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We’ve got this year’s top nominees for the Hong Kong Film Awards onboard本月機上放映多部獲香港電影金像獎提名的優秀之作
It’s hard to believe that a city of just several million people produced one of the world’s most vibrant film industries. Hong Kong cinema’s golden age of the 1990s has long passed, but this year’s Hong Kong Film Awards nominees for Best Film prove that the industry today is still high-quality and innovative.
Leading the way this year with 11 nominations is Our Time Will Come (1), Ann Hui’s war drama about life in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation. The film may earn Hui her sixth Best Director HKFA, which would be more than any director has received in the award’s history.
Trailing close behind with nine nominations each are Love Education (2)
– actor and director Sylvia Chang’s touching family drama – and Paradox (3),
a Thailand-set action thriller that’s also a thematic continuation of the hit SPL
franchise. Playing a desperate father searching for his kidnapped daughter in Paradox, the prolific Louis Koo might finally win his first Best Actor award.
A tense thriller about an explosives expert caught in an unprecedented hostage situation, Herman Yau’s Shock Wave (4) has seven nominations, including a Best Visual Effects nomination for the team that helped to create the amazing life-size replica of Hong Kong’s CrossHarbour Tunnel for the film.
Proving that the crime genre is still alive and well in Hong Kong, Chasing the Dragon (5) completes the Best Film category. Starring Donnie Yen as a notorious drug lord in 1970s Hong Kong, the true-crime epic is also nominated for a slew of technical awards.
Outside the Best Film category, there’s The Empty Hands (6), the second directorial effort by comedic actor Chapman To, nominated for Best New Director. The offbeat – and surprisingly serious – martial arts drama follows the daughter of a karate instructor (Stephy Tang) who picks up the sport again when life knocks her down. Read our interview with first-time Best Actress nominee Tang on page 80.
There’s also Feng Xiaogang’s Youth (7).
Nominated for Best Film from Mainland and Taiwan, it’s a stirring and gorgeously filmed epic about a group of young performers in a military dance troupe during the Cultural Revolution.
We’re also looking back at classic HKFA winners and nominees in the Made in HK section. We have Wong Kar-wai’s iconic arthouse drama Days of Being Wild (8) – featuring an unforgettable performance by Leslie Cheung – Stephen Chow’s A Chinese Odyssey (9) series and many more. Look for the HKFA statue logo in the movie listings and on the interactive menu.
The Hong Kong Film Awards take place on 15 April
香港雖是個只有百數 萬人口的城市，卻擁有活力充沛的電影工業，在全球各地實屬罕見。香港電影在1990 年代曾經風光一時，黃這段金歲月雖然早已過去，獲但得年今 香港電影金像獎最佳電影提名的電影，卻證明香港電影依然保持一貫的質素與活靈 多變的創意。
首先是年得今 獲 11項提名的《明月幾時有》（ 1），由許鞍華執導，述講 香港在日佔時期的生活。本片可能為許鞍華帶來第六個香港電影最佳導演獎，亦令她成為歷來獲得這個獎項次數最多的導演。
接著是獲項、得九 提名 由張艾嘉自導自演的《相相愛 親》（ 2），道出一個感人的家族故事。同樣獲項九 提名的《殺破狼．貪狼（》3）雖然是續延 《殺破狼》主題的驚險動作片，但其實也是一個與家庭有關的故事；影片以泰國為背，述景 講 一名父親顧奮不 身地營救被綁架的女兒。主演過無數電影的古天樂可
能憑本片首度獲最佳男角。主 獎
至於邱禮濤執導的《拆彈專家》（ 4）講述一名拆彈專家碰上日所未見的脅持人質事件，劇情緊張刺激，獲得七項，提名 包括最佳視覺效果，因為製作團隊特別為本片複製了實物原大的香港海底隧道，效果幾可亂真，令人歎為觀止。
香港電影中有不少以犯罪為題材的精采作品，《追龍》（ 5）獲提名競逐最佳電影，以及多個技術獎項，說明這個類型歷久不衰，而且屢創新意。本片主角甄子丹飾演一名1970 年代惡名昭彰的大毒梟，講當述 年黑白兩道的恩怨。
喜員劇演 杜汶澤執導的第二部電影《空手道》（ 6）雖未獲提名最佳電影，獲卻 最佳新導演提名。這部不落俗套的武打片主題嚴肅，風格清，新 令人刮目相看。本片講述一位空手道教練的女兒（鄧麗欣飾）在人生陷於低潮時，重拾這項她昔日厭惡的運動參。請閱80頁本片女主角鄧麗欣的訪問，她憑本片首次得獲 最佳女主角。提名
馮小剛的《芳華》（ 7）則獲提名競逐最佳兩岸華語電影，述革講 文 時期一群文工團成員的青春故事，將大時代與個人命運扣連，風格清新悅目。
至機於 上電影的「香港製造」部分，亦選映多部昔日香港電影金像獎的獲獎及提名作品，這些經典之作括包 王家衛的《阿飛正傳》（ 8），「哥哥」張國榮在片中的演出令人難忘。此外還有周星馳的《西遊記》（ 9）系列等精作多部 采之 。意請留 互動選單的電影部分有香港電影金像獎標誌的電影。香港電影金像獎頒獎典禮於4 15日舉行