Friday, December 19, 2025

[2025.12.20] VYING FOR HONG KONG FILM AWARDS ELIGIBILITY WITH PREVIEW SCREENINGS, FAN BINGBING COLLIDES HEAD ON WITH ZHANG ZIYI

Fan Bingbing just won the Golden Horse Awards Best Actress and is the favorite to win again.
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The fresh out of the oven "Golden Horse Best Actress" Fan Bingbing starred in the movie MOTHER BHUMI, which will launch 5 Christmas preview screenings in Hong Kong to obviously pave the way for participating in next year's Hong Kong Film Awards. She hoped to become a "double gold" Best Actress! The appearance of Fan Bingbing made Zhang Ziyi, who was originally very likely to be nominated, suddenly have another fierce rival, the battle between "Fan and Zhang" would be infinitely warlike and full of excitement!

The 44th Hong Kong Film Awards will be held in April next year, and films officially released in Hong Kong from January 1st to December 31st this year are eligible for nominations as long as they meet the requirements of the event. However, although many movies have not been officially released recently, in order to obtain the "ticket" to next year's Hong Kong Film Awards, they would be released for 5 shows before the end of the year to meet the registration qualifications. They included the Fan Bingbing starred movie MOTHER BHUMI, the Jennifer Yu Heung Ying starred movie GIRLFRIENDS (NUI HAI BUT PING FAN), and the Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin and Wong Yau Nam starred CIAO UFO (JOI GEIN UFO), etc., hoping to enter next year's Hong Kong Film Awards in a "surprise attack".

In the "surprise attack" force, the focus would of course be on the Fan Bingbing starred MOTHER BHUMI, which just won the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Actress last month. This time, Fan Bingbing's new film made a "surprise debut" at the end of the year, which undoubtedly dropped a shock bomb on the actors who had the opportunity to be nominated. Among the movies released this year, SHE'S GOT NO NAME's Zhang Ziyi, SOMEONE LIKE ME (JEUNG NGOR JEH YEUNG DIK OI CHING)'s Fish Liew Chi Yu, and MY FIRST OF MAY (MO MING JI)'s Natalie Hsu (Hui Yan Yi) were said to be have a great chance of being nominated. Among them, "Triple Golden Best Actress" Zhang Ziyi played the role of "Zhan Zhoushi", a murderous wife who suffered from domestic violence in an extreme "disfigurement" method in SHE'S and won a lot of attention. Darkening her skin and wearing a fake nose, stepping barefoot onto a manure filled field to play a female farmer who knew sorcery, Fan Bingbing absolutely could be her competition. Before the official nominations have been made, the competition is already ferocious.

Another actress with the opportunity to be Fan Bingbing's opponent for the award, Hui Yan Yi had quite a connection to her. She starred in MY, and in MOTHER she played Fan Bingbing's daughter. No wonder the race has been said to stage a "mother-daughter" dispute at any time. Recently Hui Yan Yi went to Taiwan to promote the film MOTHER and attended 10 audience appreciation shows in Taiwan for two consecutive days yesterday and today. In many interviews she and Fan Bingbing often exchanged praises, and their collaboration was very pleasant. In addition, Fan Bingbing specifically shared the poster of the Carlos Chan Ka Lok and Liew Chi Yu starred movie SOMEONE LIKE ME on social platforms last month and wrote: "I just finished watching a good movie." In the movie, Liew Chi Yu played a girl with cerebral palsy, who meets and falls in love with the Chan Ka Lok starred sex volunteer. The subject was very topical. The strong support from Fan Bingbing could be considered as pre-race pleasantries.

As for the Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin and Wong Yau Nam starred CIAO UFO, it announced yesterday that it would launch 5 Christmas preview screenings and immediately caused an internet uproar. Because the film started filming as early as May 2018 and was completed in August of the same year, was only screened at the "Hong Kong Asian Film Festival" in 2019 and 2023 and has never had an official release date. Yet another "urban legends" series of films that have viewers have waited years for release, the film's promotional slogan also specifically played with this idea: "The finale of urban legends, a strange treasure that has been universally overlooked", which was quite humorous.

Louis Koo Tin Lok has starred in a number of film releases this year, including HIT N FUN (LUM SI KUET DAU), VITAL SIGNS (SUNG YUEN TOH JUNG), BEHIND THE SHADOWS (SI GA JING TAM) and BACK TO THE PAST (CHUM CHUN GEI), among which the film BACK would be released on the last day of the year, just in time to get the "ticket" to the Hong Kong Film Awards to be held next year. Whether he would be able to receive a nomination in the end, it was still up in the air. Another Best Actor Aaron Kwok Fu Sing has performed just as brilliantly in music and film. In terms of movies, he played the role of a bad father in MY FIRST OF MAY (MO MING JI) and a lawyer who risked his life to find out the truth in UNDER CURRENT (NOI MOK). His performances have deeply won the audience's appreciation and would likely receivec a Best Actor nomination again.

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