The 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards has come to an end.
On this night, "" won the best picture, Tony Leung and Yu Xiangning won the best actor and best actress, and Cheng Baorui won the best director for "Homicide".
To be honest, I naturally become more nervous towards the end, after all, the competition is extremely fierce. Of course, for most viewers, the last few major awards must already be in their hearts. Judging from the performance of the film itself, there is not much suspense, but the results are not always as expected.
Especially when Tony Leung Chiu-wai once again won the Academy Award for Best Actor with " Golden Finger ", people really understood how this Academy Awards should be awarded.
This is not to deny Tony Leung's acting skills and performance in "Goldfinger", but this movie is indeed not comparable to other popular movies, such as " Under the Day ", " Diary of a Young Man " and "Vicious Lawyer" 》. When many people thought that the best actor was most likely to be won by Lin Baoyi, the star of "Under the Sun", they did not expect that it would be awarded to Tony Leung Chiu-wai, or Tony Leung in "Goldfinger". Even if it was not good enough, it would be awarded to "The Vengeful Lawyer" 》’s Huang Zihua will also be convincing.
The result is surprising!
Seeing that the awards were about to be handed out, people did not expect that the final award for Best Picture was awarded to "The Vicious Lawyer". "The Vicious Lawyer", which received 10 nominations, almost failed to win.
When "The Vengeful Lawyer" won the best picture, then "Under the Day" and "Diary of a Young Man" became regrets.
Of course, these two films also have achievements.
"Under the Sun" won three awards for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while "Diary of a Young Man" won the Best New Director Award, but compared to its own quality, it was still less.
The more awards are given like this, the more people are upset. If the awards are given evenly, isn't this just a pork-pork award?
For "Under the Sun", it received sixteen nominations. I originally thought it would be the biggest winner, but it turned out that there were only three awards for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, which seemed like a lot. , but really not a big winner.
Judging from the quantity, the real winner is "Goldfinger".
"Diary", which also received 12 nominations, only won one award, and it won Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Six awards for sound effects.
It's not the winner, who is the winner? !
Although five of them are production awards, the Best Actor award can really be said to be an upset.
It’s surprising that Tony Leung won the Best Actor for the sixth time with this film.
After all, the film "Goldfinger" has many problems at the script and story level, but it is a big-budget film after all, so it is still very rewarding at the production level.
For Tony Leung, this is the sixth time he has won the Best Actor Award after "Chungking Express", "Happy Together", " In the Mood for Love ", " Infernal Affairs " and "2046".
In 2023, Tony Leung also won the Mainland Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor for the first time for his role as Mr. He in "无名". In addition, he had also won the Best Actor Award at the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards three times before.
There have been many Tony Leung Chiu Wai films over the years, but there are fewer and fewer truly high-quality masterpieces. Although
has won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Actor, the quality of the two winning films is really not high, far from being comparable to the previous films, even the films nominated in the same period are not as good.
But the result is that he won the Best Actor again.
The best actress award was won by Yu Xiangning for "Under the Sun".
She debuted as a model. In 2014, she starred in her first TV series "There's always a day to be successful". In 2016, he starred in his first film "Bone Girl" and won the Best New Actor Award at the 1st Macau International Film Festival for this film.She was once nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for " Extraordinary ", and was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for "Yuan Lu Shan No Mo". Now she has been nominated for Best Actress again and won the award, which is considered a complete success.
Best Supporting Actor was won by David Chiang for "Under the Sun".
This is the first time in his 72 years in the industry that he has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards and also won the award. When delivering his acceptance speech, he said that he and his eldest brother Qin Pei both won Best Supporting Actor for the films directed and produced by his younger brother.
His eldest brother Qin Pei has won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his two films "The Story of a Madman" and "New Love" directed by his younger brother Er Dongsheng.
And the best supporting actress was won by Liang Yongting for "Under the Day".
As a newcomer, she was nominated for the Best New Actor at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2018 for "Blue Sky and White Clouds". She has also appeared in the "Corridor of Justice" and "Married in a Day" series. She has previously won the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards. Asian Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she also participated in the movie "Diary of a Youth".
"Homicide", which received 10 nominations, won the Best Director and Best Editing (Editor) awards.
This is the second time Zheng Baorui has won the Academy Award for Best Director. The last time he won it was in 2012 for the police drama "The Driver". "Kowloon Walled City: The Siege" directed by him will be released in the Mainland on May 1st.
Although the "Journey to the West" series he directed a few years ago has been criticized, it still achieved good box office, but he is still good at crime films. The previously directed " Wisdom Teeth " also won Yase Liu the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film also won the Best Screenplay, Best Art Director, and Best Cinematography awards. Now he himself finally won the Academy Award again with "Homicide". Good director.
The glory of Hong Kong films is no longer there, but many excellent films have been produced in recent years, such as "The Vengeful Lawyer", "Diary of a Young Man", "Under the Sun", etc., and these films have also been released in the mainland one after another, regardless of the box office. It’s always good for a masterpiece like this to be released in mainland China. However, for the Academy Awards, they have begun to follow the example of the Mainland and started to share the awards equally. This is not a good phenomenon.
