Hong Kong Oscar trivia: five Academy Award facts on city’s history with the event
It’s Oscars time again and as the 90th Academy Awards ceremony goes down in Hollywood, we look at some of the stand-out points in Hong Kong’s history with the biggest event in film
Hong Kong has submitted 35 films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since first entering the Oscar competition in 1959. This year’s submission – Mad World, the first feature film by director Wong Chun – stars Shawn Yue and Eric Tsang and delves into the mind of mental illness.
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But how much do you know about Hong Kong’s more notable past Oscar activities? Here’s some facts to get you in the mood for today’s main event.
Remade for success
In 2007, The Departed became the first and, so far, only remake to win Best Picture (it also scooped Best Director for Martin Scorsese).
But the film holds a special place in the hearts of Hongkongers, being a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs, starring Tony Leung and Anthony Wong.