The husband and spouse staff of Otsuka Ryuji and Huang Ji, who labored with a minimalist crew and principally non-professional actors, gave a spherical of because of Asian main auteurs for uplifting them, after which hugged one another on stage for successful the Taipei Golden Horse Movie Awards finest narrative function prize with their being pregnant drama “Stonewalling.”
The numerical winner on Saturday night time was “Previous Fox,” which earned the perfect director award for Hsiao Ya-chuan, in addition to the perfect supporting actor, make-up and costume, and finest movie rating prizes.
The nominations, introduced in October, noticed “Snow in Midsummer” acquire 9 nominations and Taiwan‘s Oscar contender “Marry My Useless Physique” head the sphere with eight. They had been narrowly forward of an additional cluster of movies with seven nominations every, together with “Abang Adik,” “Previous Fox,” “Hassle Woman” and “The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon.”
On the night, “Marry My Useless Physique” received just one prize (for finest tailored screenplay), whereas the Golden Horse Movie Competition’s opening title “Snow in Midsummer” was additionally largely snubbed. It received solely in the perfect sound results class.
The Golden Horse Movie Awards are typically thought of as probably the most prestigious awards in Chinese language-language cinema, although they’ve change into much less consultant of the complete width of the Chinese language-language business in recent times on account of mainland Chinese language stress on Taiwan. However the Taiwan authorities is preventing again by bolstering different elements of its cultural mushy energy. And for these in attendance Saturday at Taipei’s 2,500-seater Solar Yat-Sen Memorial Corridor venue such trifles appeared far-off.
As an alternative, the sixtieth anniversary version resembled an arms huge open, joyful and glitzy occasion. Presenters, awards winners and even the pinnacle of a neighborhood telecoms agency obtained heat and plentiful applause from a fired-up viewers.
On the crimson carpet had been a parade of Chinese language-language and Asian cinema celebrities. On stage at totally different occasions had been Brigitte Lin, Sylvia Chang, Ang Lee, Lin Chi-lin, Hong Kong’s Ann Hui and Japan’s Kitano Takeshi and Yakusho Koji. At reverse ends of the profession spectrum, retired actor Brigitte Lin and 12-year-old Audrey Lin obtained the night’s largest cheers. Although there have been a lot extra too for producer Lin Shih-ken, introduced because the filmmaker of the 12 months.
sixtieth Taipei Golden Horse Movie Awards – 2023 Prize Winners:
Greatest Narrative Characteristic“Stonewalling”
Greatest Main ActorWu Kang-ren in “Abang Adik”
Greatest DirectorHsiao Yu-chuan
Greatest Documentary Characteristic“Youth”
Greatest Main ActressAudrey Lin in “Hassle Woman”
Greatest Unique Movie ScoreChris Hou for “Previous Fox”
Greatest Unique Movie Track“The Standard” Lyricist : Wu Nien-jen Composer : George Chen Performer : Hung Pei-yu in “Day Off”
Greatest Supporting ActressBeatrice Fang in “Day Off”
Greatest Movie EditingLiao Ching-sung, Otsuka Ryuji for “Stonewalling”
Greatest Supporting ActorAkio Chen for “Previous Fox”
Greatest cinematographyYu Jing-pin for “Fish Recollections”
Greatest Unique ScreenplaySun Jie “The Mountain Is Coming”
Greatest Tailored ScreenplayWu Chin-jung, Cheng Wei-hao for “Marry My Useless Physique”
Greatest Make Up and Costume DesignWang Chih-cheng, Shirley Kao for “Previous Fox”
Greatest Artwork DirectionHuang Mei-ching, Tu Shuo-feng for “Eye of the Storm”
Greatest Sound EffectsTu Duu-chih, Wu Shu-yao, Chen Kuan-ting for “Snow in Midsummer”
Greatest New PerformerTse Yoyo in “Fly Me to the Moon”
Greatest Motion ChoreographyHung Shi-hao for “The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon”
Greatest New DirectorNick Cheuk for “Time Nonetheless Turns the Pages”
Greatest Visible EffectsArChin Yen for “Eye of the Storm”
Greatest Animated Characteristic“Pigsy” Dir. Chiu Li-wei. (studio2 Animation Lab, Cheer Digiart Inc., MyVideo, Taiwan Cell, Tomorrow Collectively Capital)
Greatest Animated Brief“Monsoon Blue” Dirs. Ellis Chan Ka-yin, Wong Hiu-kit
Greatest Reside Motion Brief“Earlier than the Field Will get Emptied” Dir. Ho Sze-wai
Greatest Documentary Brief“The Memo” Badlands Movie Group
Lifetime Achievement Awards (2x)Chen Kun-houBrigitte Lin
Excellent Taiwanese Filmmaker of the YearLin Shih-ken
Taiwan star Brigitte Lin got here out of retirement to simply accept a lifetime achievement award.
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