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| Hundred Flowers Awards 2026: Full Winners List, Jackson Yee’s Best Actor Win and Major Highlights |
The 38th Hundred Flowers Awards announced its full list of winners on 10 August 2026, with Jackson Yee (Yi Yangqianxi) taking Best Actor with 48 votes and Ne Zha 2 winning Best Film with 54 votes. The published voting figures added an extra layer of interest to the ceremony, particularly after Wang Baoqiang recorded zero votes in the Best Actor category despite being among the names considered for the honour.
The Best Actor result quickly became one of the biggest talking points surrounding the 38th Hundred Flowers Awards. Jackson Yee secured the award with 48 votes, while Wang Baoqiang was recorded with 0 votes.
The unusually stark difference between the figures naturally sent social media into discussion, with fans debating the voting results and the outcome of one of the ceremony’s most closely watched categories. Sometimes an awards table manages to create more conversation than the trophy itself, and this was very much one of those occasions.
For Best Film, Ne Zha 2 came out on top with 54 votes, giving the animated feature one of the evening’s major honours. Its win placed the film firmly among the standout productions recognised at this year’s ceremony, while the result also underlined the continued ability of animation to compete for major recognition alongside live-action cinema.
The Outstanding Film award went to Scare Out, which received 55 votes. The result gave the film a strong showing at the ceremony and made it one of the productions to leave the 38th Hundred Flowers Awards with a significant vote count. With 55 votes, it also narrowly surpassed the Best Film total recorded by Ne Zha 2, adding another interesting detail to the final results.
The Best Director award was presented to Dapeng for The Lychee Road, with 49 votes. His victory recognised his work behind the camera and placed the film among the evening’s notable winners.
The 49-vote result also put Dapeng just one vote ahead of Jackson Yee's Best Actor tally, showing just how tightly grouped several of the major categories were.
In the Best Actress category, Michelle Wai took the award with 51 votes. Her victory was another major acting result from the ceremony, with the 51-vote total putting her among the strongest individual performers in the final voting figures.
The result gave the actress one of the evening’s most prominent honours and added another international dimension to the winners’ circle.
The Best Supporting Actress award went to Sa Rina, who received 42 votes. Her win recognised her supporting performance and gave the category a decisive result, although her total remained below the figures recorded by several of the ceremony’s leading acting winners. Still, a trophy is a trophy, and the supporting categories were hardly short of attention on the night.
For Best Supporting Actor, Wang Xiao emerged as the winner with 51 votes. His result matched Michelle Wai’s 51-vote total in the Best Actress category, making the two performers level in the published voting figures.
Wang's victory added another strong acting result to the ceremony and helped make the supporting categories an important part of the evening rather than merely the awards people remember five minutes before the main prizes.
The Best Screenplay award went to Xu Luyang, Zhang Ke and Shen Ao for Dead to Rights, with the writing team receiving 40 votes.
Their win highlighted the contribution of screenwriting to the films recognised at the ceremony, while the 40-vote result was the lowest winning total among the main categories listed. Even so, the award underlined that a film’s success at an awards ceremony is not simply about the faces appearing on screen.
The Best Newcomer award went to Chen Lijun, who collected an impressive 61 votes. That was the highest winning vote total among all the categories provided, putting Chen ahead of every other winner in the published results. For a newcomer category, the margin made the result particularly notable and gave Chen one of the clearest victories of the evening.
Away from the winners themselves, Yang Zi also drew attention during the closing ceremony on 10 August after discussing what dedication means within an acting career. Speaking about the demands of starring in Born to Be Alive, she described continued development and deeper work on a role as part of an actor’s professional responsibility rather than something that should only happen when a particularly difficult project comes along.
Yang Zi’s comments centred on the idea that actors should keep immersing themselves in their work, understanding their characters and giving their best to every project.
She suggested that every performer has qualities and principles they want to protect throughout their career, while continuing to improve rather than treating preparation as an occasional extra effort. Her point was straightforward: acting requires commitment as part of the job itself, not as a special feature switched on whenever the role becomes demanding.
The comments also gave the ceremony a more reflective moment amid all the numbers, trophies and inevitable online debates. While the voting results encouraged fans to compare totals and question certain outcomes, Yang Zi’s remarks shifted attention back towards the work behind performances. It was a useful reminder that an awards ceremony can produce a spreadsheet’s worth of figures while the people involved are still talking about something considerably harder to measure.
Fan reactions to the 38th Hundred Flowers Awards have understandably varied. Some viewers welcomed the results and celebrated winners such as Jackson Yee, Michelle Wai, Wang Xiao and Chen Lijun, while others focused more closely on the voting figures, particularly the striking Best Actor numbers involving Jackson Yee and Wang Baoqiang.
The contrasting reactions show how quickly awards results can become a second event online, with fans analysing every vote as if they have suddenly been handed a seat on the judging panel.
The full results leave Chen Lijun with the highest winning total at 61 votes, followed by Scare Out with 55, Ne Zha 2 with 54, Michelle Wai and Wang Xiao with 51 each, Dapeng with 49, Jackson Yee with 48, Sa Rina with 42 and the Dead to Rights screenplay team with 40.
Meanwhile, the Best Actor result involving Wang Baoqiang’s zero votes is likely to remain one of the most discussed details from the ceremony, proving once again that sometimes the numbers underneath an award can become almost as famous as the name engraved on it.
As the conversation around the 38th Hundred Flowers Awards continues, the big question is which result surprised you most. Was Jackson Yee’s Best Actor win the right call, did Ne Zha 2 deserve Best Film, and which winner do you think deserved more attention?