The Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA; ), founded in 1982, is an annual film awards ceremony in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...

. The ceremonies are typically in April. The awards recognise achievement in various aspects of

filmmaking Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, cast ...

, such as directing, screenwriting, acting and

cinematography Cinematography (from ancient Greek κίνημα, ''kìnema'' "movement" and γράφειν, ''gràphein'' "to write") is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens to focu ...

. The awards are the Hong Kong equivalent to the American

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. 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

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

, listed below. *'' City Entertainment'' * Hong Kong Kowloon and New Territories Motion Picture Industry Association * Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild *

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* 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

History

Records

Mosts

* Most wins for a film: '' The Grandmaster'' — won 12 awards in

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, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume & Make Up Design, Best Action Choreography, Best Sound Design and Best Original Film Score. * Most wins for Best Director:

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— awarded 6 times in 1983, 1996, 2009, 2012, 2015 and

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. * Most wins for Best Actor: Tony Leung Chiu Wai — awarded 5 times in 1995, 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2005. * Most wins for Best Actress: Maggie Cheung — awarded 5 times in

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, 1993,

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, 1998 and 2001. * Most wins for Best Supporting Actor: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Paul Chun, Anthony Wong Chau Sang, Liu Kai-Chi, and Eric Tsang with 2 times each. * Most wins for Best Supporting Actress: Elaine Jin — awarded 4 times in 1987, 1988, 2016 and 2017. * Most nominations for a film: '' Bodyguards and Assassins'' — received 18 nominations in 2010 and won 8 including Best Film. * Most nominations for Best Director: Johnnie To — nominated 18 times between his first nomination in

and his latest in 2017. * Most nominations for Best Actor: Lau Ching-wan — nominated 16 times between his first nomination in

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and his latest in 2015. * Most nominations for Best Actress:

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— nominated 11 times between her first nomination in 1983 and her latest in

. * Most nominations without win: Chin Ka-lok — nominated 13 times between his first nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1996 and his latest for Best Action Choreography in 2020, and not a single win. * Most consecutive wins in the same category: Arthur Wong, awarded Best Cinematography in 1998,

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and 2000; Kinson Tsang, awarded Best Sound Design in 2016, 2017 and

Firsts

* First winner: Kara Hui — awarded Best Actress in the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards, making her the first recipient of the Hong Kong Film Awards. * First non-Hong Kong resident winner:

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— born in

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, awarded Best Art Direction in 1984. * First non-Hong Kong resident winner for Best Actor:

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— born in

, awarded Best Actor in

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for his role in film '' The Warlords''. * First non-Hong Kong resident winner for Best Actress: Siqin Gaowa — born in

, awarded Best Actress in 1985 for her role in film ''

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''.

Special

* The films winning all 5 major awards (film, director, screenplay, actor, actress): ''

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'' by

in 1996, and is succeeded by '' A Simple Life'' — also directed by

in 2012.

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. The list, selected by a panel of 101 filmmakers, critics and scholars, includes 24 films from

(11 from pre-1949 and 13 from post-1949), 61 from

, 16 from

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, and 2 co-productions.

Presenters

Notes

References

External links

"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

Hong Kong Film Awards Official Site
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