2015 Chunsa Film Art Nominations Announced

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2015 Chunsa Film Art Nominations Announced

Mar 06, 2015

Writer by June Kim
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A HARD DAY Nominated in Four Categories

The Chunsa Film Art Awards is a domestically run event organized by the Korean Film Directors’ Association. It will be having its 19th edition on March 18th, at 6pm in the Seoul Press Center. The Chunsa Film Art Awards had paused operations after 2010 and this will be their first ceremony in four years. The event was first founded in 1937 to commemorate director NA Wun-kyu.

The awards categories include the Grand Prix (Best Director), Screenplay Award, Technical Award, Actor Award, Actress Award and Special Jury Award (New Director). Few films were nominated in multiple categories, with A Hard Day leading the pack. The film was nominated for the Grand Prix for director KIM Seong-hun, as well as the Screenplay, Actor and Technical prizes. Roaring Currents is a close second with three nominations in the Grand Prix, Actor and Technical sections. Ode to My Father, Haemoo, A Girl at My Door, Han Gong-ju and KUNDO: Age of the Rampant all have two nominations each.

From March 9th to the 15th, the jury members of the Chunsa Film Art Awards will screen the works until the Awards take place on March 18th.

Full list of nominations is listed below:

Grand Prix
How to Steal a Dog – KIM Sung-ho
Gyeong-ju – ZHANG Lu
A Hard Day - KIM Seong-hun
Roaring Currents – KIM Han-min
Hill of Freedom – HONG Sangsoo

Screenplay
Ode to My Father – PARK Su-jin
A Hard Day- KIM Seong-hun
C’est Si Bon – KIM Hyun-seok
The Whistleblower – LEE Chun-hyeong
Cart – KIM Kyung-chan

Actor
Ode to My Father – HWANG Jung-min
KUNDO: Age of the Rampant – HA Jung-woo
A Hard Day – LEE Sun-kyun
Roaring Currents – CHOI Min-shik
Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island – OH Dal-su

Actress
A Girl at My Door – BAE Doo-na
Cart – YUM Jung-ah
Han Gong-ju – CHUN Woo-hee
Haemoo – HAN Ye-ri

Technical
KUNDO: Age of the Rampant
A Hard Day
Roaring Currents
The Fatal Encounter
Haemoo
The Pirates

New Director
10 Minutes – LEE Yong-seung
Set Me Free – KIM Tae-yong
A Girl at My Door – July JUNG
The King of Jokgu – Woo Moon-gi
Han Gong-ju – LEE Su-jin

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