It was also selected to represent Hong Kong in the Best International Feature Film category at the 96th Academy Awards, but was later revealed to have been disqualified for currently undisclosed reasons.

The film is produced by The Way We Dance's Saville Chan and reunites Sylvia Chang with Simon Yam, with whom she previously worked in the 1982 horror comedy He Lives by Night.

[10] As a result, the movie was pulled from contention, and Hong Kong ultimately decided not to submit any other film in its place given the large margin by which A Light Never Goes Out had originally won the nomination.

[11] Phuong Le of The Guardian describes A Light Never Goes Out as a "heartfelt love letter"[12] to the diminishing world of Hong Kong’s neon sign artisans.

Despite relying on a conventional plot with familiar archetypes, performances by Sylvia Chang and Cecilia Choi elevate the narrative, suggesting profound familial bonds beneath surface-level clichés.