GBW goes Gold Coast

The Chaser; The Good, the Bad, and the Weird vie for international awards

The Chaser’s KIM Yoon-suk has been nominated for the 2nd Asia Pacific Screen Award’s Best actor nod, according to the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).

KIM Jee-woon – director of The Good, the Bad, and the Weird – is nominated in the best director category. The Good, the Bad, and the Weird’s director of photography LEE Mo-gae has a shot at the Best cinematography award.

Auteur cineaste HONG Sang-soo will compete for the Best screenplay award. He has been nominated for the scenario of Night and Day.

Korea has two more nominations in the Asia Pacific Screen Award. If you were me 2 : Anima Version 2 is included in the Best Animated Feature Film. KIM Dong-won and his 63 Years On feature make a bid for the Best Documentary Feature Film Award.

Last year’s first edition of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards crowned Secret Sunshine’s LEE Chang-dong as Best director and JEON Do-youn as Best actress.

The award show will take place on 11 November at the Gold Coast, Australia.
Credits: Yi Ch’ang-ho (KOFIC)

http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/KOFIC/Channel?…esimul_SNO=1102

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR

Alireza Aghakhani for ‘Tanha Do Dar Zendegui Mikonim’ (Before the Burial)
Islamic Republic of Iran
Kim Yoon-suk for ‘Chugyeogja’ (The Chaser)
Republic of Korea

Reza Naji for ‘Avaze Gonjeshk-Ha’ (The Song Of The Sparrows)
Islamic Republic of Iran

Simon Yam for ‘Men Jeuk’ (Sparrow)
Hong Kong

Rajat Kapoor for ‘The Prisoner’
India
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING

Johnnie To for ‘Men Jeuk’ (Sparrow)
Hong Kong

Kiyoshi Kurosawa for ‘Tokyo Sonata’
Japan/The Netherlands, Hong Kong
Kim Jee-woon for ‘Joheunnon Nabbeunnom Isanghannom’ (The Good, the Bad, the Weird)
Republic of Korea

Director Kim Jee-woon was a theater actor and director before debuting with his self-written and directed film, The Quiet Family in 1998. He is currently one of the most talented and recognised writers/directors in the Korean film industry. Following his self-proclaimed genre, comic theater of cruelty, in The Quiet Family, Kim trekked on to explore new genres such as comedy The Foul King, horror The Tale of Two Sisters, and film noir A Bittersweet Life and showed his unique twists on storytelling, style and other well-established forms. The result – his works have set ground as the representative Korean films in each of the genres in both critique and box-office success. With mounted bandits, steam engine trains, opium-filled brothels, his new film, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, is a western that focuses on the anarchic and multinational culture-ridden Manchuria in the 1930s. Now, with his ‘Oriental Western’, Kim promises to take moviegoers into yet another unfamiliar, unprecedented, genre of film.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan for ‘Uc Maymun’ (Three Monkeys)
Turkey/France/Italy

Sergey Dvortsevoy for ‘Tulpan’
Kazakhstan/Russia/Switzerland-Poland-Germany