27th Hong Kong Film Awards (香港电影金像奖)

The 27th. Hong Kong Film Awards (香港电影金像奖) will be held in Hong Kong Cultural Centre on 13th.April 2008, Sunday evening. This year, the Film Development Fund had financially supported HK$3,080,200 to run this event. On the presentation ceremony day, Malaysian also can watch this program in live through Astro's "Wah Lai Toi".

The nomination list of 19 categories of awards were already announced by 2nd.Feb 2008. Personally, I'm more concern on the 4 major categories. There are best film, best director, best actor and best actress categories.

Best Film.

The 5 nominated movies are :-

• The Warlords ( 投名狀 )


• Protege ( 門徒 )


• The Postmodern Life of My Aunt ( 姨媽的后現代生活 )


• Mad Detective ( 神探 )


• Eye in The Sky ( 跟蹤 )

I'd already watched all these movies, except "The Postmodern Life of My Aunt". So, if without considering TPLMA, the rest 4 of its are very strong too. Each of it has their very potential essentials to win the award. Honestly, I love all of its. But, if really need to filter out, I will keep The Warlords and Protege. The Warlords is about the sentimental of three brotherhoods, and a lot of marvelous battlefield scene. It managed to hook your feeling from the starting where Jet Li was the last survival in a crucial war, then swearing brotherhood with Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro, until three of them were ruined by killing each others. It's a very entertained, fascinated and dramatically movie. On another hand, Protege, which was also acting by Andy Lau, together with Daniel Wu and Louis Koo is about probing on drug world in Hong Kong. A very realistic and socialistic movie. It was a very sincere fully Hong Kong made movie since Infernal Affairs (无间道).

Finally, if I must have to choose one from these two, I would say The Warlords. I can't find a concrete reason why it's not Protege. Hmmm... might be the only reason is I don't like the Protege's ending where Daniel Wu had finally turned into drug addiction. Ohh...yah, don't look down "The Postmodern Life of My Aunt" also, even though I didn't watch it. It had managed to make a successful record in the 43rd. Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan.

Best Director

The 5 nominated directors are :-

• Peter Chan Ho Sun (The Warlords)


• Derek Yee Tung Sing (Protege)


• Ann Hui On Wah (The Postmodern Life Of My Aunt)


• Johnnie To Kei Fung & Wai Ka Fai (Mad Detective)


• Yau Nai Hoi (Eye In The Sky).

Among the 6 directors (Remark: Johnnie To and Wai will share in one nomination), Yau is the newest and less experience compare to the rest. He was formally specialist in writing script, and was promoted by Johnnie To to direct his first movie, Eye In The Sky. Yes, Eye In The Sky is his first movie, and it is nominated. This nomination is already reasonable for him to celebrate. I do not say Eye In The Sky is not good, if it's not good, he won't be nominated. But to against the rest 5 famous and brilliant directors, I think it is too heavy for him.

Personally, I think Derek Yee is holding the highest chance. (Again, my comparison is excluded Ann Hui, because I still haven't have a chance to watch The Postmodern Life of My Aunt).

Best Actor

The 5 nominated actors are :-

• 郭富城（C+偵探）Aaron Kwok (The Detective)


• 李連杰（投名狀）Jet Li (The Warlords)


• 劉德華（投名狀）Andy Lau Tak Wah (The Warlords)


• 劉青雲（神探）Lau Ching Wan (Mad Detective)


• 任達華（跟蹤）Simon Yam (Eye In The Sky)

Hard to choose!! Basically, Andy Lau, Lau CW and Simon Yam were playing well in their own movie. However, personally, I like Simon Yam most on his performance in Eye In The Sky. If you haven't watch the movie, I highly recommand you to watch the DVD, stay tuned with Simon Yam performance.

Best Actress

The 5 nominated actress are:-

• 毛舜筠（老港正傳）Teresa Mo Shun Kwan (Mr. Cinema)


• 張靜初（門徒）Zhang Jing Chu (Protege)


• 斯琴高娃（姨媽的后現代生活）Si Qin Gao Wa (The Postmodern Life Of My Aunt)


• 劉若英（綁架）Rene Liu (Kidnap)


• 蔡卓妍（戲王之王）Charlene Choi (Simply Actors)

Again hard to choose!!! Actually don't know how to choose.... kekeke... Coz most of their works, I didn't have a chance to watch. Hmmm.... I must find these movies and watch it as soon as possible.

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