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SINGAPORE – Singaporean actor Mark Lee competes for a Golden Horse award.
The 51-year-old comedian, a prolific Singaporean television and film host and actor with works such as Money No Enough (1998), received a Best Leading Actor award for his portrayal of drag queen in the No.1 family film. .
Nominations for the 57th edition of the prestigious film award, compared to the Chinese-language Film Academy Awards, were announced on Wednesday (September 30) in a ceremony broadcast live. The award ceremony will be held in Taipei on November 21.
Number 1, a film by local director Ong Kuo Sin, has yet to be released in theaters.
A surprised Lee says of the nomination in an Instagram story uploaded Wednesday night: “Thank you all, I have not fully come to my senses yet. I am already very happy to be nominated. Thank you to the judges of the Golden Horse Awards. for recognizing my work. “
According to previous reports in the Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao, Lee plays a fired CEO of a multinational company who finds his talent in drag acting and turns to it to earn a living for his family.
He will compete against Taiwanese actor Liu Kuan-ting in My Missing Valentine, a film nominated for 11 awards this year, and other actors such as Austin Lin in I WeirDo, Mo Tzu-yi in Dear Tenant and Lam Ka-tung in Hand Rolled. Cigarette.
A film from Taiwan-Singapore was also nominated at this year’s awards.
Precious Is The Night, a thriller set in 1960s Singapore starring model photographer Chuando Tan and Singaporean actors such as Tay Ping Hui and local veteran Xiang Yun and her daughter Chen Yixin, received two nominations.
The film is directed by Wayne Peng, a Taiwanese music video and documentary filmmaker, and produced by Singaporean Lim Sau Hoong. The husband and wife team had garnered attention when their documentary, Burning Dreams (2003), about a dance company in China, was nominated for three Golden Horse Awards.
Peng received a nod to cinematography, while Lim was nominated for best makeup and costume design.
The film is scheduled to open later this year in Singapore.
Local films have received more attention at the Golden Horse Awards in recent years. Anthony Chen’s family drama Ilo Ilo won Best Picture, Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress for Yeo Yann Yann in 2013.
Last year, Yeo Yann Yann won the Best Leading Actress award for her performance in Chen’s banned romantic film Wet Season. Yeo Siew Hua’s A Land Imagined won Best Original Score and Best Original Screenplay.
For a full list of nominations, visit this website.
This article was first published in The times of the strait. Permission is required for reproduction.
