Recently, the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards came to an end, but it ushered in a big controversy, that is, Tony Leung, who won the Best Actor, could not convince everyone.
Tony Leung is a talented actor who has won the Academy Award for Best Actor five times. His acting skills are worthy of the title of "Best Actor", but this time his award-winning work "Goldfinger" is not worthy of it.
Just as director Wang Jing said, it's not that Tony Leung is not good, but that his performance in "Goldfinger" is not good. It is better to "step aside and make way for talents" and leave more opportunities to young people.
But what’s ridiculous is that today’s Academy Awards simply can’t find more “young people” to inherit Tony Leung’s legacy. Among the Hong Kong artists nominated for this year's Best Actor, in addition to 61-year-old Tony Leung, there are also 58-year-old Lin Baoyi, 62-year-old Huang Zihua, and the youngest Lu Zhenye is also 38 years old.
In addition to the mainland artist Dapeng, among the four Hong Kong artists nominated for Best Actor, Tony Leung is indeed the most famous and famous. No wonder some netizens joked that it is not Tony Leung who needs the Academy Awards, but the Academy Awards who need Tony Leung to improve himself. coffee position.
Therefore, "no" is not Tony Leung, it should be the Academy Award.
The Hong Kong Film Awards, together with the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and the Mainland Golden Rooster Awards, were among the “three major awards for Chinese-language films”. The Hong Kong Film Awards were once an honor that many mainland artists dream of winning, and they play a decisive role in the domestic film industry.
However, today’s Academy Awards have turned themselves into a “small circle” film festival. The influence of an awards ceremony can be seen from the number of celebrities participating.
At this year's Academy Awards ceremony, most of the attendees were Hong Kong's younger generation of artists. Not many established celebrities attended, only Sammo Hung, Carina Lau, Louis Koo, Fung Tak Lun, Anita Yuen, Aaron Kwok, Tsui Hark, etc., but In fact, many of these people are already in a "semi-retired" state.
Best actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai was absent from the Academy Awards. The movie "Goldfinger" won many awards that day, but the other leading actor Andy Lau also did not appear.
Like "Breaking Point" won the best action design and best visual effects, but starring Nick Cheung, William Chan and Liang Luoshi were not present.
And the group of people who are really active in the Hong Kong film industry today, such as Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Ng Chun-yu, Simon Yam, Liu Qingwan, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat and other big-name artists have not appeared.
Even Hong Kong artists are like this, let alone mainland artists. Only Dapeng, who was nominated for the Best Actor, participated.
The awards ceremony was also held recently, but the Mainland Movie Big Data Festival presented a different situation.
Participants include director Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jackie Chan, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Ye Tong, Jiang Qinqin, Yao Chen, Zhang Xiaofei, Ma Li, etc.
This is the grand occasion of the three generations of actors, old, middle and young, shown at a large award ceremony.
Not to mention the grand occasion compared with the Golden Rooster Awards at the end of last year. The Golden Rooster Awards were once as famous as the Academy Awards, but there were many big-name Hong Kong artists at the Golden Rooster Awards, including Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Carina Lau, Simon Yam, and Wai Ying-hong.
Not to mention that during the China Watch Awards, Emperor boss Yang Shoucheng showed up with Nicholas Tse and other first-line artists, and Andy Lau and other first-line Hong Kong stars looked respectful to Chen Daoming backstage.
In comparison, it is no wonder that the Academy Awards are ridiculed as a "niche award". Its lineup is not even as good as the lineup when the "Emperor" held a movie tour, including Louis Koo, Yang Shoucheng, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Nick Cheung, and Nicholas Tse. , Francis Ng Chun-yu, Simon Yam, etc. This is the scene that represents the Hong Kong film industry.
Of course, the current situation of the Academy Awards is also its own choice. It can be seen from the shortlist of the Academy Awards in recent years that the Academy Awards favor local Hong Kong films. Many of the nominated films have limited visibility in the mainland, let alone mainland films.
Because there are regulations in the selection of the Academy Awards, the shortlisted films must meet at least two of the three conditions. First, the director must have a Hong Kong residence permit, second, at least one production company is from Hong Kong, and third, at least 6 projects The staff are Hong Kong residents.
Like Dapeng, who was nominated this time, because the director of his film "The Eighth Suspect" is from Hong Kong.
When the Hong Kong film industry was at its peak, many mainland artists went to Hong Kong to develop. Mainland film creators and artists injected a lot of power into the Hong Kong film industry, creating the peak period at that time.
But now that the mainland is developing better and better, more and more Hong Kong artists are coming to the mainland to develop. As Wu Zhenyu once said, today's Hong Kong circle is said to be "green and yellow" because Liu Qingyun's generation is still filming.
But if the older generation still don’t persist, how can there be any “newcomers” in Hong Kong who can hold on?
