THE GRANDMASTER Wins 12, Dominates Hong Kong Film Awards

James Marsh, Editor, Asia; Hong Kong, China (@Marshy00)

April 13 2014, 11:42 AM

The 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards have just announced their winners and unsurprisingly it was Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster that dominated the evening, scooping a phenomenal twelve awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Action Choreography. Adam Wong's dance comedy The Way We Dance took 3 awards, including Best Song, Best New Actor for Babyjohn and Best New Director, while Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis also performed well, winning Best Supporting Actress for Kara Hui and Best Visual Effects.

Nick Cheung managed to beat out Tony Leung to take the Best Actor prize for his role in Dante Lam's Unbeatable, while Zhao Wei's directorial debut So Young won the Best Cross-Strait Chinese Language Film, but otherwise it was Wong Kar Wai's stylish Ip Man biopic that triumphed in every other category.

Best Film - The Grandmaster

Best Director - Wong Kar Wai (The Grandmaster)

Best Actor - Nick Cheung (Unbeatable)

Best Actress - Zhang Ziyi (The Grandmaster)

Best Supporting Actor - Max Zhang (The Grandmaster)

Best Supporting Actress - Kara Hui (Rigor Mortis)

Best Screenplay - Wong Kar Wai, Xu Haofeng, Zhao Jingzhi (The Grandmaster)

Best Editing - William Chang, Benjamin Courtine, Poon Hung-yiu (The Grandmaster)

Best Cinematography - Philippe LeSourd (The Grandmaster)

Best Production Design - William Chang (The Grandmaster)

Best Costumes & Make-Up - (The Grandmaster)

Best Visual Effects - Enoch Chan (Rigor Mortis)

Best Action Choreography - Yuen Woo Ping (The Grandmaster)

Best Cross-Straits Chinese Language Film - So Young (dir. Zhao Wei)

Best Score - Umebayashi Shigeru, Nathaniel Mechaly (The Grandmaster)

Best Song - (The Way We Dance)

Best Sound - (The Grandmaster)

Best New Actor - Babyjohn (The Way We Dance)

Best New Director - Adam Wong (The Way We Dance)

Lifetime Achievement Award - Chang Hsin-yen