Veteran actor Patrick Tse has turn out to be the oldest actor to win the Best Actor prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA) on Sunday (July 17), whereas Anita, the biopic on late Cantopop famous person Anita Mui, was the largest winner with 5 awards.
Tse, 85, received the award for his position as a retired murderer within the black comedy Time, which additionally starred veteran actress Petrina Fung Bo Bo, actor Lam Suet and former radio DJ Chung Suet Ying.
It was additionally the primary HKFA nomination for Tse, who has been within the leisure business for 70 years.
He beat actors Gordon Lam (Hand Rolled Cigarette and Limbo), Francis Ng (Drifting) and Leung Chung Hang (Zero To Hero) within the class.
Tse was accompanied on stage by Lam, because the viewers gave Tse a standing ovation.
“You are the primary Best Actor winner in HKFA historical past to obtain a standing ovation,” Lam, 54, stated.
Tse stated: “I do not know what to say. I’ll simply take the award.”
Tse’s son, singer-actor Nicholas Tse, posted a photograph of his father on social media and wrote: “Congrats, dad.”
The youthful Tse, 41, had famously joked that his father had didn’t win a single award at the HKFA regardless of appearing in additional than 100 movies after the youthful Tse received Best New Performer at the age of 18 in 1999 for Young And Dangerous: The Prequel.
Nicholas Tse later apologised to his dad on stage after he received Best Actor for The Stool Pigeon at the HKFA in 2011.
Anita received 5 awards on Sunday night time, together with Best New Performer for Hong Kong mannequin Louise Wong, 32, who performed Mui within the film, and Best Supporting Actress for Malaysian actress Fish Liew, 32, who performed the singer’s elder sister Ann Mui.
The film additionally received Best Costume & Makeup Design, Best Sound Design and Best Visual Effects. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
