Recently, the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards came to an end, but it ushered in a big controversy, that is, Tony Leung, who won the best actor, could not convince everyone.
Tony Leung, as a powerful actor who has won the Academy Award 5 times, is worthy of the "actor" in his acting skills, but his award-winning work "Goldfinger" this time is not worthy.
As director Wang Jing said, it's not that Tony Leung can't do it, but his performance in "Goldfinger" is not good, so it's better to "abdicate and make way for Xian" and leave more opportunities for young people.
But the funny thing is that today's Academy Awards simply can't find more "young people" to inherit the mantle of Tony Leung. In addition to the 61-year-old Tony Leung, there are also 58-year-old Lin Baoyi, 62-year-old Huang Zihua, and the youngest Lu Zhenye is also 38 years old.
In addition to the mainland artist Dapeng, among the 4 Hong Kong artists nominated for the best actor, Tony Leung is indeed the most well-known and coffee position, no wonder some netizens ridiculed that it is not Tony Leung who needs the Academy Award, but Tony Leung who needs Tony Leung to improve his coffee position.
Therefore, "no" is not Tony Leung, it should be the Academy Awards.
The Hong Kong Film Awards have been tied with the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, China, and the Golden Rooster Awards in the mainland as the "Three Major Awards for Chinese Films".
However, the Academy Awards have now played themselves into a "small circle" film festival. The influence of an awards ceremony can be seen from the celebrity coffee positions that participate.
At this year's Academy Awards ceremony, most of the artists present are the young generation of artists in Hong Kong, and there are not many veteran artists, only Sammo Hung , Carina Lau , Louis Koo , Fung Delun , Anita Yuen , Aaron Kwok , Tsui Hark, etc., but in fact, many of these people are already in a state of "semi-retirement".
For example, actor Tony Leung was absent from the Academy Awards, and the movie "Goldfinger" won many awards that day, but the other leading actor Andy Lau did not appear.
Like "Breaking Point" won the best action design and best visual effects, but the starring Cheung Ka-fai, William Chan and Leung Lok Sze were not present.
And now the group of people who are really active in the Hong Kong film industry, such as Andy Lau , Nicholas Tse , Wu Zhenyu , Ren Dahua , Liu Qingyun , Jackie Chan , Chow Yun-fat and other big-name artists have not appeared.
Even Hong Kong artists are like this, let alone mainland artists, only Dapeng, who nominated the actor, participated.
At the awards ceremony held recently, the mainland's film big data festival presented a different situation.
Participating directors include Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jackie Chan, Liang Jiahui, Ye Tong, Jiang Qinqin, Yao Chen, Zhang Xiaofei, Ma Li, etc.
This is the grand occasion of the three generations of old, middle-aged and young actors shown at the large-scale awards ceremony.
Not to mention that compared with the Golden Rooster Awards at the end of last year, the Golden Rooster Awards were as famous as the Academy Awards, but there were many Hong Kong big-name artists at the Golden Rooster Awards, including Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Carina Lau, Ren Dahua, and Hui Yinghong.
Not to mention that at the Huabiao Awards, Emperor boss Yang Shoucheng appeared with Nicholas Tse and other first-line artists, and Andy Lau and other first-line Hong Kong stars looked respectful to Chen Daoming backstage.
In contrast, it is no wonder that the Academy Awards are ridiculed as a "niche award", and its row is not even as good as the lineup when the "Emperor" held a movie tour, including Louis Koo, Yang Shoucheng, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Cheung Ka-fai, Nicholas Tse, Wu Zhenyu, Ren Dahua, etc., this is the scene that can represent the Hong Kong film industry.
Of course, the current situation of the Academy Awards is also its own choice. It can be seen from the shortlist of the Academy Awards in recent years that the Academy Awards are more biased towards Hong Kong local films, and many of the films nominated are limited in the mainland, let alone mainland films.
Because the Academy Awards have regulations in the selection, the shortlisted films must meet at least two of the three conditions, one is that the director must have a Hong Kong residence permit, the second is that at least one of the production companies is Hong Kong, and the third is that at least 6 project staff members are Hong Kong residents.
Like Dapeng, who was nominated this time, because the director of his "Eighth Suspect" is from Hong Kong.
At the peak of the Hong Kong film circle, there were many mainland artists who went to the Hong Kong circle to develop, and mainland film creators and artists injected a lot of strength into the Hong Kong circle, creating the peak period at that time.
But now that the mainland is developing better and better, more and more Hong Kong artists are coming to the mainland to develop, as Wu Zhenyu once said, today's Hong Kong circle is said to be "green and yellow", because Liu Qingyun's generation is still filming.
But if the older generation doesn't insist, where can there be "newcomers" in the Hong Kong circle who can hold on?