Post film editor Edmund Lee picks the likely winners in all 19 categories at Sunday’s awards ceremony, which The Sparring Partner is likely to dominate and where recent Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh is expected.
To My Nineteen-year-old Self, a coming-of-age story filmed over a decade, takes the top prize in the annual awards; Sammi Cheng and Louis Cheung win acting prizes.
Against the odds, in 2022 Louis Koo sci-fi epic Warriors of Future and wordy comedy Table for Six set Hong Kong box office records, and a new generation of directors emerged.
South Korean thriller Decision to Leave won best director at Cannes, while in RRR the world discovered another directing talent. It was a banner year for Hong Kong cinema, too.
Cheung plays a struggling businessman and Yuen his assistant, a poor single mother, in Lam Sum’s poignant film that delicately dramatises Hong Kong people’s anxiety.