VietNamNet Bridge – The movie by Vietnamese/French director Tran Anh Hung was presented with the Best Cinematography Award at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong on March 21.

A scene from Norwegian Wood

The fifth Asian Film Awards gathered together movies from South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Thailand, and elsewhere. Movie stars such as Zhang Ziyi, Aaron Kwok Fushing, director Feng Xiaogang attended the awards ceremony.

Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Best Film Award for “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”, which won the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival 2010.

However, Korea director Lee Chang Dong won the Best Director Award for his film “Poetry”.

Xu Fan, who played the role of the mother in “Aftershock”, received the Best Actress Award while Ha Jung Woo of Korean movie “The Yellow Sea” took the Best Actor title.

Norwegian Wood by Vietnamese/French director Hung won the Best Cinematography for cameraman Mark Lee.

The winners of the 5^th Asian Film Awards (in bold):

Best Film: Aftershock (China), Confessions (Japan), Let The Bullets Fly (Hong Kong), Peepli Live (India), Poetry (South Korea), Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand)

Best Director: Feng Xiaogang (Aftershock), Jiang Wen (Let The Bullets Fly), Lee Chang Dong (Poetry), Takashi Miike (13 Assassins), Na Hong Jin (The Yellow Sea) and Tetsuya Nakashima (Confessions)

Best Actor: Chow Yun-Fat (Let The Bullets Fly), Ge You (Sacrifice), Ha Jung Woo (The Yellow Sea), Ethan Ruan (Monga) and Koji Yakusho (12 Assassins)

Best Actress: Jeon Do Yeon (The Housemaid), Rinko Kikuchi (Norwegian Wood), Takaka Matsu (Confessions), Xu Fan (Aftershock) and Michelle Yeoh (Reign of Assassins)

Best Newcomer: Mark Chao Yu-Ting (Monga), Aarif Lee (Echoes of The Rainbow), Omkar das Manikpuri (Peepli Live), T.O.P. (71: Into The Fire), Zhou Dongyu (Under The Hawthorn Tree)

Best Supporting Actor: Huang Xiaoming (Sacrifice), Sammo Hung Kam-po (IP Man 2), Masaki Okada (Confessions), Ryoo Seung Bum (The Unjust) and Yu Hae Jin (Moss)

Best Supporting Actress: Yu Aoi (About Her Brother), Yoshino Kimura (Confessions), Carina Lau Kar-ling (Let The Bullets Fly), Paredes Shanty (Madame X), Youn Yuh Jung (The Housemaid)

Best Screenplay: Let The Bullets Fly (Hong Kong), Love In A Puff (Hong Kong), Poetry (South Korea), Reign of Assassins (China/Hong Kong/Taiwan), The Unjust (South Korea)

Best Cinematography: Lee Mo Gae (I Saw The Devil), Jake Pollock (Monga), Mark Lee Ping Bin (Norwegian Wood), Hassan Kydyraliyev (The Light Thief), Kenny Tse Chung To (The Stool Pigeon)

Best Production Design: 13 Assassins (Japan), Detective Dee and The Mystery of The Phantom Flame (Hong Kong/China), Madame X (Indonesia), Monga (Taiwan), The Yellow Sea (South Korea).

Best Music Score: Golden Slumber (Japan), Monga (Taiwan), Peepli Live (India), Reign of Assassins (China/Hong Kong/Taiwan), The Yellow Sea (South Korea)

Best Editing: Confessions, 13 Assassins (Japan), I Saw The Devil (South Korea), Peepli Live (India), Under The Hawthorn Tree (China)

Best Visual Effects: Aftershock (China), 71: Into The Fire (South Korea), Detective Dee and The Mystery of The Phantom Flame (Hong Kong/China), Space Battleship Yamato (Japan), The Man From Nowhere (South Korea)

Best Costume Design: Tran Nu Yen Khe (Norwegian Wood), Kazuihiro Sawataishi (13 Assassins), Bruce Yu Ka On (Detective Dee and The Mystery of The Phantom Flame), William Chang Suk Ping (Let The Bullets Fly), Choi Se Yeon (The Housemaid)

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