KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 — Malaysian director Jin Ong’s award-winning Abang Adik obtained a powerful seven nominations at Taiwan’s upcoming sixtieth Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards.
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The prestigious awards, dubbed the Chinese Academy Awards, will happen from November 9 to 26 at the Sun-Yat sen Memorial Hall in Taipei.
Ong, 48, was nominated for Best New Director whereas actors Wu Kang Ren for and Jack Tan had been nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively.
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Other nominations embrace Tan Kim Wang for Best New Performer, Kartik Vijay for Best Cinematography, A Walk to Remember by Ryota Katayama for Best Original Film Song and Elaine Ng for Best Makeup & Costume Design.
“I used to be anticipating three nominations at most however seven was a giant shock,” mentioned Ong in an interview with eNews Malaysia. “I’m grateful for the popularity given by the jury.”
“Seven nominations may be very encouraging for our group, it’s proof we made a superb film,” mentioned Ong, including that the entire nominees will likely be in Taipei for the awards.
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Wu and Tan have been nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor and (from left) fellow nominees Tan Kim Wang, Elaine Ng, Ong and Katayama. — Pictures courtesy of Jin Ong
It’s the second time this yr that he’s been nominated for the perfect new director award, having been nominated and received at the Far East Film Festival in Italy.
“It’s a pleasure to be nominated for finest new director once more. I’m very grateful and new administrators want the popularity as a result of it’s an enormous milestone.”
Ong was additionally happy to announce that Abang Adik is scheduled for launch in Malaysia on December 14 with its premiere in Taiwan on December 1 and Hong Kong on December 7, respectively.
Earlier this yr, Abang Adik received the Best Performance award at China’s FIRST Film Festival in July, adopted by viewers and jury awards at Switzerland’s Fribourg International Film Festival in March and a record-breaking three awards at Italy’s Far East Film Festival in March.
In August, Abang Adik turned the primary Malaysian film to win Best Feature Film at the New York Asian Film Festival.
Ong, a Taiping-born veteran of the Malaysian Chinese leisure trade, has been producing movies since 2014 together with Shuttle Life, The Gathering, In My Heart, Miss Andy and The Paradise.
