Post film editor Edmund Lee picks the likely winners in all 19 categories at Sunday’s awards ceremony, which The Sparring Partner is likely to dominate and where recent Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh is expected.
Against the odds, in 2022 Louis Koo sci-fi epic Warriors of Future and wordy comedy Table for Six set Hong Kong box office records, and a new generation of directors emerged.
South Korean thriller Decision to Leave won best director at Cannes, while in RRR the world discovered another directing talent. It was a banner year for Hong Kong cinema, too.
Inspired by the real-life 2013 double murder case of a Hong Kong man who killed and cooked his parents, this well-acted film gets too bogged down in courtroom proceedings, and resultantly falls short of greatness.