Park Chan-wook’s romantic thriller Choice to Depart emerged because the clear favourite when the 2023 Asian Movie Awards nominations had been unveiled Friday. The Korean maestro’s acclaimed characteristic, which received greatest director on the 2022 Cannes Movie Pageant and is shortlisted for an Oscar in one of the best worldwide movie class, scored 10 nominations, together with greatest movie, greatest director, greatest screenplay, and most of the main appearing and craft classes.

Choice to Depart will face off in one of the best movie class towards Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s 2022 Oscar winner Drive My Automobile, Kazakhstan movie Poet by Darezhan Omirbaev, India’s Ponniyin Selvan: I from Mani Ratnam, and the Philippines’ When the Waves Are Gone from Lav Diaz.

The Asian Movies Awards (AFA) had been inaugurated in 2007 and are organized by an academy established by the Hong Kong Worldwide Movie Pageant, the Busan pageant and the Tokyo pageant. Their remit is to honor the best achievements in cinema from throughout the varied filmmaking traditions of the Asia Pacific area. The 2023 Asian Movie Awards will probably be held in Hong Kong on March 12. For this 12 months’s ceremony, which can happen at Hong Kong’s new Palace Museum the evening earlier than the Filmart content material market makes its in-person return for the primary time because the begin of the pandemic, some 30 movies, produced in 22 completely different areas, will compete throughout 16 awards classes.

Chinese language director Zhang Yimou has been appointed because the jury president for the 2023 AFAs. Zhang, a Golden Bear winner in Berlin, a two-time Venice Golden Lion winner, and a winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, will lead a panel of seven movie figures from world wide to resolve on the winners of this 12 months’s awards.