KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian film Abang Adik has been nominated the Best Asian Chinese Language Film at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA).
British entertainment portal Screen Daily reported yesterday that the Jin Ong-directed movie is up against four other productions The Pig, The Snake And The Pigeon, No More Bets, Full River Red and Marry My Dead Body.
The movie's main actor Wu Kang-Ren, however, missed out on the nomination for Best Actor despite beating Tony Leung for the award given by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.
Leung was nominated for his role in The Goldfinger at HKFA, which will be held on April 14 at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
Lawrence Kan's newsroom drama In Broad Daylight received 16 nominations, the highest number this year.
The movie, which follows an undercover journalist who exposes the abuse of residents in a nursing home, was nominated in all but three of the 19 categories.
HKFA chairman Derek Yee said 50 films had been considered for the nominations, up from last year's 33, while the number of new directors had increased to 20.