For more than 20 years Hong Kong actor Nick Cheung Ka-fai has watched others receive plaudits at awards ceremonies. But this year it could be his turn to shine.
Cheung, 44, is in the running for the best supporting actor gong at Monday's Asian Film Awards and the best actor prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards on April 19 for his role as a kidnapper in Dante Lam Chiu-yin's action thriller Beast Stalker.
In February, he won his first acting prize at February's Hong Kong Film Critic Society Awards for the same role.
Cheung (right) said although he'd never had much luck in the past, 'maybe my day has come'.
'All I can say is that I have a one-fifth chance of winning the award. Nothing less, nothing more,' he said.
Before this year, Cheung had been nominated only once in his acting career, which has spanned more than two decades: a best supporting nod at 2007's HKFA for his role as Jet in Johnnie To Kei-fung's Election II.