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Vivienne Chow

Chinese drama Blind Massage took top honours at the Asian Film Awards last night, beating out The Golden Era and Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice for best film.
Blind Massage, a drama directed by Lou Ye that explores the world of sight-impaired masseurs, also won the best cinematography award.

While Hong Kong director Ann Hui On-wah's The Golden Era, a biopic of Chinese author Xiao Hong, led the nomination race with five, it went home with two awards: best director for Hui and best supporting actor for Wang Zhiwen's portrayal of Chinese writer Lu Xun.
"Half of this award should go to my scriptwriter [Li Qiang]," said Hui, who received a lifetime achievement award at the 2012 event.

Although noir thriller Black Coal, Thin Ice missed out on the best film award, director and writer Diao Yinan snagged the best screenwriter prize. The film's lead, Chinese actor Liao Fan, took the best actor award, as he did at the Berlinale.
But the night's biggest winner was more of a surprise. Chinese director Jiang Wen's film Gone With The Bullets, though panned by critics, scored three awards - best visual effects, best production designer and best costume designer for William Chang Suk-ping's flamboyant costumes.

The trilingual ceremony - in Cantonese, English and Putonghua - took place at the Venetian Macao casino's theatre. Forty-two films from eight regions in Asia were selected from out of 1,000 eligible works to compete for 14 awards. "It was a tough decision," said Hong Kong director Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting, who served as the awards' jury president this year.
Korean actress Bae Doo-na, who played a police academy instructor struggling to settle into a small town after being transferred from Seoul in the drama  A Girl At My Door, beat Japanese actress Miyazawa Rie and Chinese leading ladies Zhao Wei, Gong Li and Tang Wei, to take home the best actress award. "I really didn't expect this," Bae said.

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Japanese actress Ikewaki Chizuru, who won best supporting actress for her role in love story The Light Shines Only There, said she was surprised and encouraged to have won the award.

Now in its ninth year, the awards ceremony took place in Macau for the second time after the Asian Film Awards Academy was established in late 2013 by the Hong Kong International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival in South Korea and Japan's Tokyo International Film Festival to organise the event that aspires to be Asia's Oscars.

Deafening screams from hundreds of fans rocked the Venetian when seven-piece K-pop boy band Infinite landed on the red carpet - staged indoors for the first time at a hotel shopping mall complex - prior to their performance at the awards show.
Michael Jackson's brother, singer Jermaine Jackson, also appeared to present the best composer award to Mikey McCleary, who missed the awards to get married, for his score for the Indian film Margarita, With A Straw.
 
 
 
 


'Blind Massage' takes top honour at Macau's 9th Asian Film Awards

Best actress winner Bae Doo-na (left) with best director Ann Hui and best actor Liao Fan at the Asian Film Awards.

Taiwanese actors Rhydian Vaughan and Cheryl Yang take to the red carpet at the Asian Film Awards in Macau. Photo: Reuters

Japanese actress Rie Miyazawa and Hong Kong actor Aaron Kwok arrive at the 9th Asian Film Awards. Photo: May Tse

Rhydian Vaughan and Cheryl Yang Chin-hua. 

Japanese actor Ito Hideaki

Japanese actor Satoh Takeru

Veteran Hong Kong actor Wong Chau-sang.

Korean K-pop star Doh Kyung-soo.

Hong Kong actress Ivana Wong.

Hong Kong model Ankie Beilke.

Hong Kong model Rosemary Vandenbroucke.

Macau students Chai Un-ian and Lam Hio-teng.

Hong Kong director Ann Hui On-wah.

Korean boy band Infinite.

Japanese actress Rie Miyazawa with Aaron Kwok.

Japanese actress Chizuru Ikewaki. Photo: Reuters

Zeng Jian, winner of Best Cinematographer award.

Christoph Zollinge, winner of Best Visual Effects award.

Korean actress Bae Doo-na, winner of Best Actress award.

Chinese actor Liao Fan picks up the Best Actor award.

Japanese actress Nakatani Miki, Excellence in Asian Cinema award winner.

Hong Kong director Ann Hui On-wah hold up the award for Best Director.

Best actor Liao Fan and Best Actress Bae Doo-na.

A still from Blind Massage.

Korean director Im Kwok-taek wins the Lifetime Achievement award. 

Jermaine Jackson

IN PICTURES: The winners and red carpet glamour at the 9th Asian Film Awards

Best actress Bae Doo-na (A Girl at My Door), Best director Ann Hui (The Golden Era) and Best actor Liao Fan (Black Coal, Thin Ice)

Best director Ann Hui (The Golden Era)

Best actor Liao Fan (Black Coal, Thin Ice) and Best Actress Bae Doo-na  (A Girl at My Door)

Excellence in Asian Cinema Award Nakatani Miki, Japan

Lifetime achievement awards Im Kwok-taek, South Korea

Best actress Bao Doo-na (A Girl at My Door)

Winner of best visual effects Christoph Zollinger (Gone with The Bullets）

Winner of best cinematographer Zeng Jian (Blind Massage)

Winner of best supporting actress Ikewaki Chizuru

Actress Rie Miyazawa and actor Aaron Kwok arrive at the 9th Asian Film Awards. Photos: May Tse

Lifetime achievement award contender Im Kwon-taek (right)

Excellence in Asian cinema award recipient Nakatani Miki


Ann Hui

Nominee for Best Newcomer, Ivana Wong

Nominee for Best Newcomer, Doh Kyung-soo

Nominee for Best Actress, Bae Doo-na

Nominee for Best Actress, Kalki Koechlin

Nominee for Best Supporting Actress, Han Ye-ri

Nominee for Best Supporting Actress, Ikewaki Chizuru

Guest stars, K-pop boy band Infinite

Guest Alex Law (left) and president jury Mabel Cheung

Hong Kong films vie for honours in Asian Film Awards

Ivana Wong raises a glass with Dr Wilfred Wong, of the Asian Film Awards Academy. Photo: Edward Wong

Ivana Wong raises a glass with Dr Wilfred Wong, of the Asian Film Awards Academy.Photo: Edward Wong

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Chinese drama takes best film prize while local director Ann Hui wins for 'The Golden Era'


Chinese drama Blind Massage took top honours at the Asian Film Awards last night, beating out The Golden Era and Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice for best film.


Update | 'Blind Massage' takes top honour at Macau's 9th Asian Film Awards

Chinese drama takes best film prize while local director Ann Hui wins for 'The Golden Era'