Wong Kar Wai's 'The Grandmaster' Leads Taiwan's Golden Horse Nominations — hollywoodreporter.com

Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster dominates this year's list of nominees for Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, which were announced today in Taipei. The Hong Kong auteur's elegant work of martial arts hagiography earned 11 nominations, including best film, best director, best actor, best actress and best cinematography. Also making a strong showing is Chinese director Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin, which played to acclaim at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where it won the best screenplay award. Jia's multinarrative meditation on the violence and dehumanizing undercurrents of China's breakneck economic development earned six nominations, including best film, best director and best original screenplay.

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