Asian Film Awards: Lead Nominations “Decided to Leave” and “Drive My Car”

Park Chan-wook’s stylish crime drama decided to go leads the nominations for this year’s Asian Film Awards with a whopping 10 nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture.

The film’s impressive nominations also include nominations for best screenplay and acting nominations for leads Park Hae-il and Tang Wei, as well as overall credit for cinematography, editing, music and production design.

decided to go follows a detective (Park Hae-il) investigating the death of a man in the mountains when he meets the dead man’s mysterious wife, a suspect in the case, and begins a complicated relationship. The film opened in Cannes, where Park won the prize for best director. Korea also submitted the film as an entry for the international Oscar race.

Japanese filmmaker Hamaguchi Ryusuke drive my car routes with eight nominations. The epic road movie also debuted at Cannes, but in 2021. Elsewhere, Hirokazu Koreeda received a Best Director nomination for his latest film Real estate agentand Saim Sadiq was nominated in the Best New Director for Pakistani Drama category joy land.

This year, Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou will be the chairman of the jury of the Asian Film Awards. Zhang, a two-time Venice Golden Lion winner, succeeds Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong in the role. Zhang’s jury consists of seven other members from around the world who will determine the winners in each category.

A total of 30 films produced in 22 regions received 81 nominations in 16 categories for this year’s awards ceremony, which returns to Hong Kong after two consecutive years in Busan, Korea. The event will take place on March 12 at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Auditorium in the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

Here is the full list of nominations:

Best movie
decided to go
drive my car
poet
Ponniyin Selvan: Part I
When the waves are gone

dear director
KORE-EDA Hirokazu
PARK Chanwook
HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke
Darezhan OMIRBAYEV
Davy CHO

Best actor
PARK Hae-il
NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi
SUZUKI Ryohei
ZHANGYi
Mohsen TANABANDEH
Tony LEUNG Chiu Wai

Best actress
Sylvia CHANG
Karena LAM
Having fun at SALMA
TANG White
BAISHO Chieko

Best Supporting Actor
Okada Masaki
Miyazawa Hello
IM Sivan
Oh Kwang Rock
HUI Nice man

Best Supporting Actress
ANDO Sakura
Laura BASUKI
Kim So Jin
YIN Tao
KAWAII Yumi

Best New Director
Makbul Mubarak
Say SADIQ
Jimmy Trinley
HAYAKAWA Chie
Kim Se-in

best freshmen
Louise WANG
LEE Ji Eun
YANG And you
PARK Ji-min
MAK Pui Tung

Best screenplay
Makbul Mubarak
CHUNG Seo-kyung, PARK Chan-wook
HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke, OE Takamasa
LIU Jiangjiang, YU Min
Act DIAZ

Best editing
Kim Sang-beom
YAMAZAKI Azusa
ZHU Lin, YONG Wei and GAO Qiongjiali
Sreekar PRASAD
Dounia Sykhov

Best cinematography
Batara GUMPER
Kim Ji Yong
LU Songye
URATA Hideho
Ravi VARMAN

Best Original Music
CHO Young Wuk
ISHIBASHI Eiko
AR RAHMAN
Jeremie ARCACHE, Christophe MUSSET
Bahman GHOBADI, Vedat YILDIRIM

Best Costume Design
RYU Hyun-min, OH Jung-geun
Karen YIP, Dora NG
Retno Ratih DAMAYANTI
SHINOSUKA Nami
Eka LAKHANI

Best Production Design
Vida Sylvia Teresa
RYU Seonghee
LI Miao
Thota THARANI
Bill LUI, Andrew WONG

Best visual effects
YOUNG Seung-oh
ZHANG fan
Sriniva MOHAN
SATO Atsuki
Chas CHAU, LION Wai Kit, KWOK Tai

best sounds
Tu Duu Chih
Kim Suk won
NOMURA Miki, OBO Tatsuya
Vincent VILLA
Ashwin Rajashekar