26th HK Film Awards - Winners
April 16, 2007I have posted the nomination list previously here.
The major award winners are:
- Best Picture: After This, Our Exile
- Best Director: Patrick Tam for After This, Our Exile
- Best Actor: Lau Cheng-Wan for My Name is Fame (!!!!)
- Best Actress: Gong Li for Curse of the Golden Flower
- Best Supporting Actor: Ng King-To for After This, Our Exile
- Best Supporting Actress: Zhou Xun for The Banquet
- Best Newcomer: Ng King-To for After This, Our Exile
- Best New Director: Daniel Wu for The Four Heavenly Kings
- Best Asian Film: Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (China)
Technical award winners:
- Best Screenplay: After This, Our Exile
- Best Cinematography: Confession of Pain
- Best Editing: Battle of Wits
- Best Art Direction: Curse of the Golden Flower
- Best Costume: Curse of the Golden Flower
- Best Action Choregraphy: Fearless
- Best Sound Effects: Re-cycle
- Best Special Effects: Re-cycle
- Best Original Music: Isabella
- Best Original Song: Chrysanthemum Flower Bed by Jay Chou for Curse of the Golden Flower
Honorary Awards:
- Sir Run Run Shaw for his contribution to films - the Achievement in Film of the Century
- Man Yuen-Ling (makeup artist) - Professional Spirit
Total Wins against total nominations:
- After This, Our Exile - 5 wins/10 noms
- Curse of the Golden Flower - 4/14
- Re-cycle - 2/3
- Confession of Pain - 1/7
- Fearless - 1/7
- The Banquet - 1/7
- Battle of Wits - 1/6
- Isabella - 1/5
- My Name is Fame - 1/4
- The Four Heavenly Kings - 1/2
Comments
The hosts (Lam Tze-Chung, Tsang Bao-Yi, Cheung Kar-Fai):
Quite good actually considering that they are first-timers. The veteran among the trio should be Tsang Bao-Yi who is Eric Tsang’s daughter. This is the first time that I saw her host a show in Cantonese because all of the shows that I saw her were in Mandarin. The funniest host, however, should be Cheung Kar-Fai. His deadpan expressions and line delivery were so ROTFL. I also liked the banter between the trio, especially the funny criticisms by Tze-Chung and Bao-Yi of Kar-Fai.
The performances:
They were 3, if I remembered correctly. All of them were good. The best one should be the first performance by ALIVE (the project band formed by Daniel Wu, Terence Yin, Andrew Lin and Lam Chi-Chung aka The Four Heavenly Kings) with some of the HK musicians/bands like Audiophile, Beyond, etc. There were four singers from those bands and each member of ALIVE accompanied each singer holding a stack of cards that described the state of HK music and film industry (criticism actually). It’s kind of refreshing to watch it at a Film awards show.
The other 2 were Zhang Liang Ying (theme song of The Banquet) and Jay Chou (theme song for Curse of the Golden Flower).
The presenters:
Ehm…some of them were so boring and lack of chemistry. What about the Korean presenters (Kwon Sang-Woo and Song Hye-Gyo)? ehm. Standard stuff. Didn’t actually crack a joke or anything duh! They should ditch the Chinese presenters. I know HK is under China but this is HK awards, they should find more HK actors/actresses. They have more chemistry and less serious in delivering their banters. The Chinese presenters were so lack of chemistry that it seems they took it too seriously to present the awards. Good presenters should lighten up the atmosphere before presenting. To be fair, some of the HK presenters were lacking too but at least they know how to say a joke or two to draw some laughter from the audience.
The award winners:
Most of them were saying standard things. The most memorable should be when Lau Cheng-Wan won his award. Everyone was so genuinely happy for him - even the hosts and Wong Chau-Sang who was backstage actually came back onstage to give him a hug! His wife, Amy Kwok Oi-Ming was in teary eyes. Even though I initially thought Aaron Kwok would take the award, I was also very happy that Cheng-Wan took it. He has been turning solid works in each of his films - well, the ones that I’ve watched and he has waited 11 years for this award.
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