{"id":2219562,"date":"2026-01-02T06:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2219562"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:50:17","slug":"asian-film-awards-suspends-competitive-categories-after-hong-kong-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/asian-film-awards-suspends-competitive-categories-after-hong-kong-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Film Awards Suspends Competitive Categories After Hong Kong Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The Asian Film Awards Academy has modified the format of its upcoming 19th edition, eliminating competitive categories and the red carpet ceremony in favor of a scaled-back event focused on special honors following last year\u2019s deadly Hong Kong fire.<\/p>\n<p>The academy announced that the 2026 ceremony, scheduled to take place in Hong Kong, will present special awards \u201cin a dignified and minimalist manner\u201d rather than proceeding with its traditional competitive format.<\/p>\n<p>The format adjustment follows what the academy described as \u201cthe significant incident in Hong Kong last year and its impact on the community.\u201d The decision aligns with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government\u2019s postponement of official celebrations and its recommendation for a restrained approach to public events in the wake of the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a well-considered decision,\u201d said Dr. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm16881071\/\">Wilfred Wong<\/a>, chairman of the Asian Film Awards Academy. \u201cWe believe that, in the current environment, adopting&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asian Film Awards Academy has modified the format of its upcoming 19th edition, eliminating competitive categories and the red carpet ceremony in favor of a scaled-back event focused on special honors following last year\u2019s deadly Hong Kong fire. The academy announced that the 2026 ceremony, scheduled to take place in Hong Kong, will present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2219563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2219562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Asian-Film-Awards-Suspends-Competitive-Categories-After-Hong-Kong-Fire.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219564,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219562\/revisions\/2219564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}