On Saturday, May 28th, join Hollywood stars and industry professionals Peter Kwong (Big Trouble in Little China), Hudson Yang (Fresh off the Boat) and Albert Tsai (Dr. Ken), digital entrepreneur Joz Wang (CEO, 8Asians.com), and Baldwin (Only Won) Chiu (Finding Cleveland) in discussing the past, present and future progress of Asian American representation, at the “Rise and Represent” panel at the 2016 Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival, co-presented by Asian American Journalists Association – Sacramento Chapter. The panel will be held at The Guild Theater, 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA 95817 at 5:00pm.
Over 30 films will be featured at The 2016 Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival, which runs May 27 – 28, 2016. Click below for the full lineup.
Included with the Full Festival Pass, attend the Rise and Represent panel, along with all Special Presentations, and all Official Selections.
Ticket purchasers may buy either a Full Festival Pass for access both days; all day Friday (3PM – 10:30PM); all day Saturday (11AM – 10:30AM); Half-Day Saturday day (11AM-4:30PM), or Half-Day Saturday evening (5PM -10:30PM). Click here purchase a full festival pass or tickets.
General FFP: $50
Students/Seniors FFP: $25
Students may be requested to provide a valid student ID. Seniors are 62 years young and up.
Visit www.SAPFF.org for tickets and complete 2016 Festival Schedule! Learn more about AAJA Sacramento at aajasacramento.org.
The signature event of the Sacramento Asian Pacific Cultural Village, SAPFF serves alongside a continuum of events and programming in support of traditional and contemporary Asian and Pacific Islander artistic expression within the Sacramento Region. Since 2013, SAPFF has been a champion of independent films featuring the works of Asian Pacific Islanders in front of and behind the camera.
For more information about the Sacramento Asian Pacific Cultural Village, the Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival, or to see how you can get involved send an email to info@SAPFF.org, or call (916) 776-6036.
Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.
Lia Chang. Photo by Garth Kravits
Lia Chang is an actor, a multi-media content producer and co-founder of Bev’s Girl Films, making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. Bev’s Girl Films’ debut short film, Hide and Seek was a top ten film in the Asian American Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition, and she received a Best Actress nomination. BGF collaborates with and produces multi-media content for artists, actors, designers, theatrical productions, composers, musicians and corporations. Lia is also an internationally published and exhibited photographer, a multi-platform journalist, and a publicist. Lia has appeared in the filmsWolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and Hide and Seek. She is profiled in Examiner.com, Jade Magazine and Playbill.com.
Congratulations to BD Wong, Aziz Ansari, Randall Park, Constance Wu and Oscar Isaac on their 2016 Critics’ Choice Award nominations in the Television category.
The Critics’ Choice Awards are the newly combined honors from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Journalists Association. The winners of the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards will be announced at the Sunday, January 17th awards gala, hosted by T.J. Miller at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. It will broadcast live on A&E (8/7c), Lifetime and LMN.
BD Wong as White Rose on Mr Robot. credit: USA Network
Wong’s turn as White Rose in the USA Network’s Mr. Robot has garnered him a Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series nod. Over the summer, he reprised his role as Dr. Wu in the blockbuster Jurassic World, which has been nominated for Best Action Movie, Best Sci-Fi Horror Movie, Best Visual Effects, Best Actor in an Action Movie (Chris Pratt) and Best Actress in an Action Movie (Bryce Dallas Howard) in the Film category. Wong has been shooting the FOX Bat-prequel Gotham portraying the iconic Bat-foe Hugo Strange, a brilliant professor and psychiatrist tapped to head up Gotham City’s notorious Arkham Asylum.
Constance Wu and Randall Park in ABC’s ‘Fresh Off the Boat’. Credit: ABC
Fresh Off the Boat‘s Randall Park will go head to head in the Best Actor in a Comedy Series with Master of None‘s Aziz Ansari, who also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Musical or Comedy Park’s Fresh Off the Boat co-star Constance Wu has been nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
Aziz Ansari
Oscar Isaac, who starred as Nick Wasicsko in HBO’s Show Me A Hero, won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television last Sunday, and is nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actor in a Movie made for Television or Limited Series. Show Me A Hero has also been nominated for Best Movie Made for Television or Limited Series and Best Supporting Actress in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series (Winona Ryer).
The Guatemalan-American actor and singer received his first Golden Globe nomination for his starring role in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and is know for his lead roles in A Most Violent Year (2014) and Ex Machina (2015), which has been nominated for Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie, Best Original Screenplay (Alex Garland) and Best Visual Effects.
Oscar Isaac. Photo by Lia Chang
Isaac stars as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron in the seventh Star Wars film – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), and in 2016, can be seen in the ninth X-Men film, X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), as the titular supervillain Apocalypse.
Peter Sohn’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’
Other nominations of note include Peter Sohn’s The Good Dinosaur (Best Animated Feature), The Assassins (Best Foreign Language Film), and Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto (Best Score) for The Revenant.
Congratulations to all of the nominees.
TELEVISION BEST DRAMA SERIES Empire Mr. Robot Penny Dreadful Rectify The Knick The Leftovers UnREAL
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Hugh Dancy – Hannibal
Rami Malek – Mr. Robot
Clive Owen – The Knick
Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan
Justin Theroux – The Leftovers
Aden Young – Rectify
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Shiri Appleby – UnREAL
Carrie Coon – The Leftovers
Viola Davis – How to Get Away With Murder
Eva Green – Penny Dreadful
Taraji P. Henson – Empire
Krysten Ritter – Jessica Jones
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Clayne Crawford – Rectify
Christopher Eccleston – The Leftovers
Andre Holland – The Knick
Jonathan Jackson – Nashville
Rufus Sewell – The Man in the High Castle
Christian Slater – Mr. Robot
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Ann Dowd – The Leftovers
Regina King – The Leftovers
Helen McCrory – Penny Dreadful
Hayden Panettiere – Nashville
Maura Tierney – The Affair
Constance Zimmer – UnREAL
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Richard Armitage – Hannibal
Justin Kirk – Manhattan
Patti LuPone – Penny Dreadful
Margo Martindale – The Good Wife
Marisa Tomei – Empire
BD Wong – Mr. Robot
BEST COMEDY SERIES black-ish Catastrophe Jane the Virgin Master of None The Last Man on Earth Transparent You’re the Worst
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Anthony Anderson – black-ish
Aziz Ansari – Master of None
Will Forte – The Last Man on Earth
Randall Park – Fresh Off the Boat
Fred Savage – The Grinder
Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Rachel Bloom — Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Aya Cash — You’re the Worst
Wendi McLendon-Covey — The Goldbergs
Gina Rodriguez — Jane the Virgin
Tracee Ellis Ross — black-ish
Constance Wu — Fresh Off the Boat
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Andre Braugher – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Jaime Camil – Jane the Virgin
Jay Duplass – Transparent
Neil Flynn – The Middle
Keegan-Michael Key – Playing House
Mel Rodriguez – Getting On
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Mayim Bialik – The Big Bang Theory
Kether Donohue – You’re the Worst
Allison Janney – Mom
Judith Light – Transparent
Niecy Nash – Getting On
Eden Sher – The Middle
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ellen Burstyn – Mom
Anjelica Huston – Transparent
Cherry Jones – Transparent
Jenifer Lewis – black-ish
Timothy Olyphant — The Grinder
John Slattery – Wet Hot American Summer
BEST ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Kathy Bates – American Horror Story: Hotel
Kirsten Dunst – Fargo
Sarah Hay – Flesh and Bone
Alyvia Alyn Lind – Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors
Rachel McAdams – True Detective
Shanice Williams – The Wiz Live!
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES Childhood’s End Fargo Luther Saints & Strangers Show Me a Hero The Wiz Live!
BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Wes Bentley — American Crime Story: Hotel
Martin Clunes —Arthur & George
Idris Elba — Luther
Oscar Isaac —Show Me a Hero
Vincent Kartheiser — Saints & Strangers
Patrick Wilson — Fargo
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
David Alan Grier – The Wiz Live!
Ne-Yo – The Wiz Live!
Nick Offerman – Fargo
Jesse Plemons – Fargo
Raoul Trujillo – Saints & Strangers
Bokeem Woodbine – Fargo
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Mary J. Blige – The Wiz Live!
Laura Haddock – Luther
Cristin Milioti – Fargo
Sarah Paulson – American Horror Story: Hotel
Winona Ryder – Show Me a Hero
Jean Smart – Fargo
BEST ANIMATION SERIES Bob’s Burgers BoJack Horseman South Park Star Wars Rebels The Simpsons
BEST TALK SHOW Jimmy Kimmel Live Last Week Tonight with John Oliver The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Graham Norton Show The Late Late Show with James Corden The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
BEST REALITY SHOW – COMPETITION Chopped Face Off MasterChef Junior Survivor The Amazing Race The Voice
BEST REALITY SHOW HOST
Ted Allen – Chopped
Phil Keoghan – The Amazing Race
James Lipton – Inside the Actors Studio
Jane Lynch – Hollywood Game Night
Jeff Probst – Survivor
Gordon Ramsay – Hell’s Kitchen
BEST STRUCTURED REALITY SHOW Antiques Roadshow Inside The Actors Studio MythBusters Project Greenlight Shark Tank Undercover Boss
BEST UNSTRUCTURED REALITY SHOW Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Cops Deadliest Catch Intervention Naked and Afraid Pawn Stars
FILM BEST PICTURE The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Carol Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Room Sicario Spotlight
BEST ACTOR
Bryan Cranston Trumbo
Matt Damon The Martian
Johnny Depp Black Mass
Leonardo DiCaprio The Revenant
Michael Fassbender Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne The Danish Girl
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett Carol
Brie Larson Room
Jennifer Lawrence Joy
Charlotte Rampling 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan Brooklyn
Charlize Theron Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Paul Dano Love & Mercy
Tom Hardy The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo Spotlight
Mark Rylance Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon 99 Homes
Sylvester Stallone Creed
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Jason Leigh The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara Carol
Rachel McAdams Spotlight
Helen Mirren Trumbo
Alicia Vikander The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet Steve Jobs
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Abraham Attah Beasts of No Nation
RJ Cyler Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Shameik Moore Dope
Milo Parker Mr. Holmes
Jacob Tremblay Room
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE The Big Short The Hateful Eight Spotlight Straight Outta Compton Trumbo
BEST DIRECTOR
Todd Haynes Carol
Alejandro González Iñárritu The Revenant
Tom McCarthy Spotlight
George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott The Martian
Steven Spielberg Bridge of Spies
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen Bridge of Spies
Alex Garland Ex Machina
Quentin Tarantino The Hateful Eight
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley Inside Out
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy Spotlight
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay The Big Short
Nick Hornby Brooklyn
Drew Goddard The Martian
Emma Donoghue Room
Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Carol
Ed Lachman The Hateful Eight
Robert Richardson Mad Max: Fury Road
John Seale The Martian
Dariusz Wolski The Revenant
Emmanuel Lubezki Sicario
Roger Deakins
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Bridge of Spies
Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo Brooklyn
François Séguin, Jennifer Oman and Louise Tremblay Carol
Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler The Danish Girl
Eve Stewart, Michael Standish Mad Max: Fury Road
Colin Gibson The Martian
Arthur Max, Celia Bobak
BEST EDITING The Big Short
Hank Corwin Mad Max: Fury Road
Margaret Sixel The Martian
Pietro Scalia The Revenant
Stephen Mirrione Spotlight
Tom McArdle
BEST COSTUME DESIGN Brooklyn
Odile Dicks-Mireaux Carol
Sandy Powell Cinderella
Sandy Powell The Danish Girl
Paco Delgado Mad Max: Fury Road
Jenny Beavan
BEST HAIR & MAKEUP Black Mass Carol The Danish Girl The Hateful Eight Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Ex Machina Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant The Walk
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Anomalisa The Good Dinosaur Inside Out The Peanuts Movie Shaun the Sheep Movie
BEST ACTION MOVIE Furious 7 Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Sicario
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Daniel Craig Spectre
Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Tom Hardy Mad Max: Fury Road
Chris Pratt Jurassic World
Paul Rudd Ant-Man
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Emily Blunt Sicario
Rebecca Ferguson Mission:Impossible – Rogue Nation
Bryce Dallas Howard Jurassic World
Jennifer Lawrence The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Charlize Theron Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST COMEDY The Big Short Inside Out Joy Sisters Spy Trainwreck
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Christian Bale The Big Short
Steve Carell The Big Short
Robert De Niro The Intern
Bill Hader Trainwreck
Jason Statham Spy
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Tina Fey Sisters
Jennifer Lawrence Joy
Melissa McCarthy Spy
Amy Schumer Trainwreck
Lily Tomlin Grandma
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE Ex Machina It Follows Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM The Assassin
Goodnight Mommy
Mustang
The Second Mother
Son of Saul
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Amy
Cartel Land
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
He Named Me Malala
The Look of Silence
Where to Invade Next
BEST SONG Fifty Shades of Grey
“Love Me Like You Do” Furious 7
“See You Again” The Hunting Ground
“Til It Happens To You” Love & Mercy
“One Kind of Love” Spectre
“Writing’s on the Wall” Youth
“Simple Song #3”
BEST SCORE Carol
Carter Burwell The Hateful Eight
Ennio Morricone The Revenant
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto Sicario
Johann Johannsson Spotlight
Howard Shore
Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.
Congratulations to BD Wong, Aziz Ansari, Randall Park, Constance Wu and Oscar Isaac on their 2016 Critics’ Choice Award nominations in the Television category.
The Critics’ Choice Awards are the newly combined honors from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Journalists Association. The winners of the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards will be announced at the Sunday, January 17th awards gala, hosted by T.J. Miller at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. It will broadcast live on A&E (8/7c), Lifetime and LMN.
BD Wong as White Rose on Mr Robot. credit: USA Network
Wong’s turn as White Rose in the USA Network’s Mr. Robot has garnered him a Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series nod. Over the summer, he reprised his role as Dr. Wu in the blockbuster Jurassic World, which has been nominated for Best Action Movie, Best Sci-Fi Horror Movie, Best Visual Effects, Best Actor in an Action Movie (Chris Pratt) and Best Actress in an Action Movie (Bryce Dallas Howard) in the Film category. Wong was recently cast in the FOX Bat-prequel Gotham as iconic Bat-foe Hugo Strange, a brilliant professor and psychiatrist tapped to head up Gotham City’s notorious Arkham Asylum.
Constance Wu and Randall Park in ABC’s ‘Fresh Off the Boat’. Credit: ABC
Fresh Off the Boat‘s Randall Park will go head to head in the Best Actor in a Comedy Series with Master of None‘s Aziz Ansari, who also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Musical or Comedy Park’s Fresh Off the Boat co-star Constance Wu has been nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
Aziz Ansari
Oscar Isaac was riveting as Nick Wasicsko in HBO’s Show Me A Hero and has received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for Best Actor in a Movie made for Television or Limited Series and a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television.
Oscar Isaac. Photo by Lia Chang
The Guatemalan-American actor and singer received his first Golden Globe nomination for his starring role in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and is know for his lead roles in A Most Violent Year (2014) and Ex Machina (2015). He stars as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron in the seventh Star Wars film – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), and in 2016, can be seen in the ninth X-Men film, X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), as the titular supervillain Apocalypse.
Peter Sohn’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’
Other nominations of note include Peter Sohn’s The Good Dinosaur (Best Animated Feature), The Assassins (Best Foreign Language Film), and Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto (Best Score) for The Revenant.
Congratulations to all of the nominees.
TELEVISION BEST DRAMA SERIES Empire Mr. Robot Penny Dreadful Rectify The Knick The Leftovers UnREAL
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Hugh Dancy – Hannibal
Rami Malek – Mr. Robot
Clive Owen – The Knick
Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan
Justin Theroux – The Leftovers
Aden Young – Rectify
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Shiri Appleby – UnREAL
Carrie Coon – The Leftovers
Viola Davis – How to Get Away With Murder
Eva Green – Penny Dreadful
Taraji P. Henson – Empire
Krysten Ritter – Jessica Jones
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Clayne Crawford – Rectify
Christopher Eccleston – The Leftovers
Andre Holland – The Knick
Jonathan Jackson – Nashville
Rufus Sewell – The Man in the High Castle
Christian Slater – Mr. Robot
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Ann Dowd – The Leftovers
Regina King – The Leftovers
Helen McCrory – Penny Dreadful
Hayden Panettiere – Nashville
Maura Tierney – The Affair
Constance Zimmer – UnREAL
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Richard Armitage – Hannibal
Justin Kirk – Manhattan
Patti LuPone – Penny Dreadful
Margo Martindale – The Good Wife
Marisa Tomei – Empire
BD Wong – Mr. Robot
BEST COMEDY SERIES black-ish Catastrophe Jane the Virgin Master of None The Last Man on Earth Transparent You’re the Worst
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Anthony Anderson – black-ish
Aziz Ansari – Master of None
Will Forte – The Last Man on Earth
Randall Park – Fresh Off the Boat
Fred Savage – The Grinder
Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Rachel Bloom — Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Aya Cash — You’re the Worst
Wendi McLendon-Covey — The Goldbergs
Gina Rodriguez — Jane the Virgin
Tracee Ellis Ross — black-ish
Constance Wu — Fresh Off the Boat
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Andre Braugher – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Jaime Camil – Jane the Virgin
Jay Duplass – Transparent
Neil Flynn – The Middle
Keegan-Michael Key – Playing House
Mel Rodriguez – Getting On
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Mayim Bialik – The Big Bang Theory
Kether Donohue – You’re the Worst
Allison Janney – Mom
Judith Light – Transparent
Niecy Nash – Getting On
Eden Sher – The Middle
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ellen Burstyn – Mom
Anjelica Huston – Transparent
Cherry Jones – Transparent
Jenifer Lewis – black-ish
Timothy Olyphant — The Grinder
John Slattery – Wet Hot American Summer
BEST ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Kathy Bates – American Horror Story: Hotel
Kirsten Dunst – Fargo
Sarah Hay – Flesh and Bone
Alyvia Alyn Lind – Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors
Rachel McAdams – True Detective
Shanice Williams – The Wiz Live!
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES Childhood’s End Fargo Luther Saints & Strangers Show Me a Hero The Wiz Live!
BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Wes Bentley — American Crime Story: Hotel
Martin Clunes —Arthur & George
Idris Elba — Luther
Oscar Isaac —Show Me a Hero
Vincent Kartheiser — Saints & Strangers
Patrick Wilson — Fargo
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
David Alan Grier – The Wiz Live!
Ne-Yo – The Wiz Live!
Nick Offerman – Fargo
Jesse Plemons – Fargo
Raoul Trujillo – Saints & Strangers
Bokeem Woodbine – Fargo
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Mary J. Blige – The Wiz Live!
Laura Haddock – Luther
Cristin Milioti – Fargo
Sarah Paulson – American Horror Story: Hotel
Winona Ryder – Show Me a Hero
Jean Smart – Fargo
BEST ANIMATION SERIES Bob’s Burgers BoJack Horseman South Park Star Wars Rebels The Simpsons
BEST TALK SHOW Jimmy Kimmel Live Last Week Tonight with John Oliver The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Graham Norton Show The Late Late Show with James Corden The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
BEST REALITY SHOW – COMPETITION Chopped Face Off MasterChef Junior Survivor The Amazing Race The Voice
BEST REALITY SHOW HOST
Ted Allen – Chopped
Phil Keoghan – The Amazing Race
James Lipton – Inside the Actors Studio
Jane Lynch – Hollywood Game Night
Jeff Probst – Survivor
Gordon Ramsay – Hell’s Kitchen
BEST STRUCTURED REALITY SHOW Antiques Roadshow Inside The Actors Studio MythBusters Project Greenlight Shark Tank Undercover Boss
BEST UNSTRUCTURED REALITY SHOW Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Cops Deadliest Catch Intervention Naked and Afraid Pawn Stars
FILM BEST PICTURE The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Carol Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Room Sicario Spotlight
BEST ACTOR
Bryan Cranston Trumbo
Matt Damon The Martian
Johnny Depp Black Mass
Leonardo DiCaprio The Revenant
Michael Fassbender Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne The Danish Girl
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett Carol
Brie Larson Room
Jennifer Lawrence Joy
Charlotte Rampling 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan Brooklyn
Charlize Theron Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Paul Dano Love & Mercy
Tom Hardy The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo Spotlight
Mark Rylance Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon 99 Homes
Sylvester Stallone Creed
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Jason Leigh The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara Carol
Rachel McAdams Spotlight
Helen Mirren Trumbo
Alicia Vikander The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet Steve Jobs
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Abraham Attah Beasts of No Nation
RJ Cyler Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Shameik Moore Dope
Milo Parker Mr. Holmes
Jacob Tremblay Room
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE The Big Short The Hateful Eight Spotlight Straight Outta Compton Trumbo
BEST DIRECTOR
Todd Haynes Carol
Alejandro González Iñárritu The Revenant
Tom McCarthy Spotlight
George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott The Martian
Steven Spielberg Bridge of Spies
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen Bridge of Spies
Alex Garland Ex Machina
Quentin Tarantino The Hateful Eight
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley Inside Out
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy Spotlight
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay The Big Short
Nick Hornby Brooklyn
Drew Goddard The Martian
Emma Donoghue Room
Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Carol
Ed Lachman The Hateful Eight
Robert Richardson Mad Max: Fury Road
John Seale The Martian
Dariusz Wolski The Revenant
Emmanuel Lubezki Sicario
Roger Deakins
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Bridge of Spies
Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo Brooklyn
François Séguin, Jennifer Oman and Louise Tremblay Carol
Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler The Danish Girl
Eve Stewart, Michael Standish Mad Max: Fury Road
Colin Gibson The Martian
Arthur Max, Celia Bobak
BEST EDITING The Big Short
Hank Corwin Mad Max: Fury Road
Margaret Sixel The Martian
Pietro Scalia The Revenant
Stephen Mirrione Spotlight
Tom McArdle
BEST COSTUME DESIGN Brooklyn
Odile Dicks-Mireaux Carol
Sandy Powell Cinderella
Sandy Powell The Danish Girl
Paco Delgado Mad Max: Fury Road
Jenny Beavan
BEST HAIR & MAKEUP Black Mass Carol The Danish Girl The Hateful Eight Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Ex Machina Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant The Walk
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Anomalisa The Good Dinosaur Inside Out The Peanuts Movie Shaun the Sheep Movie
BEST ACTION MOVIE Furious 7 Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Sicario
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Daniel Craig Spectre
Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Tom Hardy Mad Max: Fury Road
Chris Pratt Jurassic World
Paul Rudd Ant-Man
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Emily Blunt Sicario
Rebecca Ferguson Mission:Impossible – Rogue Nation
Bryce Dallas Howard Jurassic World
Jennifer Lawrence The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Charlize Theron Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST COMEDY The Big Short Inside Out Joy Sisters Spy Trainwreck
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Christian Bale The Big Short
Steve Carell The Big Short
Robert De Niro The Intern
Bill Hader Trainwreck
Jason Statham Spy
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Tina Fey Sisters
Jennifer Lawrence Joy
Melissa McCarthy Spy
Amy Schumer Trainwreck
Lily Tomlin Grandma
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE Ex Machina It Follows Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM The Assassin
Goodnight Mommy
Mustang
The Second Mother
Son of Saul
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Amy
Cartel Land
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
He Named Me Malala
The Look of Silence
Where to Invade Next
BEST SONG Fifty Shades of Grey
“Love Me Like You Do” Furious 7
“See You Again” The Hunting Ground
“Til It Happens To You” Love & Mercy
“One Kind of Love” Spectre
“Writing’s on the Wall” Youth
“Simple Song #3”
BEST SCORE Carol
Carter Burwell The Hateful Eight
Ennio Morricone The Revenant
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto Sicario
Johann Johannsson Spotlight
Howard Shore
Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.
Over 30 films will be featured at The 2016 Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival, which runs May 27 – 28, 2016. Click below for the full lineup.
Bev's Girl Films 