Today (April 14) is the day when the annual Hong Kong Film Awards is held.
At the beginning of 1982, the editorial department of Hong Kong's "Film Fortnightly" was discussing the selection of "Top Ten Movies". Editor-in-chief Chen Baisheng suddenly said: "Can we make it bigger?"
In March of the same year, the Hong Kong Film Awards came into being. And born. Today, the Academy Awards have been established for 42 years.
In the past 42 years, not only many outstanding film professionals have been recognized by it, but many interesting anecdotes have also happened in front of and behind the scenes...
, the double-yolked egg actor-Mai Jia, Sammo Hung
The Best Actor Award at the 2nd Academy Awards was presented with a double-yolked egg, and Mai Jia and Sammo Hung both won the Best Actor Award.
The two of them, one in black and one in white evening gowns, held hands on stage to receive the award, which became a hot topic. And this is also the only time in the history of Golden Statue that a double yolk egg wins the award.
, the youngest Best Actress - Lin Biqi
Also at the 2nd Academy Awards, the Best Actress crown was won by Lin Biqi. Pinky Lam has created two records that are difficult to break in the history of the Hong Kong Film Awards:
First, she is the youngest actress, who was only 17 years old when she won the award, and is underage; second, she is the actress with the fewest works, having only filmed one movie so far The movie is the one that won the award that year, "Pretty Girl."
But at the award ceremony, Lin Biqi, who always went her own way, suddenly disappeared, and Wen Bixia accepted the award on her behalf.
Lin Biqi, who had no interest in acting, soon quit the film industry, leaving the audience with vague memories to this day.
, the youngest actor - Tony Leung
At the 3rd Academy Awards, the fledgling Tony Leung was shortlisted for "Best Actor" and "Best Newcomer" with "". But when the Newcomer Award was announced, he lost. Tony Leung thought there was no chance, so he simply chatted with others in the audience.
When the award presenter announced that he had won this year's best actor, he thought he was reading the list of nominees. It wasn't until the host announced that he had won the award again that he suddenly realized that he went on stage to receive the award.
Tony Leung Ka Fai thus became the youngest Best Actor to date at the age of 26.
, the first Best Supporting Actor - Shen Wei
At the 4th Academy Awards, awards for Best Supporting Male and Female Supporting Actors began to be established. The first person to win the "Best Supporting Actor" was Shen Wei of "The Flag Soldiers of Province and Hong Kong". During the filming of the film, Shen Wei almost died.
There is a scene in the film where director McDonald tied up Shen Wei in a car, and then without any warning, asked people to pour gasoline on the outside of the car, ignite it, and burn the car. The director immediately frightened Shen Wei, who was sulking in the car, to the point of turning pale and nearly asphyxia.
After the filming of this scene, Shen Wei, who was almost burned to death, was released and immediately got out of the car to chase and kill McDonald!
, the man who refused the Academy Award - Xu Guanying, Tony Leung
At the 5th Academy Awards, Xu Guanying was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for "Mr. Zombie", but he rejected it because he felt that he was the leading actor. This move Let him be the first person to refuse an Academy Award.
The same thing happened at the 12th Academy Awards ceremony. Tony Leung refused to accept the "Best Supporting Actor" nomination for "" - because he believed that his role in the film should be the leading actor!
When Carina Lau served as the award presenter at this award ceremony, she said: "Tony Leung has as many scenes as Chow Yun-fat, counting three more scenes (than Chow)!"
, Chow Yun-fat dominates the Academy Awards
The 6th Academy Awards , Chow Yun-fat won the Best Actor for the first time with "". At that time, he was filming Deng Guangrong's "The Battle between Dragons and Tigers" in Macau, and he took time off to attend the awards ceremony, so he was dressed casually.
He had been nominated several times before. Each time he wore a formal dress and dressed solemnly, but he failed every time. Unexpectedly, he won the award this time wearing a jacket and jeans.
Standing on the stage, Chow Yun-fat seemed very embarrassed: "I was nominated three times, I wore 'Kick the Rabbit' three times, I waited three times, why did I wait until tonight? I was not mentally prepared and dressed the most casually." I'm sorry that I didn't get this award until now."
Fa Ge continued to win the Best Actor Award at the 7th Academy Awards, and continued to make famous remarks: "It's surprising that 'Chun's Ruler' couldn't beat 'Gao Qiu'!" This shows that he was more confident in "Autumn Fairy Tale" before;
As for the 9th award, his speech of thanks when he won the Best Actor was not as exciting as the previous two awards, but in the end he still made the audience laugh with one sentence: "And Thank you to Huang Kunxuan's mother, because she allowed me to beat her son like this!"
, Eric Tsang won the award for the first time
At the 11th Academy Awards, Jackie Chan, who was the award guest, expressed his gratitude to the actor who was nominated for Best Actor at the time! Eric Tsang joked, "I'll pretend to read your name then, and you pretend to stand up again."
However, when Jackie Chan opened the envelope that night, he discovered that the best actor was really Eric Tsang. After he announced loudly, he found that Eric Tsang in the audience was stunned, and The more he thought about it, the less he dared to move because he suspected that Jackie Chan was playing tricks on him.
It was not until the emcee Zheng Danrui shouted: "Eric Tsang, it's you!" Eric Tsang happily stood up with his fists to receive the award. When he came to the stage to express his thanks, he returned to normal, and then said something funny:
"Thank you very much." Personally, the ones that are very nonsensical are Anita Mui and Stephen Chow. I don’t know why I want to thank them, but I couldn’t help it!”
Everyone in the audience, including Anita Mui and Stephen Chow, couldn’t help laughing!
, the "best" boss who never looked back - Deng Guangrong
I still remember the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards. Presenter Wang Jing once jokingly said "Wong Kar-wai not only starved to death the hairstylist but also starved the boss to death" Zhang Jianting counter-claimed: "Not dead yet" , Dying, collecting salt water! "
Who is this "dying" boss? ——Producer of " Days of Being Wild " Deng Guangrong!
Back then, Deng Guangrong spent 30 million on Wong Kar-wai's "Days of Wild". The production cost was completely swallowed up by sunglasses, but the box office after the release was less than 10 million Hong Kong dollars.
Such an outrageous loss caused Deng Guangrong to be admitted to the hospital overnight to receive intravenous drips. The film company was also severely damaged and eventually closed down!
However, "Days of Being Wild" finally became the favorite at the 10th Academy Awards, and Deng Guangrong also went on stage to receive the Best Film Award in person.
Deng Guangrong said when receiving the award: "If I had used the money I invested in Days of Wild to invest in real estate, I would have become a millionaire long ago, but I have no regrets!"
, Er Dongsheng and Xiao Fangfang won the 13th Golden Statue Award, Ye Dongsheng won the "Best Director" for "New Love". When he went on stage to hug guest Xu Guanwen, he accidentally knocked down the trophy on the table. The sound made the audience couldn't help but say "Wow".
Chow Yun-fat helped him straighten the trophy, and then joked: "Don't you even want the award?" Xiaobao was also very witty and humorous, and responded: "This story tells us that winning an award may not be very safe! "
Er Dongsheng's trophy fell over, but Xiao Fangfang's trophy fell directly to the ground.
At the 15th Hong Kong Film Awards, Xiao Fangfang, who won the Best Actress Award for "Woman 40", went on stage to accept the award. She accidentally knocked the trophy from the table to the ground. Everyone on the stage hurriedly picked it up. Sister Fangfang made a humorous comment "Sorry, I'm so hungry" made the whole audience laugh.
Judging from these two bumps and falls, the Academy Award trophy is very strong.
0, the first Category III film winner - Anthony Wong
"New Love" was the biggest winner at the 13th Academy Awards. The film won six heavyweight awards including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress. Only the Best Actor award was lost to a Category III film.
This Category III film is "Eight Immortals Restaurant: Barbecued Pork Buns with Human Meat". The lead actor Anthony Wong won the Best Actor and won the Best Actor for a Category III film. You can imagine how sensational it was.
The presenters at the time were Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung. After seeing the list of winners, they screamed for a long time before pronouncing Anthony Wong's name: "Huang, Huang, Huang Qiusheng!" made the audience laugh.
came to the 18th Academy Awards. The Best Actor this year is Anthony Wong, the star of " Beast Detective ". Coincidentally, this year's award presenters are Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung again.
The two of them opened the envelope and saw the name of the winner, and couldn't help but take a breath: "No, it's you again?"
After several years, the same guest announced the same Best Actor, whether it was a coincidence or intentional, It can be said to be unprecedented since the establishment of the Academy Awards.
However, Huang Qiusheng was naturally not to be outdone, and made two classic quotes. When he won the first prize, "Thank you so much, grandma, for always cooking noodles for me at night." already amused the audience. When
won the award for the second time, he waved to the camera: "One by one! One by one! My son!" naturally made the audience laugh and applaud. It can be seen that the two Best Actor awards were full of entertainment.
1, the only Miss Hong Kong winner - Anita Yuen
There is a saying in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s: There are two shortcuts to becoming a star, one is to take the training class, and the other is to participate in the beauty pageant. These two roads continued to inject new blood into Hong Kong's entertainment industry, which was very prosperous at that time. As a major event, the Miss Hong Kong election has attracted even more attention from the whole city.
But when the Hong Kong sister was born, she seemed to enter the industry with a label - vase. Even Maggie Cheung played insignificant vase roles in movies during her first few years in the industry.
As for the Miss Hong Kong champion, it is even more difficult to tear off this label. However, there are always exceptions to everything. Our 1990 Miss Hong Kong champion Anita Yuen, her experience after entering the industry is like sitting on a rocket, soaring into the sky.
In 1992, Anita Yuen was spotted by Peter Chan. After starring in "Ya Fei and Yaki", she won the Best Newcomer Award at the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 1993, she starred in "New Love" directed by Er Dongsheng and won the Best Actress at the 13th Academy Awards.
In 1994, she became more and more courageous as she fought in Vietnam and starred in " Golden Branches and Jade Leaves " directed by Chen Kexin, and won the Best Actress at the 14th Academy Awards.
At this point, Anita Yuen not only achieved a breakthrough in the Hong Kong Miss Hong Kong Best Actress Award, but also became the first person to win three consecutive acting awards in the history of the Academy Awards.
2, The most popular occupation among movie stars at the Academy Awards is the policeman
According to statistics, in a total of 42 Academy Awards, eleven Best Actor trophies have come from the role of police. They are played by Mai Jia, Li Xiuxian, Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Cheng Zeshi, Anthony Wong, Aaron Kwok and Louis Koo, accounting for nearly a quarter.
Among them, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Tony Leung Ka-fai won the Best Actor twice for their roles as police officers.
3, the Academy Awards turned into a "sweet" scene
Speaking of the "sweet" past events of the Academy Awards, the first representative is undoubtedly the 6th Best Actor Chow Yun-fat - when he accepted the award on stage and delivered a speech of thanks, he actually said to The emcee beside her, Zheng Yuling, sent a wedding invitation: "Because I am now married again!"
However, Zheng Yuling did not let her show off her beauty, and replied teasingly: "Again?" which made the whole audience laugh again.
However, behind this funny scene, there is also a romantic marriage of more than 30 years. After all, the warmth of Chow Yun-fat and Chen Huilin's love is still talked about today.
When the Best Director was awarded at the 27th Academy Awards, because the emcee that night was Sandra Ng, the nominees included Peter Chan. Before awarding the award, Sandra Ng did not forget to remind her boyfriend in the audience: "Kevin Chan, sit tight! You can't win it from me. It's your fault!"
After Chen Kexin won the award, the two even hugged each other on the stage, causing everyone to cheer and whistle, and their romantic feelings were already palpable.
Also at the 34th Academy Awards, Liu Qingyun, who won the Best Actor Award, made his most famous "spaceship" remarks.
At that time, Liu Qingyun thanked his wife Guo Aiming in the audience, and said with tears: "Every time when I hold on to the spaceship and fly to the end of the universe, you always have a way to make me return to the earth safely." The audience was moved. .
4, the film that has won the most awards - "The Grandmaster"
At the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1997, "Sweetie" won a total of 9 awards, once becoming the most awarded film in the history of the Academy Awards. movie and held this record for many years.
At the 32nd Academy Awards in 2013, the hit police film "Chilling" once tied this record.
Until 2014, "The Grandmaster" directed by Wong Kar-wai won 12 awards including Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture, breaking the 17-year award-winning record of "Sweetie". However, the Hong Kong film environment at this time is very different from that of "Sweet Honey", and it is easier for one film industry to become dominant.
In fact, the Academy Awards still had many wonderful Coca-Cola anecdotes in that golden age. Due to space limitations, I will not list them all here.
The 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards will be held tonight. Will there be any golden words at this award ceremony? Will something interesting happen? let us wait and see!
