Action comedy Let the Bullets Fly leads the pack at this year's Asian Film Awards in a big year for Hong Kong-mainland collaborations.
It has six nominations, two of them for performances by Hong Kong actors.
Chow Yun-fat is up for the best actor award for his turn as gangster Huang. And his co-star Carina Lau Kar-ling will compete with women in Japanese, Indonesian and South Korean films for the best supporting actress honour.
Awards organiser the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society announced the nominees in 14 categories yesterday.
Other big budget mainland-Hong Kong co-productions nominated include Sammo Hung Kam-Po for best supporting actor in Ip Man 2 and Michelle Yeoh for best actress in Reign of Assassins, in which Taiwan collaborated.
Japanese filmmaker Tetsuya Nakashima's Confessions received five nominations, including best film and best director. The film has also made the shortlist for a best foreign language film nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards.
Special effects producer Phil Jones competes against himself for best visual effects, having worked on both Aftershock, one of this year's mainland blockbuster hits, and Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, which has two other nominations in production and costume design.