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...Tarantino has championed. In announcing the prize, he said with a big smile, ?The Jury is DELIGHTED to award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict fighting to reclaim her young son in ?Clean,? a Franco-Canadian drama - and a rather laggard, predictable one - directed by Cheung?s ex-husband Olivier Assayas. Ironically, Cheung won over Zhang Ziyi, the star of ?2046.? Cheung had shot some scenes for that...
...addition, Anthony Cheung ’04 was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts for performance on the piano and cello...
...journey has been difficult. In addition to monetary constraints and public apathy, “composition can be the most frustrating thing in the world,” Cheung says. However, he remains optimistic. “It’s in those rare instances when someone tells you that what you’ve done has affected them that gives a composer the sense of having made a difference,” he says. “The challenge and reward is refining your craft...
...Cheung points to his guidance over the past four years from professors Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68 and Rosen Professor of Music Bernard Rands as his most fullfilling academic experience. He says their work with piano and composition continues to inspire him today...
Next year will find Cheung at Columbia University in the graduate program in composition. “I’m looking forward to hearing all the exciting new music that’s being presented in New York,” he says. Beyond that remains unclear, though he says he hopes to teach and write. In any case, he points to the uncertainty as part of the excitement...