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10/29/2007 Taipei (ANTARA News)
- Taiwanese director Ang Lee's spy thriller "Lust, Caution" leads nominations
for this year's Golden Horse Film Awards, considered the Chinese-language
"Oscars", organizers said Saturday.
"Lust, Caution" is nominated for 12 awards, including the coveted best director
and best film, for the 44th awards to be handed out in a ceremony scheduled for
December 8, AFP reported citing the organizers.
Chinese actress Tang Wei plays a resistance spy in "Lust, Caution" who slowly
falls for her target, a powerful political figure played by Tong Leung, in
Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the 1940s.
She is vying for the best leading actress award against film veteran Joan Chen
(The Home Song Stories), Li Bingbing (The Knot) and Yu Nan (Tuya's Marriage).
Leung is up for best leading actor and faces strong competition from fellow Hong
Konger Aaron Kwok (The Detective), China's Zhou Benshan (Getting Home) and
Singapore's Gurmit Singh (Just Follow the Law).
"The Home Song Stories" which depicts the troubled love affair between a
nightclub singer and an illegal Chinese immigrant in Australia, is nominated in
seven categories, including best film and best supporting male actor.
Taiwan's pop music prince Jay Chou's directorial debut "Secret" about a
mysterious romance between two music students follows closely with five nods.
"Lust, Caution," called "Se, Jie" in Chinese, is competing with "The Home Song
Stores," "Tuya's Marriage," "Getting Home" and "Qing Fei De Yi" directed by
Taiwanese director Doze Niu, for best film.
For the best director prize, Quanan Wang (Tuya's Marriage), Yau Nai-hoi (Eye in
the Sky) and Yang Li (Blind Mountain) will challenge the acclaimed Ang Lee.
The Golden Horse Awards are styled on the US Academy Awards, but are decided by
a jury along the lines of the Cannes film festival.
(Contributed by Antara News)