"The Grandmaster" leads Asia Pacific awards nominations

2 Dec – After being nominated and winning the most awards at the 50th Golden Horse Awards, it was revealed that Wong Kar Wai's "The Grandmaster" has now nabbed nine nominations to lead this year's Asia-Pacific Film Festival (APFF) awards.

According to the official APFF website, the film topped the list of nominations including Best Picture, Best Director for Wong Kar Wai, Best Actor for Tony Leung and Best Actress for Zhang Ziyi, who had just won her first Golden Horse award recently.

Meanwhile, South Korea's "Snowpiercer" is the second film with the most nominations; seven, while India's "The Lunchbox", which triggered controversy for being snubbed as India's representation for the Oscars' Best Foreign Picture category, received six nominations, including Best Picture.

The 2013's APFF jury president is producer Shi Nansun, while other jury members include Malaysian actor and filmmaker Afdlin Shauki, British Film Institute's Claire Stewart, Christian Jeune from the Cannes Film Festival, Taiwanese director Sylvia Chang, Le Vision Pictures' Zhang Zhao and South Korean director Hur Jin-ho.

The winners will be announced on 15 December in Macau, the final day of the three-day event.

The list of nominations is as follows:

Best Picture:
The Grandmaster (Hong Kong)
Like Father Like Son (Japan)
The Lunchbox (India)
Stray Dogs (Taiwan)
Ilo Ilo (Singapore)
In Bloom (Georgia)

Best Director:
Tsai Ming-liang ("Stray Dogs", Taiwan)
Bong Joon-ho ("Snowpiercer", South Korea)
Ritesh Batra ("The Lunchbox", India)
Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi ("Closed Curtain", Iran)
Wong Kar Wai ("The Grandmaster", Hong Kong)
Hirokazu Koreeda ("Like Father Like Son", Japan)

Best Actor:
Irrfan Khan ("The Lunchbox", India)
Nick Cheung ("Unbeatable", Hong Kong)
Tony Leung Chiu Wai ("The Grandmaster", Hong Kong)
Seo Young-ju ("Juvenile Offender", South Korea)
Lee Kang-sheng ("Stray Dogs", Taiwan)
Masaharu Fukuyama ("Like Father Like Son", Japan)

Best Actress:
Zhang Ziyi ("The Grandmaster", Hong Kong)
Lee Jung-hyun ("Juvenile Offender", South Korea)
Yang Zishan ("So Young", China)
Lika Babluani ("In Bloom", Georgia)
Nimrat Kaur ("The Lunchbox", India)
Angeli Bayani ("Ilo Ilo", Singapore)

Best Supporting Actor:
Nawazuddin Siddiqui ("The Lunchbox", India)
Song Kang-ho ("Snowpiercer", South Korea)
Lily Franky ("Like Father Like Son", Japan)
Tong Dawei ("American Dreams in China", China)
Joe Odagiri ("The Great Passage", Japan)

Best Supporting Actress:
Crystal Lee ("Unbeatable", Hong Kong)
Tilda Swinton ("Snowpiercer", South Korea)
Yeo Yann Yann ("Ilo Ilo", Singapore)
Lin Mei-hsiu ("To My Dear Granny", Taiwan)
Maggie Jiang Shuying ("So Young", China)

Best Screenplay:
Anthony Chen ("Ilo Ilo", Singapore)
Ritesh Batra ("The Lunchbox", India)
Jafar Panahi ("Closed Curtain", Iran)
Yuri Bykov ("The Major", Russia)
Li Qiang ("So Young", China)

Best Cinematography:
Philippe Le Sourd ("The Grandmaster", Hong Kong)
Hong Kyung-pyo ("Snowpiercer", South Korea)
Liao Pen-jung , Sung Wen-zhong ("Stray Dogs", Taiwan)
Norimichi Kasamatsu ("Unforgiven", Japan)
Rajeev Ravi ("Monsoon Shootout", India)

Best Editing:
William Chang Suk Ping , Benjamin Courtines , Poon Hung Yiu ("The Grandmaster", Hong Kong)
Shin Min-kyung ("Cold Eyes", South Korea)
Steve M. Choe ("Snowpiercer", South Korea)
Hirokazu Koreeda ("Like Father Like Son", Japan)
Simon Price, Sally Blenheim, Luca Cappelli ("Ruin", Australia)

Best Sound Design:
Sung Rok Choi ("Snowpiercer", South Korea)
Robert Mackenzie, Traithep Wongpaiboon ("The Grandmaster", Hong Kong)
Phyllis Cheng ("Unbeatable", Hong Kong)
Tu Duu-chih , Kuo Li-chi ("Stray Dogs", Taiwan)
Sion Sono , Keiji Inai , Hidekazu Sakamoto ("Why Don't You Play In Hell", Japan)

Best Music:
Shigeru Umebayashi , Nathaniel Mechaly ("The Grandmaster", Hong Kong)
Shane McLean ("Mt. Zion", New Zealand)
Zeke Khaseli, Yudhi Arfani ("What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love", Indonesia)
Jay Chou , Jason Huang ("The Rooftop", Taiwan)
Taro Iwashiro ("Ask This of Rikyu", Japan)

Best Art Direction:
William Chang, Alfred Yau ("The Grandmaster", Hong Kong)
Stefan Kovacik ("Snowpiercer" South Korea)
Mitsuo Harada, Ryo Sugimoto ("Unforgiven", Japan)
Hisao Inagaki ("Why Don't You Play In Hell", Japan)
Arkkadech Keawkotr ("Pee Mak", Thailand)