TVB delivered surprising, but satisfying results at this year’s Anniversary Awards, which concluded on December 16. Dayo Wong (黃子華) and Kristal Tin (田蕊妮) were named TV King and TV Queen, beating hot favorites Chilam Cheung (張智霖) and Linda Chung (鍾嘉欣). In past years, the Hong Kong media often correctly leaked the list of winners prior to the presentation awards. This year, the majority of the winners were “dark horse” candidates since they were not highly publicized nominees. Kristal Tin won Best Actress and Most Popular Female Character awards for her performance in Brother’s Keeper <巨輪>. Although Kristal’s acting is highly acclaimed and she already received the Best Actress nod from peers earlier at the TVB Anniversary Gala, the media speculated that TVB would instead recognize Linda Chung, who is more highly promoted. Kristal received 100,614 votes to help her win the Most Popular Female Character award, and she cried emotionally over her double victory. Linda hugged Kristal tightly to congratulate her win. Absent from the awards ceremony, Dayo was shocked when MC Carol Cheng (鄭裕玲) called to announce his victory. Since this year’s Best Actor and Best Actress awards were chosen based on a combination of votes from the public and a professional panel of judges, Dayo defeated Chilam Cheung, who had already won TV King in Malaysia through audience votes. Receiving 77,948 votes for the Most Popular Male Character Award, Chilam appeared disappointed that the Best Actor award eluded his grasp. In his acceptance speech, Chilam said, “Does TVB not like me? Is it only possible to win the award through popular votes? Biological children are lovable, but when appearing at the necessary and right time, loyal children are very important too!” Putting in memorable performances since she joined TVB in 2010, Elena Kong (江美儀) won Best Supporting Actress and hugged Triumph in the Skies 2 co-star, Kenneth Ma, excitedly. Seasoned comedian, Benz Hui (許紹雄), turned out to be this year’s dark horse winner for Best Supporting Actor. Although still struggling to perfect her Cantonese, Eliza Sam’s (岑麗香) raw talent and charisma helped her snag the Most Improved Actress award over leading competitor Priscilla Wong (黃翠如). Working his way up from minor roles to greater prominence, Vincent Wong (王浩信) demonstrated his versatility this year and won the Most Improved Actor award. In his acceptance speech, Vincent thanked his wife, Yoyo Chen (陳自瑤), and former co-stars Damian Lau (劉松仁) and Susan Tse (謝雪心) for mentoring him. Below is the complete list of winners: Best Drama: Triumph in the Skies 2 <衝上雲霄II> Best Supporting Actor: Benz Hui (許紹雄) for Bounty Lady <My盛Lady> Best Supporting Actress: Elena Kong (江美儀) for Triumph in the Skies 2 <衝上雲霄II> Most Improved Actor: Vincent Wong (王浩信) for Friendly Fire < 法網狙擊>, Season of Love <戀愛季節>,Sergeant Tabloid <女警愛作戰>, A Change of Heart <好心作怪>, and Will Power <法外風雲> Most Improved Actress: Eliza Sam (岑麗香) for Inbound Troubles <老表，你好嘢!>, Triumph in the Skies 2 <衝上雲霄II>, Friendly Fire <神鎗狙擊>, and The Hippocratic Crush 2 <On Call 36小時II> Most Popular Male Character: Chilam Cheung (張智霖) for Triumph in the Skies <衝上雲霄II> Most Popular Female Character: Kristal Tin (田蕊妮) for Brother’s Keeper <巨輪> Best Hosts: Priscilla Wong (黃翠如) and Tony Hung (洪永城) for Pilgrimage of Wealth 2 <走過浮華大地 亞洲篇> Best Variety Program: Three Amigos Bon Voyage <三個小生去旅行> Best Informative Program: Pilgrimage of Wealth 2 <走過浮華大地 亞洲篇> Outstanding Actors: Suet Nei (雪妮), Mary Hon (韓馬利), Anderson Junior (安德尊), Helen Ma (馬海倫), Lau Kong (劉江) Lifetime Achievement Award: Lau Siu Ming (劉兆銘) Creds: ihktv
A few surprises. Totally did not expect Benz Hui to win Best Supporting Actor. Also surprised that Dayo won cause it was all talk about Chilam/Francis winning. TBH, I'm liking the new system to decide who is the King & Queen. I did felt like Chilam's speech was kinda harsh..
Dayo wasn't even there and makes a series every 5 years -lol Lol@Benz speech...Chi Lam was salty in his speech taking stabs at TVB-shock i guess he wanted the main one this years results were unexpected but deserving.
I expected Kristal to get it because I have watched the brother's keeper favorite character award at the end of their special and also she got the vote from the peers at the non-Award Anniversary one. So she was really highly favored, and Linda is a really bad actress at the Brother's Keeper, she didn't even get higher percentage vote from the Netizen. What surprise me the most was Dayo Wong got the award, instead of Chilam... and Francis showing up to the Award Ceremony surprised me and made it really hard for me to guess who is going to win.
Dayo winning best actor was really surprising, Bounty Lady is still even airing. Kristal definitely deserved to win best actress, her performance in BK was really great.
The voting for this years system was half from professionals and half form fans. I don't know who these pros are or how many of them did the voting but they were the reason why Dayo won. I'm glad he won cause he's one of my favorite actors around, he's got his own unique style. The supports actor and actress was another great surprised, just good to see some of these other older folks win it and they deserve it.
awww elena kong's speech made me cry...i dunno why just felt very heart-warming? like she really meant it ^^
Yeah she was crying and said that she couldn't get tickets for her parents and afterwards Kristal was also crying and saying that she didn't even know she could get tickets for her parents. That was funny.
I still think TITS2 didn't really deserve best drama of the year.... but they just had to give it to them for credit.
Dayo I disagree with, Krystal is very well deserving Best Drama imo goes to HC2 (but that's just me, everyone has their own opinions)
I think Kristal deserved this award, was a bit surprised though because she just started with TVB not long ago. So happy Eliza got the award as well. Loved her in On Call 36 II
