Hong Kong Film Awards nominations 2018: Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come leads race with 11 nods

Veteran director Ann Hui’s wartime drama Our Time Will Come picked up 11 nominations, including best picture, while Love Education and Paradox were nominated for nine awards each

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Zhou Xun and Deanie Ip in the film Our Time Will Come. The film has been nominated for 11 awards in Hong Kong.

Published: 5:15pm, 6 Feb 2018Updated: 5:22pm, 6 Feb 2018

After two consecutive years in which the eventual best picture winners were prohibited from being mentioned in Chinese media, the Hong Kong Film Awards has found a considerable sense of restored order as it announced the nominations for its 37th ceremony on Tuesday.

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Among the five best picture nominees – all of which are directed by veteran filmmakers, unlike last year – Ann Hui On-wah’s Our Time Will Come leads the race with 11 nominations. The wartime drama was named the best local film of 2017 by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society in January, after topping a list compiled by the Post in December, which ranked every major Hong Kong film released in 2017.

Love Education received nine nominations.

Still, observers of China’s censorship patterns should keep an eye on the best supporting actress category: it will be interesting to see if Deanie Ip Tak-han (Our Time Will Come) – a pro-democracy singer-actress who was rumoured to be a factor behind her film losing the Shanghai film festival opening slot last year – will be hidden from the Chinese broadcast of the awards, the way best picture winners Trivisa and Ten Years did in previous years.

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Nine nominations, respectively, went to Sylvia Chang Ai-chia’s multigenerational relationship drama Love Education and Wilson Yip Wai-shun’s brutal action thriller Paradox , which earned Louis Koo Tin-lok his third best actor nod at the awards, having also been nominated in 2009 for Run Papa Run and 2014 for The White Storm.

The award winners will be announced on Sunday April 15 at a ceremony at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui.

The full list of nominations is as follows:

Best picture

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