英闻天下——518 Cold War Big Winner at HK Films Awards
英语课
"The Best Film of the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards goes to…Cold War……"
The 2012 Hong Kong police drama "Cold War" won most of the big awards. In addition to Best Film, it also won Best Director, Best Script and Best Actor, among others.
"Cold War" was the first production of directors Longman Leung and Sunny Luk Kim-ching. The film not only won the two new-directors the title of Best Directors but also Best Screenplay.
Tony Leung Ka Fai, who plays a deputy police chief in the film, picked up Best Actor award and it's the fourth time he's won it.
"I want to thank my families, my parents, my sister… My two daughters asked me to thank them. I asked them why, and they said they watched 'Cold War' four times."
Other awards "Cold War" gathered include: best original music, best visual effects, best sound design, best film editing and best new actor.
As for Best Actress, Miriam Yeung Chin-wah won the title for her performance in the romantic comedy "Love in the Buff." And this singer-turned-actress was so emotional about her honor that she cried on stage and was unable to speak for a while.
Yeung later said backstage that she did not expect to because "Love in the Buff" is a small budget film.
The comedy "Vulgaria" took both the best supporting actor and actress awards, with Ronald Cheng Chung-kei and Dada Chan picked up the titles respectively.
The mainland film "Back to 1942," which was directed by Feng Xiaogang took the award for Best Film From Mainland And Taiwan.
The film's lead actor, Zhang Guoli called for film makers 1 in the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan to settle down and promote Chinese language films together.
"It has come to a critical period for Chinese language films. Mainland movies should think about what we should stick to, the same applies to Taiwan films."
As of other awards, "The Last Tycoon 2" won Best Original Film Song and Best Costume and Make Up Design. Jackie Chan won his third Best Action Choreography award with the movie "CZ12."
The mystery drama "The Bullet Vanishes" which also received 12 nominations 3 like "Cold War," turned out to be the big loser. The film didn't win any award.
For CRI, I'm Xu Weiyi in Hong Kong.
1 makers
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
- The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
- The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 tycoon
n.有钱有势的企业家,大亨
- The tycoon is on the verge of bankruptcy.那名大亨濒临破产的边缘。
- The tycoon has many servants to minister to his needs.那位大亨有很多人服侍他。
3 nominations
n.提名,任命( nomination的名词复数 )
- Nominations are invited for the post of party chairman. 为党主席职位征集候选人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Much coverage surrounded his abortive bids for the 1960,1964, and 1968 Republican Presidential nominations. 许多消息报道都围绕着1960年、1964年和1968年他为争取提名为共和党总统候选人所做努力的失败。 来自辞典例句