How difficult is it to win the Grand Slam of the Five Chinese Film Awards? Even an actor as strong as Tony Leung is still two trophies away, and only one person in the entire Chinese film industry has reached this achievement, do you know who it is? The five Chinese film awards refer to the Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award, the Hong Kong Film Awards, the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese Film Huabiao Awards and the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award, these five awards represent the highest achievements and honors of Chinese films, among them, the Golden Rooster Award, the Golden Image Award and the Golden Horse Award are also known as the "Three Chinese Film Awards" or "Three Gold Awards for Chinese Films"; The Golden Rooster Award, the Huabiao Award and the Hundred Flowers Award are known as the "Three Chinese Film Awards".
Among the five major awards for Chinese films, 10 actors have reached the status of actor or actress. Among them, Gong Li is one of the actors who has won the most five major actress trophies. It has been 37 years since her debut, and she has won a total of 5 actress trophies in the five major Chinese film awards. Gong Li has won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress twice with "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit" and "Beautiful Mother", and also won the Hundred Flowers Award for "The Red Lantern Hangs High" and the Academy Award for "The City is Full of ** Armor". Gong Li is still one Academy Award and one Huabiao Award away from the Queen's Grand Slam.
Huang Xiaoming is another actor, he has debuted for 26 years and holds 5 actor trophies. Huang Xiaoming successfully won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor twice, and won the Volkswagen Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor twice. In addition, he also won the Outstanding Actor Award at the Huabiao Awards for "Chinese Partner". Although Huang Xiaoming has completed the actor slam of the three Chinese film awards, he is still one Academy Award and one Golden Horse Award away from achieving the five-award actor slam.
Ge You is one of the legends in the Chinese film industry, he has debuted for 39 years and has won a total of 5 Chinese actor trophies. Ge You has won the Best Actor Award of the Hundred Flowers Award three times, and also won the Golden Rooster Award and the Huabiao Award for Best Actor with "The Great Satan" and "Zhao's Orphan" respectively. In addition, Ge You also won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes International Film Festival. However, he is still one Academy Award and one Golden Horse Award away from completing the five-award actor Grand Slam.
Pan Hong is the first Chinese artist to appear in Time Magazine, debuting 48 years ago, and won a total of 6 actress trophies. She has won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress three times, and also won a Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress for "Stock Crazy". In addition, Pan Hong has also won the Huabiao Award and the Cultural Award for the Actress Trophy. Pan Hong is still one Academy Award and one Golden Horse Award away from the Five Grand Awards.
Andy Lau is a big-name star in the Chinese film industry, he has been debuting for 43 years, and has won a total of 6 Chinese film awards Best Actor trophies. Andy Lau has won Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards three times and Best Actor at the Golden Horse Awards twice. In addition, he also won the Outstanding Actor Award at the Huabiao Awards for a piece of "Orphaned". Andy Lau is only one Golden Rooster Award away from the three Golden Slams of Chinese films, and one Golden Rooster Award and one Hundred Flowers Award are still one short of the Five Grand Slams.
Tony Leung is one of the most outstanding and powerful actors in the Chinese film industry, he has debuted for 42 years and has won a total of 9 five-award actor trophies. Tony Leung has won Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards five times, setting a record for the most awards in the history of the Awards. In addition, he has won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor three times. Tony Leung is only one Huabiao Award and one Hundred Flowers Award away from the three gold awards of Chinese films.
Zhang Hanyu is a highly praised and powerful actor in the Chinese film industry, he has debuted for 42 years and has won a total of 4 actor trophies. Zhang Hanyu is only one Academy Award away from completing the feat of five awards for the actor Grand Slam. With only one movie "Assembly", he won three actor trophies in one fell swoop: the Huabiao Award, the Hundred Flowers Award and the Golden Horse Award. In 2015, he won another Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor with "Outwitting Tiger Mountain". Zhang Hanyu is one of the actors who is closest to the five-award actor grand slam.
Zhou Dongyu is the youngest actress of the five awards, she debuted for 14 years and won a total of 4 actress trophies. Although she is still one Huabiao Award away from the five-award actress grand slam, she has already completed the achievement of the five-award grand slam, because as early as 2011, she won the Huabiao Award for Outstanding New Actress. Zhou Dongyu won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress in 2016 for "July and Ansheng", and in 2020, she won the Golden Rooster Award, the Academy Award and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress in one fell swoop.
Zhou Xun is another actor who has five major actress trophies in Chinese films, she has been debuting for 33 years and has won a total of 4 actress trophies. Zhou Xun is one of the first actors to win the three Chinese film awards. She once won the Best Actress of the Hundred Flowers Award for "Smoke and Rain", and also won the Best Actress at the Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards for "If Love". In addition, Zhou Xun also won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for "Li Mi's Conjecture".
Zhang Ziyi is the only actor in the history of the Chinese film industry to win the five-award actress grand slam, she has only been in the industry for 28 years, and has won 9 actress trophies, one of the actors who have won the most actress trophies. Zhang Ziyi won four actress trophies in one fell swoop with "The Grandmaster", including the Golden Horse Award, the Huabiao Award, the Golden Image Award and the Hundred Flowers Award. In addition, she has also won the Golden Rooster Award and the Huabiao Award for other works. Zhang Ziyi's achievements can be called the pinnacle of the five Chinese film awards.
All in all, it is very difficult to win the Grand Slam of the Five Chinese Film Awards. Even powerful actors like Tony Leung and Gong Li are still some trophies away from completing this achievement. The status of these actors and actresses in the film industry is unshakable, and their superb performances are impressive, which has played an important role in promoting the development of the entire Chinese film industry. However, it is worth thinking about whether the judging criteria of the five Chinese film awards are fair, and whether other outstanding actors have been overlooked? For the entire Chinese film industry, these issues require us to think deeply and improve.