The Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild held a special dinner earlier for an early New Year Celebration. The event was attended by many big names including Simon Yam, Chung King Fai, Sheren Tang, Bobby Au Yeung, Stanley Tong and Johnnie To.
To mark the successes of the artistes in the past year, the guild presented its first ‘Golden Baton Awards’, voted for by the guild’s own members. Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau and Tony Leung (Chiu Wai) were selected as Most Outstanding Performing Actors in Film 2006, Chung King Fai, Sheren Tang and Bobby Au Yeung were named as Most Outstanding Performing Actors in Television 2006 and Eric Kot, Candy Chea and Sammy Leung were awarded Most Outstanding Performing Actors in Broadcasting and Radio 2006. The HKPAG Evergreen Award was presented to veteran actor Kuk Fung.
The Guild’s President Eric Tsang, who initiated this event, was unable to attend as he was filming for a new year event in Beijing,but he recorded a clip in advance, where he spoke about the reason behind the awards to act as encouragement to his colleagues in the business and reward their hard work over the year. Sheren was extremely happy to receive this award and she feels that as the votes were cast by her colleagues in the industry, then the value behind it is so much greater. She feels that at the very least, she has received recognition for the work she has done last year. Asked if she feels that the votes are to do with her popularity among other artistes She says that she does get along with them very well because she is never ‘fake’.
Asked if TVB’s double award winning Charmaine Sheh lost out on this award because she was not popular with the others, Sheren replied carefully, saying this was not related, otherwise the award would be a Friendship award instead. She feels that popularity is only one of the elements. Even if she did not win, she will not feel disheartened because to win is a great encouragement, but not to win is no big deal and she is already honoured to be shortlisted.
As for comments that the turnout was not very good at the event, Sheren says that bringing artistes together is a very difficult thing and when the Guild was first formed, Anita Mui and Jackie Chan did a fine job in rallying artistes to take part. In the past she has not attended this kind of event very often, but she now realises that to fight for the rights and better condiitons for artistes is not an easy task. After many years in the industry, she feels that popularity is not the most important thing for an artiste, it is working hard and not purely depending on the support of a big company.
Simon was not disappointed at losing out on the awards as he was already in the top five. He smiles that he is a junior to those who won and he only voted after arriving. Aaron Kwok received his vote and he feels he has not done well enough yet. Gordon Lam is busy filming for new film “Super Detective” and shooting promotional clips for a TV station. He seems to be covered in cuts and bruises and he laughs that with all the injuries on his bottom, he would be no good in filming a remake of “The Lover”.
[by mv_288]
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