The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film is an annual Hong Kong industry award presented to the films which is considered the best of the year.
History The award was established at the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards (1982) and the first winner and the sole participant in this category was Father and Son, a film by Allen Fong. From the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards (1983), there are 5, sometimes 6, nominations for the category of Best Film from which one film is chosen the winner of the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film. The most recent recipient of the award was To My Nineteen Year Old Self, a documentary directed by Mabel Cheung and William Kwok and produced by Eunice Wong, which was honoured at the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards (2023).
Winners and nominees 1982 — 1999 Year Film Producer(s) Production Company Note 1982(1st)Father and SonWong Kai-chuenPhoenix Motion Picture Company 1983(2nd)Boat PeopleXia MengBluebird Film Company Greenworld Company Lonely FifteenJohnny Mak Tong-hungPearl City Films The Prodigal SonRaymond ChowGolden Harvest Coolie KillerDennis Yu Jeffrey LauCentury Motion Picture NomadJeffrey Lau Dennis YuCentury Motion Picture 1984(3rd)Ah Ying Burning of the Imperial Palace The Dead and the Deadly Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain Health Warning 1985(4th)Homecoming Shanghai Blues Long Arm of the Law Hong Kong 1941 1986(5th)Police Story The Illegal Immigrant Mr. Vampire Women 1987(6th)A Better Tomorrow Brotherhood Just Like Weather The Lunatics The Last Emperor Love Unto Waste 1988(7th) An Autumn's Tale A Chinese Ghost Story City on Fire Tin Po San The Romance of Book & Sword Ann Hui Final Victory 1989(8th) Rouge Gangs Painted Faces As Tears Go By Chicken and Duck Talk 1990(9th) Beyond the Sunset All About Ah-Long The Killer A Fishy Story Eight Taels of Gold 1991(10th)Days of Being Wild Wong Kar-wai A Terra-Cotta Warrior Song of the Exile Ann Hui Red Dust Farewell China 1992(11th) To Be Number One Once a Thief This Thing Called Love Lee Rock Once Upon a Time in China 1993(12th) Cageman 92 Legendary La Rose Noire King of Beggars Once Upon a Time in China II Center Stage 1994(13th) C'est la vie, mon chéri Crime Story Always on My Mind Tom, Dick and Hairy Temptation of a Monk 1995(14th) Chungking Express Wong Kar-wai Ashes of Time Wong Kar-wai He's a Woman, She's a Man I Have a Date with Spring The Final Option 1996(15th) Summer Snow Ann Hui Full Throttle Fallen Angels Wong Kar-wai The Day the Sun Turned Cold Rumble in the Bronx 1997(16th) Comrades: Almost a Love Story Peter Chan Police Story 4: First Strike Viva Erotica Hu Du Men Big Bullet 1998(17th) Made in Hong Kong Happy Together Wong Kar-wai Full Alert The Soong Sisters Lifeline 1999(18th) Beast Cops Who Am I? The Longest Summer City of Glass The Storm Riders
2000 — present