Hong Kong movies have always been known as "Double Mondays". Chow Yun-fat, Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan are the three most popular box-office stars in Hong Kong movies. In terms of box office, the three individuals are similar, but in terms of film awards, the difference is quite big. Among them, Stephen Chow has won the least various film awards. Why?
1, the basic situation of the three winners
3, Zhou Xingchi is the least awarded, he has only one Golden Award winner (2001 "Shaolin Football").
When it comes to box office appeal and influence, Stephen Chow is indeed worthwhile. But the awards are indeed much less than those two.
In contrast, Jackie Chan's awards are actually quite a lot.
2 golden horses and 1 golden rooster actor, it's pretty awesome.
Zhou Yunfa won the most awards.
Golden Statue Awards 87-88 reelected, a total of 3, and there are 2 Golden Horse Awards; however, Chow Yun-fat's awards were concentrated before the 1990s, and there have been no awards since then.
But in general, Chow Yun-fat is basically a professional award winner, Jackie Chan wins the award less, and Stephen Chow basically disappears. why? Let me analyze it carefully.
2. The reason why Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan won fewer prizes.
First of all, in terms of acting skills, I want to emphasize one thing: There is no difference between three people. It is by no means to say which one has the best acting skills, there is no such saying. Chow Yun-fat has won the most awards. It does not mean that he has the best acting skills. It does not mean that.
Chow Yun-fat has won many awards because the type of film he shot is different from Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow. This is the most fundamental reason.
Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow are a kung fu comedy, and the other is a nonsensical comedy. Both are the most entertaining commercial films. And all kinds of serious film festivals don't pay much attention to commercial films.
Let me take the Golden Image Award as an example. After all, the three people at their peak were in the golden age of Hong Kong movies.
Speaking of the box office of movies in Hong Kong, Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan’s box office results are definitely slamming Chow Yun-fat. My previous article has fully listed the Hong Kong movie box office results of three individuals. Stephen Chow has eight annual Hong Kong box office champions, Jackie Chan has seven and Chow Yun-fat has four.
But the box office performance alone is good, not much use for winning. Most film festivals in the world never rely on box office performance. The Academy Awards have been imitating the Hollywood Oscars. So which movies can win Oscars? You can look at the annual Oscars, as well. In the past ten years or so, the world’s most popular movies have been various Marvel movies, or science fiction (Star Wars), etc. They are dominated by special effects scenes. These movies have a particularly high box office, but they rarely win Oscars. Because Oscar likes drama, literary and artistic movies, like in-depth movies, rather than pure commercial entertainment. The same is true for
Hong Kong Academy Awards. Those who can win awards are mainly based on plot and art. Jackie Chan is equivalent to Schwarzenegger in Hollywood. Stephen Chow can probably be compared with Carrie Jin. These two won't be awarded at the Oscars, right?
Jackie Chan has won the most awards at the Academy Awards for various action designs. Stephen Chow has been a professional accompaniment runner for many years. So much so that his self-deprecating "acting is slightly exaggerated" in "Ouchi Detective" was not liked by the judges.
Zhou Xingchi won the only actor until 2002's "Shaolin Football". It is also the only one at present, and he probably won't have a second one in his life.
And for this, I think the Academy Awards are still compensating him. why? Because the box office of Hong Kong films plummeted after 95 years, Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat both went to Hollywood. "Shuangyichengcheng" left Zhou Xingchi alone. The 1999 box office champion "The King of Comedy" was only 29 million, which is far less than 50 million at its peak. In those two years, fewer and fewer people watched movies, and Hong Kong movies were very sluggish. No one knows what to do. Zhou Xingchi's "Shaolin Football" was born in 2001. It exceeded 60 million in one fell swoop. It was a rescue work and revived the confidence of Hong Kong movies. It gave Hong Kong movies a glorious time around 2000-2005. The Golden Statue was grateful to him, and he was given this Golden Statue. Later in 2004, "Kung Fu" continued to be awarded to the best director.
is all right, that's it, and it will be gone in the future. Of course, Stephen Chow did not act at all except for "Yangtze No. 7" in 2008, so there is no chance.
talk about Jackie Chan again. Jackie Chan won two film kings at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards before, and he would be the most attractive star in Taiwan and even in Southeast Asia. At that time, the Golden Horse Awards were not dedicated to literary and artistic films as they are now. Box office results are more important. . But Jackie Chan has never won the Golden Horse Award from the beginning to the end, and generally people think that the golden horse award in the 90s is not as good as the Golden Horse Award.
I went to Hollywood to play after 1998. It returned in 2004 and its focus shifted to the mainland. "New Police Story" won the Golden Rooster Award, which is actually a special case. Because Jackie Chan has not participated in the Mainland Film Festival awards before, the Golden Rooster Award actually has a compensatory nature.
Looking back at Zhou Yunfa, he is a pure actor. He has a very wide range of roles. He can not only act in comedies, but also in gambling films. Both of these are commercial films. His commercial films have achieved very good results, but these commercial films basically didn’t get any. Award, the "God of Gamblers" series won two box office titles, right?
His award-winning films are still mainly literary and drama films, which are moving movies, not pure commercial entertainment films. "Autumn Fairy Tale" and "A Lang's Story".
3, conclusion
So why Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow won less awards is because the judges don't like the movies they made. Any film festival in the world likes literary and artistic films, films with depth and revealing human nature. I don't like pure entertainment, it's that simple.
But in contrast, in the eyes of the film festival judges, comedy films are the least acting, and action films may be better. At least the Golden Horse Awards recognize action movies.
In fact, Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy" and "A Journey to the West" were also very touching and had connotations, but people did not understand them at the time. To me, in fact, these two movies are also worth two movie stars. Therefore, the Golden Image Award owes Zhou Xingchi a actor, so I said that later "Shaolin Football" won the award as compensation.
is still the same, there are more or less prizes, but there is no difference in acting skills. In my mind, the acting skills of these three actors are beyond doubt. They are all top-notch Chinese actors.
It is our blessing to meet their classic movies during our lifetime.
