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Wu Gang, the winner of the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor, kisses the trophy at the closing ceremony (XINHUA) |
The 27th Golden Rooster Awards for Chinese films have been unveiled in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province on October 17.
The award for best feature film has been divided between two movies. They're The Assembly, a story about a group of unsung heroes, by director Feng Xiaogang, and Forever Enthralled by Chen Kaige, a film about the life and career of Mei Lanfang, the master of Peking Opera.
Wu Gang was awarded best actor in a leading role for his performance in The Iron Man, while awards for best actress were shared by Zhou Xun and Jiang Wenli, for their roles in The Equation of Love and Death and The Spring Comes.
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Zhou Xun (left) and Jiang Wenli hold the best actress trophies at the press conference after the award ceremony (CFP) |
The Golden Rooster Awards are the most prestigious awards in film given in Chinese mainland. The name of the awards came from the year of the Rooster in 1981, when the awards begin.
(Xinhua News Agency, CCTV.com October 18, 2009) |
