The Hong Kong Film Awards have gone through 39 years.
Any film award, there will be some lost pearls. For one reason or another, a good film has not won an award, and a good actor has not won the best actor, which is common in all the famous film festivals in the world.
For example, "The Shawshank Redemption", which was the highest rated by IMDB, did not win any major Oscars that year.
Although this will not reduce the influence of classic films, it is a huge regret that there was no award that year.
The most famous filmmaker in the history of Hong Kong cinema is Bi-Zhou Cheng. This is the existence of the first grade. Zhou Runfa's film emperor does not need to be introduced, Zhou Xingchi also won the only film emperor in 2002 with "Shaolin Football", and the double Monday achievement is jackie Chan.
The eternal myth of Hong Kong cinema is made on a double week
Not compared with the two weeks, those actors who have a little popularity in Hong Kong movies have later won the film emperor. Jackie Chan has always lacked a film emperor trophy, and basically there is no such possibility. This is really a regrettable thing, and even makes people feel sorry for Jackie Chan.
Why hasn't Jackie Chan ever won the Academy Award?
It's really all kinds of yin and yang mistakes.
1. In the early years, Jackie Chan regretted missing the best movie emperor opportunity because of the seniority ranking
The Hong Kong Film Awards were established in 1982.
In the first 3 years of the Academy Awards, because the awards have just started, the early results of various awards are still in the exploratory stage, and they are still very immature, and they have not formed a set of standardized award standards.
Of course, this is also a common phenomenon in all film awards in the world. The Golden Rooster Award and the Golden Horse Award are not like this.
Specific to the three years from 1982 to 1985, the film emperor of the Academy Awards was like a late recognition to the predecessors who were active in the Hong Kong film industry at that time.
We can watch the previous 2 Academy Awards Film Emperor. The first Session of Xu Guanwen
The second time in the history of the Academy Awards, the only double yolk egg, Hong Jinbao and Mai Jia won together.
These 3 get the film emperor, obviously with that kind of meaning, to give the big brother of the film industry a kind of honorary certification. For example, let's hold a movie award and give the seniors a good time.
Why?
When it comes to the series of movies "Best Partner", clear-eyed people know that the male protagonist is Xu Guanjie, and Mai Jia is a male number two. Why didn't the male protagonist get the Academy Award, but gave it to a supporting role?
Let's take a closer look.
In this context, Jackie Chan, as a junior at that time, of course, it was difficult to compete with the big brothers.
In fact, the works of the above 3 film emperor winners are really not good works in the history of Hong Kong cinema. Films such as "A Plan" launched by Jackie Chan in the past 2 years can be said to be completely inferior to "Best Partner". But well, it's about seniority.
2. In the early days of the Academy Awards, it has begun to favor feature films and literary films
At the beginning of the Academy Awards, in addition to the film emperor taking more care of the big brother, other awards have formed a style of favoring drama films and literary films.
Let's look at the first 5 Academy Awards.
In the first 2 years, in addition to the film emperor, the works that won the film queen, the best film and the best director were all literary and art films.
Then in 1984 Leung Ka Fai became the youngest film emperor at that time with "Hanging Curtains and Listening to the Government" (this record was not broken by Nicholas Tse until later, but when Tse Tingfeng won the film emperor...). ), shocked the Hong Kong film industry.
Being able to break the tradition of seniority ranking at the Academy Awards proves that Leung Ka Fai's performance is indeed difficult to hide.
Of course, this is also the Academy Awards Organizing Committee declaring a certain attitude to the outside world, and it will vigorously commend feature films and literary and art films in the future.
Fang Yuping won 2 best directors in the first 3 sessions, which has proved this.
The 39-year history of the Academy Awards has repeatedly proved its tradition of favoring feature films and literary films. Unless it's a phenomenal commercial film like "The True Colors of Heroes" and "Infernal Affairs" – but then again, "The True Colors of Heroes" and "Infernal Affairs" also have a certain depth, not a purely commercial film – the Academy Awards are basically encouraging literary films.
Therefore, Jackie Chan, as an action superstar, has been "discriminated against" by the Academy Awards.
3. Jackie Chan missed 2 golden opportunities for film emperors
In fact, Jackie Chan still has 2 excellent opportunities to win the Academy Award.
But it is a pity that because of various factors, Jackie Chan regrets to miss it.
Jackie Chan's closest thing to the Academy Awards was the 5th Academy Awards in 1986.
It should be said that jackie Chan's chances of this Academy Awards are really very big. Looking forward to the Academy Awards that year, many people were also optimistic about Jackie Chan.
However, it can only be said that the yin and yang are really wrong.
"Police Story" eventually won the best film, and in the early years when the Academy Awards were very competitive, it was difficult for a film to win more than 2 awards at the same time. Therefore, Jackie Chan naturally can't get the best actor.
But "Dragon's Heart" is actually worth a movie emperor. This is a rare film in Jackie Chan's early years, famous for its inner drama. The film is basically no action scene, but about brotherhood. Strictly speaking, this is also a literary film.
It seems that Jackie Chan really wants to get a movie emperor, so he made this movie.
Unfortunately, he finally lost to Zheng Zeshi's "Why Have Me".
Fat Cat won the Academy Award that year for "Why Me"
"Why Me" and "Dragon's Heart" are in the same genre.
In "Why Should There Be Me", Zheng Zeshi starred in a mentally retarded fat cat, the plot is very touching; in "The Heart of the Dragon", Hong Jinbao also starred in a mentally retarded brother, as a younger brother Jackie Chan also took care of him, and the brotherhood of the two people is also very touching.
These 2 films have their own advantages, it is difficult to say which one is better, and it is difficult to say that Zheng Zeshi's performance is more than Jackie Chan.
If I have to say it, I think it is still the tradition of the Academy Awards to take care of the old predecessors, so that Jackie Chan lost this opportunity.
This is jackie chan's best chance to get the Academy Award in his life.
Next, Zhou Runfa turned out. In the 4 years from 1987 to 1989, Zhou Runfa took the film emperor 3 times, which is deserved, and no one has any opinion.
Jackie Chan's second best Academy Awards opportunity was in 1989.
This time, in order to realize his dream of film emperor, he once again filmed a literary and artistic film "Miracle".
"Miracle" was a huge investment, but the box office response was flat. If it weren't for the award, it's hard to imagine Jackie Chan making such a movie. It is said that when he got the script, Jiahe boss He Guanchang was originally opposed, but he could not get Jackie Chan and had to let him shoot.
"Miracle" eventually lost to Zhou Runfa's "The Story of Ah Lang", which was not a loss at all.
Everyone knows that "The Story of Ah Lang" is definitely a real classic of film and television.
This time, Jackie Chan was really unlucky.
After this battle, Jackie Chan was a little discouraged by the Academy Awards film emperor, and he never made a literary film for a long time since then.
4. Going away to Hollywood and entering the mainland market has made Jackie Chan lose the last opportunity for the Academy Awards
The story of the 80s Academy Awards that belongs to Jackie Chan ends here.
Throughout the 1990s, the Academy Awards became more and more fond of literary films, and Wong Kar-wai and Leung Chao-wai were the brightest stars of the Academy Awards in the 1990s.
Jackie Chan single-mindedly went to make his own commercial films.
Of course, he also has a difficult brother, who also belongs to the "double Monday" Zhou Xingchi.
One is an action superstar, the other is a comedy superstar, and the two people are also "discriminated against" by the Academy Awards.
Zhou Xingchi, who used to be like Jackie Chan, hopes to get an Academy Award. But the stereotype of the Academy Awards is difficult to break, so that later he laughed at himself in "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair", borrowing Luo Jiaying's mouth
What is a comedy show? "The expression is contrived and slightly exaggerated." How can you take the Emperor of Shadows?
I am afraid that Jackie Chan is also in the mind of the Academy Awards.
The Academy Awards of the 90s didn't have anything to do with them.
If Hong Kong cinema has been as prosperous as the golden age of the 80s and 90s, and supernova stars like Stephen Chow have popped up from time to time, the Academy Awards and Jackie Chan should not have any connection.
But Hong Kong cinema declined in the late 1990s. No new people came out. So that after the 21st century, the Academy Awards have to help correct the millennium green leaves Zhang Jiahui, Lin Jiadong, Liu Qingyun and other people, so that they have fulfilled the dream of the Golden Statue Awards.
It is Stephen Chow himself, with the great credit of saving the film market in 2001's "Shaolin Football", he also won an Academy Award.
However, at this time, Jackie Chan ran to Hollywood.
From 1998 to 2003, Jackie Chan flourished in Hollywood and became the world's most influential Chinese film superstar. The greatest action star after Bruce Lee.
So Jackie Chan missed the Academy Awards opportunity again.
He returned in 2004 to shoot New Cop Story. This is his last chance to get close to the Academy Awards.
It is a pity that just as "Miracle" met "The Story of Ah Lang" that year, this time Jackie Chan's "New Police Story" lost to Wong Kar-wai's "2046".
After Wong Kar-wai's 2001 "Fancy Years", he was simply the world's most famous Chinese director, as long as he shot, the big and small awards came to hand. Jackie Chan lost unjustly.
Probably after that, Jackie Chan completely lost interest in the Academy Awards. After that, Jackie Chan entered the mainland market, because the Hong Kong Film Awards have always been based on commending "Hong Kong films". Although the films made by Jackie Chan since then are joint venture films and meet the conditions for entry, compared with some more "pure" Hong Kong films, there is basically no possibility of being shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
Coupled with the fact that later because of the "Occupy Central" incident, Jackie Chan attended the Boao Forum in 2009 to criticize hong Kong's young people and criticize certain policies in Hong Kong, saying that "our Chinese need to be managed."
The tone of the Academy Awards after 2010, everyone knows, to award films such as "Ten Years", it can be said that the later Academy Awards Organizing Committee and Jackie Chan are already two people.
Naturally, there is no longer any possibility of winning.
The story of Jackie Chan and the Academy Awards film emperor is completely over.
Looking back at these 30 years, the 1980s was the era when Jackie Chan was most likely to win awards, he also wanted to win awards, but because of reasons such as seniority ranking, he lost the Academy Awards; in the 1990s, the rise of newcomers, the Academy Awards paid more attention to literary and art films, plus Jackie Chan went to Hollywood, naturally there was no opportunity; after the 2000s, a number of millennium green leaves won the Academy Awards Film Emperor, but Jackie Chan could not win awards again for various reasons.
It can only be said that by coincidence, everything is fate.
But we have to say that Jackie Chan did not get the Academy Award, not Jackie Chan's fault, but the regret of the Academy Award.