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| Sean Lau and Hedwig Tam win Best Actor and Best Actress respectively courtesy of on.cc |
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| Sammi Cheng on the stage declares that she wants to be on the same level as five time Best Actor winner Sean Lau courtesy of singtao.com |
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| Sammi Cheng presents the Best Actor award to Sean Lau, hoping to have the chance to work together again |
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| Winning her first Best Actress award with MONTAGES OF A MODERN MOTHERHOOD, Hedwig Tam says that she is very nervous when she accepts the award on the stage and is very touched to be holding the award |
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| PAPA's Philip Yung wins Best Director and strongly supports the Film Critic Society |
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| Director Anselm Chan is happy that his film THE LAST DANCE becomes one of the recommended films courtesy of mingpao.com |
"The 31st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Ceremony" was held at the Hong Kong Film Archive Cinema yesterday, and invited Sammi Cheng Sau Man was the guest of honor to present the "Best Film" TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN (GAU LUNG SING JAI JI WAI SING), "Best Director" Philip Yung Tsz Kwong (PAPA), "Best Screenplay" Ryker Chan Wai Bun, Albert Mak Kai Kwong, Man Uen Ching (ROB N ROLL), "Best Actor" Sean Lau Ching Wan (PAPA), "Best Actress" Hedwig Tam Sin Yin (MONTAGES OF A MODERN MOTHERHOOD); in addition 10 recommended films included ROB N ROLL (LUM SI GIP ONG), OBEDIENCE (SUP FONG JI DEI), FOUR TRAILS (HEUNG GONG SEI GAING DAI BO JAU), THE WAY WE TALK (HONG NGOR GUM TIN JUM MOR SUET), ALL SHALL BE WELL (CHUNG GUM YI HAU), LOVE LIES (NGOR TAM DIK NA CHEUNG LUEN OI), PAPA, WINTER CHANTS (DONG MEI LOI), THE LAST DANCE (POR. DEI YUK) and AN ABANDONED TEAM (DUT CHUNG SIN SUN).
Award presenter Cheng Sau Man has won the Film Critics Society "Best Actress" twice. Two years ago she won with LOST (LAU SHUI LOK FA) and the first time was in 2001 with WU YAN (CHUNG MO YIM). She cherished the awards very much and was greatly encouraged. She said with a smile that she was not as strong as Lau Ching Wan's five "Best Actor" awards. "Lau Ching Wan is stronger, I want to learn from the elder and hope that I would have the chance to make a movie with Ching Wan again." She was also happy for Tam Sin Yin. "When we performed in LOST LOVE, she was still new. I saw her enormous improvement, and I have to push myself to continue to improve. This year I will make movies, and I hope the characters I pick would have breakthroughs. I really like PAPA, I hope to have a chance to work with director Yung Tsz Kwong." As for the Film Critics Society president's comment that the film industry would experience a cold winter period, she believed that the Hong Kong film industry will be able to get out of the cold winter with selfless dedication and sharing.
Yung Tsz Kwong said that he too hoped to be able to work with Cheng Sau Man. This is the first time I win the Director Award. I used to be a film critic, the Film Critics Society is absolutely unbiased. I once participated in the Society's internal discussions. The Film Critics Society Awards remind everyone that how great certain Hong Kong films are, they aren't necessarily an industry award. However it would use different angles to encourage movies that maybe everyone would consider in the minority."
Lau Ching Wan was very happy to receive the "Best Actor" for the fifth time. He thanked the Film Critics Society for its support over the years. He would constantly read their movie reviews, which are very clear and cultured and have been an inspiration to him. He said that he did not have any special celebration, as due to the cold weather he has been in a rush to get home. His performance in PAPA was rated as having depth. He joked that only the director and the script had depth, and he himself was superficial. "If I didn't hear the host talk about my reviews, I wouldn't have known that my performance has such depth. I have always thought my acting is a little superficial. Thank you Director Yung Tsz Kwong for waiting many years for me and also thank you to my family in the film. They are a group of people who put their hearts into their acting, giving me a lot of inspirations and new ideas. Our city only has a population of several million, it is very hard to demand our movies to have several billion at the box office; but I believed that maintaining our specialties and cultural characteristics and properly developing them, we definitely would have a good chance." Was he more confident about winning the Hong Kong Film Awards? Ching Wan pointed out that the two award ceremonies were very different, and he has always been confident in himself. "I have seen that the film industry has been so lively recently. With everyone's hard work, many excellent films have been produced like THE LAST DANE and TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN; both are full of local cultural characteristics, and they can all develop in this direction in the future." He stared at Hedwig Tam Sin Yin and continued, "We also have great actresses, we can do many good things together."
Tam Sin Yin was emotional when she accepted her award. "Only this moment is real. This award is encouragement and support. Thank you Director (Oliver) Chan Siu Kuen for spending several years to write the character for me. Thank you Mommy, she is the one who leads me to find Suk Ching (her MONTAGES OF A MODERN MOTHERHOOD character). I hope the movie would help different mothers open up and discuss the modern motherhood anew and awaken children to heavy appreciation for mothers." Was she confident about winning the Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actress? She was just like Ching Wan and cited that the standards and voting methods were different. She would treat it normally and did not have any particular confidence. Other nominees all performed very well, so it would depend on the voters' tastes. Who was the strongest rival? She said that she was her own greatest enemy. She also said that she longed to work with Ching Wan. At the event she greeted him and introduced herself.
THE LAST DANCE made over HK$ 160 million at the box office, but it only received the Recommended Film Award at the Film Critic Society Awards. Founding member Manfred Wong (Man Jun) once spoke up over this injustice. Yesterday THE LAST DANCE director Anselm Chan Mou Yin happily accepted the recommended film award and said, "Wherever there is an award in Hong Kong I will go to accept it there, because the original intention of making the movie is not for awards. Having a movie to make is already great. Man Jun is an elder and is very doting on younger generations like us, but I don't particularly feel that we need to be spoiled. I hope that the cast and the crew of every film will continue to work hard to face the audience."
Speaking of THE LAST DANCE's 18 nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards, he wanted the most for all of the actors to win the awards. It was a pity that Dayo Wong Tze Wah was not nominated, but he was not disappointed to have 18 nominations. In addition, the extended version of THE LAST DANCE will be screened on April 4th, increasing the length from 127 minutes to 141 minutes, re-editing and adding the scenes of Vincent Kok Tak Chiu and Tze Wah's on screen half-brother Kaki Sham, and revealing the life history of Elaine Jin (Kam Yin Ling)'s character, as well as a very well acted scene by Michelle Wai Sze Nga, which will be presented to the audience.
THE 2024 HONG KONG FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS
https://www.filmcritics.org.hk
BEST FILM: TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN
BEST DIRECTOR: Philip Yung (PAPA)
BEST SCREENPLAY: Ryker Chan, Albert Mak, Man Uen Ching (ROB N ROLL)
BEST ACTOR: Sean Lau (PAPA)
BEST ACTRESS: Hedwig Tam (MONTAGES OF A MODERN MOTHERHOOD)
RECOMMENDED FILMS: ROB N ROLL, OBEDIENCE, FOUR TRAILS, THE WAY WE TALK, ALL SHALL BE WELL, LOVE LIES, PAPA, WINTER CHANTS, THE LAST DANCE, AN ABANDONED TEAM
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