[2013.04.12] COLD WAR HAS THE BEST CHANCE TO WIN BEST PICTURE

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Tony Leung Chiu Wai

Tony Leung Ka Fai feels no other software can replace the visuals on film

Johnnie To's preference and insistence on film influences Sammi Cheng 

Zhou Xun regrettably will not be able to attend

COLD WAR is the overall favorite

Lau Ching Wan looks forward to accept the changing of the times

Nick Cheung

For his first film Chapman To stood next to the camera and heard the film's rolling sound.  At that moment he felt that he has became an actor

Dante Lam earlier won at the Hong Kong Film Critic Society Award with THE VIRAL FACTOR

Elanne Kong feels with digital photography, photo can be taken at will nd deleting is also very causal

Miriam Yeung feels film stores memories like a solid diary with character in life

Wilson Chin, Gordon Chan, Gordon Lam, Jerry Lamb yesterday attended the Hong Kong Film Award worship ceremony
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The 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards will take place tomorrow night at the Cultural Center. COLD WAR (HONG JING) has the best chance at winning Best Picture and Best Director will be a battle between COLD WAR and THE VIRAL FACTOR. Because the film industry has already entered the digital age and replaced film productions, the event this year has a theme that saluted film. Thus the program also had a film design, inviting on and off camera talent including nominated directors, Best Actors and Best Actresses to discuss making movies with a film camera in details.

Best Picture and Best Director categories this year have strong competitions, but many like Andrew Lau Wai Keung, Eric Tsang Chi Wai and Felix Chong Man Keung all picked COLD WAR to win Best Picture, citing that COLD WAR was very complete and well rounded. Lau Wai Keung said, "The film is made with a lot of details, many compare it to INFERNAL AFFAIRS (MO GAN DOH) but actually they are different. They are only similar in spirit. Every plot in COLD WAR is very well connected, the actors are outstanding in particular Sing Sing (Aaron Kwok Fu Sing). I watched it twice. Sing Sing's performance has always had quality, this time he has a lot inside. I really like the performance from within, it isn't superficial. Sing Sing performed very well, so I felt bad for him when he wasn't nominated for Best Actor."

Best Director was a war between COLD WAR and THE VIRAL FACTOR. COLD due to its commercial and critical success brought attention to two new directors Longman Leung Lok Man and Sunny Luk Kim Ching. However Dante Lam Chiu Yin with THE VIRAL FACTOR earlier already won Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Critic Society Award. However, Pang Ho Cheung's LOVE IN THE BUFF (CHUN GIU YU JI MING) led to such a humongous response and should not be overlooked either.

Yesterday the Hong Kong Film Award Association chair Gordon Chan Ka Seung and hosts Gordon Lam Ka Tung and Jerry Lamb Hiu Tung attended the worship ceremony. The other two hosts Eric Tsang Chi Wai and Ronald Cheng Chung Kei were absent. Also a director, Chan Ka Seung mentioned that film as a filmmaking format has already sunset. "DRUG WAR (DUK JIN), THE GRANDMASTERS (YUT DOI JUNG SI) are the final ones that were made with film. Director To Kei Fung said that he would buy the last batch of film. The Hong Kong film production era has passed. We used to work for film, which would be worth talking about all night at the award show." He said that this year the award received HK$5 million full funding production assistant from the government. TVB, now TV and Radio 2 Hong Kong will broadcast the show live simultaneously.

As for guest presenters, Korean star Choi Si-Won, Jackie Chan, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Carina Lau Ka Ling, Andy Lau Tak Wa, Deanie Ip Tak Han, Anthony Wong Chau Sun, Nick Cheung Ka Fai, director Wong Kar Wai, former Golden Harvest boss Raymond Chow Man Wai, Miriam Yeung Chin Wa, Lo Hoi Pang, Gigi Leung Wing Kei, Alex Man Chi Leung, Taiwan director Giddens Ko and others. Jacky Cheung Hok Yau, Anthony Wong Yiu Ming, Leo Ku Kui Ke, and Mag Lam Yun Tung will be guest performers. Wong Yiu Ming will perform a salute to superstar Leslie Cheung Kwok for the 10th anniversary of his passing.

Lam Ka Tung was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and also the host. He said that he picked his fellow host Cheng Chung Kei to win, the pressure came from wanting to do a good job with hosting. Lam Hiu Fung joked, "I don't have any nomination, I am very relaxed. Watching Lam Ka Tung and Cheng Chung Kei in a fierce competition, their wanting to laugh but unable to looks are the most entertaining.