Lo Wei
Feb 09, 2012
Three action movies dominate the nominations for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards.
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate and Let The Bullets Fly have 13 award nominations each, while Wu Xia has 12, the organiser said yesterday. There are 19 award categories with five nominees in each.
Sean Lau Ching-wan received two nominations for best actor - for his roles as a triad member in Life Without Principle and a hotshot stockbroker in Overheard 2.
The former role won him the best actor prize last year at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.
"I'm quite surprised," Lau said about his nomination yesterday. "I chose both of those roles and I like them both."
Asked if he was worried that having two nominations for the same award could dilute his votes, he said, "I didn't really think about that. I'm already very happy about getting two nominations."
His fellow best actor nominees are Jiang Wen and Ge You, both for Let The Bullets Fly, and Andy Lau Tak-wah in A Simple Life, for which he won a Golden Horse award in November.
Lau said he did not know how stiff the competition was because he had not had time to watch the other films.
The best actress category is being contested by Shu Qi, Tang Wei, Deanie Ip Tak-han, Gao Yuanyuan, and Zhou Xun.
Nicholas Tse Ting-fung, who read out part of the nominations list at the press conference yesterday, said he was shocked when he saw his own name in the best supporting actor nominees list for his role in Shaolin.
"I had already forgotten about this movie. It was about two years ago that it was filmed," he said.
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate was a remake of the 1966 movie Dragon Gate Inn and 1992's New Dragon Gate Inn. Starring Jet Li Lianjie, Zhou Xun and Chen Kun, it is a story of a pregnant palace maid seeking refuge at a desert inn with the help of a mysterious saviour.
A Hong Kong-mainland joint production, Let The Bullets Fly is set in a remote provincial mainland town in the 1920s, where a bandit chief poses as its new mayor and faces challenges. The 31st Hong Kong Film Awards presentation ceremony will be held at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on April 15, and be broadcast live by TVB (SEHK: 0511), NowTV and RTHK.
The event, which will reap cost savings thanks to having many volunteers, has received funding of HK$5,668,400 from the government's Film Development Fund.
THE MAIN NOMINATIONS
Best Film
A Simple Life
Life Without Principle
Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate
Overheard 2
Let The Bullets Fly
Best Actor
Andy Lau Tak-wah, A Simple Life
Lau Ching-wan, Life Without Principle
Lau Ching-wan, Overheard 2
Jiang Wen, Let The Bullets Fly
Ge You, Let The Bullets Fly
Best Actress
Shu Qi, A Beautiful Life
Tang Wei, Wu Xia
Deanie Ip, A Simple Life
Gao Yuanyuan, Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Zhou Xun, Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate
Best Director
Ann Hui On-wah, A Simple Life
Johnnie To Kei-fung, Life Without Principle
Tsui Hark, Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate
Alan Mak Shiu-fai and Felix Chong Man-keung, Overheard 2
Jiang Wen, Let The Bullets Fly
Best Screenplay
Susan Chan Suk-yin, A Simple Life
Wai Ka-fai, Yau Nai-hoi, Ryker Chan, Jevons Au, Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Milkyway Creative Team, Au Kin-yee, Wong King-fai, Life Without Principle
Alan Mak Shiu-fai and Felix Chong Man-keung, Overheard 2
Zhu Sujin, Shu Ping, Jiang Wen, Guo Junli, Wei Xiao, Li Bukong, Let The Bullets Fly
(SCMP)
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