On the evening of April 14, the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony was held at the Hong Kong Cultural Center. In addition to Tony Leung won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the sixth time with " Golden Finger ", " The Vengeful Lawyer ", the first Chinese-language film in Hong Kong film history with a box office of over 100 million, won the Best Film Award, and " White" The three new director's works, "Under the Sun ", " Young Diary " and "Homicide", have attracted much attention and have won almost all other important awards. The Hong Kong Film Awards, founded in 1982, are known as the "Three Chinese Film Awards" together with the China Film Golden Rooster Awards and the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. Due to the relatively strict requirements on the "Hong Kong background" of participating films and filmmakers, the Hong Kong Film Awards was once known as a carnival for the "small circle" to entertain themselves. The results of this year’s awards once again confirmed this.
Tony Leung won the Best Actor Award at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards for "Goldfinger"
Tony Leung won another gold medal as the "Best Actor"
Is this the "icing on the cake"?
When the words "Hong Kong movie" are mentioned, different movie fans have different feelings - it is a reflection and portrayal of an era. It has influenced several generations and is the pinnacle of Asian movies in the hearts of countless movie fans. It is also because Hong Kong The economic recession is gradually weakening, so that it faces severe challenges such as a lack of new talents, aging actors, and homogeneous content.
Especially the "Hong Kong Film Awards", a film award that was born in the golden age of Hong Kong films. In recent years, practitioners in the film industry have constantly told Jinan Times·New Yellow River reporters that they feel that the "Hong Kong Film Awards" are It is gradually drifting away from the most mainstream commercial film track in the world. Its award results can no longer be judged by "fairness" and have long become a carnival for "small circles".
As for the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony held at the Hong Kong Cultural Center on the evening of April 14, it can be seen from the list of winners that the "small circle culture" of the Academy Awards is obvious. Film critic Feng Xiaoqiang used "commendation" Those who have been commended must have been affirmed" to describe part of the winners list of the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards.
Tony Leung played the leading actor Cheng Yiyan in "Goldfinger"
Feng Xiaoqiang's evaluation mainly focused on several heavyweight awards at this year's Academy Awards, such as: Best Film Award and Best Actor Award. These awards are often the most watched and valuable awards in a film awards ceremony. In film awards/festivals around the world, who these awards are awarded to almost represents the region’s past achievements. In a year, which film and which actor is the most glorious. For example, at the 96th Academy Awards held on March 10, local time, the three awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor were awarded to Christopher Nolan's director and Cillian Murphy. The biographical historical film "Oppenheimer", in addition, this film also won several other awards for Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Score. It is enough to see that among all the films produced in the United States in the past year, the film most recognized by the Academy Awards was "Oppenheimer."
The 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony awarded the Best Actor Award to Tony Leung Chiu-wai ("Goldfinger") and the Best Picture Award to "The Vicious Lawyer". After the awards ceremony ended, reports related to "Tony Leung Chiu-wai won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the sixth time" flooded the Internet. This result is not too unexpected: Tony Leung is a national first-class actor and won the "Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement" at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. In "Goldfinger", he played the role of Cheng Yiyan, a stock investor idol during Hong Kong's economic boom. Remarkable. But probably because he has won too many awards, and because the quality of "Goldfinger" is not very good, Carina Lau began to explain to Tony Leung on the spot, "He put in a thousand efforts." "The Vengeful Lawyer" starring Huang Zihua, as a small-budget "courtroom film", used small leverage to leverage the big box office, becoming the first Chinese-language film in Hong Kong film history to have a box office of over 100 million. "The Vicious Lawyer", which had no results overnight, finally won the Best Picture Award.
"The Vengeful Lawyer" won the Best Film Award
However, in the eyes of many film practitioners and senior movie fans, the "Hong Kong Film Awards", an award that represents the highest film performance in Hong Kong, will give these two most valuable awards. The two films are the embodiment of "circle culture" and "balance", and are the "icing on the cake". Feng Xiaoqiang believes that the "Hong Kong Film Awards" should do more to "give help in times of need": "Again the 'Best Actor' was given to Tony Leung. Tony Leung lacked this 'Best Actor'? And the Best Picture was given to "The Vengeful Lawyer". A movie that has achieved great success at the box office is missing a 'Best Picture'?" A person working in a related industry even said bluntly: "The 'circle culture' of Hong Kong movies is great because the Academy Awards are very important to participating films and films. People's "Hong Kong background" has relatively strict requirements, and it is difficult to win awards if you are not within the ecosystem. If newcomers want to get out, they must either worship Pier, or their father or teacher is Pier. This is also part of the reason for the decline of Hong Kong movies. "
The new generation of filmmakers
shine at the Hong Kong Film Awards
Today's "Hong Kong Film Awards" can hardly represent the highest level of Chinese-language films in terms of the overall level of participating films and the attention they receive. The Academy Awards also It cannot completely break away from the ecological circle in which it was born and grew up. Perhaps the "Hong Kong Film Awards" themselves have also noticed this situation. The organizing committee led by Er Dongsheng is also actively seeking "newness" and "change". Through this year's Hong Kong Film Awards, we can still see that the awards are working hard to make changes and pass on the essence and spirit of Hong Kong films to the next generation.
First of all, from the shortlist, you can feel a desire and support for the "new" - "Under the Day", "Diary of a Young Man", "Homicide", "Goldfinger" and "Vicious Lawyer" 5 best films Among the films shortlisted for the award, "Under the Day", "Diary of a Youth" and "Murder Case" are all works by newcomer directors, and the producers of "Under the Day" and "Diary of a Youth" are both Er Dongsheng , he is also the chairman of the organizing committee of this year’s Academy Awards.
Secondly, although the Best Picture Award and the Best Actor Award were won by "Vicious Lawyer" and "Goldfinger", the other three films also received recognition from many awards. This also shows that the Academy Awards are doing their best to support Hong Kong's emerging filmmakers.
The crime film "Under the Day" directed by Jian Junjin is the most awarded newcomer film among them. The film was released on April 12 (last Friday). The film tells the story of how reporter Xiaoqi (played by Yu Xiangning) went deep into the front line to investigate the truth after receiving a tip about abusing residents in a disabled hospital. Several actors in the film: Yu Xiangning, Jiang David, and Liang Yongting, won the Best Actress Award, Best Supporting Actor Award, and Best Supporting Actress Award respectively. In other words, except for the Best Actor Award, which was awarded to Tony Leung, this film won all the other acting awards at this year's Academy Awards. This is really not easy for such a film without any big names participating in the starring role.
Yu Xiangning won the Best Actress Award
The most noteworthy one is the female lead Yu Xiangning. It is understood that before she received the script for "Under the Sun", she had just given birth to a baby and was working as a full-time housewife. She cherished the opportunity to star in this film very much. She has said in interviews many times: "I understand that the industry is in a recession, and everyone will use a particularly supportive tone to encourage local films. But I hope that my performance can receive real and harsh evaluations." This time she received For the Best Actress Award, her acceptance speech was also very simple: "As a woman, I believe that we can pursue our dreams at any age." One sentence expressed the professionalism and tenacity of Hong Kong actors.
David Jiang, who won the Best Supporting Actor Award, is an old man who has been in the industry for more than 70 years. Countless movie fans remember his appearance as a young man wearing bright clothes and angry horses. Now he is gray-haired. When he received the heavy trophy, he was very He humbly thanked his master Zhang Che and said, "Without him, there would be no me."
David Chiang won the Best Supporting Actor award
Not long ago, on April 11, "Kowloon Walled" directed by Cheng Baorui was shortlisted for the midnight screening section of the Cannes Film Festival. The film has been officially announced to be released nationwide on May 1st. On April 14, "Homicide" directed by Cheng Baorui and starring Lin Jiadong won the Best Director Award, Best Screenplay Award (Yu Naihai, Li Chunhui), and Best Editing Award (David Lee) at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards. Cha Sen, Liang Zhanlun). "Homicide" is a film that combines thriller, crime, comedy and other genres. It is black and absurd. Film director Cheng Po-sui is a director born in the 1970s who was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has grown up with the Hong Kong film industry since he entered the industry as a teenager. He has been nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards many times in 2003, 2013, 2018, 2020, and 2022, and finally won the This year he won the Best Director Award. It can be seen that he has grown into the most popular young and middle-aged director in Hong Kong.
Cheng Po-sui is not the only new generation director from Hong Kong, China who has emerged through this awards ceremony. Zhuo Yiqian, the director and screenwriter of "Diary of a Young Man" also won the Best New Director Award at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards for this film. . "Diary of a Youth" is one of the films with the best reputation among all the films nominated for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards. This film has won the Best New Director Award at the 60th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and the 17th Asian Film Awards, and will be released on April 19 (this Friday). The story starts from a teenager's diary and tells the story of a little boy, Zheng Youjie, who attempted suicide in the face of emotional bullying from his family, and finally found an outlet to reconcile with himself. The film focuses on youth mental health issues and is dedicated to uncovering the hidden illnesses within East Asian families and the collective scars of East Asian children.
Source: Jinan Times
