Nominations Announced for the 12th Asian Film Awards

The Asian Film Awards Academy announced the nominations for the 12th Asian Film Awards (AFA) in Hong Kong today. For this edition, AFA received submissions from 26 countries and regions. Eighty-nine nominations were made for 17 awards, including the newly added Best New Director and Best Action Film. The nominations represent 32 films from 10 countries and regions. Japanese films and talents were nominated in 14 categories*, including a Best Film Award nomination for The Third Murder (Director: KORE-EDA Hirokazu), a Best Director Award nomination for Yuya ISHII for The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue, and a Best Actress Award nomination for Yu AOI for Birds Without Names.
*Full list of nominations.　⇒　PDF Download (763KB)

Photo from left; Roger GARCIA (The Executive Director of the AFA Academy), LEE Jung-Jin (The Student Ambassador of the AFA Academy), CHING Siu-Tung (The 12th AFA Jury President), Dr. Wilfred WONG Ying-wai (GBS, JP, Chairman of the Asian Film Awards Academy and the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society), Kara WAI Ying-Hung, Cherry NGAN Cheuk-Ling (The Student Ambassador of the AFA Academy), Josie LIN (General Manager of the AFA Academy), Fred WANG Cheung-yue (Board Member of the AFA Academy)

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17.01.2018 | Tokyo International Film Festival's blog

Cat. : AWARDS