On March 21, the 5th Asian Film Festival Awards ceremony was held at Hong Kong's largest exhibition center.
Present at the award ceremony were Joan Chen, Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung, Huang Xiaomin, Zhang Ziyi, Harvey Weinstein, Sammo Hungg, directors Lee Chang-dong, Feng Xiaogang, Su Chao-ping, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, producer Raymond Chow and other famous personalities.
Sammo Hungg received an award in the category “Best Supporting Actor” (for the film “Ip Man 2”), and Raymond Chow presented with a lifetime achievement award.
82-year-old Chow known primarily for being the founder of the studio "Golden Harvest", thanks to which the world learned about Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hungge, Jete Li и John Woo. Before creation "Golden Harvest" Chow headed production at a film studio "Shaw Brothers". Moreover, according to Bay Logan, writer, screenwriter and editor of Combat and Impact magazines, in his youth Raymond Chow studied style Hung Gar from the legendary master Lam Sai Wine nicknamed “Great butcher”.
Source: kungfucinema.com, fareastfilms.com, filmbiz.asia
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Well, because of him too. But Sammo, as an actor and director, is still a more significant figure in Golden Harvest.
Raymond Chow and Leonard K. Ho are the great people who made Asian Cinema known to the world. These are the key figures in Hong Kong Cinema, and the studio in the 80s was at the peak of its popularity, not thanks to Sammo, but thanks to Jackie Chan (his 4 films with “Golden Harvest” are still among the top ten box office films in Hong Kong). After Jackie's unauthorized voyage, the company went downhill, unfortunately. What impressed me about Raymond was that he always gave freedom of action to directors and actors.
Sammo Hungg deserves this award.
And Sammo Hungg had disagreements with R. Chow, and if not for this, Sammo would not have left Golden Harvest and, perhaps, the company would have lived longer (I think that in the 80s the whole studio was supported only by Sammo.
What about the fact that Sammo was given the award, I read that Sammo was very surprised. ))) Well, he’s a strong actor, he knows how to play both drama and comedy. And it has been recognized with nominations and awards more than once. By the way, when I found out that Sammo was in the nomination, I really wanted him to win.