Since the SCMP couldn’t be arsed to print all the winners of this year’s HK Film Awards (all 21 of them), here is the full list courtesy of screendaily.com

  • Best film: Ip Man (prod: Raymond Wong / dir: Wilson Yip)
  • Best director: Ann Hui – The Way We Are
  • Best screenplay: Lou Shiu-wa – The Way We Are
  • Best actor: Nick Cheung – The Beast Stalker
  • Best actress: Paw Hee-ching – The Way We Are
  • Best supporting actor: Liu Kai-chi – The Best Stalker
  • Best supporting actress: Chan Lai-wun – The Way We Are
  • Best new performer: Xu Jiao – CJ7
  • Best cinematography: Arthur Wong – Painted Skin
  • Best film editing: Yau Chi-wai – Connected
  • Best art direction: Tim Yip – Red Cliff
  • Best costume & make-up design: Tim Yip – Red Cliff
  • Best action choreography: Sammo Hung & Tony Leung Siu-hung – Ip Man
  • Best sound design: Wu Jiang & Roger Savage – Red Cliff
  • Best visual effects: Craig Hayes – Red Cliff
  • Best original score: Taro Iwashiro – Red Cliff
  • Best original film song: Jane Zhang – Painted Skin
  • Best new director: Derek Kwok – The Moss
  • Best Asian film – Assembly
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Josephine Siao Fong-fong
  • Professional Achievement Award: Ting Yu

The SCMP did find space to print this bizarre quote from best actor award winner Nick Cheung:


“When I saw [Barack] Obama winning the US presidency, I thought I stood a chance,” said Cheung, with tears in his eyes. “I waited for this award for a very long time.”

If it was an Asian man winning an acting Oscar, the above quote might make sense.

Speaking of actors who make no sense, Jackie Chan regaled an audience in Hainan with his wisdom over the weekend. The Standard says he said this:

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want. If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic.

The SCMP translated things differently:


I don’t know whether it is better to have freedom or to have no freedom. With too much freedom … it can get very chaotic, could end up like in Taiwan.

Then, according to the SCMP:


… he said he would definitely not buy a TV set made on the mainland because he feared it might explode. If he wanted to buy a TV set, he would buy a Japanese-made one, he said.

If the Philippines could ban Chip Tsao from visiting there due comments in his column in HK magazine, if Macao can ban HK democrats from visiting because of what they might do or say while there, is it possible for HK to ban Jackie Chan?

Hongkie Town
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