Soi Cheang’s Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In swept the forty third Hong Kong Movie Awards (HKFA) scoring 9 wins together with finest movie, finest director and all of the technical classes.
The massive-budget motion thriller, which recreated the now demolished Kowloon Metropolis in Nineteen Eighties Hong Kong, scooped prizes for finest cinematography, modifying, artwork path, costume and make-up design, motion choreography, sound design and visible results.
The $40m characteristic obtained its worldwide premiere at Cannes final yr, was the second largest movie on the native field workplace in 2024 with takings of almost $14m (HK$108.44m) and was Hong Kong’s entry to the Oscars. A prequel and sequel are within the works.
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Philip Yung’s tragic household drama Papa landed a hat trick of appearing prizes. Sean Lau, who performed the titular father, was named finest actor whereas his on-screen spouse and son, Jo Koo and Dylan So, took finest supporting actress and finest newcomer respectively.
Funeral rites drama The Final Dance went into the night time with 18 nominations, main the pack. It walked away with 5 awards, together with finest screenplay for director Anselm Chan and co-writer Cheng Wai Kei, finest actress for Michelle Wai and finest supporting actor for Tommy Chu. The movie led final yr’s native field workplace and have become the largest Hong Kong and Chinese language-language movie of all time with $18.3m (HK$142.26m).
Hong Kong New Wave director Tsui Hark and veteran producer Nansun Shi have been honoured with the lifetime achievement award. It was introduced by their shut collaborator, display legend Brigitte Lin.
The awards ceremony, held on Sunday (April 27) on the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, was a night of glamour and prime stars.
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai introduced the night time’s first awards to finest newcomer So and finest new director Robin Lee, a Hong Kong-born UK filmmaker, for his sports activities documentary 4 Trails.
Leung’s actress spouse Carina Lau and his co-star from Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, Fala Chen, have been additionally among the many award presenters, together with administrators Stanley Kwan, Ann Hui and Derek Tsang, actor-director Nick Cheung, actor Daniel Wu and Japanese actor Yasuaki Kurata.
Hong Kong Movie Awards 2025 winners
Finest Movie
Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In
Finest Director
Soi Cheang – Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In
Finest Actor
Sean Lau – Papa
Finest Actress
Michelle Wai – The Final Dance
Finest Supporting Actor
Tommy Chu – The Final Dance
Finest Supporting Actress
Jo Koo – Papa
Finest Screenplay
Chan Mou Yin Anselm, Cheng Wai Kei – The Final Dance
Finest New Director
Robin Lee – 4 Trails
Finest New Performer
Dylan So – Papa
Finest Cinematography
Cheng Siu Keung – Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In
Finest Movie Enhancing
Cheung Ka Fai – Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In
Finest Artwork Path
Mak Kwok Keung, Chau Sai Hung Ambrose – Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In
Finest Costume & Make-up Design
Bruce Yu, Karen Yip – Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In
Finest Motion Choreography
Tanigaki Kenji – Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In
Finest Unique Movie Rating
Wan Pin Chu – The Final Dance
Finest Unique Movie Track
The Final Dance – The Final Dance
Finest Sound Design
Yiu Chun Hin, Cheung Man Hoi, To Burnard Davy – Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In
Finest Visible Results
Lin Chun Yue Jules, Ma Siu Fu, Garrett Ok Lam, Yee Kwok Leung – Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In
Finest Asian Chinese language Language Movie
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