颁奖典礼于11月23日在国父纪念馆举行，电视现场转播由台湾电视公司负责执行。李安导演出任本届金马奖评审团主席；蔡明亮导演新作《郊游》为本届金马影展开幕影片；杜琪峰导演将为金马创投会议选出百万首奖得主；侯孝贤导演则担任金马电影学院导师。 「金马50大使」则由演员张曼玉担任。该届典礼司仪旁白由台湾资深配音员贾培德担任。蔡康永担任本届主持人，为其第七度主持，亦身兼决选评审。

本片取材自真人真事，演绎了香港作家子鹜短暂而灿烂的一生。 小富（李沛诚 饰）患有先天性血友病，自小就和医院打交道。母亲李慧珍（张艾嘉 饰）也早已成为儿子的私人医生。多年来，母子俩一起同病魔进行着抗争，小富也因自强不息而顺利进入大学。然而，更大的不幸降临了。医院告知小富，他身体中部分血凝素已遭艾滋病病毒感染。就在生命的最后时间里，他以笔名子鹜完成了《海阔天空》一书，爱子离世后，母亲延续儿子的志愿，写下了《地久天长》。 张艾嘉凭借此片，夺得第21届香港金像奖最佳女主角奖。

Fai, a talented actor who has won the Best New Artist of the Hong Kong Film Awards and always plays leading roles in television, is an arrogant guy who does not cherish the opportunities given to him. As he keeps on criticizing his co-workers, his career and popularity gradually deteriorates. He is not offered leading roles anymore and has to take the parts of villains and rapists. Finally, he has even lost his job at the TV station. Fai becomes extremely depressed, but a twist of fate makes him become an agent for extras. As Fai gives pointers to a young girl named Fei, who truly loves acting, he regains his own enthusiasm towards acting and life.

When undercover cops start losing their lives to drug lords who blame their demise on "poor acting", the Police Force counters by sending Hong Kong's Finest to acting school.

2018 film by Mark Cousins

1997 film by Ann Hui, Vincent Chui

Barbara Wong interviews HK women (of all ages (even 4 year olds), all walks of life, all sexual preferences, singles, wives, mistresses, prostitutes) with an all women crew and gets some wild and frank responses. The documentary is bold, honest, funny and touching. Highly recommended to any man who wants to understand women better and any woman who wants a fun girls' night out.

One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.

A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.

在《桃姐》纪录片中的刘德华有着哲人式的对于人生的思索，他说：如果你的来到，是为了离开，生命只会是一场遗憾。承受令人沉重，接受令人安然，放低执着，可能是你最大的依靠。打开心情，阳光自然就会照射到你身上。

2019 film directed by Yonfan

2015 film by Derek Yee

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.

2010 Hong Kong film directed by Alex Law