Hong Kong Film Awards
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox award The Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA; Template:Zh), founded in 1982, is an annual film awards ceremony in Hong Kong. The ceremonies typically take place in April, and have mostly been held at the Grand Theatre of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre since 1991.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The awards recognise achievement in various aspects of filmmaking, such as directing, screenwriting, acting and cinematography. The awards are regarded as the Hong Kong equivalent of the Academy Awards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The HKFA, incorporated into Hong Kong Film Awards Association Ltd. since December 1993, are currently managed by a board of directors, which consists of representatives from thirteen professional film bodies in Hong Kong. Voting on eligible films for the HKFA is conducted January through March every year and is open to all registered voters, which include local film workers as well as critics, and a selected group of adjudicators.
General rules
The Hong Kong Film Awards are open to all Hong Kong films which are longer than an hour and commercially released in Hong Kong within the previous calendar year. A film qualifies as a Hong Kong film if it satisfies two of the three criteria, namely: the film director is a Hong Kong resident, at least one film company is registered in Hong Kong, and at least six persons of the production crew are Hong Kong residents. Since 2002, the HKFA also feature a Best Asian Film category, which accepts non-Hong Kong films which are commercially released in Hong Kong.
In January each year, a first round of election, open to all registered voters and a selected group of 100 professional adjudicators, is held to determine the five nominees for each award category. In the rare case where there is a tie between two nominees within the top five slots, six nominees will be allowed. Nominations are usually announced in February, after which a second round of election is held to determine the winner. Voting in the second round is open to a group of 50 professional adjudicators, Executive Committee members of the HKFA, as well as members of the thirteen professional film bodies. Each voting group holds a percentage of the ultimate score for each nominee, and each film body holds a higher share in the categories associated with it.
Board of directors
The Board of Directors consists of representatives from thirteen professional film bodies in Hong Kong, listed below.
- City Entertainment
- Hong Kong Kowloon and New Territories Motion Picture Industry Association
- Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild
- Hong Kong Theatres Association
- Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers
- Hong Kong Movie Production Executives Association
- Hong Kong Cinematography Lighting Association
- Hong Kong Stuntman Association
- Hong Kong Screen Writer's Guild
- Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild
- Hong Kong Film Arts Association
- Hong Kong Society of Film Editors
- Hong Kong Chamber of Films
Categories
The Hong Kong Film Awards currently feature 19 regular categories, listed below. Template:Div col
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Screenplay
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best New Performer
- Best New Director
- Best Cinematography
- Best Film Editing
- Best Art Direction
- Best Costume Make Up Design
- Best Action Choreography
- Best Original Film Score
- Best Sound Design
- Best Original Film Song
- Best Visual Effects
- Best Asian Chinese Language Film
Winners of Best Film Over the Years
Records
Mosts
- Most wins for a film: The Grandmaster — won 12 awards in 2014, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume & Make Up Design, Best Action Choreography, Best Sound Design and Best Original Film Score.<ref name="winnerlist33">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Most wins for Best Director: Ann Hui — awarded 6 times in 1983,<ref name="winnerlist02">Template:Cite web</ref> 1996,<ref name="winnerlist15">Template:Cite web</ref> 2009,<ref name="winnerlist28">Template:Cite web</ref> 2012,<ref name="winnerlist31">Template:Cite web</ref> 2015<ref name="winnerlist34">Template:Cite web</ref> and 2018.<ref name="winnerlist37">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Most wins for Best Actor: Tony Leung Chiu Wai — awarded 6 times in 1995,<ref name="winnerlist14">Template:Cite web</ref> 1998,<ref name="winnerlist17">Template:Cite web</ref> 2001,<ref name="winnerlist20">Template:Cite web</ref> 2003,<ref name="winnerlist22">Template:Cite web</ref> 2005,<ref name="winnerlist24">Template:Cite web</ref> and 2024.<ref name="winnerlist42">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Most wins for Best Actress: Maggie Cheung — awarded 5 times in 1990,<ref name="winnerlist09">Template:Cite web</ref> 1993,<ref name="winnerlist12">Template:Cite web</ref> 1997,<ref name="winnerlist16">Template:Cite web</ref> 1998<ref name="winnerlist17"/> and 2001.<ref name="winnerlist20"/>
- Most wins for Best Supporting Actor: Five actors with 2 times each.
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai<ref name="winnerlist07">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="winnerlist09"/>
- Paul Chun<ref name="winnerlist06">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="winnerlist13">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Anthony Wong Chau Sang<ref name="winnerlist22"/><ref name="winnerlist25">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Liu Kai-Chi<ref name="winnerlist12"/><ref name="winnerlist28"/>
- Eric Tsang<ref name="winnerlist16"/><ref name="winnerlist36">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Most wins for Best Supporting Actress: Elaine Jin — awarded 4 times in 1987,<ref name="winnerlist06"/> 1988,<ref name="winnerlist07"/> 2016<ref name="winnerlist35">Template:Cite web</ref> and 2017.<ref name="winnerlist36"/>
- Most nominations for a film:
- Bodyguards and Assassins — received 18 nominations in 2010 and won 8 including Best Film.<ref name="winnerlist29">Template:Cite web</ref>
- The Last Dance — received 18 nominations in 2025 and won 5 awards without winning Best Film, which would be won by Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.<ref name="winnerlist43">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Most nominations for Best Director: Johnnie To — nominated 18 times between his first nomination in 1990<ref name="winnerlist09"/> and his latest in 2017.<ref name="winnerlist36"/>
- Most nominations for Best Actor: Lau Ching-wan — nominated 18 times between his first nomination in 1994<ref name="winnerlist13"/> and his latest in 2025.<ref name="winnerlist43"/>
- Most nominations for Best Actress: Sylvia Chang — nominated 12 times between her first nomination in 1983<ref name="winnerlist02"/> and her latest in 2023.<ref name="winnerlist41">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Most nominations without win: Chin Ka-lok — nominated 14 times between his first nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1996<ref name="winnerlist15"/> and his latest for Best Action Choreography in 2024,<ref name="winnerlist42"/> and not a single win.
- Most consecutive wins in the same category:
- Arthur Wong, awarded Best Cinematography in 1998,<ref name="winnerlist17"/> 1999<ref name="winnerlist18">Template:Cite web</ref> and 2000.<ref name="winnerlist19">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Kinson Tsang, awarded Best Sound Design in 2016,<ref name="winnerlist35"/> 2017<ref name="winnerlist36"/> and 2018.<ref name="winnerlist37"/>
- Wu Lilu, awarded Best Costume Make Up Design in 2020,<ref name="winnerlist39">Template:Cite web</ref> 2022<ref name="winnerlist40">Template:Cite web</ref> and 2023.<ref name="winnerlist41"/>
Firsts
- First winner: Kara Hui — awarded Best Actress in the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards, making her the first recipient of the Hong Kong Film Awards.<ref name="winnerlist01">Template:Cite web</ref>
- First non-Hong Kong resident winner: Song Hongrong — born in Mainland China, awarded Best Art Direction in 1984.<ref name="winnerlist03">Template:Cite web</ref>
- First non-Hong Kong resident winner for Best Actor: Jet Li — born in Mainland China, awarded Best Actor in 2008 for his role in film The Warlords.<ref name="winnerlist27">Template:Cite web</ref>
- First non-Hong Kong resident winner for Best Actress: Siqin Gaowa — born in Mainland China, awarded Best Actress in 1985 for her role in film Homecoming.<ref name="winnerlist04">Template:Cite web</ref>
Special
- The films winning all 5 major awards (film, director, screenplay, actor, actress):
- Summer Snow by Ann Hui in 1996.<ref name="winnerlist15"/>
- A Simple Life by Ann Hui in 2012.<ref name="winnerlist31"/>
Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures
To celebrate a century of Chinese cinema, the Hong Kong Film Awards unveiled a list of Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures (which in fact includes 103 films) during the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony on 27 March 2005.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The list, selected by a panel of 101 filmmakers, critics and scholars, includes 24 films from Mainland China (11 from pre-1949 and 13 from post-1949), 61 from Hong Kong, 16 from Taiwan, and 2 co-productions.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Presenters
See also
Notes
References
External links
- "The 26th Hong Kong Film Awards - Rules of Election" Template:Webarchive. Retrieved on 2007-04-21.
- 香港电影金像奖，不少经典片段 - The Hong Kong Film Awards: Many classic moments, a news article about The 30th Hong Kong Film Awards, Thinking Chinese.
- Hong Kong Film Awards Official Site
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