‘Grandmaster’ sweeps Asian Film Awards
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MARTIAL arts fantasy “The Grandmaster” dominated the Asian Film Awards on Thursday with seven wins including best movie, as its emotional director mourned the film’s stuntman who was on the missing Malaysian jetliner.
India’s “The Lunchbox” was the only other film to win multiple prizes at the star-studded event at Macau’s City of Dreams casino resort, winning awards for best actor and screenwriter.
“The Grandmaster,” inspired by the life of Yip Man — mentor of legendary kung fu star Bruce Lee — scooped awards in most other big categories, including best director for Wong Kar-wai and best actress for Zhang Ziyi.
Wong used his acceptance speech to ask Malaysia for greater transparency in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which went missing on March 8 with 239 people on board. Most of the passengers were Chinese heading for Beijing.
Stuntman Ju Kun, 35, was en route to visit his family.
“The Grandmaster,” a stylized martial arts epic which was in production for more than six years, spans several decades of and features lengthy battles between rival kung fu masters.
Wang called making the film an “adventure.”
“It started as a dream, later it became an obsession and finally reality,” he said.
But Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai, who plays the eponymous “Grandmaster” lost the best actor award to India’s Irrfan Khan, who played a lead role in “The Lunchbox.”
“The Lunchbox” serves up a bittersweet romance between two strangers in Mumbai brought together by mistaken lunch deliveries.
Twenty-six films from 13 countries and regions vied for 14 prizes this year.
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