From Mirror’s Edan Lui to actress Angela Yuen, here is everything we’re looking forward to at this year’s awards
The Hong Kong Film Awards is set to return this Sunday, April 16 to honour the best locally produced films of 2022. This is the first time since 2020 that it’ll return as a full-scale live event at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
This year’s ceremony will take place across three spaces: the Grand Staircase and the outdoor area overlooking the Victoria Harbour for the red carpet arrivals, and the Grand Theatre for the ceremony. And for the first time in the awards’ history, there will be a spectators area for the public to cheer on their favourite stars.
The ceremony will open with a performance dedicated to Hong Kong cinema by local singer-songwriters Serrini and Terence Lam Ka-him. And three rising actresses—Isabella Chang, Suet-Ying Chung and Larine Tang Yue-ping—will conduct live interviews with the nominees and awardees during the ceremony, which will be broadcast live on Hong Kong Film Awards’ Facebook and YouTube pages.
Tatler readers should also keep an eye on our social media platforms, where we will be covering the event live as the Hong Kong Film Awards’ exclusive English media partner this year.
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There’s no denying that the excitement has been building since the nominees were announced on February 2, and on the evening all eyes will be on the best actress nominees: rising star Angela Yuen, who played a single mother in The Narrow Road; Sylvia Chang, who delivered an emotional portrayal of a widow trying to realise her husband’s dying wish in A Light Never Goes Out; and Sammi Cheung, who shone in Lost Love as a grieving mother who loses her three-year-old son to an illness.
Running for the best actor are Anthony Wong, who played a troubled taxi driver in The Sunny Side of The Street; Mak Pui Tung and Yeung Wai Lun, who portrayed murderers in The Sparring Partner; Sean Lau, who brought a detective suffering from mental breakdown to life in Detective vs. Sleuths; and Louis Cheung Kai-chung, who captivated as a one-man sanitary service operator in The Narrow Road.
