Complex sentence: At the second Hong Kong Film Awards, "Boat People" won the Best Film, Best Director, Best New Performer, Best Screenplay, and Best Art Direction categories and was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
Split into simpler sentences: At the second Hong Kong Film Awards, "Boat People" won awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best New Performer, Best Screenplay, and Best Art Direction. It was also screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.