Sammi Cheng was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for the first time. She lost to Maggie Cheung in In the Mood for Love.
After that, Sammi Cheng was shortlisted for three films: Living with Close Friends, Zhong Wuyan and Slimming Men and Women. The winner is another literary film, Forever Zhang Aijia.
In 2005, he starred in the film Song of Eternal Sorrow, which was adapted from Wang Anyi's novel and directed by Guan, but in the next year's Academy Awards, it was Zhou Xun who won this honor for "If Love".
Then for the fourth time, Sammi Cheng lost to Miriam Yeung who filmed Meiji and Chunjiao.