Hong Kong famous person Sammi Cheng has been named Best Actress by a panel of movie critics for the first time in 22 years, in keeping with a listing of winners launched by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society on Monday (Jan 16).
The 50-year-old singer-actress obtained the award for her position in the film Lost Love (2023), in which she performs a mom attempting to beat the loss of life of her younger son by turning into a foster guardian.
Cheng, who declined to be paid for the undertaking as she beloved the storyline, mentioned the win got here as a shock and that the popularity holds nice significance for her.
“For a long time, I have always thought about how to improve my performance and hoped to get different acting roles,” she wrote on social media on Monday.
“I have never thought of giving up and disappointing everyone.”
She additionally instructed the Hong Kong media she was so moved by the award that she was speechless for some time, as she as soon as felt misplaced and annoyed in her appearing profession.
The Cantopop diva final nabbed the movie critics award in 2001 for her titular position as the feminine outlaw Zhong Wuyan in the interval comedy Wu Yen, which additionally starred Cecilia Cheung and the late Anita Mui.
Cheng has since been nominated for Best Actress a number of occasions on the Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA) and Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards.
She was the favorite to win Best Actress on the HKFA in 2020 for her roles in two motion pictures, Fagara (2019) and Fatal Visit (2020).
However, she misplaced to Chinese actress Zhou Dongyu, who obtained kudos for her position as a bullied schoolgirl in the Oscar-nominated movie Better Days (2019).
Hong Kong actor Louis Cheung gained his first Best Actor award from the movie critics society for his position because the proprietor of a struggling cleansing enterprise in The Narrow Road (2022), whereas Best Film went to coming-of-age documentary To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self (2022). – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
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