Hong Kong Film Award

Hong Kong Film Award 香港電影金像獎
37th Hong Kong Film Awards
Awarded for	Achievements in filmmaking
Location	Hong Kong
Country	Hong Kong
Presented by	Hong Kong Film Awards Association Ltd
Reward(s)	Hong Kong Film Award statuette
First awarded	9 March 1982
Website	Hong Kong Film Awards

The Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA; Chinese: 香港電影金像獎), founded in 1982, is an annual film awards ceremony in Hong Kong. The ceremonies are typically in April. The awards recognise achievement in various aspects of filmmaking, such as directing, screenwriting, acting and cinematography. The awards are the Hong Kong equivalent to the American Academy Awards and the British BAFTAs.

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.

History

Year	Best Film	Original title	Director	Country
1982	Father and Son	Foo ji ching	Allen Fong	Hong Kong
1983	Boat People	Tau ban no hoi	Ann Hui	Hong Kong
1984	Ah Ying	Boon bin yen	Allen Fong	Hong Kong
1985	Homecoming	Si shui liu nian	Ho Yim	Hong Kong /  China
1986	Police Story	Ging chat goo si	Jackie Chan	Hong Kong
1987	A Better Tomorrow	Ying hung boon sik	John Woo	Hong Kong
1988	An Autumn's Tale	Chou tin dik tong wah	Mabel Cheung	Hong Kong
1989	Rouge	Yin ji kau	Stanley Kwan	Hong Kong
1990	Beyond the Sunset	Fei yue huang hun	Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung	Hong Kong
1991	Days of Being Wild	Ah Fei zing zyun	Kar Wai Wong	Hong Kong
1992	To Be Number One	Bo Hao	Man Kit Poon	Hong Kong
1993	Cageman	Long min	Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung	Hong Kong
1994	C'est la vie, mon chéri	San bat liu ching	Tung-Shing Yee	Hong Kong
1995	Chungking Express	Chung Hing sam lam	Kar Wai Wong	Hong Kong
1996	Summer Snow	Nu ren si shi	Ann Hui	Hong Kong
1997	Comrades: Almost a Love Story	Tian mi mi	Peter Chan	Hong Kong
1998	Made in Hong Kong	Heung Gong jai jo	Fruit Chan	Hong Kong
1999	Beast Cops	Ye shou xing jing	Gordon Chan & Dante Lam	Hong Kong
2000	Ordinary Heroes	Qian yan wan yu	Ann Hui	Hong Kong /  China
2001	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Wo hu cang long	Ang Lee	Taiwan /  Hong Kong /  China /  United States
2002	Shaolin Soccer	Siu lam juk kau	Stephen Chow	Hong Kong /  China
2003	Infernal Affairs	Mou gaan dou	Wai-keung Lau & Alan Mak	Hong Kong
2004	Running on Karma	Daai zek lou	Johnnie To & Ka-Fai Wai	Hong Kong
2005	Kung Fu Hustle	Kung fu	Stephen Chow	Hong Kong /  China
2006	Election	Hak se wui	Johnnie To	Hong Kong
2007	After This Our Exile	Fu zi	Patrick Tam	Hong Kong
2008	The Warlords	Tau ming chong	Peter Chan & Wai Man Yip	Hong Kong /  China
2009	Ip Man	Yip Man	Wilson Yip	Hong Kong
2010	Bodyguards and Assassins	Shi yue wei cheng	Teddy Chan	China /  Hong Kong
2011	Gallants	Da lui toi	Clement Sze-Kit Cheng & Chi-kin Kwok	Hong Kong
2012	A Simple Life	Tao jie	Ann Hui	Hong Kong
2013	Cold War	Hon zin	Lok Man Leung & Kim-ching Luk	Hong Kong
2014	The Grandmaster	Yi dai zong shi	Wong Kar-wai	Hong Kong /  China
2015	The Golden Era	Huang jin shi dai	Ann Hui	Hong Kong /  China
2016	Ten Years	Sap Nin	Ng Ka-leung, Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-Wai, Fei-Pang Wong, Kwok Zune	Hong Kong
2017	Trivisa[1]	Chu Tai Chiu Fung	Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong	Hong Kong

Records

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

Presenters

See also

• Hong Kong Film Awards statue, Avenue of Stars
• Hong Kong International Film Festival

Notes

References

• "The 26th Hong Kong Film Awards - Rules of Election". 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.

External links

• Hong Kong Film Awards Official Site