The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film is an annual Hong Kong industry award presented to the films which is considered the best of the year.

History

The award was established at the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards (1982) and the first winner and the sole participant in this category was Father and Son, a film by Allen Fong. From the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards (1983), there are 5, sometimes 6, nominations for the category of Best Film from which one film is chosen the winner of the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film. The most recent recipient of the award was To My Nineteen Year Old Self, a documentary directed by Mabel Cheung and William Kwok and produced by Eunice Wong, which was honoured at the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards (2023).

Winners and nominees

1982 — 1999

2000 — present