China News Service, Hong Kong, March 9 (Reporter Han Xingtong) The Hong Kong Film Awards Association announced on the 9th that due to the severe epidemic, the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards (Awards) will be tentatively postponed to June.
Details of the award ceremony will be reconsidered according to the trend of the epidemic, and the relevant arrangements will be announced later.
The 40th Academy Awards ceremony has been postponed for the second time.
In September 2020, the Film Awards Association stated that due to the ever-changing epidemic situation, most of the time in 2020, all Hong Kong cinemas were not able to operate normally, which relatively greatly delayed the films expected to be released this year. Therefore, the Board of Directors of the Film Awards has prudently After discussion, it was decided to postpone the 40th Academy Awards ceremony that was supposed to be held in 2021 to 2022. At the same time, the films eligible for the Academy Awards in 2020 and 2021 will be combined in the first quarter of 2022. Voting and award ceremony.
The Academy Awards held a press conference on the 16th of last month to announce the list of nominees for the 40th Academy Awards.
It is reported that the Hong Kong Film Awards is a film award held in Hong Kong, founded in 1982.
The Board of Directors of the Academy Awards is composed of 14 Hong Kong professional film associations, including the Hong Kong Film Industry Association, the Hong Kong Film Directors Guild, and the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association.
In the past two years, the epidemic has had a serious impact on the selection and drawing of the Film Awards. The 39th Film Awards has cancelled the physical award ceremony for the first time. Er Dongsheng, chairman of the board of directors of the association, announced the results.
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