The nomination list for the 5th Chinese Movies Media Award was announced yesterday and A World Without Thieves comes out top against other movies as it garned 6 nominations, followed by 20.30.40 and Ke Ke Xi Li with 5 nominations, while Night in Mongkok, Love Battlefield and Thrown Down with 4 nominations.
The nominations that AWWT garned are Best Movie, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress and Best New Performer. Andy Lau's Best Actor nomination is in the Mainland China category as AWWT is the Chinese New Year movie in China.
The judging panel sing praise of Andy's breakthrough image with his outstanding performance as a "thief". As usual Andy's competitor is 2046's Tony Leung, Eason Chan and Liu Hua.
House of Flying Dagger's Zhang Yimou, 2046's Wong Kar Wai, AWWT's Feng Xiaogang and Kungful Hustle's Stephen Chow failed to garn nomination for the Best Director award, but Feng, Stephen and Andy were selected as Media's Respectable Movie Person.
news from: Ming Pao
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