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Although Cheung quit his career as a pop singer from 1989 to 1995, he continued his music career as a composer. He composed more than ten songs during that time. In 1993, he won ''Best Original Movie Song Award'' from [[Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards|Golden Horse Film Festival]] for the theme song ''Red Cheek, White Hair'' to the movie ''The Bride with White Hair'' (as a composer). In 1995, he composed all three theme songs for the film ''[[The Phantom Lover]]''. As a composer, Cheung won four nominations for ''Best Original Movie Song Award'' at the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards and two nominations for ''Best Original Film Song'' at the Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1998, he was a member of the jury at the [[48th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale 1998">{{cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1998/04_jury_1998/04_Jury_1998.html |title=Berlinale: 1998 Juries|accessdate=14 January 2012|work=berlinale.de}}</ref>
Although Cheung quit his career as a pop singer from 1989 to 1995, he continued his music career as a composer. He composed more than ten songs during that time. In 1993, he won ''Best Original Movie Song Award'' from [[Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards|Golden Horse Film Festival]] for the theme song ''Red Cheek, White Hair'' to the movie ''The Bride with White Hair'' (as a composer). In 1995, he composed all three theme songs for the film ''[[The Phantom Lover]]''. As a composer, Cheung won four nominations for ''Best Original Movie Song Award'' at the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards and two nominations for ''Best Original Film Song'' at the Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1998, he was a member of the jury at the [[48th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale 1998">{{cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1998/04_jury_1998/04_Jury_1998.html |title=Berlinale: 1998 Juries|accessdate=14 January 2012|work=berlinale.de}}</ref>


In 1995 Cheung signed a contract with [[Rock Records]], returning to music as a singer. At the same year, he released his first post-"retirement" album, ''[[Most Beloved|Beloved]]''. ''Beloved'' achieved large market success with the award of ''IFPI Best Selling Album'',<ref>[http://www.leslie-cheung.com/leslie/2004/9-29/22736.html] "Leslie Cheung's ''Beloved'' are sold more than 300,000"], ''Min Pao Weekly'', 28 Oct. 1995, see</ref><ref>[http://www.leslie-cheung.net/ch/achievements.htm Achievements of Leslie Cheung]{{dead link|date=March 2012}}</ref> but it did not receive much acclaim from music critics as it is a collection of Cheung's movie theme songs from 1993 to 1995. In 1996, Cheung released possibly his most highly acclaimed album, ''[[Red (album, 1996)|Red]]''. ''[[Red (album, 1996)|Red]]'' was a fusion album, mixing smooth jazz, R&B, trip hop, etc., into [[Cantopop]], forming a consistent unique style. Cheung worked since then on cutting-edge music as well as Cantopop, his new music style being markedly different from before his earlier retirement. In this album, Cheung also composed another important song in his music career, ''[[Red (album, 1996)|Red]]''. In April 1998, Cheung released ''[[Printemps (Album)|Printemps]]'', a Mandarin album in collaboration with renowned Taiwanese song writers and music producers, Liu Chi Hong (劉志宏) and Liu Si Ming (劉思銘). Another version of ''Printemps'' was released in Japan titled ''Gift.'' Both versions include Cheung's first song sung in Japanese, "Marshmallow". In 1997 Cheung held his first post-retirement concert series: ''[[World Tour 97]]'', which lasted from 12 December 1996 to 17 June 1997. As with the refinements to his musical style, Cheung introduced a new image to his audience. The most daring part possibly was the closing dance "Red" where Cheung did a tango duet in a pair of red high-heels with a macho dancer. ''World Tour 97'' included 55 concerts: 24 concerts were held in [[Hong Kong Coliseum]] and 31 concerts were held in the cities around the world. Among them, six concerts were held in Japan and mainland China respectively. ''World Tour 97'' was the first concert series that Cheung held in these two areas. {{Citation needed|date=September 2012}}
In 1995 Cheung signed a contract with [[Rock Records]], returning to music as a singer. At the same year, he released his first post-"retirement" album, ''[[Most Beloved|Beloved]]''. ''Beloved'' achieved large market success with the award of ''IFPI Best Selling Album'',<ref>[http://www.leslie-cheung.com/leslie/2004/9-29/22736.html] "Leslie Cheung's ''Beloved'' are sold more than 300,000"], ''Min Pao Weekly'', 28 Oct. 1995, see</ref><ref>[http://www.leslie-cheung.net/ch/achievements.htm Achievements of Leslie Cheung]{{dead link|date=March 2012}}</ref>.

In 1999, Cheung founded a music company, [[Apex Music]], signing a distribution contract with [[Universal Music Group]](UMG). Important albums released via [[Universal Music Group|UMG]] includes ''[[Count Down With You]]'' (1999), ''[[Big Heat (album)|Big Heat]]'' (2000), and ''Untitled'' (2000). The hit songs released by him during this period include "[[Passing-by Dragonfly]]", the top one hit song, "Big Heat", and "[[Left Right Hands]]", Top Ten Gold Song of the Year (1999). He also composed the song ''I'' (first released in the ''[[Big Heat (album)|Big Heat]]'' album). In 1999, he was awarded the [[Golden Needle]] award (lifetime achievement award in Cantopop music). In 2000, he was named "Music Ambassador" of [[Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong]] (CASH), a position he held until his death. He composed the theme song "Noah's Ark" for the ''CASH Golden Sail Award''. {{Citation needed|date=September 2012}}

In 2000, Cheung played his last concert series, ''[[Passion Tour]]''. ''Passion Tour'' included 43 concerts, lasting from 31 July 2000 to 16 April 2001. Cheung worked at the first time as the art director as well as the singer for the concert. He invited [[Jean-Paul Gaultier]] to design all eight costumes for the concert. However, the costumes, together with his long wig and beard, were criticized bitterly by Hong Kong media at the early stage of the concerts. Cheung later disclosed that Gaultier was very angry about the criticism and claimed in an email (sent to Cheung) that he would never design costumes again for any Asian performer. Despite the early criticisms from the media, ''Passion Tour'' achieved huge success. ''Passion Tour'' was highly welcomed in Japan and made Cheung hold 10 concerts there. Together with ''[[World Tour 97]]'' concerts, Cheung set a record of foreign artists of holding 16 concerts in Japan. In China, Cheung set a record yet to be broken by holding two consecutive night concerts in Shanghai Stadium (capacity of 80,000). He was also awarded the "Grand Salute Award" (2000) by ''Mingpao Weekly'' (Hong Kong) and "Music Salute Award" (2000) from Chinese Pop Music Media Association (mainland China) for his work in ''Passion Tour''. {{Citation needed|date=September 2012}}

By the end of the 1990s, Cheung began to focus on acting in non-romance roles. In ''[[The Kid (1999 film)|The Kid]]'' (1999, directed by Jacob Cheung Chi-Leung), he starred as a poor single father who fostered an abandoned baby boy. In the action thriller ''[[Double Tap (film)|Double Tap]]'' (2000, directed by Lo Chi Leung), he played a psycho killer, Rick. In the 2002 psycho thriller ''[[Inner Senses]]'' (directed by Lo Chi Leung), he played psychologist Dr. Law, who discovered his own emotional issues when he tried to treat his patient Yan ([[Kar Yan Lam]]). His performance in these films earned him another ''Best Actor'' nomination from the Hong Kong Film Awards. He also garnered another two ''Best Actor Award'' nominations from Taiwan Film Festival. During this period, Cheung began to try his hand at film direction. In 2000, he directed his first movie, the 45 minutes ''[[From Ashes to Ashes]]''. In 2002, he began working on the script for his first regular length movie ''[[Stealing Heart]]''. The script was not completed due to the deterioration of his health.

In 1984, ''[[Overseas Chinese Daily News]]'' considered Cheung as one of the 10 most popular artists. In 1986 and 1987, Cheung was voted as one of the 10 most popular celebrities (演藝十大當紅人物) in Hong Kong by [[RTHK]]. In 1989, [[Commercial Radio]] ranked Cheung as Hong Kong's most beautiful celebrity (十大靚人榜首). In 1990, [[RTHK]] ranked him as one of the 10 most popular celebrities of the 80s (八十年代十大演藝紅人). In 1989 and 1994, Korea's ''Roadshow'' rated him as Korea's most popular foreign celebrity. In 1996, Cheung was voted among the top 10 Chinese-speaking film stars of all time (全球十大華語影星) by Taiwan's [[Golden Horse Awards]]. In the same year, Japan's ''Pop Asia'' rated Cheung as the best artist of the year. In 2000, [[Yahoo! Japan]] ranked him as Japan's most popular foreign celebrity. In the same year, Cheung was crowned as Hong Kong's most popular celebrity of the millennium (千禧十大紅人榜首) by [[RTHK]].


Though Cheung had never publicly declared his sexual orientation, he once said in an interview with ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine:
Though Cheung had never publicly declared his sexual orientation, he once said in an interview with ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine:

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Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed "Gor Gor" (哥哥), which means elder brother,[1][2][2][3] was a Hong Kong musician, singer-songwriter, actor, and music and film producer. Cheung is considered as "one of the founding fathers of Cantopop" by "combining a hugely successful film and music career."[4]

Cheung's music and movies not only captured fans in Hong Kong but also other Asian countries including Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan and South Korea. He is the first foreign artist to hold 16 concerts in Japan that has yet to be broken and the record holder as the best-selling C-pop artist in Korea.[5]

Cheung was ranked as the most favourite actor in the 100 years of Chinese cinema.[6][7] In 2010, he was voted the third "Most Iconic Musicians of All Time" (after Michael Jackson and The Beatles).[8] CNN considered Cheung as the "Most Beautiful Man from Hong Kong Cinema" and one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time."[9][10]

Cheung was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, the youngest of ten children in a middle-class Hakka family. Cheung Wut Hoi, his father, was a fairly well known tailor, whose customers included American actors William Holden, Marlon Brando, and Cary Grant.[11][12][13] His parents divorced when he was quite young. While in Hong Kong, Cheung attended Rosaryhill School. At age 13, he was sent to England as a boarder at Eccles Hall School. After six month study, he transferred himself to a school in Chelmsford and obtained scholarship. He worked as a bartender at his relatives' restaurant and sang during the weekends. It was around this period that he chose his name, "Leslie." According to Cheung, he chose this name because "I love the film Gone with the Wind. And I like Leslie Howard."[14]

In several interviews, Cheung stated he had had a fairly unhappy childhood. "I didn't have a happy childhood. Arguments, fights and we didn't live together; I was brought up by my granny."[14] "What I would say most affected me as a child, was that my parents were not at home with me. As a young kid, one could not always understand why his parents weren't at home. This made me depressed sometimes."[15]

He attended the University of Leeds where he studied textile management. He dropped out of university at the end of his first year when his father fell ill. After his father's recovery, Cheung did not return to England to complete his studies.[12][16]

He donated all the proceeds from the sales of Salute to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (香港演藝學院), which was named the Leslie Cheung Memorial Scholarship after his death.[17]

With the popularity of Cheung and Tam, fans of these two stars became increasingly hostile to each other, starting a long-standing conflict that soon put heavy pressure on both singers. In 1988, Alan Tam publicly quit all pop music award ceremonies. In 1989, Cheung announced his intention to retire from his music career as a singer. Cheung then set a record by being the first singer ever in Cantopop history to hold a retirement concert series (Final Encounter of the Legend), which ran for 33 consecutive nights (he was 33 at the time) at Hong Kong Coliseum. In 1990, he left Hong Kong at the peak of his music career and emigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he reportedly "found peace and tranquility."[18] Cheung became a Canadian citizen in 1992, returning to Asia full-time in 1995 for his re-emergence in Chinese-language popular music.

From 1986 to 1989, Cheung acted in a number of movies that are considered as Hong Kong classics by film critics and Asian movie fans.[19][20]

Other films in which Cheung appeared during this period include The Bride with White Hair (with Brigitte Lin, 1993), He's a Woman, She's a Man (with Anita Yuen, 1994), The Phantom Lover (1995), and Viva Erotica (with Shu Qi, 1996). His performance in these movies won him three Best Actor Award nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards and three Best Actor Award nominations at the Golden Horse Film Festival from 1990 to 1998. He acted in many comedies. In 1991, teamed again with Chow Yun-fat and Cherie Chung, Cheung played a skillful and charming thief in John Woo's Once A Thief. In 1992's All's Well, Ends Well, he acted as an effeminate brother who would later realize the meaning of true love. Other well-known comedies included The Eagle Shooting Heroes, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Chinese Feast, where he starred opposite Anita Yuen. Cheung was also a box office attraction in Hong Kong; from 1990 to 1998, 13 out of 39 movies in which he starred were listed as yearly top ten box office movies.[21]

Although Cheung quit his career as a pop singer from 1989 to 1995, he continued his music career as a composer. He composed more than ten songs during that time. In 1993, he won Best Original Movie Song Award from Golden Horse Film Festival for the theme song Red Cheek, White Hair to the movie The Bride with White Hair (as a composer). In 1995, he composed all three theme songs for the film The Phantom Lover. As a composer, Cheung won four nominations for Best Original Movie Song Award at the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards and two nominations for Best Original Film Song at the Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1998, he was a member of the jury at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.[22]

In 1995 Cheung signed a contract with Rock Records, returning to music as a singer. At the same year, he released his first post-"retirement" album, Beloved. Beloved achieved large market success with the award of IFPI Best Selling Album,[23][24].

Though Cheung had never publicly declared his sexual orientation, he once said in an interview with Time magazine:

"It's more appropriate to say I'm bisexual. I've had girlfriends. When I was 22 or so, I asked my girlfriend Teresa Mo (his colleague at Rediffusion Television (now ATV) of the time) to marry me."[25]

Cheung dated Ngai Sze-Pui (倪詩蓓), a Hong Kong model and actress whom he met on the set of Agency 24 for two years. [26]

Death and legacy

Leslie Cheung leaped from the Mandarin Oriental hotel (right).

Cheung committed suicide on 1 April 2003 at 6:43 pm (HKT).[27] He leaped from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel, located in the Central district of Hong Kong Island.[28] He left a suicide note saying that he had been suffering from depression. He was 46 years old.[29][30][31][32][33][34]

As one of the most popular performers in Asia, Cheung's death broke the hearts of millions of his fans across Asia, and shocked the Asian entertainment industry and Chinese community worldwide.[29][35][36][37][38][39] The day after Cheung's death, his family confirmed that Cheung suffered from clinical depression and had been seeing psychiatrists for treatment for almost a year. They also revealed that Cheung had attempted suicide in 2002. Later at his funeral, Cheung's niece disclosed that her uncle had severe clinical depression and suffered much over the past year (2003).

Despite the risk of infection from SARS and the WHO's warning on travels to Hong Kong, tens of thousands attended Cheung's memorial service, which was held for the public, on 7 April 2003, including celebrities and other fans, many from other parts of the world such as mainland China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, the United States, and Canada. Cheung's funeral was on 8 April 2003. For almost one month, Cheung's death dominated newspaper headlines in Hong Kong and his songs were constantly on the air. His final album, Everything Follows the Wind (一切隨風), was released three months after his death.

Cheung's suicide note (translation):

"Depression! Many thanks to all my friends. Many thanks to Professor Felice Lieh-mak (Cheung's last psychiatrist). This year has been so tough. I can't stand it anymore. Many thanks to Mr. Tong. Many thanks to my family. Many thanks to Sister Fei. In my life I have done nothing bad. Why does it have to be like this?"

In a 2012 interview, Cheung's eldest sister, Ophelia Cheung, stated Cheung was diagnosed with clinical depression caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.[40] She said that reporters were outside of her brother's house, so he was not able to see a doctor. Thus, he would come over to her house to consult the doctor. He would ask his sister, "Why am I depressed? I have money and so many people love me." He was reluctant to take medication.[41]

In 2013, Cheung's former music agent Florence Chan organized two memorial concerts entitled "Miss You Much Leslie" on 31 March and 1 April for the 10th anniversary of Cheung's passing. Big names of the Hong Kong entertainment industry such as Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Andy Hui, Leo Ku, Chilam Cheung, Vivian Chow, Kelly Chen, Joey Yung, Grasshoppers, and others performed at the concert at Hong Kong Coliseum. In addition, this year, fans of this late singer-actor around the world made two million origami cranes for the Guinness World Record as tribute to Cheung's 10th year of passing.[42]

Awards and nominations

RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards

Year Category Nominated title Result
1984 Top 10 Gold Songs "Monica" Won
1985 Top 10 Gold Songs "Wild Wind" (不羈的風) Won
1986 Top 10 Gold Songs "Past Love" (當年情) Won
1987 Top 10 Gold Songs "Sleepless Night" (無心睡眠) Won
Best CD Summer Romance Won
Sales Award (Best-Selling Album of the Year) Summer Romance Won
1988 Top 10 Gold Songs "Silence is Golden" (沉默是金) Won
Top 10 Gold Songs "Don’t Need Too Much" (無需要太多) Won
IFPI Award Leslie Cheung Won
1999 Top 10 Gold Songs "Left Right Hand" (左右手) Won
Golden Needle Award Leslie Cheung Won
2000 Top 10 Gold Songs "Big Heat" (大熱) Won
2002 Silver Jubilee Award Leslie Cheung Won

Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards

Year Category Nominated title Result
1983 Top 10 Gold Songs "Wind Blows On"(風繼續吹) Nominated
1984 Top 10 Gold Songs "Monica" Won
1985 Top 10 Gold Songs "Wild Wind" (不羈的風) Won
1986 Top 10 Gold Songs "Past Love" (當年情) Won
Top 10 Gold Songs "Who Resonates With Me" (有誰共鳴) Won
Gold Song Gold Award (Best Song of the Year) "Who Resonates With Me" Won
1987 Top 10 Gold Songs "Sleepless Night" (無心睡眠) Won
Gold Song Gold Award (Best Song of the Year) "Sleepless Night" Won
1988 Top 10 Gold Songs "Silence is Golden" Won
Top 10 Gold Songs "Closer" (貼身) Won
Most Popular Male Artist Leslie Cheung Won
1989 Top 10 Gold Songs "Starting from Zero" (由零開始) Won
Most Popular Male Artist Leslie Cheung Won
1999 Honours Award Leslie Cheung Won
2000 Four Channel Award (Best Album of the Year) Untitled Won
Honours Award Leslie Cheung Won

Ultimate Song Chart Awards

Year Category Nominated title Result
1988 Ultimate Male Artist Gold Award Leslie Cheung Won
1989 Ultimate Male Artist Gold Award Leslie Cheung Won
IFPI Award Side Face Won
1999 Ultimate Song Award (No. 1 Song of the Year) "Left Right Hand" Won

Metro Radio Hit Music Awards

Year Category Nominated title Result
1999 Metro Radio Hit Song of the Year "Left Right Hand" Won
Metro Radio Top 10 Hit Songs "Left Right Hand" Won

Hong Kong Film Awards

Year Category Film Result
1983 Best Actor Nomad Nominated
1988 Best Actor A Better Tomorrow 2 Nominated
Best Original Film Song A Chinese Ghost Story Nominated
1989 Best Actor Rouge Nominated
1991 Best Actor Days of Being Wild Won
1994 Best Original Film Song The Bride With White Hair Nominated
1995 Best Actor He's a Woman, She's a Man Nominated
Best Original Film Song He's a Woman, She's a Man Won
1996 Best Original Film Song The Phantom Lover Nominated
1997 Best Actor Viva Erotica Nominated
Best Original Film Song Who's the Woman, Who's the Man? Nominated
1998 Best Actor Happy Together Nominated
2003 Best Actor Inner Senses Nominated

Golden Horse Awards

Year Category Film Result
1991 Best Actor Days of Being Wild Nominated
1993 Best Original Song The Bride With White Hair Won
1994 Best Original Song He's a Woman, She's a Man Nominated
1995 Best Original Song The Phantom Lover Nominated
1996 Best Actor Temptress Moon Nominated
Best Original Song Temptress Moon Nominated
Best Original Song Who's the Woman, Who's the Man? Nominated
1997 Best Actor Happy Together Nominated
2000 Best Actor Double Tap Nominated
2002 Best Actor Inner Senses Nominated

Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards

Year Category Film Result
1994 Best Actor Ashes of Time Won

Japan Film Critics Society

Year Category Film Result
1994 Best Actor Farewell My Concubine Won

Cannes Film Festival

Year Category Film Result
1993 Best Actor Farewell My Concubine Nominated
1996 Best Actor Temptress Moon Nominated
1997 Best Actor Happy Together Nominated

Asia Pacific Film Festival

Year Category Film Result
1993 Best Actor Days of Being Wild Nominated

Venice Film Festival

Year Category Film Result
1994 Best Actor Ashes of Time Nominated

Ming Pao Power Academy Awards

Year Category Nominated title Result
2000 Honorary Award Leslie Cheung Won
Outstanding Male Singer Leslie Cheung Won
2002 Best Actor Inner Senses Won

Discography

Main article: Leslie Cheung discography

Filmography

Main article: Leslie Cheung filmography

See also

References

  1. ^ http://china.org.cn/english/NM-e/91868.htm
  2. ^ a b Leslie Cheung bio biography
  3. ^ "Thousands of fans pay tribute to Leslie Cheung". China Daily. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
  4. ^ Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, "World Music Volume 2: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific", P54., BBC Radio, ISBN 1-85828-636-0
  5. ^ http://tw.twent.chinayes.com/Content/20130402/kh77sz20770cg.shtml
  6. ^ "Cheung Tops Asia's CCTV-MTV Honors", AllBusiness.com, Inc.
  7. ^ "'Farewell My Concubine' most appreciated in HK", China Daily
  8. ^ "Michael Jackson: Your number one music icon". CNN. 27 August 2010. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
  9. ^ http://travel.cnn.com/hong-kong/play/hottest-men-classic-hong-kong-cinema-754404
  10. ^ http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/none/asias-25-greatest-actors-all-time-223697
  11. ^ Kevin Thomas, "A Career In Full Plumet", Los Angeles Times, 22 June 1997, page 6
  12. ^ a b Michel Ciment, Hubert Niogret, "Interview of Leslie Cheung", Positif no. 455/1999, Berlin, conducted on 21 February 1998
  13. ^ Chitose Shima, "Leslie Cheung Interview", All About Leslie, pp. 25-40, Saangyo Henshu Center Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1999, ISBN 4-916199-10-3
  14. ^ a b Corliss, Richard (30 April 2001). "Forever Leslie". Time. Retrieved 14 August 2008.
  15. ^ Leslie Cheung, "Leslie Cheung Autobiography", Commercial Radio Hong Kong, 1985, (also collected in Album Collection History-His Story by Capital Artist, 2004), an English translation can be found in here
  16. ^ Chitose Shima, "Leslie Cheung Interview", All About Leslie, p25-40, Sangyo Henshu Center Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1999, ISBN 4-916199-10-3
  17. ^ "Leslie Cheung Memorial Scholarship". Hkapa.edu. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
  18. ^ "The rise and tragic fall of a Canto-pop king". Asian Pacific Post. 10 April 2003. Archived from the original on 15 February 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
  19. ^ The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures, Hong Kong Film Awards
  20. ^ "A Better Tomorrow"[dead link]
  21. ^ ""1990–99 Box Office Ranking for Chinese Movies in Hong Kong" ("1990–99年历年华语片票房排名")". Dvdspring.com. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
  22. ^ "Berlinale: 1998 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  23. ^ [1] "Leslie Cheung's Beloved are sold more than 300,000"], Min Pao Weekly, 28 Oct. 1995, see
  24. ^ Achievements of Leslie Cheung[dead link]
  25. ^ Corliss, R. (2001). "Forever Leslie", Time magazine Asia Edition. Retrieved 17 December 2005.
  26. ^ http://www.alididi.info/n27486c13p2.aspx
  27. ^ 陳淑芬細說 哥哥最後電話, Apple Daily, 29 March 2013
  28. ^ Corliss, R. (2003). "That old feeling: Days of being Leslie" Time magazine Asia Edition. Retrieved 17 December 2005, from ]
  29. ^ a b Stephen Kelly, "WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS?" Leslie Cheung, 1956–2003", 8 May 2003
  30. ^ "Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing commits suicide.", Hong Kong Entertainment News in Review (2003). Retrieved 17 December 2005
  31. ^ "Actor Leslie Cheung 'found dead'", BBC, 1 April 2003
  32. ^ "Activities to Commemorate Leslie Cheung", Xinhua, 2 April 2005
  33. ^ Yu Sen-lun, "The Leslie Cheung Legend Lives on", TaiPei Times, 10 April 2003
  34. ^ Bruce Einhorn, "Hong Kong: A City in Mourning", BusinessWeek, 14 April 2003
  35. ^ "Leslie Cheung, Larger Than Life". Web.archive.org. 18 April 2008. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
  36. ^ "Jonathan Crow, "Leslie Cheung", AOL Allmovie". Movies.aol.com. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
  37. ^ "Leslie Cheung's Suicide" Gothamist, 3 April 2003
  38. ^ "Week of 5 April 2003". "Life In Legacy. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
  39. ^ "Forty Thousands Fans Farewell Leslie Cheung in the Raining Night", Modern Business News, 4 April 2003
  40. ^ http://big5.china.com.cn/gate/big5/ent.china.com.cn/2013-03/28/content_28384159.htm
  41. ^ http://www.orientaldaily.com.my/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=48277:&Itemid=200
  42. ^ http://my.entertainment.yahoo.com/news/leslie-cheungs-origami-display-delayed-041500008.html

Further reading

  • Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, World Music Volume 2: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, BBC Radio, 2000, ISBN 1-85828-636-0
  • Kei Mori, "夢想之欠片 (Broken pieces of dreams)", Renga Shyobo Shinshya Co Ltd, Tokyo, Japan, 2004, ISBN 4-902603-55-1
  • Chitose Shima, "Leslie Cheung Interview", All About Leslie, p25–40, Sangyo Henshu Center Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1999, ISBN 4-916199-10-3
  • Chitose Shima, Time of Leslie Cheung, Sangyo Henshu Center Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 2004, ISBN 4-916199-59-6
  • City Entertainment Editor Committee, Leslie Cheung's Movie World 2 (1991–1995), City Entertainment, Hong Kong, 2006, ISBN 962-8114-98-0
  • De Hui, Leslie Cheung's Movie Life I, II, Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, Shanghai, 2006, ISBN 7-80678-557-4.
Awards and achievements
Hong Kong Film Awards
Preceded by Best Actor
1991
for Days of Being Wild 		Succeeded by
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
Preceded by
None
 Best Actor
1994
for Ashes of Time 		Succeeded by
RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards
Preceded by Golden Needle Award
1999 		Succeeded by
Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards
Preceded by Most Popular Male Artist
1988, 1989 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Vacant
 Honours Award
1999, 2000 		Succeeded by
Ultimate Song Chart Awards
Preceded by
None
 Ultimate Male Artist Gold Award
1988, 1989 		Succeeded by
Ming Pao Power Academy Awards
Preceded by
None
 Honorary Award
2000 (& Andy Lau) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
None
 Outstanding Male Singer
2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Outstanding Actor in Film
2002
for Inner Senses 		Succeeded by

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