Hong Kong Films Sweeps 43rd Golden Horse Film Awards
(Credits to
Karazen Staff and AP)
TAIPEI
Nov.
26, 2006
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Hong Kong pop idol Aaron Kwok proved he's a bona fide actor and mainland China's Zhou Xun cemented her status as one of the industry's biggest stars as the duo won top acting honors at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards — the Chinese-language equivalent of the Oscars.
No movie emerged the dominant winner in evenly split results announced in Taipei late Saturday.
Zhou's movie, the musical "Perhaps Love," also took home best director for Hong Kong's Peter Chan, but Kwok's film, "After This Our Exile," the meticulously told story of a troubled family's breakdown, won best picture and best supporting actor for 9-year-old Ian Gouw.
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"Perhaps Love" also won for best cinematography and best original film song.
The 41-year-old Kwok made his name as one of Chinese pop's "Four Heavenly Kings" in the 1990s, along with Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Leon Lai.
Considered the best dancer of the quartet, he was never known for his singing — let alone acting — skills.
Kwok boosted his acting credentials with a surprise best actor win at last year's Golden Horse Awards for playing a troubled police officer obsessed with his missing wife in "Divergence."
He proved last year's win wasn't a fluke by clinching top acting honors again this year with a powerful performance of the downward spiral of a hot-tempered cook, who pimps and forces his son to steal after losing his job, his home and his wife.
Kwok described his growth as a performer.
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"When you grow up, first you have to let go of your so-called baggage as an idol. Once you're free of the baggage of an idol, you can play any character in a relaxed state. You can have different creative spaces and you don't have any boundaries," he told reporters after his win.
Meanwhile, Chinese actress Zhou completed a clean sweep of Chinese cinema's top awards for her portrayal of a movie star caught between past and present loves in "Perhaps Love."
Zhou's character also won best actress honors at the Hong Kong Film Awards, Hong Kong's Golden Bauhinia awards and Hong Kong Film Critics Society awards earlier this year.
After her win, she said acting "like life, is a constant learning process."
"As I myself mature, my performance of characters will also mature," Zhou said.
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The best picture win for "After This Our Exile" also marks a successful comeback for director Patrick Tam, considered part of Hong Kong's "new wave" of cinema in the 1980s.
The movie is Tam's first after a 17-year break, during which he trained screenwriters in Malaysia and edited famed Hong Kong art-house director Wong Kar-wai's "Days of Being Wild." The director didn't attend the awards ceremony.
Saturday's best director winner Peter Chan, who made "Comrades: Almost a Love Story" and the Hollywood movie "The Love Letter," also didn't show up. His girlfriend actress Sandra Ng accepted the award for him.
Chan's win makes up for a loss in the category at the Hong Kong Film Awards in April.
2006 GOLDEN HORSE
FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture: After This
Our Exile (Hong Kong)
Best Director: Peter Chan
(Perhaps Love)
Best Actor: Aaron Kwok
(After This Our Exile)
Best Actress: Zhou Xun
(Perhaps Love)
Best Supporting Actor:
Goum Ian Iskandar (After This Our Exile)
Best Supporting Actress:
Nikki Shie (Reflections)
Best New Performer: Bryant
Chang Rui Jia (Eternal Summer)
Best Original Screenplay:
Ning Hao (Crazy Stone)
Best Screenplay Adaptation:
Ning Dai, Zhang Yuan (Little Red Flowers)
Best Original Film Score: Lim
Giong (Do Over)
Best Original Film Song:
Crossroad (Perhaps Love) |
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Best Cinematography: Peter Pau
(Perhaps Love)
Best
Visual Effects: Foo Sing Choong (Silk)
Best
Art Direction: Tim Yip (The Banquet)
Best
Make Up & Costume Design: Tim Yip (The Banquet)
Best
Action Choreography: Ling Chun Pong, Wong Chi Wai
(Exiled)
Best
Film Editing: Chen Po Wen, Liu Chun-hsiu (Do Over)
Best Sound Effects: Tu Du Chi,
Guo Li Chi, Ke Yi Jun (Amour-Legende)
Best Documentary: (My Football
Summer)
Best Short Film: (The Secret
In the Wind)
Formosa Filmmaker Award: Kuo
Lichi |
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