OSO, TZP, Mahek nominated for top honours at APSA
Farah Khan’s blockbuster Om Shanti Om, Aamir Khan’s directorial debut Taare Zameen Par and Kranti Kanade’s Mahek have been nominated for top awards at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2008.
In the individual categories, actor-director Rajat Kapoor has been nominated in the Best Actor category for his performance in Pryas Gupte’s The Prisoner (he won the best actor award at the 10th Osian’s Cinefan this year for this film), while Kiiran Deohans has been nominated in the Achievement in Cinematography category for his work in Jodhaa Akbar.
Here are all the nominations – and as one goes through them, one realises the formidable competition OSO is up against! – Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan), Sparrow (Johnnie To) and Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy).
BEST FEATURE FILM
“The Red Awn” (Hong Se Kang Bai Yin) Cai Shangjun (China)
“Sparrow” (Man Jeuk) Johnnie To (Hong Kong)
“Om Shanti Om” Farah Khan (India)
“Tulpan” Sergei Dvortsevoy (Kazakhstan/Russia/ Switzerland/Poland/Germany)
“Three Monkeys” (Uc maymun) Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey/France/Italy)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“If You Were Me: Anima Vision 2″ (Byul-byul Yi-ya-gi 2: Yeo-seot-bit-ggal Mu-ji-gae) (South Korea)
“Sword of the Stranger” (Stranger Mukoh Hadan) (Japan)
“Waltz with Bashir” (Vals im Bashir) (Israel/France/Germany)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
“33 Days” (33 Yaoum) (Lebanon/Qatar)
“63 Years On” (Ggeutnaji Anhmeun Jeon Jaeng) (South Korea)
“Kantata Takwa” (Indonesia)
“Rain of the Children” (New Zealand)
“Tinar” (Iran)
BEST CHILDREN’S FEATURE FILM
“The Black Balloon” (Australia)
“Mahek” (India)
” Philippine Science” (Pisay) (Philippines)
“King Siri” (Siri Raja Siri)
Produced by Renuka Balasooriya, Somaratne Dissanayake (Sri Lanka)
Taare Zameen Par (India)
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Kim Jee-woon for “The Good, The Bad, The Weird” (Joheunnon nabbeunnom isanghannom) (Korea)
Johnnie To for “Sparrow” (Hong Kong)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa for “Tokyo Sonata” (Japan/The Netherlands/Hong Kong)
Sergey Dvortsevoy for “Tulpan” (Kazakhstan/Russia/Switzerland-Poland-Germany)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for “Three Monkeys” Turkey/France/Italy)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Hong Sang-soo for Night and Day” (Bam guan at) (South Korea)
Suha Arraf and Eran Riklis for “Lemon Tree” (Etz Limon) (Israel/France/Germany)
Dervis Zaim for “Dot” (Nokta) (Turkey)
Behnam Behzadi for “Before the Burial” (Tanha do bar zendegui mikonim) (Iran)
Max Mannix, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Sachiko Tanaka for “Tokyo Sonata” (Japan/The Netherlands/Hong Kong)
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Lee Mogae for “The Good, The Bad, The Weird” (Joheunnon Nabbeunnom Isanghannom) (Korea)
Kiiran Deohans for “Jodhaa Akbar” (India)
Cheng Siu-keung for “Sparrow” (Hong Kong)
Oleg Kirichenko for “Mermaid” (Russia)
Gokhan Tiryaki for “Three Monkeys” (Turkey/France/Italy)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
Omarbekova Nesipkul for “Native Dancer” (Baksy) (Kazakhstan/Russia/France/Germany)
Hiam Abbass for “Lemon Tree” (Etz Limon) (Israel/France/Germany)
Akie Namiki for “United Red Army” (Jitsuroku Rengo Sekigun: Asama Sanso Eno Michi) (Japan)
Miao Pu for “Cherries” (Ying Tao) (China)
Daria Moroz for “Live and Remember” (Zhivi I pomni) (Russia)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Reza Naji for “The Song of Sparrows” (Avaze Gonjeshk-ha) (Iran)
Kim Yoon-suk for “The Chaser” (Chugyeogja) (South Korea)
Simon Yam for “Sparrow” (Man Jeuk) (Hong Kong)
Rajat Kapoor for “The Prisoner” (India)
Alireza Aghakhani for “Before the Burial” (Tanha do bar zendegui mikonim) (Iran)
PS: Asia Pacific Screen Awards were instituted last year to honour cinematic excellence in the whole region – from Australia to Turkey and everthing in between. Over 180 films from 43 countries were entered for the awards this year, out of which this nomination list has been annoucned.
Tags: aamir khan, Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Farah Khan, Jodhaa Akbar, Kiiran Deohans, Kranti Kanade, Mahek, Om Shanti Om, rajat kapoor, Taare Zameen Par, The Prisoner
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Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
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Pankaj Advani
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OSO????? Someone please help!
OSO in Best Movie???? Thank god, at least Deepika Padukone was not nominated for Best Actress.
sad to see no Indian documentary in the listings.
The same set of people chose TZP who also chose OSO too? Were they drugged when shown OSO?
i find it strange that none has written an article here in relation to TZP getting selected for oscar…
the funniest thing i find that is suneel darshan heads the selection committie.. theretard who made movies like dhadkan..
just sick