# 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 typically take place in April, and have mostly been held at the Grand Theatre of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre since 1991. The awards recognise achievement in various aspects of filmmaking, such as directing, screenwriting, acting and cinematography. The awards are regarded as the Hong Kong equivalent of the 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.
* 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.
* Best Film
* Best Director
* Best Screenplay
* Best Actor
* Best Actress
* Best Supporting Actor
* Best Supporting Actress
* Best New Performer
* Best New Director
* Best Cinematography
* Best Film Editing
* Best Art Direction
* Best Costume Make Up Design
* Best Action Choreography
* Best Original Film Score
* Best Sound Design
* Best Original Film Song
* Best Visual Effects
* Best Asian Chinese Language Film

## History

| Year | Best Film | Original title | Director | Country |
| 1982 | Father and Son | 父子情 | Allen Fong | Hong Kong |
| 1983 | Boat People | 投奔怒海 | Ann Hui | Hong Kong |
| 1984 | Ah Ying | 半邊人 | Allen Fong | Hong Kong |
| 1985 | Homecoming | 似水流年 | Ho Yim | Hong Kong / China |
| 1986 | Police Story | 警察故事 | Jackie Chan | Hong Kong |
| 1987 | A Better Tomorrow | 英雄本色 | John Woo | Hong Kong |
| 1988 | An Autumn's Tale | 秋天的童話 | Mabel Cheung | Hong Kong |
| 1989 | Rouge | 胭脂扣 | Stanley Kwan | Hong Kong |
| 1990 | Beyond the Sunset | 飛越黃昏 | Jacob Cheung | Hong Kong |
| 1991 | Days of Being Wild | 阿飛正傳 | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| 1992 | To Be Number One | 跛豪 | Poon Man Kit | Hong Kong |
| 1993 | Cageman | 籠民 | Jacob Cheung | Hong Kong |
| 1994 | C'est la vie, mon chéri | 新不了情 | Tung-Shing Yee | Hong Kong |
| 1995 | Chungking Express | 重慶森林 | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| 1996 | Summer Snow | 女人四十 | Ann Hui | Hong Kong |
| 1997 | Comrades: Almost a Love Story | 甜蜜蜜 | Peter Chan | Hong Kong |
| 1998 | Made in Hong Kong | 香港製造 | Fruit Chan | Hong Kong |
| 1999 | Beast Cops | 野獸刑警 | Gordon Chan & Dante Lam | Hong Kong |
| 2000 | Ordinary Heroes | 千言萬語 | Ann Hui | Hong Kong / China |
| 2001 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 臥虎藏龍 | Ang Lee | Taiwan / Hong Kong / China / United States |
| 2002 | Shaolin Soccer | 少林足球 | Stephen Chow | Hong Kong / China |
| 2003 | Infernal Affairs | 無間道 | Wai-keung Lau & Alan Mak | Hong Kong |
| 2004 | Running on Karma | 大隻佬 | Johnnie To & Ka-Fai Wai | Hong Kong |
| 2005 | Kung Fu Hustle | 功夫 | Stephen Chow | Hong Kong / China |
| 2006 | Election | 黑社會 | Johnnie To | Hong Kong |
| 2007 | After This Our Exile | 父子 | Patrick Tam | Hong Kong |
| 2008 | The Warlords | 投名狀 | Peter Chan & Raymond Yip | Hong Kong / China |
| 2009 | Ip Man | 葉問 | Wilson Yip | Hong Kong |
| 2010 | Bodyguards and Assassins | 十月圍城 | Teddy Chan | China / Hong Kong |
| 2011 | Gallants | 打擂台 | Clement Cheng & Derek Kwok | Hong Kong |
| 2012 | A Simple Life | 桃姐 | Ann Hui | Hong Kong |
| 2013 | Cold War | 寒戰 | Lok Man Leung & Kim-ching Luk | Hong Kong |
| 2014 | The Grandmaster | 一代宗師 | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong / China |
| 2015 | The Golden Era | 黃金時代 | Ann Hui | Hong Kong / China |
| 2016 | Ten Years | 十年 | Ng Ka-leung, Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-Wai, Fei-Pang Wong, Kwok Zune | Hong Kong |
| 2017 | Trivisa | 樹大招風 | Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong | Hong Kong |
| 2018 | Our Time Will Come | 明月幾時有 | Ann Hui | Hong Kong / China |
| 2019 | Project Gutenberg | 無雙 | Felix Chong | Hong Kong / China |
| 2020 | Better Days | 少年的你 | Derek Tsang | Hong Kong / China |
| 2022 | Raging Fire | 怒火 | Benny Chan | Hong Kong |
| 2023 | To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self | 給十九歳的我 | Mabel Cheung & William Kwok | Hong Kong |
| 2024 | A Guilty Conscience | 毒舌大狀 | Jack Ng | Hong Kong |

## Records
### Mosts

* Most wins for a film: The Grandmaster — won 12 awards in 2014, 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: Ann Hui — awarded 6 times in 1983, 1996, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018.
* Most wins for Best Actor: Tony Leung Chiu Wai — awarded 6 times in 1995, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2024.
* Most wins for Best Actress: Maggie Cheung — awarded 5 times in 1990, 1993, 1997, 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 1990 and his latest in 2017.
* Most nominations for Best Actor: Lau Ching-wan — nominated 17 times between his first nomination in 1994 and his latest in 2023.
* Most nominations for Best Actress: Sylvia Chang — nominated 12 times between her first nomination in 1983 and her latest in 2023.
* Most nominations without win: Chin Ka-lok — nominated 14 times between his first nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1996 and his latest for Best Action Choreography in 2024, and not a single win.
* Most consecutive wins in the same category: Arthur Wong, awarded Best Cinematography in 1998, 1999 and 2000; Kinson Tsang, awarded Best Sound Design in 2016, 2017 and 2018; Wu Lilu, awarded Best Costume Make Up Design in 2020, 2022 and 2023.

### 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: Song Hongrong — born in Mainland China, awarded Best Art Direction in 1984.
* First non-Hong Kong resident winner for Best Actor: Jet Li — born in Mainland China, awarded Best Actor in 2008 for his role in film The Warlords.
* First non-Hong Kong resident winner for Best Actress: Siqin Gaowa — born in Mainland China, awarded Best Actress in 1985 for her role in film Homecoming.

### Special

* The films winning all 5 major awards (film, director, screenplay, actor, actress): Summer Snow by Ann Hui in 1996, and is succeeded by A Simple Life — also directed by Ann Hui 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 Mainland China (11 from pre-1949 and 13 from post-1949), 61 from Hong Kong, 16 from Taiwan, and 2 co-productions.
| Rank | Title | Year | Region | Language | Director(s) |
| 1 | Spring in a Small Town | 1948 | China | Mandarin | Fei Mu |
| 2 | A Better Tomorrow | 1986 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | John Woo |
| 3 | Days of Being Wild | 1990 | Hong Kong | Cantonese (+) | Wong Kar-wai |
| 4 | Yellow Earth | 1984 | China | Mandarin | Chen Kaige |
| 5 | City of Sadness | 1989 | Taiwan | Taiwanese (+) | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
| 6 | Long Arm of the Law | 1984 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Johnny Mak |
| 7 | Dragon Gate Inn | 1967 | Taiwan | Mandarin | King Hu |
| 8 | Boat People | 1982 | Hong Kong | Cantonese (+) | Ann Hui |
| 9 | A Touch of Zen | 1971 | Taiwan | Mandarin | King Hu |
| 10 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | China/Hong Kong/Taiwan/United States | Mandarin | Ang Lee |
| 11 | Street Angel | 1937 | China | Mandarin | Yuan Muzhi |
| 12 | A Brighter Summer Day | 1991 | Taiwan | Mandarin (+) | Edward Yang |
| 13 | The Private Eyes | 1976 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Michael Hui |
| 14 | The Mission | 1999 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Johnnie To |
| 15 | One-Armed Swordsman | 1967 | Hong Kong | Mandarin | Chang Cheh |
| 16 | Fist of Fury | 1972 | Hong Kong | Mandarin / English | Lo Wei |
| 17 | In the Heat of the Sun | 1994 | China | Mandarin | Jiang Wen |
| 18 | In the Face of Demolition | 1953 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Lee Tit |
| 19 | A Chinese Odyssey | 1995 | Hong Kong | Cantonese / Mandarin | Jeffery Lau |
| 20 | The Arch | 1970 | Hong Kong | Mandarin | Tang Shu Shuen |
| 21 | Rouge | 1987 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Stanley Kwan |
| 22 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Hong Kong | Cantonese (+) | Wong Kar-wai |
| 23 | Homecoming | 1984 | Hong Kong | Cantonese / Mandarin | Yim Ho |
| 24 | The Time to Live and the Time to Die | 1985 | Taiwan | Mandarin / Taiwanese | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
| 25 | Red Sorghum | 1987 | China | Mandarin | Zhang Yimou |
| 26 | Father and Son | 1981 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Allen Fong |
| 27 | The Spring River Flows East | 1947 | China | Mandarin | Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli |
| 28 | Comrades: Almost a Love Story | 1996 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Peter Chan |
| 29 | The Goddess | 1934 | China | (Silent) | Wu Yonggang |
| 30 | The Big Road | 1934 | China | (Silent) | Sun Yu |
| 31 | The Secret | 1979 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Ann Hui |
| 32 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Andrew Lau, Alan Mak |
| 33 | Drunken Master | 1978 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Yuen Woo-Ping |
| 34 | The Butterfly Murders | 1979 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Tsui Hark |
| 35 | Ashes of Time | 1994 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Wong Kar-wai |
| 36 | Made in Hong Kong | 1997 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Fruit Chan |
| 37 | Sorrows of the Forbidden City | 1948 | China | Mandarin | Zhu Shilin |
| 38 | The Love Eterne | 1963 | Hong Kong | Cantonese / Mandarin | Li Han-Hsiang |
| 39 | Story of a Discharged Prisoner | 1967 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Patrick Lung Kong |
| 40 | Zu Warriors | 1983 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Tsui Hark |
| 41 | Terrorizers | 1986 | Taiwan | Mandarin / Taiwanese | Edward Yang |
| 42 | The Killer | 1989 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | John Woo |
| 43 | Once Upon a Time in China | 1991 | Hong Kong | Cantonese / English | Tsui Hark |
| 44 | Center Stage | 1992 | Hong Kong | Mandarin (+) | Stanley Kwan |
| 45 | The Story of Qiu Ju | 1992 | China | Mandarin | Zhang Yimou |
| 46 | This Life of Mine | 1950 | China | Mandarin | Shi Hui |
| 47 | Kingdom and the Beauty | 1959 | Hong Kong | Mandarin | Li Han Hsiang |
| 48 | The Winter | 1969 | Taiwan | Mandarin | Li Han Hsiang |
| 49 | An Autumn's Tale | 1987 | Hong Kong | Cantonese (+) | Mabel Cheung |
| 50 | A Chinese Ghost Story | 1987 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Ching Siu-Tung |
| 51 | The Purple Hairpin | 1959 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Lee Tit |
| 52 | The Orphan | 1960 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Lee Sun-Fung |
| 53 | Two Stage Sisters | 1965 | China | Mandarin | Xie Jin |
| 54 | City on Fire | 1987 | Hong Kong | Cantonese / Mandarin | Ringo Lam |
| 55 | Farewell My Concubine | 1993 | Hong Kong/China | Mandarin | Chen Kaige |
| 56 | Yi Yi | 2000 | Taiwan | Mandarin / Taiwanese | Edward Yang |
| 57 | Cold Nights | 1955 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Lee Sun-fung |
| 58 | At Dawn | 1967 | Taiwan | | Sung Tsun-Shou |
| 59 | Raining in the Mountain | 1979 | Taiwan | Mandarin | King Hu |
| 60 | Police Story | 1985 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Jackie Chan |
| 61 | C'est la vie, mon chéri | 1993 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Derek Yee |
| 62 | The Wedding Banquet | 1993 | Taiwan | Mandarin / English | Ang Lee |
| 63 | Platform | 2000 | China | Mandarin | Jia Zhangke |
| 64 | The Wild, Wild Rose | 1960 | Hong Kong | Mandarin | Wang Tian-Lin |
| 65 | The Great Devotion | 1960 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Chor Yuen |
| 66 | My Intimate Partner | 1960 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Kim Chun |
| 67 | Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind | 1980 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Tsui Hark |
| 68 | Ah Ying / Ban Bian Ren | 1983 | Hong Kong | Cantonese / Mandarin / English | Allen Fong |
| 69 | Durian Durian | 2000 | Hong Kong | Cantonese / Mandarin | Fruit Chan |
| 70 | Little Toys | 1933 | China | (Silent) | Sun Yu |
| 71 | Ai le zhongnian | 1949 | China | Mandarin | Sang Hu |
| 72 | The House of 72 Tenants | 1973 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Chor Yuen |
| 73 | Nomad | 1982 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Patrick Tam |
| 74 | Dust in the Wind | 1986 | Taiwan | | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
| 75 | 92 Legendary La Rose Noire | 1992 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Jeffrey Lau |
| 76 | Shaolin Soccer | 2001 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Stephen Chow |
| 77 | Song at Midnight | 1937 | China | Mandarin | Ma-Xu Weibang |
| 78 | China Behind | 1974 | Hong Kong | | Tang Shu Shuen |
| 79 | The Spooky Bunch | 1980 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Ann Hui |
| 80 | Taipei Story | 1985 | Taiwan | Mandarin | Edward Yang |
| 81 | The Blue Kite | 1993 | China | Mandarin | Tian Zhuangzhuang |
| 82 | Long Live the Missus! | 1948 | China | Mandarin | Sang Hu |
| 83 | Mambo Girl | 1957 | Hong Kong | Mandarin | Yi Wen |
| 84 | Feast of a Rich Family | 1959 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Lee Sun-Fung, Lee Tit, Ng Wui, Lo Ji-Hung |
| 85 | Execution in Autumn | 1972 | Taiwan | Mandarin | Lee Hsing |
| 86 | Hibiscus Town | 1986 | China | Mandarin | Xie Jin |
| 87 | God of Gamblers | 1989 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Wong Jing |
| 88 | As Tears Go By | 1988 | Hong Kong | Cantonese / Mandarin | Wong Kar-wai |
| 89 | Happy Together | 1997 | Hong Kong | Mandarin / Cantonese / Spanish | Wong Kar-wai |
| 90 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Hong Kong | Cantonese / Shanghainese | Wong Kar-wai |
| 91 | Myriad of Lights | 1948 | China | Mandarin | Shen Fu |
| 92 | Festival Moon | 1953 | Hong Kong | Mandarin | Zhu Shilin |
| 93 | Parents' Hearts | 1955 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Kim Chun |
| 94 | Lin Zexu | 1959 | China | Mandarin | Zheng Junli, Cen Fan |
| 95 | Dream of the Red Chamber | 1962 | China | Mandarin | Cen Fan |
| 96 | Digital Master | 1983 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Kirk Wong |
| 97 | Shanghai Blues | 1984 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Tsui Hark |
| 98 | The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter | 1984 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Lau Kar-Leung |
| 99 | The Black Cannon Incident | 1985 | China | Mandarin | Huang Jianxin |
| 100 | Rebels of the Neon God | 1992 | Taiwan | Mandarin / Taiwanese | Tsai Ming-liang |
| 101 | The Puppetmaster | 1993 | Taiwan | Mandarin / Taiwanese / Japanese | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
| 102 | Summer Snow | 1995 | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Ann Hui |
| 103 | Not One Less | 1998 | China | Mandarin | Zhang Yimou |

## Presenters

| Year | Ceremony | Presenter/s |
| 1982 | 1 | Eric Ng and Zhan Xiaoping |
| 1983 | 2 | Eric Tsang and Josephine Siao |
| 1984 | 3 | Chung King-fai |
| 1985 | 4 | Winnie Yu |
| 1986 | 5 | Winnie Yu |
| 1987 | 6 | Carol Cheng and Chung King-fai |
| 1988 | 7 | Lydia Shum and Paul Chung |
| 1989 | 8 | Lydia Shum, Eric Tsang and Philip Chan |
| 1990 | 9 | Philip Chan and John Sham |
| 1991 | 10 | Anita Mui and Philip Chan |
| 1992 | 11 | Philip Chan and Lawrence Cheng |
| 1993 | 12 | Lydia Shum and John Sham |
| 1994 | 13 | Lydia Shum and John Sham |
| 1995 | 14 | John Sham and Meg Lam |
| 1996 | 15 | Sandra Ng, Dayo Wong and Veronica Yip |
| 1997 | 16 | Lydia Shum and Nancy Sit |
| 1998 | 17 | Carol Cheng and Cheung Tat Ming |
| 1999 | 18 | Carol Cheng, Cheung Tat Ming, Vincent Kok, Chin Ka Lok and Jerry Lamb |
| 2000 | 19 | Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng and Vincent Kok |
| 2001 | 20 | Carol Cheng, Eric Tsang, Gigi Leung and Eric Ng |
| 2002 | 21 | Eric Tsang, Cecilia Yip, Cheung Tat Ming and Jacqueline Pang |
| 2003 | 22 | Eric Tsang, John Sham, Athena Chu and Anna Yau Hoi Man |
| 2004 | 23 | Dayo Wong, Candice Yu, Athena Chu, Josie Ho, Bowie Tsang, Cherrie Ying and Ada Choi |
| 2005 | 24 | Carol Cheng and Lawrence Cheng |
| 2006 | 25 | Eric Tsang, Teresa Mo and Chapman To |
| 2007 | 26 | Nick Cheung, Bowie Tsang and Lam Chi-chung |
| 2008 | 27 | Carol Cheng, Sandra Ng and Sammi Cheng |
| 2009 | 28 | Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng, Teresa Mo, Vincent Kok, Kay Tse, Denise Ho, Chin Ka Lok, Fan Siu Wong, Wong Cho Lam, Lam Chi Chung, Tin Kai-man and Michelle Loo |
| 2010 | 29 | Lawrence Cheng |
| 2011 | 30 | Lawrence Cheng, Teresa Mo and Vincent Kok |
| 2012 | 31 | Eric Tsang, Gordon Lam, Bowie Tsang, Ronald Cheng and Angelababy |
| 2013 | 32 | Eric Tsang, Gordon Lam, Ronald Cheng and Jerry Lamb |
| 2014 | 33 | Teresa Mo, Gordon Lam and Ronald Cheng |
| 2015 | 34 | Jordan Chan, Gordon Lam and Miriam Yeung |
| 2016 | 35 | Lau Ching Wan |
| 2017 | 36 | Ronald Cheng |
| 2018 | 37 | Charlene Choi and Louis Cheung |
| 2019 | 38 | Hedwig Tam, Neo Yau, Venus Wong, Babyjohn Choi, Angela Yuen, Lam Yiu Sing, Kaki Sham, To Siu Kiu, Kevin Chu, Shirley Chan, Himmy Wong, Jennifer Yu, Cecilia So, Kochun Tse, Rachel Leung, Yatho Wong, Koyi Mak, Ling Man-lung, Zeno Koo, Hanna Chan, Ashina Kwok, Siuyea Lo, Larine Tang, Kyle Li, Carmen Tong, Ng Siu Hin, Kelvin Chan, Gladys Li, Enson Lau, Fish Liew, Tony Wu and Rose Chan |
| 2020 | 39 | None |
| 2022 | 40 | Kearen Pang |