Tsui Hark's martial arts film Seven Swords and Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love lead the race for the 25thHong Kong Film Awards with 11 nods each, closely followed by Johnnie To's triad drama Electionand Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's car racing drama Initial D with 10 nods each. All fourfilms are nominated for best film and best director.

Seven Swords is pitting against Perhaps Love in six categories,including cinematography, film editing, art direction, costume/make up design,sound and original film score.

Election picked up four acting nominations,including two for best actor for Simon Yam and Tony Leung Ka Fai while Wong Tin Lam and Maggie Siuwere nominated for best supporting actor and best supporting actressrespectively.

Leungis also nominated for best actor for his performance in Stanley Kwan's Everlasting Regret which received sixnominations (best actress for Sammi Cheng, bestsupporting actor for Hu Jun and best supportingactress for Su Yan) although it was omitted from thebest film category.

ChenKaige's ThePromise and Jeff Lau's A Chinese TallStory earned five nominations each in mostly crafts and technicalcategories including art direction, costume/make up design, visual effects andsound.

StanleyTong's The Myth (nominated for bestfilm and action choreography), Teddy Chen's Wait'Til You're Older (best actor for Andy Lau andbest actress for Karen Mok) and Derek Yee's 2 Young (best director and new performerfor Fiona Sit) each took four nominations.

Chairman of Hong KongFilm Awards Association Manfred Wong announced that the awards ceremony will beheld at the Hong Kong Coliseum on April 8, in conjunction with the mega EntertainmentExpo (March 20 - April 14).

Thenominees are:

Bestfilm

Seven Swords

Perhaps Love

The Myth

Election

Initial D

Bestdirector

Tsui Hark (Seven Swords)

PeterChan (Perhaps Love)

DerekYee (2 Young)

JohnnieTo (Election)

AndrewLau and Alan Mak (InitialD)

Bestscreenplay

AubreyLam and Raymond To (Perhaps Love)

DerekYee and Chun Tin Nam (2 Young)

JamesYuen, Jessica Fong and Lo Yiu Fai(Crazy N' TheCity)

CheungChi Kwong and Susan Chan (Wait 'Til You'reOlder)

Yau Nai Hoi and Yip Tin Shing (Election)

Bestactor

AaronKwok (Divergence)

TonyLeung Ka Fai (EverlastingRegret)

AndyLau (Wait 'Til You're Older)

SimonYam (Election)

TonyLeung Ka Fai (Election)

Bestactress

ZhouXun (PerhapsLove)

Karena Lam (Home Sweet Home)

Sammi Cheng (EverlastingRegret)

SylviaChang (Rice Rhapsody)

KarenMok (Wait 'Til You're Older)

Bestsupporting actor

AlexFong (Drink, Drank, Drunk)

Hu Jun (EverlastingRegret)

LiuKai Chi (SPL)

WongTin Lam (Election)

AnthonyWong (Initial D)

Bestsupporting actress

ZhangJingchu (SevenSwords)

TeresaMo (2 Young)

SuYan (EverlastingRegret)

Karena Lam (Ah Sou)

MaggieSiu (Election)

Bestnew performer

FionaSit (2 Young)

IsabellaLeong (Bug MeNot!)

AnnieLiu (Ah Sou)

MichelleYe (Moonlight in Tokyo)

JayChou (Initial D)

Bestcinematography

VenusKeung (SevenSwords)

PeterPau (PerhapsLove)

PeterPau (ThePromise)

CheungSiu Keung (Election)

AndrewLau, Lai Yiu Fai and Ng ManChing (InitialD)

Bestfilm editing

AngieLam (Seven Swords)

Yau Chi Wai (Divergence)

Wenders Li and Kong Chi Leung (PerhapsLove)

PatrickTam (Election)

WongHoi (Initial D)

Bestart direction

EddyWong (Seven Swords)

YeeChung Man and Pater Wong (Perhaps Love)

WilliamChang (Everlasting Regret)

BillLui (A ChineseTall Story)

TimYip (The Promise)

Bestcostume/make up design

Poon Wing Yan and Shirley Chan (Seven Swords)

YeeChung Man and Dora Ng (Perhaps Love)

WilliamChang (Everlasting Regret)

WilliamChang, Bruce Yu and Lee Pik Kwan (A Chinese Tall Story)

TimYip and Kimiya Masago (The Promise)

Bestaction choreography

LauKar Leung, Stephen Tung andXiong Xin Xin (Seven Swords)

LeeChung Chi (Divergence)

JackieChan, Stanley Tong and Richard Hung (The Myth)

DonnieYen (SPL)

YuenWo Ping, Yuen Shun Yi and KuHuen Chiu (Houseof Fury)

Bestoriginal film score

KenjiKawai (Seven Swords)

PeterKam and Leon Ko(Perhaps Love)

JoeHisaishi (AChinese Tall Story)

LoTayu (Election)

ChanKwong Wing (InitialD)

Bestsound design

SteveBurgess and Ho Wai (Seven Swords)

Kinson Tsang (Perhaps Love)

Kinson Tsang (A Chinese TallStory)

WangDanrong and Roger Savage (The Promise)

Kinson Tsang (Initial D)

Bestvisual effects

PeterWebb (Seven Swords)

WendyChoi and David Tso (The Myth)

EddyWong and Victor Wong (A Chinese TallStory)

FrankieChung, Don Ma, Cecil Cheng and Tam Kai Kwan (The Promise)

EddyWong, Victor Wong and Bryan Cheung (InitialD)

Bestnew director

MathewTang (b420)

KennethBi (Rice Rhapsody)

StephenFung (House ofFury)

BestAsian film

Ke Ke Xi Li (China)

Howl's Moving Castle (Japan)

Three Times (Taiwan)

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Korea)

Be With You (Japan)