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Jennifer Yu Heung-ying, a favourite for the best actress prize at the 2024 Hong Kong Film Awards, in a still from In Broad Daylight. The film leads the race for honours with 16 nominations in total. Photo: One Cool Pictures
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Hong Kong Film Awards 2024 nominations in full: In Broad Daylight leads the race with 16 nods, followed by Time Still Turns the Pages and The Goldfinger

  • This year’s best picture, best director and best screenplay categories at the Hong Kong Film Awards are completely dominated by the same five front runners
  • Journalism drama In Broad Daylight, with 16 nominations, is the runaway lead in the race for honours; Time Still Turns the Pages and The Goldfinger each have 12
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
Edmund Lee
Edmund Lee
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Fact-based journalism drama In Broad Daylight leads the race for honours in the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards with 16 nominations, including best picture.

Revolving around a series of abuse allegations against the staff of a Hong Kong residential care centre for the disabled, the second feature of director Lawrence Kan Kwan-chun clearly resonated with voters with its indignant account of the price that investigative journalists are bound to pay in their pursuit of justice.
As was the case in 2023, five films have 10 or more nominations, the others being Nick Cheuk Yik-him’s family drama Time Still Turns the Pages and Felix Chong Man-keung’s financial crime epic The Goldfinger, with 12 each, and Soi Cheang Pou-soi’s absurdist murder mystery Mad Fate and Jack Ng Wai-lun’s legal blockbuster A Guilty Conscience, with 10 each.

Unlike previous years, however, the 2024 awards are completely dominated by the same five front runners: all of them are nominated in the top categories of best picture, best director and best screenplay.

Lo Chun-yip is nominated for best actor for his role as a secondary-school teacher in Time Still Turns The Pages. Photo: Roundtable Pictures
Their closest competitors, musical drama Band Four and family drama Fly Me to the Moon, each have four nominations.

The nominees, announced by organisers on February 6, were chosen from a pool of 50 contending films released in 2023, up from the 33 released in 2022 that contended for nominations last year.

The winners of this year’s awards will be announced on April 14 at a ceremony at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon.

The full list of nominations is as follows:

Best film

In Broad Daylight, Time Still Turns the Pages, Mad Fate, The Goldfinger, A Guilty Conscience

Lokman Yeung (left) and Lam Ka-tung in a still from Mad Fate. Photo: Golden Scene

Best director

Lawrence Kan (In Broad Daylight), Nick Cheuk (Time Still Turns the Pages), Soi Cheang (Mad Fate), Felix Chong (The Goldfinger), Jack Ng (A Guilty Conscience)

Best screenplay

In Broad Daylight, Time Still Turns the Pages, Mad Fate, The Goldfinger, A Guilty Conscience

Best actor

Bowie Lam (In Broad Daylight), Lo Chun-yip (Time Still Turns the Pages), Tony Leung Chiu-wai (The Goldfinger), Dayo Wong (A Guilty Conscience), Da Peng (Dust to Dust)

(From left) Carlos Chan, Simon Yam and Tony Leung Chiu-wai in a still from The Goldfinger. Photo: Emperor Motion Pictures

Best actress

Kay Tse (Band Four), Michelle Wai (Ready or Rot), Jennifer Yu (In Broad Daylight), Louise Wong (A Guilty Conscience), Chung Suet-ying (The Lyricist Wannabe)

Best supporting actor

David Chiang (In Broad Daylight), Sean Wong (Time Still Turns the Pages), Jiro Lee (Over My Dead Body), Wu Kang-ren (Fly Me to the Moon), Tse Kwan-ho (A Guilty Conscience)

Best supporting actress

Elaine Jin (Ready or Rot), Rachel Leung (In Broad Daylight), Rosa Maria Velasco (Time Still Turns the Pages), Renci Yeung (A Guilty Conscience), Fish Liew (A Guilty Conscience)

Michelle Wai (left) and Elaine Jin in a still from Ready or Rot. Photo: Emperor Motion Pictures

Best new performer

Sabrina Ng (Say I Do To Me), Rondi Chan (Band Four), Hui Yuet-sheung (In Broad Daylight), Curtis Ho (Time Still Turns the Pages), Yoyo Tse (Fly Me to the Moon)

Best cinematography

In Broad Daylight, Time Still Turns the Pages, Mad Fate, The Goldfinger, I Did It My Way

Best film editing

In Broad Daylight, Time Still Turns the Pages, Mad Fate, The Goldfinger, A Guilty Conscience

Dayo Wong (right) and Renci Yeung in a still from A Guilty Conscience. Photo: Edko Films

Best art direction

Back Home, In Broad Daylight, Time Still Turns the Pages, Mad Fate, The Goldfinger

Best costume and make-up design

In Broad Daylight, Over My Dead Body, Fly Me to the Moon, Mad Fate, The Goldfinger

Best action choreography

Sakra, Mad Fate, The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell, I Did It My Way, Bursting Point
William Chan (left) and Nick Cheung in a still from Bursting Point. Photo: Emperor Motion Pictures

Best original film score

Band Four, In Broad Daylight, Time Still Turns the Pages, The Goldfinger, The Lyricist Wannabe

Best original film song

Say I Do to Me, Band Four, In Broad Daylight, The Goldfinger, The Lyricist Wannabe

Best sound design

In Broad Daylight, Mad Fate, The Goldfinger, Dust to Dust, Bursting Point

Bai Ling in a still from Back Home. Photo: mm2 Studios Hong Kong

Best visual effects

Back Home, Mad Fate, The Goldfinger, Cyber Heist, Bursting Point

Best new director

Lawrence Kan (In Broad Daylight), Nick Cheuk (Time Still Turns the Pages), Sasha Chuk (Fly Me to the Moon), Jack Ng (A Guilty Conscience), Jonathan Li (Dust to Dust)

Best Asian Chinese language film

The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon; No More Bets; Abang Adik; Full River Red; Marry My Dead Body
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