TVB Anniversary Awards 2023, honouring the best of Hong Kong’s TVB series and programmes released last year (2023) was held a moment ago at Grand Lisboa Palace Resort, Macau. This is the first time the awards ceremony took place away from its usual location in TVB studio. The emcee for the evening is Karl Ting. The show originally scheduled to take 3 hours only but ended up overrun for additional half an hour.
Without further ado, here below are the list of winners in all categories except the non-series related ones along with my comments;
Best Supporting Actress: Samantha Ko (The Queen of News)
Opinion: Once the top 5 is revealed, I knew right away it would be Samantha as she is the most experienced among the 5 and her performance in ‘The Queen of News’ is quite good.
Best Supporting Actor: Jazz Lam (The Invisibles)
Opinion: Happy for Jazz to win too but my first choice is Matthew Ho as his mute role in ‘Narcotic Heroes’ is much harder to play and he put so much effort on it (and he nailed it).
Most Improved TV Male Artiste: Mark Ma
Opinion: My pick would be Nicholas Yuen but he isn’t even able to reach Top 5 surprisingly. But Mark Ma is ok.
Most Improved TV Female Artiste: Tiffany Lau
Opinion: Very much expected as she is currently heavily promoted by TVB.
Malaysia’s Most Favourite Series: The Invisibles
Opinion: Now, this is quite surprising. Didn’t expect ‘The Invisibles’ could triumph over ‘The Queen of News’. Something fishy here. I guess TVB doesn’t want all awards to go to one particular series and left many other artistes empty-handed. Anyway, ‘The Invisibles’ is still a good drama but certainly steps behind ‘The Queen of News’.
Malaysia’s Most Favourite Lead Actor: Kenneth Ma (The Queen of News)
Opinion: I thought this would goes to Ruco Chan since he has bigger fanbase in Malaysia. Anyway, happy for Kenneth to win.
Malaysia’s Most Favourite Lead Actress: Charmaine Sheh (The Queen of News)
Opinion: Expected. Her first win of the evening. More to come…
Greater Bay Area’s Most Favourite Series: The Queen of News
Opinion: Expected too as this series gotten huge popularity in mainland China as well.
Greater Bay Area’s Most Favourite Lead Actor: Bosco Wong (Dead Ringer)
Opinion: Oohh…now this outcome is something refreshing. Didn’t see Bosco on stage for a long time. Quite happy that he did although I didn’t watch ‘Dead Ringer’.
Greater Bay Area’s Most Favourite Lead Actress: Charmaine Sheh (The Queen of News)
Opinion: Second award for her in the evening. On the route to record breaking wins. She is so far ahead everyone else in her category.
Best TV Song: ‘Crystal Clear’ by Gigi Yim (The Queen of News)
Opinion: That’s my pick too. Very simple lyrics but beautiful melody and suits very well to the series.
Best Leading Actor: Moses Chan (Narcotic Heroes)
Opinion: Same with my prediction yesterday. As there is no clear frontrunner in this category this year, there’s a feeling that this will go to Moses as the last time he had won this was 16 years ago. Time for another one. My gut feeling was right.
Best Leading Actress: Charmaine Sheh (The Queen of News)
Opinion: Wow…Charmaine broke record by sweeping all three best actress awards for the evening. She also broke record as the actress with most Hong Kong best actress wins at 3 (previous win in 2006 and 2014). Congratulations to her. A bit pity for Selena Lee who also did extremely well in ‘The Queen of News’. Whenever she emerges strong that particular year, there is always another one who did well and is of higher status and won (remember 2019 when she was so phenomenal in ‘Barrack o’Karma’ but ended up only winning Most Popular Female Character (shared with Miriam Yeung) and that year’s best actress goes to Kara Hui).
Best Series: The Queen of News
Opinion: Expected and very much deserving. The only series that truly stood out last year. Impressive production. The series became the biggest winner of the ceremony after winning 8 awards.
That’s it. I think I’m the first one to publish the winners list of the just concluded TVB Anniversary Awards 2023 in English version. Haha…efficiency right there as I wrote this post while watching the whole show just now. Good night and have a great week ahead!
(Images in this post are from various online sources)