Nominations for the 33rd Huading Awards were announced, Zhang Hanyu and Xú Zhēng competed for the best actor, and 8 nominations for Love Myth led the way.

On the evening of July 12th, the 33rd Huading Awards China Film Satisfaction Survey and Release Ceremony will be held in Macau, China. On June 17th, Huading Award Group announced the nomination list of the current Huading Awards in Macau. Five masterpieces of The Battle at Lake Changjin and Chinese Doctors, Love Myth, Miracle Stupid Child and Anger Serious Case, were shortlisted for the best film in China. Zhang Hanyu, Xú Zhēng, Shawn, Liu Ye and Cheng Taishen competed for Best Actress, while Xu Fan, Ma Yixuan, Ma Li, Ni Ni and Deng Jiajia competed for Best Actress.

The investigation and selection period of this Huading Award is from May 2, 2021 to February 28, 2022. This year or so is the period when the film industry and the film market took the lead in stabilizing and recovering rapidly in the world after the epidemic was controlled in China. Many excellent works with both word-of-mouth and box office have emerged in major schedules such as summer, National Day, Chinese New Year and Spring Festival.

Throughout the nomination list of this Huading Award, the main melody films occupy a large proportion, and the themes and types are rich and colorful, including The Battle at Lake Changjin’s Sniper with the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, 1921 with the theme of Party building, Chinese Doctors’s Hug You Through the Cold Winter with the theme of anti-epidemic, Me and My Father, the last trilogy of "Me and Me", and Miracle Stupid Child, which reflects the struggle of ordinary people in Shenzhen’s reform and opening up.

At the same time, many outstanding commercial films, such as Love Myth, Anger Serious Case, Lion Boy, Make a Famous Name, This Killer is Not Too Cold and Quiet, have also been nominated for this Huading Award. Among them, "Love Myth" won eight nominations of China for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Best Producer, leading the nomination list of this Huading Award and becoming the biggest dark horse.

The selection of Huading Award represents the satisfaction of the audience and the professionalism of experts and media judges. Therefore, the actors nominated for Best Actor (commonly known as "the Best Actor") and Best Actress (commonly known as "the Best Actress") in each Huading Award are all powerful actors who are quite popular with the audience.

The same is true of this year’s Huading Award. Zhang Hanyu, Xú Zhēng, Shawn, Liu Ye and Cheng Taishen, the five actors nominated for the best actor in this Huading Award, are not only very popular with the audience, but also have superb acting skills and strong strength. It is not surprising who won the award in the end.

Zhang Hanyu is a powerful actor that the audience likes very much. He is good at playing the tough guy on the big screen. He was nominated for Best Actor for Chinese Doctors. Different from the tough guy images he played in the past, such as soldiers, police officers and captains, Zhang Jingyu, the president of Jinyintan Hospital, suffered from gradual freezing, and had nothing to do with tough guys in terms of health and appearance. However, he was an out-and-out tough guy in the face of the epidemic, and Zhang Hanyu well shaped the character’s inner tenacity and strength.

Xú Zhēng is an excellent actor and director with great talent and audience affinity. His performance is full of joy and harmony. He plays the Shanghai middle-aged man Lao Bai in Love Myth. It is difficult for any other actor to grasp the charm of the character. Only he can best interpret this role. He is a strong contender for this year’s Huading Award.

Liu Ye’s Wang Jicai in "The Islander" and Cheng Taishen’s Liu Qing in "Liu Qing" have won the recognition of many audiences, media and experts, and their strong strength has made the competition for the best actor in this Huading Award more intense.

Xu Fan, Ma Yili, Mary, Ni Ni and Deng Jiajia, the five actresses nominated for Best Actress in this Huading Award, are all powerful stars who have performed well on the screen in the past year.

Xu Fan, who is over 50 years old, was nominated for the Best Actress in the Huading Award for her wonderful performance in Everything About My Mom. In this film, she plays a mother who loves her daughter deeply and suffers from cancer. In this tearful family film, her performance is sincere and touching, which has won the praise of thousands of audiences in Qian Qian.

Ma Yili plays Miss Li, a middle-aged woman in Shanghai, in The Myth of Love, and makes a vivid interpretation of the image of an independent Shanghai-style woman with petty bourgeoisie. She has won the Best Actress and Best Actress awards for films and TV series in the Huading Awards four times before, and this time she is also a popular candidate for this year’s Huading Awards.

Milan played by Mary in The Killer Is Not Too Cold, Wang Huiwu played by NiNi in 1921, and Su Mengdie played by Deng Jiajia in Make a Famous Name, all left a deep impression on the audience.

Who are you more optimistic about the above five actors nominated for the best actress in this Huading Award?

Director is the soul of a film and one of the core competitiveness of the film industry. The five groups of directors nominated for the best director of this Huading Award can be said to include three generations of elite directors.

Directors Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark and Lin Chaoxian were nominated for The Battle at Lake Changjin. Director Chen Kaige, who is nearly 70 years old, has added feelings of home and country and humanistic atmosphere to the film. Tsui Hark, who is over 70 years old, still has exuberant energy and rich imagination. The big-scale war action drama he directed is a magic weapon for The Battle at Lake Changjin to attract audiences. Lin Chaoxian, who is in his fifties, is good at shooting hot war action scenes, and is also the soul of the film The Battle at Lake Changjin.

Liu Weiqiang, Chen Musheng and Lin Chaoxian are the best directors in Hong Kong in Mesozoic era. Chinese Doctors, directed by Liu Weiqiang, is by far the most popular anti-epidemic blockbuster with a win-win reputation and box office. What is commendable is that Liu Weiqiang made this grand narrative theme film vivid and touching. Director Chen Musheng was nominated for the best director for his posthumous work "The Serious Case of Anger", which was highly affirmed by the audience and the judges, and was also a comfort to him.

Muye Wen and Shao Yihui are nominated young directors, and Muye Wen’s Miracle Stupid Child is not as amazing and sharp as Dying to Survive’s, but it is more tender. Shao Yihui’s "Love Myth" was one of the biggest surprises of domestic movies last year, and winning eight nominations for this year’s Huading Award has already explained everything. She is a young female directors with unlimited future.

Zhang Ziyi was nominated for the best cutting-edge director of this year’s Huading Award for directing the "Poetry" unit in "My Father and I". Her acting skills have long been widely recognized by domestic and foreign audiences and the industry, and she has won numerous awards at major film festivals. Now, for the first time, with the director’s works, he has been shortlisted for the Huading Award, and whether he can laugh at the end is of concern.

On the evening of July 12th, the release ceremony of the 33rd Huading Award China Film Satisfaction Survey will be held in Macau, China, and the jury will review and check from a professional perspective to announce the winners of various awards on the spot.