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HK films expected to win big at Golden Horse
2003-12-12
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Hong Kong movies are expected to dominate Saturday night at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, the premiere annual competition for Chinese-language films.One of the favorites is ``Infernal Affairs,'' a tale about cops and gangsters starring about a half dozen of Hong Kong's most popular actors and pop stars. The film has been nominated for 12 awards, including best film, director, actor and cinematography. After the Golden Horse Awards, ``Infernal Affairs'' hopes to compete in the Oscars. The Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong has asked the Academy Awards to include the movie - directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak - in the foreign-language category. Hollywood studio Warner Brothers has bought the movie's remake rights, and Brad Pitt has been named as one of the film's possible stars. The movie's closest Golden Horse competitor is expected to be another Hong Kong crime thriller, ``PTU,'' named after the Chinese territory's Police Tactical Unit. The plot covers one night in the life of a team of police serving in the unit. Directed by Johnnie To, ``PTU'' has been nominated for 11 awards. Its leading actor, Simon Yam, has a shot at the best actor award. Yam appeared earlier this year as a villain in ``Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.'' But Yam is going up against two ``Infernal Affairs'' mega stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai who plays an undercover police officer, and Andy Lau, who stars as a mafia infiltrator in the police. Although Taiwan is hosting the Golden Horse Awards in the southern city of Tainan, the island's own movie industry is still struggling to produce quality films. But at least two Taiwanese movies have a shot at winning something. Tsai Ming-liang's ``Goodbye, Dragon Inn,'' the story of a dying movie theater, has been nominated in five categories. And ``The Missing,'' a tale about a grandmother who loses her grandson in a park directed by Lee Kang-sheng, has been listed in four categories. Both are being considered for the best-film prize. Other nominees for best film include China's ``Blind Shaft,'' a story about murder and corruption in the mining industry. The movie has won awards at film festivals in Berlin, Hong Kong, and at New York's Tribeca Film Fest. AP
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