() In the 1990s, Andy Lau began to change his image. Since 1991, he has appeared in biographical films such as the "Legend of Lei Luo" series. For the first time, he successfully interpreted a character with a huge age span in the film. This film was also nominated for the Hong Kong Film Award for the second time.
Awarded for Best Actor, the two films in the series also grossed a total of 53 million at the Hong Kong box office.
The success of "The Legend of Lei Luo" also led Andy Lau to take over the filming of the "Casino Tycoon" series in 1992, which received extremely good response. In 1995, he starred in the racing film "Chariots of Fire" and his performance won Andy Lau a third place.
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
From 1999 to 2004, it was the peak period of Andy Lau's film career. He was the elegant thief Hua in "Dark War", the department manager Hua Shao in "A Man and a Widow", the boxer Meng Hu in "A Hu", and the "Slimming Man and Woman".
"The Fat Man", the gangster undercover Liu Jianming in "Infernal Affairs" and "The Ultimate Infernal Affairs", and the monk in "The Big Brother" have won good results at the box office and word of mouth, and won the 19th place with "Dark War"
He won the Best Actor at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards and won the Best Actor at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards for "Big Man with Big Wisdom".
He won the Best Actor Award at the 11th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Awards for "Infernal Affairs: Infernal Affairs". In 2005, he was nominated for the Best Actor Award at the Academy Awards for his subversive and exciting performance in the movie "Infernal Affairs", although he did not win the Best Actor Award.
However, Andy Lau's acting skills moved all the audiences who still doubted him. In 2006, he participated in "The Disciple" directed by Er Dongsheng. In the film, he portrayed a drug lord realistically, and this film won the award for the first time.
Academy Award for Supporting Actor.
After the new century, the number of film collaborations between Hong Kong and mainland China has increased since 2003. Andy Lau has a high personal brand value in the mainland market and often plays the leading role in co-production blockbusters. In 2004, he first collaborated with the famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou
The martial arts film "House of Flying Daggers" and then collaborated with the famous director Feng Xiaogang in "A World Without Thieves" achieved great success both in terms of reputation and box office.
In 2006, he starred in the Chinese-Japanese-Korean costume film "Ink Attack" directed by Hong Kong literary director Zhang Zhiliang. Andy Lau's role as Ge Li was also nominated for the Best Actor at the 2007 Asian Film Awards. In 2007, Andy Lau starred in "The Cast" directed by Chen Kexin.
Zhao Erhu's reckless image in the film "The Name" was nominated for the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor. In 2010, in Tsui Hark's return to martial arts film "Detective Dee: The Empire of Heaven", Andy Lau showed the image of a detective from the Tang Dynasty.
The film was also praised as an epic entertainment masterpiece as "the Chinese-language genre film that is currently closest to Hollywood standards". In 2011, Andy Lau invested in and starred in the film "Sister Peach" which was adapted from a true story and gave a very convincing and restrained performance.
, he won the Best Actor at the 48th Golden Horse Awards and the Best Actor at the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards.
In October 2012, he was invited by the Executive Committee of the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards to serve as the chairman of the jury of the 49th Golden Horse Awards. In 2013, he was also invited to serve as the chairman of the jury of the 7th Asian Film Awards. Andy Lau's latest starring role is by the top team in Hollywood.
China's first international-level "Mountain Dwelling" was released nationwide on June 9, 2013, detonating the summer season and bringing the most visually stunning spy blockbuster to Chinese audiences, as well as Andy Lau's first challenge to play the role of a blind man in more than 30 years of filmmaking.
"Blind Detective", which was screened in the "Midnight Screening" section of the 66th Cannes International Film Festival and received rave reviews, will be released nationwide on July 11, 2013, allowing the audience to re-understand a different Andy Lau!
In terms of movie box office, Andy Lau is the actor with the most films among Hong Kong's first-line movie stars. Therefore, in 2005, he won the "20 Years of Light and Shadow and the Highest Box Office Movie Award Ceremony in Hong Kong 1985-2005" hosted by Hong Kong's UA Cinemas.
108 films with a total box office of approximately 1.73 billion Hong Kong dollars won the highest grossing actor award in Hong Kong.
In 2007, Andy Lau won the Asian Box Office Superstar Award at the first Asian Film Awards hosted by the Hong Kong International Film Festival. As of 2013, he has participated in more than 150 movies, making him the first-line actor who has participated in the most movies in China. His starring works
There are 25 movies with a box office of more than HK$20 million in Hong Kong and China, 14 of which exceed HK$25 million, namely "God of Gamblers", "The Gambler", "The Legend of Detective Lei Luo", "The Tricky Expert", "Fire"
"Chariot", "A Man and a Widow", "Slimming Man and Woman", "The Killer", "Infernal Affairs", "Big Brother", "Infernal Affairs 3", "The Disciple", "Reporter" and "Sister Tao"
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In terms of music, when Andy Lau was co-starring with Andy Lam in "Into the Wrath", one day after the set was over, Lin Zixiang invited everyone to sing karaoke. After hearing Andy Lau's song, Andy Lau admired it very much, so he praised Andy Lau and encouraged Andy to sing.
, so with the encouragement of Lin Zixiang, Andy Lau began to develop his own singing skills, so Lin Zixiang can be regarded as the leader and first teacher of Andy Lau's singing career.
Andy Lau entered the music scene in 1985. His first album "I Only Know I Love You at This Moment" did not receive much response. The first successfully popular song was the title song of the same name in "The Forbidden Zone of Emotion" released in 1987. The first song won
The song that won the important award is the title song of the same name from "Can It Be" released in 1990.
The Mandarin album "If You Were My Legend" released in 1990 has sold 1.5 million copies in Southeast Asia. The album "Endless Love" was released in 1991 and sold 160,000 cassettes on its first day.
72,000 copies, with a total annual sales of more than 500 gold medals in Hong Kong. In the same year, another best-selling album "Days Together" sold 600 gold medals, making it one of the three highest-selling albums in 1991.
And "Endless Love" and "Days We Walked Together" even accounted for two of the 20 best-selling albums of Polygram Records over the years. Under the idol craze in 1992, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Lai Lai
, Aaron Kwok was named one of the "Four Kings" by the media, ushering in the era of Andy Lau's entertainment. From 1985 to 2000, Andy Lau's genuine record sales exceeded 20 million in Asia, making him the leader among Chinese singers.
In 1999, as an Asian music superstar, he was personally invited by the world's pop music king Michael Jackson to participate in the charity concert of Michael Jackson and his friends in Seoul, South Korea. In 1997, Andy Lau sang his true song "Chinese" at the Hong Kong handover celebration party.
The Chinese community has a high degree of popularity and influence in the Chinese society.
Since 1990, Andy Lau has insisted on a development path that emphasizes both Mandarin and Cantonese in order to strive for greater development space. By 2010, Andy Lau has released more than 50 new song albums. From 1990 to the early 2000s, Andy Lau has been in the Chinese music scene.
From 2000 to mid-to-late 2000, due to the rise of the new generation of singers and their own age, the influence of new songs was not as good as before. However, record sales have still achieved certain results, among which the more representative Cantonese albums are
In 1990, "Is It Possible", in 1991, "Endless Love", "The Days We Walked Together" and "Must Believe in Fate", etc.
