Image: Dev Patel in Lion, taken by Mark Rogers.
First blow for glory comes from the Asia Pacific Screen Awards which has nominated Lion (w – Luke Davies, d – Garth Davis, p – Angie Fiedler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman) for Best Actor.
Dev Patel now faces off against Farhad Aslani in Daughter (Islamic Republic of Iran), Manoj Bajpayee for Aligarh, Nawazuddin Siddiqui for Psycho Raman (India) and Korean superstar Song Kang-ho in The Throne (Republic of Korea).
