[2023.04.11] MICHELLE YEOH MAY APPEAR AT THE HONG KONG FILM AWARDS

Michelle Yeoh would attend events and likely be a Hong Kong Film Award guest presenter

Sean Lau is a frequent guest at the Hong Kong Film Awards.  His previous Best Actor award was for OVERHEARD 3

The 41st Hong Kong Film Awards would take place Sunday night at the Cultural Center in Tsim Sha Tsui. The awards this year finally "returned to normal" after 3 years of the pandemic, naturally it would have no margin for error and would make an event out of it. Reportedly, the award association has already extended a sincere invitations to the fresh out of the oven Oscar Best Actress Michelle Yeoh (Yeung Chi King) in hopes that she would make a surprise appearance and be the guest presenter for one of the important awards.

Michelle has already confirmed to return to Malaysia to celebrate the joy of winning the award with family and fans on April 18th. Before going home, she who has always been supportive and concerned with the Hong Kong film industry development would stay in Hong Kong for a few days. In addition she has not stepped foot on the Hong Kong Film Awards red carpet in a very long time, then conceivably the chances of her agreeing to "return for a visit" would be rather high. Yesterday a release has been issued and cited that Michelle in two days would attend an event with Karen Mok Man Wai, Kathy Chow Man Kei and others.

This year the Hong Kong Film Awards' focus would remain on the race for Best Actor and Best Actress. After several rounds of voting, the Emperor Motion Picture DETECTIVE VS. SLEUTH (SUN TAM DAI JIN) nominee Sean Lau Ching Wan led the Best Actor category. Many industry insider felt that his character was very hard to master. Ching Wan's performance has always been rather appropriate, in addition earlier at the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild he won Best Actor. Naturally his chances would be considered better. Ching Wan also received votes from many viewers at a recent media online viewers poll. If he would win the award, it would be his third Hong Kong Film Award after winning one for MY NAME IS FAME (NGOR YIU SING MING) and OVERHEARD 3 (SIT TING FUNG WON 3).

The Best Actress competition was even more fierce. "Good actors" MAMA'S AFFAIRS' Teresa Mo Shun Kwan and A LIGHT NEVER GOES OUT (DUN FOR LAN SHAN)'s Sylvia Chang each had her own supporters. The latter months ago won the Golden Horse Award Best Actress. The experienced Louisa So Yuk Wa also joined the fray and absolutely made the choices for jury very difficult, the race could absolutely go down to the wire. New comer Angela Yuen Lai Lam has already conceded defeat, earlier at an event she was asked whether she had any confidence to win Best Actress. She said, "Absolutely not!"

In addition, according to reliable sources Wu Fung would receive the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for his 70 years in film and to honor his selfless contributions to film and show business. The event hoped to be able to invite Sau Sau's former Cantonese film co-stars "Seven Princesses'" Connie Chan Bo Chu and Nancy Sit Ka Yin to attend and personally present the award to Su Sau. If it would happen it absolutely would be the "reunion of the century". Chan Bo Chu has not appeared in public for a long time, thus fans would certainly be pleasantly surprised.