26th HK Film Awards 金像奖

1st of all, Astro is cheating us by not showcasing the show as LIVE as it claimed!!! It's censored and they should pay us the money back!!!

Daniel Wu started the ball running by winning the new director award via 四大天王, since I haven't watch it, so no comment. Presented by 林嘉欣　刘若英 (coming soon...........)

I'm damn tired after watching the show and will post completely when I have time later....
However, some moments I just have to write it here........

Moments I like during the show:
1. When Lau Ching Wan got the long-overdue Best Actor Award, it was sooooo touching. His speech is short and sweet and with all the punches too. His win is somehow equivalent to Teresa Mo's win last year for Best Supporting Actress.
2. When Anita Yuen Wing Yi talked about the fans-star relationship. She's back....

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1. Like the new MC combination of the fat guy in Kung Fu Hustle Chan Zhi Chong 陈子聪, Zheng Bao Yi 曾宝义 and Nick Cheong Ga Fai 张家辉. However, they should not emphasis and keep reminding everybody that they're not professional MC and may make mistakes. Once is enough but keep repeating that? And Nick is not doing any good by READING from the script card, yeah... understand that he's nervous in addition to the MC jobs as he was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor as well. I mean, you can be inexperienced but must be professional lah.
2. Anita Yuen 袁泳仪 came out to talk about the recent hoo-ha about Andy Lau's fans' father who committed suicide and the fans herself making so much headlines after that demanding apology from him. It's like a support voice for Andy though the little segment made the ceremony changed its tone to very dark and serious. No right or wrong but I like Anita's voice delivering that. Some actors can just act with voice, think Sylvia Chang 张艾嘉.
3. And as expected, the success of The Departed and Martin Scorcese's Best Director award gets prominent indeed continuous mention throughout the ceremony and it's hard not to feel that the slumping HK movie industry needed some Botox dose to revive its glory days and this came at the perfect timing. But too much of the mentioning is quite sickening.
4. Lau Ching Wan's 刘青云 long-overdue win was the highlight of the ceremony. He said that he deserved a long acceptance speech and the crowd applauded to that. He was nominated for 7 times already and like what happened to Teresa Mo (nominated 8 times), this deserving win further prove that you have to wait for the win and most of the time, the winning film may not be the actor's best work. Haven't watch his winning film though. Oh yeah... thank god Aaron Kwok didn't win haha.... I know it's a biased opinion but his consecutive win in Taiwan's Golden Horse enough lor....
5. Gong Li 巩利 won Best Actress for her outstanding boobs performance in The Curse of the Golden Flower. She managed to outdo Teresa Mo in 大丈夫2 , Rene Liu in Happy Birthday 生日快乐 , Li Xing Jie 李心洁 in 鬼域 and Liong Lok Si 梁洛丝 in 伊莎贝拉
6. I personally think Jay Chou's win (again, thank god he didn't win the Best Supporting Actor for his wooden performance in Golden Flower) in the Original Song category is practically due to his star power. Songs wise, I think the original song in The Banquet sang by the China singer, 张靓颖 is way much deserving as the Best Song in Movie. Jay's entry 菊花台 is a good pop song with Chinese musical instrument composition but didn't compliment the movie as the song in The Banquet did. I still remember the song at the end of The Banquet with Zhang Zi Yi and bulu romaku meremang. The performance of ALIVE is very refreshing though they are never the favourite to win the category.
7. As a award show, this is indeed quite boring. The presenters were mostly uninteresting and unfunny unlike last year with Sandra Ng and Carina Lau.