Nominees in major categories at the new Asian Film Awards

A list of nominees in the major categories at the newAsian Film Awards to be presented in Hong Kong Tuesday:

Best film: "Curse of the Golden Flower" (China/Hong Kong), "Exiled" (Hong Kong), "The Host" (South Korea), "Love and Honor" (Japan), "Opera Jawa" (Austria/Indonesia), "Still Life" (China).

Best director: Hong Sang-soo, "Woman on the Beach," Jia Zhangke, "Still Life," Jafar Panahi, "Offside," Johnnie To, "Exiled," Tsai Ming-liang, "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone," Apichatpong Weerasethakul, "Syndromes and a Century."

Best actor: Chang Chen, "The Go Master," Rain, "I Am a Cyborg, But That's OK," Shah Rukh Khan, "Don," Andy Lau, "A Battle of Wits," Song Kang-ho, "The Host," Ken Watanabe, "Memories of Tomorrow."

Best actress: Gong Li, "Curse of the Golden Flower," Kim Hye-soo, "Tazza: The High Rollers," Lim Soo-jung, "I Am a Cyborg, But That's OK," Rie Miyazawa, "Hana," Miki Nakatani, "Memories of Matsuko," Zhang Ziyi, "The Banquet."

Lifetime achievement: Josephine Siao, David Bordwell, reports AP.