2nd Asian Film Awards
The 2nd Asian Film Awards were given in a ceremony on 17 March 2008 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre as part of the Hong Kong International Film Festival.
The top winner was Secret Sunshine from South Korea, which won Best Film, Best Director for Lee Chang-dong and Best Actress for Jeon Do-yeon. Secret Sunshine had been nominated for four awards.
The top nominees were Lust, Caution by Ang Lee and The Warlords by Peter Chan, both with six nominations each. Tony Leung Chiu Wai, star of Lust, Caution won Best Actor, while The Warlords won the award for best visual effects.
The Sun Also Rises by Jiang Wen had five nominations, and it won the prize for Best Supporting Actress, Joan Chen, who was also nominated for best actress for The Home Song Stories.
Japan's I Just Didn't Do It had four nominations.
For this year, the awards categories were expanded from 10 to 12 to include nominations for best supporting actor and best supporting actress.
The awards were sponsored by Mission Hills Golf Club.Controversy
A reported Chinese media ban kept Lust, Caution lead actress Tang Wei from attending the ceremony.Winners and nominees
Best Film
- Winner: Secret Sunshine
- *Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
- *I Just Didn't Do It
- *Lust, Caution
- *The Sun Also Rises
- *The Warlords
Best Director
- Winner: Lee Chang-dong, Secret Sunshine
- *Peter Chan, The Warlords
- *Jiang Wen, The Sun Also Rises
- *Ang Lee, Lust, Caution
- *Masayuki Suo, I Just Didn't Do It
- *Zhang Lu, Desert Dream
Best Actor
- Winner: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Lust, Caution
- *Jack Kao, God Man Dog
- *Ryō Kase, I Just Didn't Do It
- *Jet Li, The Warlords
- *Joe Odagiri,
- *Song Kang-ho, Secret Sunshine''
Best Actress
- Winner: Jeon Do-yeon, Secret Sunshine
- *Joan Chen, The Home Song Stories
- *Kiki Kirin,
- *Yunjin Kim, Seven Days
- *Deepika Padukone, Om Shanti Om
- *Tang Wei, Lust, Caution
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner:Sun Honglei, Mongol
- *Chun Ho-jin, Skeletons in the Closet
- *Kaoru Kobayashi, '
- *Mario Maurer, The Love of Siam
- *Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, '
- Winner: Joan Chen, The Sun Also Rises
- *Gong Hyo-jin, Happiness
- *Kim Hye-soo, Skeletons in the Closet
- *Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Ploy
- *Hiroko Yakushimaru, ''
Best Screenwriter
- Winner: Au Kin-Yee and Wai Ka-Fai, Mad Detective
- *Im Sang-soo, The Old Garden
- *Peng Tao, Little Moth
- *James Schamus and Wang Hui-Ling, Lust, Caution
- *Suo Masayuki, I Just Didn't Do It
Best Cinematographer
- Winner: Liao Pen-jung, Help Me Eros
- *Hooman Behmanesh, Those Three
- *Chankit Chamnivikaipong, Ploy
- *Shanker Raman, Frozen
- *Arthur Wong, The Warlords''
Best Production Designer
- Winner: Cao Jiuping and Zhang Jian Qun, The Sun Also Rises
- *Kim Yu-jeong and Lee Min-bok, Epitaph
- *Iwaki Namiko, Sakuran
- *Pisut Pariwattanakit and Thanakorn Pongsuwan, Opapatika
- *Tsai Ming-liang, Help Me Eros
Best Composer
- Winner: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani, Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, Om Shanti Om, India
- *The August Band, Flure, Witwisit Hirunwongkul, Chukiat Sakweerakul and Passakorn Wiroonsup, The Love of Siam
- *Alexandre Desplat, Lust, Caution
- *Xiao He, Mid-Afternoon Barks
- *Ringo Shiina, Sakuran''
Best Editor
- Winner: David M. Richardson, Eye in the Sky
- *Charliebebs Gohetia, Slingshot
- *Shogo Hirasawa, Maiko Haaaan!!!
- *Lee Eun-soo, The Old Garden
- *Wenders Li, The Warlords''
- Winner: Ng Yuen Fai, The Warlords
- *Hyung Rae Shim, D-War
- *Thomas Duval, The Sun Also Rises
- *Seshita Hiroyuki, Dainipponjin
- *Takashi Yamazaki,
