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Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress | |
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Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a leading role |
Country | Hong Kong |
Presented by | Hong Kong Film Awards |
First awarded | 1982 (for performances in films released in 1981/1982) |
Currently held by | Jennifer Yu — In Broad Daylight (2024) |
Website | hkfaa |
The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually at the Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA). It is given to honour an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a Hong Kong film. The 1st Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony was held in 1982, with no formal nomination procedure established; the award was given to Kara Hui for her role in My Young Auntie.[1] After the first award ceremony, a nomination system was put in place whereby no more than five nominations are made for each category and each entry is selected through two rounds of voting. Firstly, prospective nominees are marked with a weight of 50% each from HKFA voters and a hundred professional adjudicators, contributing towards a final score with which the top five nominees advance to the second round of voting. The winner is then selected via a scoring process where 55% of the vote comes from 55 professional adjudicators, 25% from representatives of the Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild and 20% from all other HKFA Executive Committee Members.[2]
Maggie Cheung holds the title of the most awards received having been honoured on 5 separate occasions. Sylvia Chang holds the record for the most nominated actress with 12 nominations.
Winners and nominees
In the following table award nominees are listed by year corresponding to the Hong Kong Film Awards' annual presentation ceremony. At the first incarnation of the ceremony in 1982 awards were presented to winners with no nominees selected. Thereafter, the winner is chosen from a list of nominees from the chosen category.
![Photo of Kara Hui at the world premiere of the Hong Kong film Happiness in 2015.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/SI_Twenty-First_Annual_Made_in_Hong_Kong_Film_Festival_01_Cropped.jpg/120px-SI_Twenty-First_Annual_Made_in_Hong_Kong_Film_Festival_01_Cropped.jpg)
![Photo of Maggie Cheung at Shanghai movie festival in 2007.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/MaggieCheung.jpg/120px-MaggieCheung.jpg)
![Photo of Sylvia Chang at Hong Kong International Film Festival 2011.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Sylvia_Chang_2011_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Sylvia_Chang_2011_%28cropped%29.jpg)
![Photo of Brigitte at the 2008 Dubai International Film Festival.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Brigitte_lin_ching_hsia.jpg/120px-Brigitte_lin_ching_hsia.jpg)
![Photo of Sandra Ng in Bangkok 2007.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Sandra_Ng_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Sandra_Ng_%28cropped%29.jpg)
![Photo of Anita Yuen.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/%E8%A2%81%E8%A9%A0%E5%84%80.jpg/120px-%E8%A2%81%E8%A9%A0%E5%84%80.jpg)
![Photo of Faye Wong in Kuala Lumpur 2011.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Faye_Wong.jpg/120px-Faye_Wong.jpg)
![Photo of Cecilia Cheung in 2009.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/CeciliaCheung.jpg/120px-CeciliaCheung.jpg)
![Photo of Zhang Ziyi](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Zhang_Ziyi_the_Jury_President_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_%2849013444988%29.jpg/120px-Zhang_Ziyi_the_Jury_President_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_%2849013444988%29.jpg)
![Photo of Zhou Xun at CCTV-MTV music award ceremony in Beijing in July 2002.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Zhou_Xun_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Zhou_Xun_%28cropped%29.jpg)
![Photo of Faye Wong in Kuala Lumpur 2011.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/2007TaipeiITMonth_KarenMok.jpg/120px-2007TaipeiITMonth_KarenMok.jpg)
![Photo of Gong Li at Cannes Film Festival in 2011.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Gong_Li_Cannes_2011.jpg/120px-Gong_Li_Cannes_2011.jpg)
![Photo of Shu Qi at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Shu_Qi_Cannes_2015.jpg/120px-Shu_Qi_Cannes_2015.jpg)
![Photo of Miriam Yeung at SINA Music 2006.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/MiriamYeung2007-2_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-MiriamYeung2007-2_%28cropped%29.jpg)
![Photo of Zhao Wei at the Huabiao Awards in 2007.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Zhaoweiredcarpet.jpg/120px-Zhaoweiredcarpet.jpg)
![Photo of Zhou Dongyu.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Teresa_Mo.jpg/120px-Teresa_Mo.jpg)
![Photo of Chloe Maayan.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/%E6%9B%BE%E7%BE%8E%E6%85%A7%E5%AD%9C.jpg/120px-%E6%9B%BE%E7%BE%8E%E6%85%A7%E5%AD%9C.jpg)
![Photo of Teresa Mo.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Zhou_Dongyu2013042302_%28CROPPED%29.jpg/120px-Zhou_Dongyu2013042302_%28CROPPED%29.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/CYA_LIU_%28%E5%8A%89%E9%9B%85%E7%91%9F%29_-_40TH_HONG_KONG_FILM_AWARDS_-_2022.07.17.png/120px-CYA_LIU_%28%E5%8A%89%E9%9B%85%E7%91%9F%29_-_40TH_HONG_KONG_FILM_AWARDS_-_2022.07.17.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/SAMMI_CHENG_%28%E9%84%AD%E7%A7%80%E6%96%87%29_-_41ST_HONG_KONG_FILM_AWARDS_-_2023.04.16.png/120px-SAMMI_CHENG_%28%E9%84%AD%E7%A7%80%E6%96%87%29_-_41ST_HONG_KONG_FILM_AWARDS_-_2023.04.16.png)
‡ | Indicates the winner |