Here's where you can watch Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards xR Live 2020
(Updated with Day 3 video broadcast and winners)
Ringing in its 17th anniversary, Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards xR Live 2020 will be showcased online for the first time ever, using the most spotlighted audio-visual technology of late, the eXtended Reality (xR). Holding its first virtual run, Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards continues to recognise acclaimed personalities in the music, film and television industries in this new normal.
The awards ceremony, which is to be broadcasted in three parts on 3 to 5 February at 1pm on Yahoo Singapore, Yahoo Malaysia, and Yahoo Philippines, will also be available on-demand on Yahoo TV.
This never-before-seen award show is an amalgamation of physical and virtual stages, LED screens and a top-tier camera tracking system. Home audience will be treated to a three-dimensional visual experience with seamless depth-of-field and adaptive perspectives.
The xR award show will also retain the live quality of performances, bringing an enjoyable award ceremony into the comfort of the viewers’ homes. To be hosted by Hong Kong actor Sammy Leung, be dazzled by A-list stars such as Karen Mok, Terrance Lau, and Pakho Chau from the comforts of your home.
Nominees for the awards are decided by the frequency of searches by netizens on Yahoo Search throughout 2020. Though the event could not host a live audience due to the pandemic, the “buzziest” personalities and works had been awarded during the ceremony, all thanks to their overwhelming popularity amongst netizens across Asia.
Connecting people with their passions, celebrities will also be sharing their Passion Moments (#PassionMoments) of 2020 on the xR stage, especially the new skills or having reconnected with forgotten passions during their stay-at-home period in the midst of COVID lockdowns and social distancing.
Winners:
Top Buzz Song - Breathing is Hazardous by Karen Mok
Karen Mok’s first Cantonese song in a decade, Breathing is Hazardous, is the winner for “Top Buzz Song” at the Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards 2020. Dressed to the nines in Spring-Summer Versace 2021 and Giuseppe Zanotti high heels, Mok received her award from Rico Chan, Co-Head APAC, Verizon Media.
Performing on a Yahoo-tailored xR stage that extended to the moon and vibed with Mok’s luscious beats, Mok brought a sign of hope and positivity to her fans through the song. “We have to keep fighting in 2021 and continue to defy all obstacles ahead of us. Music can surely give us the motivation to do so,” the songstress commented.
Mok revealed that she had been producing new Cantonese songs and hoped to host a concert in Hong Kong in 2021. “I hope to create a memorable concert to come because I haven’t had a concert in this city for more than a decade!”
Top Buzz Movie - Beyond the Dream
With its down-to-earth and touching theme, the 2020 movie production, Beyond the Dream, won the hearts of many Hong Kongers, proven by a box office exceeding HK$15 million. Winner of “Top Buzz Movie”, the film is also a winner of countless industry accolades including the “Best Adapted Screenplay” at the 57th Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan.
Beyond the Dream was directed by Kiwi Chow and written by Felix Tsang, starring Cecilia Choi and Terrance Lau. The film is based on the award-winning 2006 short film Upstairs.
Top Buzz Novice Local Actor - Terrance Lau Chun-him
The male lead of “Top Buzz Movie” Beyond the Dream, Terrance Lau Chun-him was awarded the “Top Buzz Novice Local Actor” at Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards 2020. Lau acts as a recovering schizophrenic in the movie, and is also the novice actor’s first male lead role.
Receiving the “Top Buzz Novice Local Actor” and “Top Buzz Movie” at Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards 2020, Lau let on that his #PassionMoments is being “motivated by the number of enthusiastic new actors, screenwriters and directors joining the industry” despite the lacklustre film industry over the past year due to the pandemic.
In line with the awards’ #PassionMoments tagline, we asked some of our favourite personalities on what drives them.
Former actress and radio DJ Jamie Yeo, who now helms the casual fine jewellery brand, Lula J is “Yahoo Singapore Most Searched Female Personalities” for 2020.
“Being able to touch up photos using basic phone apps and making them look somewhat professional,” is the 43-year-old’s #PassionMoments, especially with her “day job as a ‘KOL’” and her online jewellery brand.
On her future projects for 2021, Yeo shared that “My kids are my biggest and most challenging ongoing project. They never fail to make me smile, and frown and want to pull my hair out.” The entrepreneur had launched her jewellery brand in 2020 and “is still fairly small.” For 2021, Yeo wishes to bring her brand to greater heights, to “make it bigger and better this year.”
After his role in Story of Yanxi Palace, Lawrence Wong shot to fame, clinching awards after awards. For his #PassionMoments, Wong, who was awarded “Yahoo Singapore Most Searched Male Personalities” last year, let on that his survival skill for 2021 is “my ability to turn on my work beast mode because after having such a long break in 2020 due to the pandemic, my work schedule has been filling up really fast.”
Wong launched his skincare brand Grail earlier this year, and shared that he is blessed to be able to do so, as he is “bringing you all the holy grail essentials and benefits that you will ever need in skincare.”
