2009 Hong Kong Film Award Winners

As Hong Kong celebrates 100 years of filmmaking, Wilson Yip’s biopic Ip Man (above, top image), starring Donnie Yen as Bruce Lee’s kung fu master, was chosen best picture of the year at the 2009 Hong Kong Film Awards.
However, the small-scale docudrama The Way We Are (above, bottom image), set in the working-class town of Tin Shui Wai near the border with China, took home most of the top awards, including best director (Ann Hui), actress (Paw Hee-ching), supporting actress (Chan Lai Wun) and screenplay (Lou Shiu Wa).
The best actor winner was Nick Cheung, who plays a kidnapper in the action thriller The Beast Stalker, while Liu Kai Chi received [...]

by Andre Soares | April 19, 2009   
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Hong Kong Film Critics Awards 2009

2009 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
 

Ann Hui’s The Way We Are shows life in a working-class Hong Kong suburb. This is Hui’s second consecutive Hong Kong Film Critics win. Last year she won for The Postmodern Life of My Aunt.
 

Best Film: The Way We Are
Best Director: Ann Hui, The Way We Are
Best Actor: Nick Cheung, The Beast Stalker
Best Actress: Hee Ching Paw, The Way We Are
Best Screenwriter: Ivy Ho, Claustrophobia
Films of Merit: The Beast Stalker, City Without Baseball, Claustrophobia, High Noon, Run Papa Run, Sparrow, Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
 
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Site
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 

by Irene Young | March 3, 2009   
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