The 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards was another night of surprises and surprises.
Huang Zihua starred in "The Bad Tongue Lawyer" (Hong Kong title "The Bad Tongue") won the best film, Zheng Baorui won the best director for "Murder", and You Naihai and Li Chunhui also won the best screenplay for "Murder".
The previous hit movie "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" won the best Asian Chinese film, and it deservedly won the title.
"Under the White Sun" won three awards: Best Actress (Yu Xiangning), Best Supporting Actor (Jiang David), and Best Supporting Actress (Liang Yongting).
Among them, the 76-year-old veteran actor Jiang David, who was nominated for the Academy Awards for the first time in 72 years and won the Best Supporting Actor, made too many people cheer for him.
Also receiving a lot of cheers and applause is 74-year-old Sammo Hung, who won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
At the Academy Awards, Carina Lau's lobster dress was eye-catching enough, but the biggest shock of the night came from her husband who was not there: Tony Leung.
Although he was filming the new film "Silent Friends" in Germany and was absent from the awards ceremony, this time the 61-year-old Tony Leung won the Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards again with the movie "Goldfinger", and was awarded the Best Actor at the Academy Awards six times.
The previous five were:
The 24th "2046" (2005), the 22nd "Infernal Affairs" (2003), the 20th "In the Mood for Love" (2001), the 17th "Happy Spring" (1998), and the 14th "Chongqing Forest" (1995), except for "Infernal Affairs", the other 4 times all won the best actor with Wong Kar-wai films.
Carina Lau, who accepted the award instead of Tony Leung, said that when she learned that Tony Leung won the Best Actor again, she understood that the audience would say, "It's him again, give others a chance", but Carina Lau said that she has been by Tony Leung's side for many years and described him as a "great actor".
But Tony Leung, who was connected, immediately interrupted her and said: "It's not great, it's OK to be a good actor, it's not great." ”
However, compared with the previous times, in addition to Tony Leung, who won the Academy Award this time, many viewers and fans were unconvinced, and they felt sorry and aggrieved for the other two competitors who were also nominated for Best Actor.
These two are Lin Baoyi and Huang Zihua, after Tony Leung won the actor, they were also on the hot search on the Internet.
Some people think that it is not that Tony Leung is bad, but that they feel sorry for the other two who performed too well this time.
Wang Jing also posted the next day, Tony Leung should announce that he will no longer accept the award and give the opportunity to the younger generation.
He said: "Goldfinger is by no means Tony Leung's best performance, it's a bit overdone... If I were him, I would follow Alan Tam's example, Leslie Cheung announced that he would no longer receive the award and give the opportunity to the younger generation. ”
Let's talk about the actor of "The Bad Tongue Lawyer", the winner of the Best Film at the Academy Awards, Huang Zihua.
The Hong Kong actor, who is older than Tony Leung, is 63 years old despite having a baby face, and he has been committed to Hong Kong's local performances, and his "stand-up comedy" has made a lot of contributions to Cantonese culture.
"The Bad Tongue Lawyer" was released in Hong Kong at the beginning of last year, and it became the highest-grossing Chinese film in Hong Kong film history in only 1 month, as well as the first Chinese film in Hong Kong to break 100 million at the box office.
Huang Zihua's acting skills accumulated for many years, this time he shined with the help of his role in the movie, and the moment of closing his speech resonated with people.
Many people are optimistic that Huang Zihua can win the award, but unfortunately, the movie won the best, and he lost.
Let's focus on 58-year-old Lin Baoyi.
His call for winning the award this time can be said to be the highest, but he didn't get it in the end, and there are many viewers and fans who are aggrieved for him.
Lin Baoyi's nominated film this time is "Under the White Sun", this movie swept this year's Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, but lost a Best Actor, which made many viewers who like this movie feel lost.
This is a film based on real events, involving the darkness of abuse in a disabled home, and Lin Baoyi plays the most complex and hateful antagonist in the film, and is rated as "acting crazy".
From the perspective of awards, it seems that it has never been possible to give all four important acting awards to a film, and I wonder if it is considered from a balanced point of view if the nominees who did not award the best actor to the same film again.
However, this makes people feel even more aggrieved for Lin Baoyi.
For audiences watching Hong Kong dramas, Lin Baoyi is a familiar acting school, not particularly handsome, but with an extraordinary temperament, good-looking, perennial rooted in Hong Kong drama performances, and there is drama in her eyes.
The performance is very comprehensive, and the characters are both good and evil.
From joining TVB in 1991 to leaving in 2011, Lin Baoyi has made many masterpieces in TVB in the past 20 years, among which the classic images created in dramas such as "Forensic Records", "Wonderful Hands and Benevolence", "Golden Branches Desire" and "Jewels" are unforgettable.
In 2004, he won the TVB TV Emperor in one fell swoop with "Golden Branch Desire".
After leaving TVB, Lin Baoyi first moved to the mainland, and later returned to Hong Kong. During this period, he also entered the film industry and acted in films such as "Taiping Wheel", "Two Heroes", "Anti-Corruption Storm", etc., further expanding his performance space.
Later, Lin Baoyi still felt that Hong Kong dramas were the most suitable for her, starring in the eye-catching "Margaret and David Mung Bean", and later he became a producer and filmed a "Bridge of Sighs" that amazed many audiences, which was considered to be different from Hong Kong dramas like TVB, but with Wong Kar-wai's style.
Lin Baoyi's acting skills are obtained by repeatedly pondering the details of life and other good movies.
For many years, he once said that he had never studied acting or entered film school, and acting was on his own. His own method is not to act stupidly in front of the mirror, but to watch movies every day to improve himself. For example, Django Unchained, directed by Quentin.
He said that he would watch a good movie three or four times in a row, and repeatedly study what is good.
Awards, there are always people happy and some worried, there is always only one person who can win the award every time, but the audience can like a lot.
63-year-old Huang Zihua and 58-year-old Lin Baoyi are not frequent visitors to the Hong Kong film industry, but their shining performances are remembered by the audience.
None of them are young anymore, but they are still generating electricity for Hong Kong films, hoping for good luck in the future.