The Asian Film Awards on 17th March 2008 - 33 films to be competed at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Who will win?

Another year has passed by so quickly and before long the second Asian Film Awards is here again. It is said that all together there are 33 films to be competed in this film awards at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 17 March 2008. Who will be taking the awards home?

There are twelve (12) categories all together during this awards presentation that is going to be held for the second time. The awards categories are for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Film of the year, Best Director, Best Cinematographer, Best Screen Writer, Best Production Designer, Best Composer, Best Editor and Best Visual Effects.




One of the top nominees are Lust, Caution( with six nomintaions) a film that was directed by famous filmmaker, Ang Lee who was born in 1954, Taiwan. He is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese film director who won the Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain. Will Lust, Caution won the best film for this coming 2nd Asian Film Awards? The results who will win the awards will be in less than 20 days from today.

The other movie with six nominations is The Warlords (投名状) directed by Peter Chan Ho-Sun. Starring AndyLau, Jet Li, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Xu Jinglei.

Nominees for the coming the 2nd Asian Film Awards on 17th March 2008 are as follows:-

Best Actor


- Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Lust, Caution - Taiwan/China
- Song Kang-ho, Secret Sunshine - South Korea
- Jack Kao, God Man Dog - Taiwan
- Jet Li, The Warlords - Hong Kong/China
- Ryo Kase, I Just Didn't Do It - Japan
- Joe Odagiri, Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me and Sometimes Dad - Japan

Best Actress


- Deepika Padukone, Om Shanti Om - India
- Tang Wei, Lust and Caution - Taiwan/China
- Joan Chen, The Home Song Stories - Singapore
- Jeon Do-yeon, Secret Sunshine - South Korea
- Kim Yunjin, Seven Days - South Korea
- Kiki Kirin, Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad - Japan

Best Supporting Actor
- Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 - Japan
- Chun Ho-jin, Skeletons in the Closet - South Korea
- Sun Honglei, Mongol - Mongolia/Kazakhstan
- Mario Maurer, The Love of Siam - Thailand
- Kaoru Kobayashi, Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad - Japan

Best Supporting Actress
- Joan Chen, The Sun Also Rises - China/Hong Kong
- Kim Hye-soo, Skeletons in the Closet - south Korea
- Kong Hyo-jin, Happiness - South Korea
- Ainya Sakujaroensuk, Ploy - Thailand
- Hiroko Yakushimaru, Always: Sunset on the Third Street 2 - Japan

Best Film Of The Year
- Lust, Caution (Se Jie in Chinese) - Taiwan
- Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame - Iran
- I Just Didn't Do It - Japan
- Secret Sunshine - South Korea
- The Warlords - China/Hong Kong
- The Sun Also Rises - China, Hong Kong

Best Director
- Ang Lee, Lust Caution - Taiwan/China
- Peter Chan, The Warlords - China/Hong Kong
- Jiang Wen, The sun Also Rises - China/Hong Kong
- Masayuki suo, I Just Didn't Do It - Japan
- Lee Chang-dong, Secret Sunshine - south Korea
- Zhang Lu, Desert Dream' - South Korea

Best Cinematographer
- Shanker Raman - Frozen -India
- Hooman Behmanesh, Those Three - Iran
- Chankit Chamnivikaipong, Ploy - Thailand
- Arthur Wong, The Warlords - China/Hong Kong
- Liao Pen-jung, Help Me Eros - Taiwan

Best Screenwriter
- Suo Masayuki, I Just Didn't do It - Japan
- James Schamus and Wang Hui-Ling, Lust Caution - Taiwan/China
- Au Kin Yee and Wai ka-Fai, The Mad Detective - Hong Kong
- Im Sang-soo, The Old Garden - South Korea
- Peng Tao, Little Moth - China

Best Production Designer
- Tsai Ming-liang, help Me Eros - Taiwan
- Pisut Pariwattankit and Thanakorn Pongsuwan, Opapatika - Thailand
- Cao Jiuping and Zhang Jian Qun, The Sun Also Rises - China/Hong Kong
- Kim Yu-jeong and Lee Min-bok, Epitaph (Gidam) - South Korea
- Iwaki Namiko, Sakuran - Japan

Best Composer
- The August Band, Flure, Witwisit Hirunwongkul Chukiat Sakweerakul and Passakorn Wiroonsup, The Love of Siam - Thailand
- Alexandre Desplat, Lust Caution - Taiwan/China
- Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani, Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, Om Shanti Om - India
- Xiao He, Mid-Afternoon Barks - China
- Ringo Shina, Sakuran - Japan

Best Editor
- Lee Eun-soo, The Old Garden - South Korea
- Charliebebs Gohetia, Slingshot - Philippines
- Shogo Hirasawa, Maiko haaaan!!! - Japan
- Wenders Li, The Warlords - Chin/Hong Kong
- David M. Richardson, Eye in the Sky - Hong Kong

Best Visual Effects
- Seshita Hiroyuki, Dainipponjin - Japan
- Takashi Yamazaki, Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 - Japan
- Hyung Rae Shim, D-War - South Korea
- Thomas Duval, The Sun Also Rises - China/Hong Kong
- Ng Yuen Fai, The Warlords - China/Hong Kong

I hope I will get to watch this 2nd Asian Film Awards and it will be aired on tv channel as I have been counting the days for this day.