Wednesday, April 20, 2011

30th Hong Kong Film Awards (2011)


The 30th Hong Kong Film Awards, took place Sunday evening with Tsui Hark's Tang Dynasty murder mystery Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame leading the way with 6 awards.  The low budget action comedy Gallants was the surprise of the night, taking home 4 awards including, Best Film, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Film Score.  I definitely have to check that one out now.

Carina Lau, accepting the Best Actress award.
Best film: Gallants
Best director: Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Best screenplay: Pang Ho-cheung and Heiward Mak, Love In a Puff
Best actor: Nicholas Tse, The Stool Pigeon
Best actress: Carina Lau, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Best supporting actor: Teddy Robin, Gallants
Best supporting actress: Susan Shaw, Gallants
Best new performer: Hanjin Tan, Bruce Lee, My Brother
Best cinematography: Peter Pau, Confucius
Best film editing: Cheung Ka-fai, Ip Man 2
Best art direction: James Choo, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Best costume and make-up design: Bruce Yu, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Best action choreography: Sammo Hung, Ip Man 2
Best original film score: Teddy Robin and Tommy Wai, Gallants
Best original film song: Here to Stay, music, lyrics and performed by Jun Kung
Best sound design: Wang Danrong and Zhao Nan, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Best visual effects: Lee Yong-gi and Nam Sang-woo, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Best new director: Felix Chong, Once a Gangster
Best Asian film: Confessions, Japan
Professional achievement: Willie Chan
Lifetime achievement: Terry Lai

2 comments:

Jack L said...

Interesting,
it seems Gallants and Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame are worth checking out...

I see Ip Man 2 won a couple of awards as well, I was just recently thinking of watching it as well.

The Angry Lurker said...

Good work but no best foreign film apart from best Asian?

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