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'Lust, Caution'leads GoldenHorse awards

Ang Lee's (李安) spy thriller Lust, Caution (色，戒) is leading nominations for this year's Golden Horse Awards, organizers said Saturday.

His film Lust, Caution is nominated for 12 awards, including the coveted best director and best film, for the 44th awards to be handed out in a ceremony scheduled for Dec. 8.

Chinese actress Tang Wei (湯唯) plays a resistance spy in Lust, Caution who slowly falls for her target, a powerful political figure played by Tong Leung Chiu Wei (梁朝偉), in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the 1940s.

She is vying for the best leading actress award against film veteran Joan Chen (陳沖), The Home Song Stories (意), Li Bingbing (李冰冰), The Knot (雲水謠), and Yu Nan (余男), Tuya's Marriage (圖雅的婚事).

Leung is up for best leading actor and faces strong competition from fellow Hong Konger Aaron Kwok (郭富城), The Detective (C+偵探), China's Zhou Benshan (趙本山), Getting Home (落葉歸根), and Singapore's Gurmit Singh (葛米星), Just Follow the Law (我在政府部門的日子).

The film The Home Song Stories, which depicts the troubled love affair between a nightclub singer and an illegal Chinese immigrant in Australia, is nominated in seven categories, including best film and best supporting male actor.

Taiwan's pop music prince Jay Chou's (周杰倫) directorial debut Secret (不能說的:秘密) about a mysterious romance between two music students, follows closely with five nods.

Lee's film Lust, Caution, called Se, Jie in Chinese, is competing with The Home Song Stores, Tuya's Marriage, Getting Home and Qing Fei De Yi (情非得已之生存之道), directed by Taiwanese director Doze Niu (鈕承澤), for best film.

For the best director prize, Quanan Wang (王全安), Tuya's Marriage, Yau Nai-hoi (游乃海), Eye in the Sky (跟蹤), and Yang Li (李楊), Blind Mountain (盲山), will challenge the acclaimed Ang Lee.

The Golden Horse Awards are styled on the US Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, but are decided by a jury along the lines of the Cannes film festival.

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