Babel, Letters From Iwo Jima, Heroes and Lost Collect Multiple Asian Excellence Award Nominations

Battlestar Galactica's Grace Park Announces the Nominees for the 2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards

Los Angeles, CA (May 11, 2007) - At a press conference held yesterday in Los Angeles, Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica), co-host of the upcoming 2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards presented by JCPenney, announced the nominees for this year's awards presentation. The show, which honors outstanding achievements of Asian and Asian Americans, will air on AZN Television on Monday, May 28 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.

The nominees are as follows:

OUTSTANDING FILM
Babel
Curse of the Golden Flower
Letters From Iwo Jima
The Namesake

OUTSTANDING ACTOR - FILM
Jet Li Fearless
Kal Penn The Namesake
Ken Watanabe Letters From Iwa Jima

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS - FILM
Maggie Cheung Clean
Gong Li Curse of the Golden Flower
Rinko Kikuchi Babel
Tabu The Namesake

OUTSTANDING ACTOR - TELEVISION
Naveen Andrews Lost
Daniel Dae Kim Lost
Masi Oka Heroes
B.D. Wong Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS - TELEVISION
Kelly Hu In Case Of Emergency
Yunjin Kim Lost
Parminder Nagra ER
Sandra Oh Grey's Anatomy

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS - FILM
Cindy Cheung Lady in the Water
Sharon Leal Dreamgirls
Maggie Q MI:III/Mission Impossible 3
Betty Sun Fearless

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR - FILM
Roger Fan Annapolis
Sung Kang The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Dustin Nguyen Little Fish
Koji Yakusho Babel

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR - TELEVISION
James Kyson Lee Heroes
Rex Lee Entourage
Will Yun Lee Thief
Sendhil Ramamurthy Heroes

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS - TELEVISION
Keiko Agena Gilmore Girls
Michaela Conlin Bones
Mindy Kaling The Office
Grace Park Battlestar Galactica
Lauren Tom Men in Trees

OUTSTANDING COMEDY PERFORMANCE
Margaret Cho
Dat Phan
Russell Peters

HONORARY AWARDS

PIONEER AWARD
Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa, Restaurateur

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Chow Yun-Fat, Actor

VISIONARY AWARD
Vivienne Tam, Fashion Designer

"VIEWERS CHOICE" AWARDS (winners voted by fans at azntv.com)

FAVORITE REALITY STAR
Yau Man Chan Survivor: Fiji
Erwin & Godwin Cho The Amazing Race 10
Chloe Dao Project Runway
Yul Kwon Survivor: Cook Islands
Sanjaya Malakar American Idol
James Sun The Apprentice

OUTSTANDING ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM
Americanese
Colma: The Musical
In Between Days
Inner Circle Line
Journey From The Fall
Slanted Screen

The 2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards will be taped live at UCLA's Royce Hall on May 16. Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) will co-host the show with Grace Park. Prior to the awards telecast on AZN Television, E! Entertainment Television, will air an hour-long special featuring red carpet arrivals, behind-the-scenes excitement and highlights from the event on May 24 at 6:00 p.m. ET/PT.

About the AZN Asian Excellence Awards
The AZN Asian Excellence Awards is the only nationally televised event celebrating significant Asian and Asian American achievements in entertainment, the arts and other disciplines that have had a profound impact on American culture. Welly Yang is the creator of the Asian Excellence Awards. He and Teddy Zee are Executive Producers of the 2007 show working with Syd Vinnedge Productions. Veteran awards show producer Greg Sills serves as the Supervising Producer for the show. Grace C. Lee, Gary Tellalian and Michelle Robinson are Producers.

About AZN Television
AZN Television is the network for Asian America. A wholly-owned company of Comcast Corporation, the channel's programming targets the fast-growing, affluent and multi-generational Asian American community, as well as a broader American audience interested in the Asian experience. Genres include the most popular Asian films, dramas, documentaries, anime, and news, as well as original programming. A majority of programming on AZN is either in English or subtitled in English. For more information, visit azntv.com.