Cover From left: Fish Liew and Terrance Lau Chun-him (Photo: courtesy of the Hong Kong Film Awards)
From left: Fish Liew and Terrance Lau Chun-him (Photo: courtesy of the Hong Kong Film Awards)
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Tony Leung, Louise Wong, Kay Tse are among the nominees, and ‘In Broad Daylight’ leads with 16 nominations, while Jennifer Yu competes for Best Actress and Dayo Wong for Best Actor
The Hong Kong Film Awards is set to return on April 14, 2024 at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre’s Grand Theatre to celebrate the best locally produced films of 2023. The Hong Kong Film Awards Association announced its nominations across 19 categories today (February 6) at a press conference. A total of 50 films are nominated this year, which is a significant increase from 33 films last year. “This is wonderful to see. I hope the new generation will continue to make more films. We don’t only need quality films; the quantity is also important [for a healthy local film industry],” says Derek Yee Tung-sing, the chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards Association.
In Broad Daylight, a 2023 drama about a reporter exposing cases of abuse in an elderly care home, leads with 16 nominations. Coming in the second place are Time Still Turns The Pages, a 2023 film on student suicides, and The Goldfinger, a 2023 crime thriller starring Tony Leung and Andy Lau. All three movies have got nominations in the main categories: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor.
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Meanwhile, Louise Wong is in the running for Best Actress her role in A Guilty Conscience (2023), along with Kay Tse for the 2023 musical Band Four and Jennifer Yu for In Broad Daylight.
The event was attended by Fish Liew, known for playing the sister of Canto-pop queen Anita Mui in Anita (2021); Henick Chou, who was nominated as Best New Performer last year for A Light Never Goes Out (2022); and Terrance Lau Chun-him, who played the lead in the romance mystery film Beyond the Dream (2019).
Above From left: Terrance Lau Chun-him, Sabrina Ng, Fish Liew and Henick Chou (Photo: courtesy of the Hong Kong Film Awards)
From left: Terrance Lau Chun-him, Sabrina Ng, Fish Liew and Henick Chou (Photo: courtesy of the Hong Kong Film Awards)
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Below is a list of the nominations for the top categories:
Best Film
In Broad Daylight
Time Still Turns the Pages
Mad Fate
The Goldfinger
A Guilty Conscience
Best Director
Lawrence Kan (In Broad Daylight)
Nick Cheuk (Time Still Turns the Pages)
Cheang Pou-soi (Mad Fate)
Felix Chong (The Goldfinger)
Jack Ng (A Guilty Conscience)
Best Screenplay
Li Cheuk-fung, Tong Chui-ping and Lawrence Kan (In Broad Daylight)
Nick Cheuk (Time Still Turns the Pages)
Yau Nai-hoi and Melvin Li (Mad Fate)
Felix Chong (The Goldfinger)
Terry Lam, Jay Cheung and Jack Ng (A Guilty Conscience)
Best Actor
Bowie Lam (In Broad Daylight)
Lo Chun-yip (Time Still Turns the Pages)
Tony Leung (The Goldfinger)
Dayo Wong (A Guilty Conscience)
Da Peng (Dust to Dust)
Best Actress
Kay Tse (Band Four)
Michelle Wai (Ready or Rot 2)
Jennifer Yu (In Broad Daylight)
Louise Wong (A Guilty Conscience)
Chung Suet Ying (The Lyricist Wannabe)
Best Supporting Actor
John Chiang Tai Wai (In Broad Daylight)
Sean Wong (Time Still Turns the Pages)
Sheung-ching Lee (Over My Dead Body)
Wu Kang-ren (Fly Me to the Moon)
Tse Kwan-ho (A Guilty Conscience)
Best Supporting Actress
Elaine Jin (Ready or Rot)
Rachel Leung (In Broad Daylight)
Rosa Maria Velasco (Time Still Turns the Pages)
Renci Yeung and Fish Liew (A Guilty Conscience)
Best New Performer
Sabrina Ng (Say I Do to Me)
Rondi Chan (Band Four)
Hui Yuet Sheung (In Broad Daylight)
Curtis Ho Pak Lim (Time Still Turns the Pages)
Yoyo Tse (Fly Me to the Moon)
Zabrina is the Senior Editor, Arts and Culture of Tatler Hong Kong. She specialises in performing arts, visual art and film. Her wanderlust was first fuelled by the Mighty Rovers Antarctica Expedition 2010. Over the years, she has interviewed A-list artists and filmmakers, including Oscar winners Chlóe Zhao and Tim Yip, Golden Horse winner Sylvia Chang, In the Mood for Love cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Pachinko author Min Jin Lee, and Coachella’s first Chinese solo singer Jackson Wang. She won gold at the WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards for her 2021 feature on the waves of hate crimes targeting Asian Americans.
