Lav Diaz nominated for Asian Film Award

MANILA, Philippines – Filmmaker Lav Diaz is among the 2015 Asian Film Awards nominees, announced Wednesday, February 25. 

Diaz is nominated for Best Director for his film Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon (From What Is Before), which tells the story of a small village in the Philippines at the time right before then President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972.

 

Here is the full list of nominees:

Best film 

• Black Coal, Thin Ice (China)
• Blind Massage (China)
• Haider (India)
• Hill Of Freedom (South Korea)
• Ode To My Father (South Korea)
• The Light Shines Only There (Japan) 

Best director 

• Lou Ye, Blind Massage (China)
• Tsukamoto Shinya, Fires On The Plain (Japan)
• Lav Diaz, From What Is Before (The Philippines)
• Vishal Bhardwaj, Haider (India)
• Hong Sang-soo, Hill Of Freedom (South Korea)
• Ann Hui, The Golden Era (Hong Kong, China) 

Best actor

• Liao Fan, Black Coal, Thin Ice (China)
• Kase Ryo, Hill Of Freedom (South Korea)
• Sean Lau Ching-wan, Overheard 3 (Hong Kong, China)
• Ethan Ruan, Paradise In Service (Taiwan)
• Choi Min-sik, Roaring Currents (South Korea)
• Satoh Takeru, Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (Japan) 

Best actress 

• Bae Doo-na, A Girl At My Door (South Korea)
• Gong Li, Coming Home (China)
• Zhao Wei, Dearest (Hong Kong, China)
• Kaiki Koechlin, Margarita, With A Straw (India)
• Miyazawa Rie, Pale Moon (Japan)
• Tang Wei, The Golden Era (Hong Kong, China)

Best newcomer

• Doh Kyung-soo, Cart (South Korea)
• Zhang Huiwen, Coming Home (Mainland China)
• Ivana Wong, Golden ChickenSSS (SSS Hong Kong)
• Tosaka Hiroomi, Hot Road (Japan)

Best Supporting Actor

• Cho Jin-woong, A Hard Day (South Korea)
• Qin Hao, Blind Massage, (Mainland China)
• Chen Jianbin, Paradise In Service, (Taiwan)
• Wang Zhiwen, The Golden Era (Hong Kong, Mainland China)
• Ito Hideaki, WOOD JOB! (Japan)

Best Supporting Actress

• Han Ye-ri, Haemoo (South Korea)
• Tabassum Hashmi, Haider (India)
• Wan Qian, Paradise In Service (Taiwan)
• Ikewaki Chizuru, The Light Shines Only There (Japan)
• Kuroki Haru, The Little House (Japan)

Best Screenwriter

• Kim Seong-hun, A Hard Day (South Korea)
• Diao Yinan, Black Coal, Thin Ice (Mainland China)
• Chaitanya Tamhane, Court (India)
• Li Qiang, The Golden Era (Hong Kong, Mainland China)
• Takada Ryo, The Light Shines Only There (Japan)

Best Cinematographer

• Dong Jinsong, Black Coal, Thin Ice (Mainland China)
• Zeng Jian, Blind Massage (Mainland China)
• Choi Chan-min, Kundo: Age Of The Rampant (South Korea)
• Kondo Ryuto, My Man, Japan
• Matt Flannery and Dimas Imam Subhono, The Raid 2: Berandal (Indonesia)

Best Production Designer

• LIU Qing, Gone With The Bullets (Mainland China)
• Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray, Haider (India)
• Park Il-hyun, Kundo: Age Of The Rampant (South Korea)
• Hayashida Yuji and Sakushima Eri, Over Your Dead Body (Japan)
• Yi Zhenzhou, The Taking Of Tiger Mountain (Mainland China)

Best Composer

• Cui Jian and Liu Yuan, Blue Sky Bones (Mainland China)
• Zhang Yilin, Hisaishi Joe, Dou Peng, George Acogny, Shu Nan; Gone With The Bullets (Mainland China)
• Mikey McCleary, Margarita, With A Straw (India)
• MOWG, The Fatal Encounter (South Korea)
• BCDMG, Tokyo Tribe, (Japan)
  

Best Editor

• Kim Chang-ju, A Hard Day, South Korea
• Sunaga Hiroshi, One Third (Japan)
• Patrick Tam and Curran Pang, That Demon Within (Hong Kong)
• Kwong Chi-leung and Manda Wai, The Golden Era (Hong Kong, Mainland China)
• Gareth Evans, The Raid 2: Berandal (Indonesia)

Best Visual Effects

• Rick Sander and Christoph Zollinger, Gone With The Bullets (Mainland China)
• Yamazaki Takashi, Parasyte (Japan)
• Tong Ka-wai, Ken Law, Randy Tse, Lucky Tracy Hannah, The Midnight After (Hong Kong)
• Kang Jong-ik, The Pirates, (South Korea)
• Kim Wook, The Taking Of Tiger Mountain (Mainland China)

Best Costume Designer

• Liang Tingting, Brotherhood Of Blades (Mainland China)
• William Chang Suk Ping, Gone With The Bullets (Mainland China)
• Tsuge Isao, Over Your Dead Body (Japan)
• Chong Kyong-hee, The Fatal Encounter (South Korea)
• Kwon Yoo-jin, The Taking Of Tiger Mountain (Mainland China)

Diaz’s film has since been screened locally and in different film festivals around the world, like the Singapore Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, to name a few. It also received the Golden Leopard prize at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland in August 2014.

Diaz also received critical acclaim for another film Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (Norte, End of History). It was the Filipino entry to the 2015 Oscars Best Foreign Language Film category.

 

The Asian Film Awards ceremony will take place at The Venetian Macau on Wednesday, March 25. – Rappler.com