Hong Kong Film Award


The Hong Kong Film Awards, 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.
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.
The Hong Kong Film Awards currently feature 19 regular categories, listed below.

Records

Mosts

To celebrate a century of Chinese cinema, the Hong Kong Film Awards unveiled a list of Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures during the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony on 27 March 2005. The list, selected by a panel of 101 filmmakers, critics and scholars, includes 24 films from Mainland China, 61 from Hong Kong, 16 from Taiwan, and 2 co-productions.
RankTitleYearRegionLanguageDirector
1Spring in a Small Town1948ChinaMandarinFei Mu
2A Better Tomorrow1986Hong KongCantoneseJohn Woo
3Days of Being Wild1990Hong KongCantonese Wong Kar-wai
4Yellow Earth1984ChinaMandarinChen Kaige
5City of Sadness1989TaiwanTaiwanese Hou Hsiao-hsien
6Long Arm of the Law1984Hong KongCantoneseJohnny Mak
7Dragon Gate Inn1967TaiwanMandarinKing Hu
8Boat People1982Hong KongCantonese Ann Hui
9A Touch of Zen1971TaiwanMandarinKing Hu
10Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon2000China/Hong Kong/Taiwan/USAMandarinAng Lee
11Street Angel1937ChinaMandarinYuan Muzhi
12A Brighter Summer Day1991TaiwanMandarin Edward Yang
13The Private Eyes1976Hong KongCantoneseMichael Hui
14The Mission1999Hong KongCantoneseJohnnie To
15One-Armed Swordsman1967Hong KongMandarinChang Cheh
16Fist of Fury1972Hong KongMandarin / EnglishLo Wei
17In the Heat of the Sun1994ChinaMandarinJiang Wen
18In the Face of Demolition1953Hong KongCantoneseLee Tit
19A Chinese Odyssey1995Hong KongCantonese / MandarinJeffery Lau
20The Arch1970Hong KongMandarinTang Shu Shuen
21Rouge1987Hong KongCantoneseStanley Kwan
22Chungking Express1994Hong KongCantonese Wong Kar-wai
23Homecoming1984Hong KongCantonese / MandarinYim Ho
24The Time to Live and the Time to Die1985TaiwanMandarin / TaiwaneseHou Hsiao-hsien
25Red Sorghum1987ChinaMandarinZhang Yimou
26Father and Son1981Hong KongCantoneseAllen Fong
27The Spring River Flows East1947ChinaMandarinCai Chusheng, Zheng Junli
281996Hong KongCantonesePeter Chan
29The Goddess1934ChinaWu Yonggang
30The Big Road1934ChinaSun Yu
31The Secret1979Hong KongCantoneseAnn Hui
32Infernal Affairs2002Hong KongCantoneseAndrew Lau, Alan Mak
33Drunken Master1978Hong KongCantoneseYuen Woo-Ping
34The Butterfly Murders1979Hong KongCantoneseTsui Hark
35Ashes of Time1994Hong KongCantoneseWong Kar-wai
36Made in Hong Kong1997Hong KongCantoneseFruit Chan
37Sorrows of the Forbidden City1948ChinaMandarinZhu Shilin
38The Love Eterne1963Hong KongCantonese / MandarinLi Han-Hsiang
39Story of a Discharged Prisoner1967Hong KongCantonesePatrick Lung Kong
40Zu Warriors1983Hong KongCantoneseTsui Hark
41Terrorizers1986TaiwanMandarin / TaiwaneseEdward Yang
42The Killer1989Hong KongCantoneseJohn Woo
43Once Upon a Time in China1991Hong KongCantonese / EnglishTsui Hark
44Center Stage1992Hong KongMandarin Stanley Kwan
45The Story of Qiu Ju1992ChinaMandarinZhang Yimou
46This Life of Mine1950ChinaMandarinShi Hui
47Kingdom and the Beauty1959Hong KongMandarinLi Han Hsiang
48The Winter1969TaiwanMandarinLi Han Hsiang
49An Autumn's Tale1987Hong KongCantonese Mabel Cheung
50A Chinese Ghost Story1987Hong KongCantoneseChing Siu-Tung
51The Purple Hairpin1959Hong KongCantoneseLee Tit
52The Orphan1960Hong KongCantoneseLee Sun-Fung
53Two Stage Sisters1965ChinaMandarinXie Jin
54City on Fire1987Hong KongCantonese / MandarinRingo Lam
55Farewell My Concubine1993Hong Kong/ChinaMandarinChen Kaige
56Yi Yi2000TaiwanMandarin / TaiwaneseEdward Yang
57Cold Nights1955Hong KongCantoneseLee Sun-fung
58At Dawn1967TaiwanSung Tsun-Shou
59Raining in the Mountain1979TaiwanMandarinKing Hu
60Police Story1985Hong KongCantoneseJackie Chan
61C'est la vie, mon chéri1993Hong KongCantoneseDerek Yee
62The Wedding Banquet1993TaiwanMandarin / EnglishAng Lee
63Platform2000ChinaMandarinJia Zhangke
64The Wild, Wild Rose1960Hong KongMandarinWang Tian-Lin
65The Great Devotion1960Hong KongCantoneseChor Yuen
66My Intimate Partner1960Hong KongCantoneseKim Chun
67Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind1980Hong KongCantoneseTsui Hark
68Ah Ying / Ban Bian Ren1983Hong KongCantonese / Mandarin / EnglishAllen Fong
69Durian Durian2000Hong KongCantonese / MandarinFruit Chan
70Little Toys1933ChinaSun Yu
71Ai le zhongnian1949ChinaMandarinSang Hu
72The House of 72 Tenants1973Hong KongCantoneseChor Yuen
73Nomad1982Hong KongCantonesePatrick Tam
74Dust in the Wind1986TaiwanHou Hsiao-hsien
7592 Legendary La Rose Noire1992Hong KongCantoneseJeffrey Lau
76Shaolin Soccer2001Hong KongCantoneseStephen Chow
77Song at Midnight1937ChinaMandarinMa-Xu Weibang
78China Behind1974Hong KongTang Shu Shuen
79The Spooky Bunch1980Hong KongCantoneseAnn Hui
80Taipei Story1985TaiwanMandarinEdward Yang
81The Blue Kite1993ChinaMandarinTian Zhuangzhuang
82Long Live the Missus!1948ChinaMandarinSang Hu
83Mambo Girl1957Hong KongMandarinYi Wen
84Feast of a Rich Family1959Hong KongCantoneseLee Sun-Fung, Lee Tit, Ng Wui, Lo Ji-Hung
85Execution in Autumn1972TaiwanMandarinLee Hsing
86Hibiscus Town1986ChinaMandarinXie Jin
87God of Gamblers1989Hong KongCantoneseWong Jing
88As Tears Go By1988Hong KongCantonese / MandarinWong Kar-wai
89Happy Together1997Hong KongMandarin / Cantonese / SpanishWong Kar-wai
90In the Mood for Love2000Hong KongCantonese / ShanghaineseWong Kar-wai
91Myriad of Lights1948ChinaMandarinShen Fu
92Festival Moon1953Hong KongMandarinZhu Shilin
93Parents' Hearts1955Hong KongCantoneseKim Chun
94Lin Zexu1959ChinaMandarinZheng Junli, Cen Fan
95Dream of the Red Chamber1962ChinaMandarinCen Fan
96Digital Master1983Hong KongCantoneseKirk Wong
97Shanghai Blues1984Hong KongCantoneseTsui Hark
98The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter1984Hong KongCantoneseLau Kar-Leung
99The Black Cannon Incident1985ChinaMandarinHuang Jianxin
100Rebels of the Neon God1992TaiwanMandarin / TaiwaneseTsai Ming-liang
101The Puppetmaster1993TaiwanMandarin / Taiwanese / JapaneseHou Hsiao-hsien
102Summer Snow1995Hong KongCantoneseAnn Hui
103Not One Less1998ChinaMandarinZhang Yimou

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