Nominees for the Asian Film Awards 2011

The nominees for the fifth Asian Film Awards have been announced in Hong Kong.

Confessions and Let the Bullets Fly lead the field with six nominations each.

Thirteen Assassins and Monga each received five nominations, while Aftershock and The Yellow Sea had four each.

Here are the nominees:

best film-

Aftershock (China/HK)
Confessions (Japan)
Let the Bullets Fly [China/HK]
Peepli Live (India)
Poetry (South Korea)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand)


best director-

Feng Xiaogang for Aftershock
Nakashima Tetsuya for Confessions
Jiang Wen for Let the Bullets Fly
Lee Chang-dong for Poetry
Miike Takashi for Thirteen Assassins (Japan/UK)
Na Hong-jin for The Yellow Sea (South Korea)


best screenwriter-

Jiang Wen for Let the Bullets Fly
Pang Ho-cheung and Heiward Mak for Love in a Puff (HK)
Lee Chang-dong for Poetry
Su Chao-pin for Reign of Assassins (China/HK/Taiwan)
Park Hoon-jung in The Unjust (South Korea)


best actor-

Chow Yun-fat in Let the Bullets Fly
Ge You in Sacrifice (China)
Ha Jung-woo in The Yellow Sea
Ethan Ruan in Monga (Taiwan)
Yakusho Koji in Thirteen Assassins


best actress-

Jeon Do-yeon in The Housemaid (South Korea)
Kikuchi Rinko in Norwegian Wood (Japan)
Matsu Takako in Confessions
Xu Fan in Aftershock
Michelle Yeoh in Reign of Assassins (China/HK/Taiwan)


best supporting actor-

Huang Xiaoming in Sacrifice (China)
Sammo Hung in Ip Man 2 (HK)
Okada Masaki in Confessions
Ryu Seung-beom in The Unjust (South Korea)
Yu Hae-jin in Moss (South Korea)


best supporting actress-

Aoi Yu in About Her Brother (Japan)
Kimura Yoshino in Confessions (Japan)
Carina Lau in Let the Bullets Fly
Shanty Paredes in Madame X (Indonesia)
Yoon Yeo-jeong in The Housemaid (South Korea)


best cinematographer-

Lee Mogae for I Saw the Devil (South Korea)
Jake Pollock for Monga
Mark Lee for Norwegian Wood
Hassan Kydyraliyev for The Light Thief (Kyrgyzstan)
Kenny Tse for The Stool Pigeon (HK)


best editor-

Yamashita Kenji for Thirteen Assassins
Koike Yoshiyuki for Confessions
Nam Na-young for I Saw the Devil
Hemanti Sarkar for Peepli Live
Meng Peicong for Under the Hawthorn Tree (China/HK)


best production designer-

Hayashida Yuji for Thirteen Assassins
James Choo for Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (China/HK)
Eros Eflin for Madame X (Indonesia)
Max Huang and Chen Po-jen for Monga
Lee Hwo-kyung for The Yellow Sea (South Korea)


best composer-

Saito Kazuyoshi for Golden Slumber (Japan)
Sandee Chan for Monga
Indian Ocean for Peepli Live
Peter Kam for Reign of Assassins
Jang Young-kyu and Lee Byung-hoon for The Yellow Sea


best costume designer-

Sawataishi Kazuhiro for Thirteen Assassins
Bruce Yu for Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
William Chang for Let the Bullets Fly
Yen Khe Luguern for Norwegian Wood
Choi Se-yeon for The Housemaid


best visual effects-

Lee Hyuk, Park Eui-dong and Ryu Hee-jung for 71 - Into the Fire (South Korea)
Phil Jones for Aftershock
Phil Jones for Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Yamazaki Takashi and Space Battleship Yamato for SPACE BATTLESHIP (Japan)
Park Jung-ryul for The Man from Nowhere (Japan)


best newcomer-

Mark Chao for Monga
Aarif Lee for Echoes of the Rainbow (HK)
Omkar Das Manikpuri for Peepli Live
T.O.P. (aka Choi Seung-hyun) for 71 - Into the Fire
Zhou Dongyu for Under the Hawthorn Tree


The jury is comprised of 13 members, headed by director Yonfan (from Hong Kong).

The awards will be presented on March 21 in Hong Kong.