Disney’s Korean superhero thriller Moving heads the nominations for this year’s Asia Content Awards at Busan International Film Festival with nods in six categories, followed by Tencent Video’s The Long Season with five nods.
Moving picked up nominations for best creative, best writer (Kang Full), three acting categories and best visual effects. Crime thriller The Long Season was also nominated for best creative, along with best director (Xin Shuang), two acting categories and best visual effects.
Netflix’s The Glory and Delete, from Thailand’s GDH 559 Company, also scored highly, racking up four nominations apiece (see full list below).
Busan’s awards to recognise streaming and TV content, now known as the Asia Content Awards and Global OTT Awards, recently joined forces with the International OTT Festival, hosted by Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and Busan Metropolitan City, to open up its nominations to global content. As a result, the awards categories have increased from 12 to 17, across both competitive and non-competitive categories.
Nominees in the newly added Best Reality & Variety category include Netflix’s Physical: 100 and Let’s Feast Vietnam, the latter produced by BHD Vietnam Media Corp, as well as the Korean version of Saturday Night Live, SNL Korea, which streams on Coupang Play. Shows from Korean streamers & telcos Wavve, TVing and LG Uplus, as well as the Philippines GMA Network, are also nominated in this category.
The nominations jury commented: “In the process of narrowing down the field from over 200 submissions to around 30 finalists, it was challenging to exclude many outstanding works. This year, the influence of global OTT platforms like Netflix and Disney+ remained significant. We made careful efforts in the judging process to maintain a balance with the remarkable local contents from various Asian countries.”
The 2023 Asia Content Awards & Global OTT Awards will be held at Busan Cinema Center on October 8.
2023 Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Nominees:
Best Creative
The Glory, Netflix
Little Women, Studio Dragon
The Long Season, Tencent Video
Moving, The Walt Disney Company
Special Ops: Lioness, Paramount+ Korea
Best OTT Original
Get Rich, PCCW OTT
The Knock Out, iQiyi & CCTV 8
Shadow Detective, The Walt Disney Company
Wave Makers, DaMou Entertainment
Weak Hero Class 1, Content Wavve
Best Asian TV Series
The Black Yard, Salem Social Media
Delete, GDH 559 Company
Not Others, KT Studiogenie
Scoop, Netflix
Taiwan Crime Stories, Sixty Percent Productions, CalFilms & Imagine Entertainment
Best Reality & Variety
Bloody Game 2, Content Wavve
Food Chronicle, TVing
Let’s Feast Vietnam, BHD Vietnam Media Corp
One At Heart, Jessica Soho: Wounds Of Woes, GMA Network
Our Game : LG Twins, LG Uplus & Studio X+U
Physical: 100, Netflix
SNL Korea Season 3 & 4, Coupang Play
Best Director
Han Jun-Hee – D.P.2, Netflix
Kanchiku Yuri – First Love, Netflix
Parkpoom Wongpoom – Delete, GDH 559 Company
Xin Shuang – The Long Season, Tencent Video
Best Writer
Bakarhythm – Rebooting, Nippon TV
Chung Seo Kyung – Little Women, Studio Dragon
Kangfull – Moving, The Walt Disney Company
Kim Eun-Sook – The Glory, Netflix
Taylor Sheridan – Special Ops: Lioness, Paramount+ Korea
Best Lead Actor
Arjo Atayde – Cattleya Killer, ABS-CBN
Fan Wei – The Long Season, Tencent Video
Nat Kitcharit – Delete, GDH 559 Company
Ryu Seung Ryong – Moving, The Walt Disney Company
Satoh Takeru – First Love, Netflix
Yagira Yuya – Gannibal, The Walt Disney Company
Best Lead Actress
Emily Chan – The Patient, Astro Malaysia
Karishma Tanna – Scoop, Netflix
Rebecca Lim – Third Rail, Ochre Pictures
Song Hye-Kyo – The Glory, Netflix
Zoe Saldana – Special Ops: Lioness, Paramount+ Korea
Best Supporting Actor
Hsueh Shih-Ling – Taiwan Crime Stories, Sixty Percent Productions, Calfilms & Imagine Entertainment
Jo Woo-Jin – Narco-Saints, Netflix
Nichkhun Horvejkul – Finding The Rainbow, PCCW OTT
Sometani Shota – Sanctuary, Netflix
Best Supporting Actress
Buffy Chen – Wave Makers, Damou Entertainment
Charlette Wasita Hermenau – Delete, GDH 559 Company
Gyeong Sujin – Shadow Detective, The Walt Disney Company
Kutsuna Shioli – Sanctuary, Netflix
Lim Ji-Yeon – The Glory, Netflix
Best Newcomer Actor
Lee Jung Ha – Moving, The Walt Disney Company
Park Jihoon – Weak Hero Class 1, Content Wavve
Prudtichai Ruayfupant M – Nobody’s Happy If I’m Not, BEC World Public Co
Wen Junhui – Exclusive Fairy Tale, iQiyi, Ningbo Three Magpies Culture Technology & Jiangsu Qijia Film & TV Culture Media
Best Newcomer Actress
Gini Chang – Last Madame: Sisters Of The Night, Ochre Pictures
Go Youn Jung – Moving, The Walt Disney Company
Li Gengxi – The Long Season, Tencent
Phantira Pipityakorn – Get Rich, PCCW OTT
Yagi Rikako – First Love, Netflix
Best Visual Effects
Big Bet, The Walt Disney Company
Moving, The Walt Disney Company
The Long Season, Tencent
Three-Body, Tencent
