This year's Academy Awards were originally scheduled to be held in 2021, but due to the impact of the epidemic, it has been postponed twice and is now scheduled to be held on July 17, 2022. Starring: Lyu Leung / Zheng Zeshi / Ye Tong / Ye Zimei / Li Zixiong / Wu Qihua / Huang Gua

(The poster of the Academy Awards designed by famous artist Zhang Shuping )

Nomination list for the 40th Hong Kong Academy Awards

Best movies: "Rage", " Anita Mui ", " Wisdom Teeth ", " Mother's Magic Boy ", " Tumor Water Rafting "

Best Director: Textual Reading " Make Movies Well ml4", Chen Musheng "Rage", Liang Lemin "Anie Mui", Zheng Baorui "Wisdom Teeth", Chen Kexin " Winning the Championship "

Best Actor: Lin Jiadong " hand cigarette ", Xie Xian " kills a dusk ", Lin Jiadong "wisdom teeth", Liang Zhongheng "Mom's magical boy", Wu Zhenyu "turbid water drifting"

Best actress: Zhou Xiuna " Motor·Lina ", Wang Danni "Anie Mui", l3 Liu Yase "Wisdom Teeth", Ng Junru "Mom's Magic Boy", Gong Li "Win the Championship"

1992 Best Film "Lame Hao"

"Lame Hao" 丨 Director: Pan Wenjie

starred: Lu Liangwei / Zheng Zeshi / Ye Tong / Ye Zimei / Li Zixiong / Wu Qihua / Huang Guangliang / Chen Rongzong / Chen Zhiliang / Luo Lie / Ng Mengda

1991, the Hong Kong gangster epic biopic "Lark Hao" produced by Madon Xiong Film Company was born, setting an astonishing box office of more than 38 million in Hong Kong. This mathematics almost hit the box office record, which is basically equivalent to the current 300 million yuan. The following year, he won the Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The best films were nominated for the Best Picture that year. In the end, "Han Wu" starring Wu, Zhou Runfa, and Leslie Cheung, and "Han 3, Tsui Hark, and Jet Li," and Jet Li, and Andy Lau's "Han Feihong" and "Han 3, 500 million Inspector Lei Luo," starring Lui Liangwei, won the "Lame Hao" starring Lui Liangwei won the powerful.

The film takes the Hong Kong drug lord "Laughing" in the 1960s and 1970s as the prototype character. It describes his life journey from a smuggler to become a drug lord, from calling his brother to a corrupt policeman to being wanted and arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, vividly depicting the underground order and social situations of Hong Kong back then. Many people think this is the closest Chinese gangster film to the "Godfather" style.

1993 Best Film " Cage People "

1992 released in November 3 Zhang Zhiliang "Cage People" is a film that focuses on the lives of the people at the bottom. It outlines a social reality that did exist in Hong Kong at that time with group dramas. It belongs to a niche reality theme. It did not attract much attention after its release. Until now, many viewers have not seen it or even knew about such a movie.

However, at the 12th Academy Awards in 1993, "Cage People" defeated major production films such as " Ruan Lingyu ", "Huang Feihong's Man Should Strengthen Self-Strength", " Martial Arts Top Summit Su Qier ", and won many awards such as Best Picture, Best Screenwriter, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor ( Liao Qizhi ). And there is another unknown important supporting role among them. BEYOND's home game Wong Ka-ju . Yes, Wong Ka-ju plays a supporting role with few scenes in the film, which is his last work.

Movie focuses on the other side of Hong Kong society, focusing on remote corners of the city, a group of vulnerable groups live in cage houses with extremely difficult conditions, and cannot share the benefits of urban development. The entire film realistic style also has some embellishments of black humor . The final award shows the inclusiveness and diversity of Hong Kong culture.

1994 Best Film " New Love "

"New Love" is an art film directed by Er Dongsheng, and starring in Liu Qingyun and Anita Yuen were both newcomers at the time, so they were not optimistic when they were released. However, because the plot touched people's hearts and was passed down by the audience's reputation, it finally won 30 million yuan in Hong Kong. At the 1994 Academy Awards, they won six major awards, including Best Film, Best Screenwriter, Best Director, Best Actress (Yan Yuen), Best Supporting Actor ( Qin Pei ), and Best Supporting Actress (Feng Baobao). The 13th Academy Awards are destined to be the first of the "New Love" because they are not only winning all the awards. Director Er Dongsheng's special romantic and humanistic sentiment finally won the recognition of the Academy Award. The theme song of the same name sung by Wan Fang has been sung until now.

1995 Best Film "Chongqing Forest"

1995, two films directed by Wong Kar-wai, "Chongqing Forest" and " East Evil and West Poison " competed on the same stage, and finally "Chongqing Forest" won the Best Film Award. Wong Kar-wai's peak period also came within these two years. Although the film directed by Wong Kar-wai has not won too high box office, it has made him a regular visitor in major awards, and even often won awards at international film festivals such as Cannes and Venice.

1996 Best Film " Women forty "

The 15th Hong Kong Film Awards "Woman forty" won many awards including Best Film, Best Screenwriter, Best Director (Ann Hui), Best Actress ( Xiao Fangfang ), Best Supporting Actor (Law Ka-ying), etc.

From the plot point of view, Ann Hui, director of "Woman Forty", puts her perspective into ordinary citizens, reflecting the phenomenon of social changes.

The film "Woman Forty" not only swept the six most important awards at the Academy Awards, but also won the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards in the same year. The director of the New Wave period finally successfully won recognition from the whole world. The new wave of Hong Kong film movement is the most important reason that directly triggered the glory of Hong Kong films in the 1990s. It is also such diversified directors such as Ann Hui, Wong Kar-wai, Tsui Hark and John Woo who have supported the prosperity of the entire Hong Kong film industry.

1997 Best Picture "Sweet Honey"

At the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards, "Sweet Honey" won 11 nominations and finally won nine major awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Chen Kexin), Best Actress ( Maggie Cheung ).

ranks second among the top ten best films in the world in 1997, which was rated as the " Times Weekly ". Even before John Woo's famous work " Face Change " to Hollywood .

The central clue of the movie "Sweet Honey" released on November 2, 1996 includes two aspects. On the one hand, since the "Sino-British Joint Statement" came into effect in 1985, Hong Kong people have complex feelings about their return. Uncertainty about the future. On the eve of Hong Kong's return to in 1996, due to the improvement of Hong Kong's prospects, Hong Kong experienced the first wave of immigration return. In "Sweet Honey", Ma Xiaojun, played by Li Ming and Li Qiao, played by Maggie Cheung, are both mainlanders, who come to Hong Kong with ideals and meet by chance.

Another central clue is the sudden death of Teresa Teng . Director Chen Kexin once revealed that the name of the film was "Big City Little Love". Teresa Teng died of illness during the filming process. So after consulting with the screenwriter and producer, he decisively changed the name to "Sweet Honey", making the theme of the film more prominent.

1998 Best Movie "Made in Hong Kong" at the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards

Chen Guo One of the 1997 "Made in Hong Kong" directed by director Chen Guo One of the 1997 "Made in Hong Kong" was released on October 9, 1997. This is the first time Chen Guo has been an independent producer. However, the funds were seriously insufficient when the film was prepared, and finally raised only 500,000 yuan and tens of thousands of feet of film that had been pieced together to barely complete the film.The videos shot in such a shortage of funds are like the rough effect of a family funny video, as if they are out of touch with the times. The name is like a film about industrial production. In fact, the film tells the story of a teenager who was on the verge of Mid-Autumn Festival since childhood, but as he fell in love with a terminally ill girl, Aping, his fate also changed, ending in a tragedy, which is sad. The

video was released on the occasion of Hong Kong's return, and it is a nostalgia and reshaping for the "dead" Hong Kong. "If you die when you are young, you will always be young." The ideas catered to the humanistic sentiment of Hong Kong Island in a special period and finally won the Best Picture. Chen Guoze won the Best Director Award, defeating the famous director Wong Kar-wai's masterpiece "Spring Light" .

1999 Best movie " Beast Police "

1999 The 18th Hong Kong Film Awards . The crime film " Beast Police " starring Anthony Wong and Wang Minde became the biggest winner, winning Best Picture, Best Director ( Chen Jiashang , Lin Chaoxian ), Best Screenwriter, Best Actor (Anthony Wong), and Best Supporting Actor (Tan Yaowen), becoming the most explosive Hong Kong police and gangster movie before the arrival of the new millennium.

The film "Beast Detective" is directed by Chen Jiashang and Lin Chaoxian, and starring Anthony Wong, Wang Minde, Zhang Yaoyang, Zhou Haimei, Lee Cansen, Tam Yaowen and Cha Wanwan. Lin Chaoxian improved a lot of personal experience in his cooperation with director Chen Jiashang, laying the foundation for his later cooperation with the mainland "Hydrome 3 Red Sea Operation " and "Mekong River Operation". Anthony Wong won the Academy Award for her second best actor for her wonderful performance in this film.

2000 Best Movie "Thousand Words"

1999, released on April 10, 1999, tells a social movement in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s, and reviews the journey of Hong Kong local intellectuals consciously challenging Hong Kong and the UK. Due to the success of director Ann Hui in the film industry many times before, and the "Sweet Honey" which also used the title of Teresa Teng's song three years ago, "Thousand Words" was also highly expected this time, but in the end, he only won the Best Picture Award, which is the only one in the 40-year history of the Academy Awards.

However, at the Golden Horse Awards, "Thousand Words" won five important awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Li Lizhen), and the art film directed by Ann Hui was still recognized by professional judges.

2001 Best Movie "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"

2001 On April 30, 2001 "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" won eight awards at the 20th Hong Kong Film Awards Awards Ceremony, including Best Photography Bao Dexi , Best Action Design Yuan Heping, Best Acoustic Effect Eugene Gearty, Best Supporting Actress Zheng Peipei, Best Original Music Tan Dun, Best Original Movie Song "Moonlight Lover", Best Director Ang Lee and Best Movie Awards.

  Ann Lee said that the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is strictly a Hong Kong film, but he doesn't look like it. He also said that he was very happy to have the opportunity to study with the Hong Kong film industry. Before the Academy Awards, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" had won multiple international awards such as the Academy Awards. This time, it was natural to win the Hong Kong Academy Awards

  Wang Kar-wai's " Mood for Love " won five awards, and Zhang Shuping took charge of the Best Editing, Best Art Director and Best Clothing Styling Design Awards. The Best Actor and Actress Awards were won by Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung respectively. In addition, mainland actor Qin Hailu won the Best Newcomer Award for "Durian Piaopiao".

The best films of the second decade of the Hong Kong Film Awards are these: 1992 "The Lame" 1993 "The Cage" 1994 "The New Love" 1995 "Chongqing Forest" 1996 "Woman Forty" 1997 "Sweet Honey" 1998 "Made in Hong Kong" 1999 "Beast Detective" 2000 "Thousands of Words" 2001 "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".The Academy Awards always have its own unique style. There are some commercial films that have achieved box office success and art films full of social sentiments. Revisiting these classic works has a reference and reference effect for the upcoming "Forty-nine" Academy Awards, and you can also look forward to more surprises.