Tony Leung Wins First Golden Rooster Best Actor

Tony Leung Ka-fai won Best Actor at the Golden Rooster Awards in Xiamen on Tuesday, his first, after more than 40 years in film. [Tony Leung Ka-fai wins his first Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor; Gao Ye takes Best Actress — 72One Travel]

Leung won for playing Fu Longsheng in The Shadow's Edge, on his first nomination in the category. Gao Ye took Best Actress for Dead to Rights, which also won Best Picture at the 39th Golden Roosters, where 20 awards were presented. [Tony Leung Ka-fai wins his first Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor; Gao Ye takes Best Actress — 72One Travel]

The ceremony on the evening of November 10 closed the 2026 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival. The day before, at the nominees' recognition ceremony, Leung had spoken about receiving his first nomination in the category — at this stage of a career that began in the early 1980s, the nomination itself was the news; Tuesday made it a win. Gao Ye's Best Actress performance, as Lin Yuxiu in Dead to Rights (Nanjing Photo Studio), anchored the night's other headline, with the film also taking Best Picture. [Tony Leung Ka-fai wins his first Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor; Gao Ye takes Best Actress — 72One Travel]

The wider list, from 209 submitted films per the Fujian provincial government: Best Foreign Language Film went to Sentimental Value; Best Animated Film to Nobody (The Little Monsters of Langlang Mountain); Best Low-to-Mid-Budget Feature to Pork and Vegetable Wontons; Best Original Music to Gao Xiaoyang for Wan Tongshu; Best Sound Recording to Wang Yanwei for Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert. Twenty awards in all — and the one the room will remember is the first one Tony Leung Ka-fai has taken home. [Tony Leung Ka-fai wins his first Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor; Gao Ye takes Best Actress — 72One Travel]