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 CreativeThe Glory, NetflixLittle Women, Studio DragonThe Long Season, Tencent VideoMoving, The Walt Disney CompanySpecial Ops: Lioness, Paramount+ Korea Best OTT OriginalGet Rich, PCCW OTTThe Knock Out, iQiyi & CCTV 8Shadow Detective, The Walt Disney CompanyWave Makers, DaMou EntertainmentWeak Hero Class 1, Content Wavve Best Asian TV SeriesThe Black Yard, Salem Social MediaDelete, GDH 559 CompanyNot Others, KT StudiogenieScoop, NetflixTaiwan Crime Stories, Sixty Percent Productions, CalFilms & Imagine Entertainment Best Reality & VarietyBloody Game 2, Content WavveFood Chronicle, TVingLet’s Feast Vietnam, BHD Vietnam Media CorpOne At Heart, Jessica Soho: Wounds Of Woes, GMA NetworkOur Game : LG Twins, LG Uplus & Studio X+UPhysical: 100, NetflixSNL Korea Season 3 & 4, Coupang Play Best DirectorHan Jun-Hee – D.P.2, NetflixKanchiku Yuri – First Love, NetflixParkpoom Wongpoom – Delete, GDH 559 CompanyXin Shuang – The Long Season, Tencent Video Best WriterBakarhythm – Rebooting, Nippon TV Chung Seo Kyung – Little Women, Studio DragonKangfull – Moving, The Walt Disney CompanyKim Eun-Sook – The Glory, NetflixTaylor Sheridan – Special Ops: Lioness, Paramount+ Korea Best Lead ActorArjo Atayde – Cattleya Killer, ABS-CBNFan Wei – The Long Season, Tencent VideoNat Kitcharit – Delete, GDH 559 Company Ryu Seung Ryong – Moving, The Walt Disney CompanySatoh Takeru – First Love, NetflixYagira Yuya – Gannibal, The Walt Disney Company Best Lead ActressEmily Chan – The Patient, Astro MalaysiaKarishma Tanna – Scoop, NetflixRebecca Lim – Third Rail, Ochre PicturesSong Hye-Kyo – The Glory, NetflixZoe Saldana – Special Ops: Lioness, Paramount+ Korea Best Supporting ActorHsueh Shih-Ling – Taiwan Crime Stories, Sixty Percent Productions, Calfilms & Imagine EntertainmentJo Woo-Jin – Narco-Saints, NetflixNichkhun Horvejkul – Finding The Rainbow, PCCW OTTSometani Shota – Sanctuary, Netflix Best Supporting ActressBuffy Chen – Wave Makers, Damou EntertainmentCharlette Wasita Hermenau – Delete, GDH 559 CompanyGyeong Sujin – Shadow Detective, The Walt Disney CompanyKutsuna Shioli – Sanctuary, NetflixLim Ji-Yeon – The Glory, Netflix Best Newcomer ActorLee Jung Ha – Moving, The Walt Disney CompanyPark Jihoon – Weak Hero Class 1, Content WavvePrudtichai Ruayfupant M – Nobody’s Happy If I’m Not, BEC World Public CoWen Junhui – Exclusive Fairy Tale, iQiyi, Ningbo Three Magpies Culture Technology & Jiangsu Qijia Film & TV Culture Media Best Newcomer ActressGini Chang – Last Madame: Sisters Of The Night, Ochre PicturesGo Youn Jung – Moving, The Walt Disney CompanyLi Gengxi – The Long Season, Tencent Phantira Pipityakorn – Get Rich, PCCW OTTYagi Rikako – First Love, Netflix Best Visual EffectsBig Bet, The Walt Disney CompanyMoving, The Walt Disney CompanyThe Long Season, TencentThree-Body, Tencent
