Hong Kong Film Awards 2022 nominations: Limbo, Anita, Drifting lead the race; Lam Ka-tung up for best actor in two movies

Crime thriller Limbo has received a remarkable 14 nominations, with biopic Anita (12 nominations) and poverty drama Drifting (11) following close behind

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Lam Ka-tung (front) and Mason Lee in a still from Limbo.

Published: 4:10pm, 16 Feb 2022Updated: 5:09pm, 16 Feb 2022

Soi Cheang Pou-soi’s Limbo leads the field for the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards with a remarkable 14 nominations, the organisers announced at a press conference on Wednesday.

A visually striking, black-and-white crime thriller that tells a nihilistic tale of despair and redemption set in a city rotten to the ground, Limbo stars Lam Ka-tung and Mason Lee as a pair of police detectives on the hunt of a serial murderer.

Limbo has been one of the most critically acclaimed Hong Kong films in the past year, having garnered four nominations (and two wins, for best sound and production design) at last year’s Asian Film Awards. It also won best picture and best actress (for Cya Liu Ya-se) at the 2021 Hong Kong Film Critics Society awards, announced in January.

Cheang’s film is followed by Longman Leung Lok-man’s hugely popular Anita Mui biopic Anita (with 12 nominations) and Jun Li Jun-shuo’s gritty poverty drama Drifting (with 11), both of which are nominated for best picture.