is now one of the most influential film prizes in Asia.

A 14-person jury with representatives from a representative cross-section of the Asian film industry and two representatives from Europe awarded prizes in 14 categories. There were also two special awards.

The award ceremony took place up to and including 2013 as part of the Hong Kong International Film Festival , followed in 2014 by the move to the Macau Special Administrative Region of China , located around 50 kilometers west of Hong Kong . The award ceremony took place there in March 2015 in the Venetian Theater of the Venetian Casion and Hotel . This was the second time that Macau was the venue for the event; In addition, the award ceremony was organized jointly for the second time by the film festivals in Hong Kong, Busan and Tokyo .

jury

Representatives of the former crown colony of Hong Kong made up the largest group within the 14-person jury with almost 30% or four items. With the film producer and film director Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong appointed the jury president. The other three members were actor and singer Aaron Kwok, film critic Clarence Tsui ( The Hollywood Reporter ) and Li Cheuk-To, Artistic Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

With Japan and South Korea, two countries each sent two representatives to the jury: Tetsuya Bessho (actor and founder of the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia) and Kenji Ishizaka (program director of the Tokyo International Film Festival ), respectively Huh Moonyung (film critic for Cine 21 ) and Kim Ji-seok ( Busan International Film Festival ).

Four other countries took part in the jury with one member each: The Philippines with Ronald Arguelles (head of the pay-TV channel Cinema One ), Indonesia with John Badalu (envoy for the Berlin International Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival ), and China Li Shaohong (film director) and Taiwan with Jeane Huang (director of the Taipei Film Festival ).

The European representatives on the jury were Alberto Barbera from Italy (head of the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin and director of the Venice International Film Festival ) and Christian Jeune from France ( Cannes International Film Festival ).

Prices

Ahead collected The Golden Era of Ann Hui five most nominations, but not the best for the film. The two Chinese films Blind Massage and Fireworks in Broad Daylight ( Black Coal, Thin Ice ) and Haider from India followed with three nominations each .

Of the 14 prizes, seven went to the People's Republic of China and two to Hong Kong. For some of the prizes there was no recipient, and with The Raid 2 from Indonesia there was an excellent film in the competition without a representative at all.

Best movie

Blind massage ,

Fireworks in broad daylight ( Black Coal, Thin Ice ),

Haider ,

Hill of Freedom ,

The Light Shines Only There ,

Ode to My Father ,

Best director

Ann Hui ,- The Golden Era

Vishal Bhardwaj , - Haider

Lav Diaz , - From What Is Before

Hong Sang-soo , - Hill of Freedom

Lou Ye , - Blind Massage China

Shin'ya Tsukamoto , - Fires on the Plain

Best actor

Liao Fan ,- fireworks in broad daylight

Choi Min-sik , - The Admiral - Roaring Currents

Ryo Kase, - Hill of Freedom

Sean Lau, - Overh3ard

Ethan Ruan, - Paradise in Service

Takeru Satoh, - Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends

Best Actress

Bae Doona ,- Dohee - Anyone Can Run Away ( A Girl at My Door )

Gong Li , - Coming Home

Kalki Koechlin , - Margarita With A Straw

Rie Miyazawa , - Pale Moon

Tang Wei , - The Golden Era

Zhao Wei , - Dearest

Best supporting actor

Wang Zhiwen , - The Golden Era

Chen Jianbin, - Paradise in Service

Cho Jin-woong , - A Hard Day

Hideaki Itō, - Wood Job!

Qin Hao - blind massage

The best supporting actress

Ikewaki Chizuru , - Soko nomi nite hikari kagayaku

Han Ye-ri , - Haemoo

Haru Kuroki, - The Little House

Taboo , - Haider

Wan Qian, - Paradise in Service

Best newcomer

Zhang Huiwen , - Coming Home

Chan Huai-yun, - Meeting Dr. Sun

Do Kyung-soo , - Cart

Hiroomi Tosaka, - Hot Road

Ivana Wong, - Golden Chicken 3

Best script

Diao Yinan ,- fireworks in broad daylight ( Black Coal, Thin Ice )

Kim Seong-hun, - A Hard Day

Li Qiang, - The Golden Era

Chaitanya Tamhane, - Court

Ryo Takada, - The Light Shines Only There

Best camera

Zeng Jian , - blind massage

Choi Chan-min, - Kundo: Age of the Rampant

Dong Jinsong, - fireworks in broad daylight ( Black Coal, Thin Ice )

Matt Flannery, Dimas Imam Subhono, - The Raid 2

Ryuto Kondo, - My Man

Best production design

Liu Qing , - Gone with the Bullets

Subrata Chakraborty, Amit Ray, - Haider

Yuji Hayashida, Eri Sakushima, - Over Your Dead Body

Park Il-hyun, - Kundo: Age of the Rampant

Yi Zhenzhou, - The Taking of Tiger Mountain

Best composer

Mikey McCleary , - Margarita With A Straw

BCDMG, - Tokyo Tribes

Cui Jian, Liu Yuan, - Blue Sky Bones

Mowg, - The Fatal Encounter

Zhang Yilin, Joe Hisaishi , Dou Peng, George Acogny, Shu Nan, , , - Gone with the Bullets

Best cut

Gareth Evans ,- The Raid 2

Kim Chang-ju, - A Hard Day

Kwong Chi-leung, Manda Wai, - The Golden Era

Patrick Tam, Curran Pang, - The Demon Within

Hiroshi Sunaga, - One Third

Best visual effects

Rick Sanders, Christoph Zollinger , - Gone with the Bullets

Kang Jong-ik, - Pirates - The Seal of the King ( The Pirates )

Kim Wook, - The Taking of Tiger Mountain

Takashi Yamazaki, - Parasyte: Part 1

Tong Ka-wai, Ken Law, Randy Tse, Lucky Tracy Hannah, - The Midnight After

Best costume design

William Chang Suk Ping ,- Gone with the Bullets

Isao Tsuge, - Over Your Dead Body

Jeong Gyeong-hee, - The Fatal Encounter

Kwon Yu-jin, - The Taking of Tiger Mountain

Liang Tingting, - Brotherhood of Blades

Special awards

The South Korean filmmaker Im Kwon-taek received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his life's work .

The actress and singer Miki Nakatani , best known in Europe from Ringu, was honored with the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award .

Web links

• Official website (Chinese, English, Korean, Japanese)
• www.asianfilmawards.org (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Patrick Frater: Asian Film Awards Nominations Headed by Ann Hui's 'Golden Era'. In: variety.com. February 24, 2015, accessed November 29, 2018 .  
2. ^ ^{A b} Sonia Kil, Patrick Frater: Chinese Films And Talent Dominate Asian Film Awards: Complete Winners List. In: variety.com. March 25, 2015, accessed November 29, 2018 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} 9th AFA Nominees and Winners ( Memento from March 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: asianfilmawards.asia (English).