Leung won his Fifth National Board of Review Award for Best Actor at the 44th Hong Kong Film Awards, which ended on April 19. The 68-year-old“Best Actor with a thousand faces” has witnessed the development of Hong Kong films in his nearly half-century career, which has aroused heated discussion among Hong Kong media.
Leung won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
Hong Kong’s Sing Tao Toutiao.com said Leung had“Once again proved his irreplaceable stage presence” by standing out from strong rivals Koo Tin-lok, Cheung Chi-chung and Chan Kar-lok. This time, Tony Leung Kar-fai played the villain“Fu lung-sheng” in“Chasing the Wind”. He played opposite Hong Kong kung fu superstar Jackie Chan. However, Tony Leung Kar-fai showed no weakness in the action scenes, and personally fought the most difficult knife battles, coupled with precise micro-expression and psychological interpretation, his ability to write and fight is admirable.
Hong Kong Media Review Tony Leung’s career, he still holds the Hong Kong film awards“Youngest Actor” record: 1984, the 26-year-old Leung won Best Actor at the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards for National Board of Review Award. Since then, leung has left an impressive legacy in every era: 92 legendary La Rose Noire (1993) , Triad (2006) , Cold War (2013) and chasing the Wind (2026) , in addition, “The lover”(1992) and other internationally influential masterpieces, with a very wide line of contribution to the many classic images.
According to Hong Kong’s Eastday.com, Leung not only thanked the film’s creator, but also choked up and thanked his family. As for the performance, “I want to surprise the audience. It’s not an expectation, but a professional attitude as an actor,” said Leung, who also posed for a photo with Lee chek-kwan, one of the nominees for Best New Actor. While the evergreen generation of Tony Leung Ka-fai, Jackie Chan and Tony Leung chiu-wai are still“Capable of fighting”, a new generation of actors is growing rapidly, for example, Liu Ziyu, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Wei Sze-ya, Best Supporting Actress, and Best New Actress, Deng Tao, have all become New Forces in Hong Kong and even in the chinese-language film industry. (Han Lin)