AZN Television Announces the Nominees for the '2006 Asian Excellence Awards Featuring the Remy Martin(R) X.O Honors'

AZN Television Announces the Nominees for the '2006 Asian Excellence Awards Featuring the Remy Martin(R) X.O Honors'

Asian Excellence Awards to Premiere Sunday, January 29 at 8:00 p.m. EST/PST

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At a press conference held today at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, actress Bai Ling and producer/Asian Excellence Awards Committee co-chair Teddy Zee announced the nominees for "The 2006 Asian Excellence Awards Featuring the Remy Martin(R) X.O Honors." The show, which honors outstanding achievements of Asians and Asian Americans in entertainment, music, and science, will air on AZN Television, the channel for Asian America, for the first time on Sunday, January 29 at 8:00 p.m. EST/PST.

The nominees are as follows:

Outstanding Female TV Performance
Yunjim Kim - "Lost"
Kristin Kreuk - "Smallvillle"
Parminder Nagra - "ER"
Sandra Oh - "Grey's Anatomy"

Outstanding Male TV Performance
Naveen Andrews - "Lost"
Mark-Paul Gosselaar - "Commander in Chief"
Daniel Dae Kim - "Lost"
B.D. Wong - "Law & Order: SVU"

Outstanding Film Performance
Joan Chen - "Saving Face"
Stephen Chow - "Kung Fu Hustle"
Michelle Krusiec - "Saving Face"
Gong Li - "Memoirs of a Geisha"

Outstanding Film
"2046"
"Kung Fu Hustle"
"Memoirs of a Geisha"
"Saving Face"

Outstanding Live Performance
"Lennon" (the Broadway cast)
KA
Linkin Park

Outstanding Newcomer
Lynn Chen ("Saving Face")
Katie Leung ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire")
Grace Park (the new "Battlestar Galactica")
Rex Lee ("Entourage")

"The 2006 Asian Excellence Awards Featuring the Remy Martin(R) X.O Honors" will be hosted by Kelly Hu (actress, "X-Men II," "The Scorpion King") and Bobby Lee (actor/comedian, "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle").

Remy Martin, the principal sponsor of the show, will present three special honors during the program. The Remy Martin(R) X.O Honors will be presented for Inspiration (Dr. David D. Ho), Visibility (Lucy Liu) and Bridge (Quentin Tarantino). A Lifetime Achievement honor will be posthumously awarded to filmmaker Ismail Merchant by AZN Television and Remy Martin, with special tributes from actors who have participated in various Merchant/Ivory productions, including Naomi Watts, Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson.

In addition, The Asian Excellence Awards will include a special tribute to the late Pat Morita, featuring comments from the prolific actor's co-star Ralph Macchio, who starred with Morita in the successful "Karate Kid" movies, and a performance by Fort Minor.

Also participating in the show will be, Earvin "Magic" Johnson (NBA Champion and Humanitarian), Bai Ling (actress "Lords of Dogtown," "Anna and the King"), Jason Scott Lee (actor "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story"), Lisa Ling (host "The View," "National Geographic Explorer"), Alice Wu (writer/director "Saving Face"), Karl Yune (actor "Memoirs of a Geisha"), Carrie Ann Inaba (choreographer "American Idol"), Rob Schneider (actor "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo), John Cho (actor "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle), Harold Perrineau (actor "Lost"), Tamlyn Tomita (actress "The Day After Tomorrow"), Maggie Q (actress "Mission Impossible III") and Johnnie To (director/producer "Election").

The "2006 Asian Excellence Awards Featuring the Remy Martin(R) X.O Honors" will be taped at the legendary Wiltern LG Theatre in Hollywood, California and will air on AZN Television on the first day of the Lunar New Year, January 29, 2006, 8:00 p.m. Welly Yang, Syd Vinnedge and Peilin Chou are Executive Producers of the show. Veteran awards show producer Greg Sills serves as the Supervising Producer for the show.

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, English-speaking and multi-generational Asian American community. Genres include the most popular Asian films, dramas, documentaries and anime as well as original programming. For more information, visit azntv.com

Remy Cointreau USA

Remy Cointreau USA, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of France's Remy Cointreau, SA. It is the exclusive U.S. importer for a variety of premium spirits and wines, including Remy Martin (R), Cointreau (R), The Macallan Scotch Whisky (R), The Famous Grouse (R), Damrak Gin (R), Mount Gay Rum (R), Galliano (R), Champagne Piper-Heidsieck (R), Champagne Charles Heidsieck (R), Marchesi Antinori (R), Masi Agricola (R), Vietti (R), Biondi Santi (R), Vina Haras de Pirque (R), Laroche (R), Merryvale(R), Piper Sonoma (R) and Bearboat (R).

Source: AZN Television

CONTACT: Teresa Wiedel of AZN Television, +1-303-712-5457,
teresa.wiedel@azntv.com, or Patricia Frith of Patricia Frith Marketing,
+1-818-876-0480, pfmarketing@adelphia.net, for AZN Television; or Parag Dave
of GCI Group, +1-212-537-8026, pdave@gcigroup.com, for Remy Martin

Web site: http://azntv.com/

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