12th Feb: Updated the Best Asian Film nominees list.

The 26th Film HK Film Awards will be held on 15th April 2007. Below is the nominations list, which I have tried my best to translate to English XD.

Nominees for Best Picture:

  • 父子 / After This, Our Exile
  • 放逐 / Exiled
  • 黑社會：以和為貴 / Election 2
  • 滿城盡帶黃金甲 / Curse of the Golden Flower
  • 霍元甲 / Fearless

Nominees for Best Director:

  • 譚家明（父子） / Patrick Tam for After This, Our Exile
  • 杜琪峰（放逐） / Johnnie To for Exiled
  • 杜琪峰（黑社會：以和為貴） / Johnnie To for Election 2
  • 張藝謀（滿城盡帶黃金甲） / Zhang Yi-Mou for Curse of the Golden Flower
  • 張之亮（墨攻） / Jacob Cheung Chi-Leung for Battle of Wits

Nominees for Best Actor:

  • 郭富城（父子） / Aaron Kwok Fu-Sing for After This, Our Exile
  • 劉青雲（我要成名） / Lau Cheng-Wan for My Name is Fame
  • 梁朝偉（傷城） / Tony Leung Chiu-Wai for Confession of Pain
  • 周潤發（滿城盡帶黃金甲） / Chow Yun-Fatt for Curse of the Golden Flower
  • 李連杰（霍元甲） / Jet Li for Fearless

Nominees for Best Actress

  • 毛舜筠（大丈夫２） / Teresa Mo for Men Suddenly in Black
  • 劉若英（生日快樂） / Rene Liu for Happy Birthday
  • 梁洛施（伊莎貝拉） / Isabella Leung for Isabella
  • 李心潔（鬼域） / Angelica Lee Sin-Je for Re-cycle
  • 鞏俐（滿城盡帶黃金甲） / Gong Li for Curse of the Golden Flower

Nominees for Best Supporting Actor:

  • 吳景滔（父子） / Ng King-To for After This, Our Exile
  • 任達華（黑社會：以和為貴） / Simon Yam for Election 2
  • 張家輝（黑社會：以和為貴） / Nick Cheung Kar-Fai for Election 2
  • 周杰倫（滿城盡帶黃金甲） / Jay Chou for Curse of the Golden Flower
  • 劉燁（滿城盡帶黃金甲） / Liu Ye for Curse of the Golden Flower

Nominees for Best Supporting Actress:

  • 林熙蕾（父子） / Kelly Lin for After This, Our Exile
  • 梁洛施（妄想） / Isabella Leung for Diary
  • 余安安（我要成名） / Yu On-On for My Name is Fame
  • 周迅（夜宴） / Zhou Xun for The Banquet
  • 田蕊妮（師奶唔易做） / Crystal Tin for My Mother is a Belly Dancer

Nominees for Best Newcomer:

  • 吳景滔（父子） / Ng King-To for After This, Our Exile
  • 霍思燕（我要成名） / Huo Si-Yan for My Name is Fame
  • 裴唯瑩（狗咬狗） / Pei Wei-Ying for Dog Bite Dog
  • 孫儷（霍元甲） / Betty Sun for Fearless
  • MatthewMedvedev（寶貝計畫） / MatthewMedvedev for Rob-B-Hood

The nominees for the other technical awards – since I don’t really know half of who’s who – I’ll just list the name of the films that were nominated until I have find out all the names.

Nominees for Best Screenplay:

  • After This, Our Exile
  • Happy Birthday
  • My Name is Fame
  • Election 2
  • Confession of Pain

Nominees for Best Cinematography:

  • After This, Our Exile
  • Isabella
  • Exiled
  • Confession of Pain
  • Curse of the Golden Flower

Nominees for Best Editing

  • After This, Our Exile
  • Exiled
  • Confession of Pain
  • Battle of Wits
  • Fearless

Nominees for Best Art Direction:

  • After This, Our Exile
  • Isabella
  • The Banquet
  • Confession of Pain
  • Curse of the Golden Flower

Nominees for Best Costume:

  • Isabella
  • The Banquet
  • Confession of Pain
  • Curse of the Golden Flower
  • Battle of Wits

Nominees for Best Action Choreography:

  • Ching Siu-Tung for Curse of the Golden Flower
  • Tung Wai for Battle of Wits
  • Yuen Wo-Ping for Fearless
  • Donnie Yen for Dragon Tiger Gate
  • Jackie Chan, Lee Chung-Chi & Jackie Chan Stunts Family (Cheng Jia-Ban) for Rob-B-Hood

Nominees for Best Sound Effects:

  • The Banquet
  • Re-cycle
  • Curse of the Golden Flower
  • Battle of Wits
  • Fearless

Nominees for Best Special Effects:

  • The Banquet
  • Re-cycle
  • Curse of the Golden Flower
  • Battle of Wits
  • Dragon Tiger Gate

Nominees for Best Original Music:

  • Isabella
  • The Banquet
  • Confession of Pain
  • Curse of the Golden Flower
  • Battle of Wits

Nominees for Best Original Song:

  • The Choice of Ah Dong by Alive for The Four Heavenly Kings
  • Happy Birthday by Rene Liu for Happy Birthday
  • 我用所有报答爱 by Jane Zhang for The Banquet
  • Chrysanthemum Flower Bed by Jay Chou for Curse of the Golden Flower
  • Fearless by Jay Chou for Fearless

Nominees for Best New Director:

  • Law Wing-Cheong for 2 Become 1
  • Daniel Wu for The Four Heavenly Kings
  • Yip Lim-Sum for Marriage With A Fool

Nominees for Best Asian Film:

  • Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (China)
  • Death Note (Japan)
  • Crazy Stone (China)
  • The Host (S. Korea)
  • I Not Stupid 2 (Singapore) * replaced Still Life

Note: Still Life (China) was removed from the nominee list due to incorrect viewing format. I Not Stupid 2 replaced Still Life.Nominations tally:

  • Curse of the Golden Flower – 14
  • After This, Our Exile – 10
  • Confession of Pain – 7
  • Fearless – 7
  • The Banquet – 7
  • Battle of Wits – 6
  • Election 2 – 5
  • Isabella – 5
  • Exiled – 4
  • My Name is Fame – 4
  • Happy Birthday – 3
  • Re-cycle – 3
  • Rob-B-Hood – 2
  • The Four Heavenly Kings – 2
  • Dragon Tiger Gate – 2
  • Men Suddenly In Black – 1
  • Diary – 1
  • My Mother is a Belly Dancer – 1
  • Dog Bite Dog – 1
  • Marriage With a Fool – 1
  • 2 Become 1 – 1

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My Comments:

I guess it is the battle between Curse of the Golden Flower and After This Our Exile. I’m more in favor of the latter.

Patrick Tam actually were nominated in many categories – Director, Screenplay (joint nomination), Editing and Art Direction (joint nomination)!

I couldn’t understand why Jay Chou can be nominated for Supporting Actor ?! O_O.

Why are the judges nominating a baby in Rob-B-Hood? Goodness gracious.

Why is Edison Chen not nominated for Dog Bite Dog ? I thought he’s pretty good (and violent) in that film.

Curse of the Golden Flower is missing on Editing and Screenplay – may be important, especially Screenplay.

I think HKFAA should just ditch the idea of nominated the same person for 2 different films. They should take after the Academy Awards whereby only 1 person can be nominated in one category. I’m referring to the Best Director nominees – Johnnie To for 2 films. Yes, I know sometimes a director can have 2 outstanding films but they have to choose the best one. It is the same situation as this year’s Oscars for Clint Eastwood. Both Flags of the Father and Letters from Iwo Jima were outstanding films but he was nominated for Letters.