Golden Horse Film Awards: ‘Stonewalling’ Will take Top rated Prize

The husband and spouse workforce of Otsuka Ryuji and Huang Ji, who labored with a minimalist crew and largely non-professional actors, gave a spherical of thanks to Asian top auteurs for inspiring them, and then hugged every single other on phase for successful the Taipei Golden Horse Movie Awards very best narrative feature prize with their pregnancy drama “Stonewalling.”

The numerical winner on Saturday night time was “Old Fox,” which attained the ideal director award for Hsiao Ya-chuan, as well as the most effective supporting actor, make-up and costume, and finest movie rating prizes.

The nominations, announced in Oct, noticed “Snow in Midsummer” gather nine nominations and Taiwan‘s Oscar contender “Marry My Dead Body” head the field with 8. They ended up narrowly forward of a additional cluster of films with 7 nominations every, which includes “Abang Adik,” “Old Fox,” “Trouble Girl” and “The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon.”

On the evening, “Marry My Lifeless Body” gained only a single prize (for ideal adapted screenplay), when the Golden Horse Movie Festival’s opening title “Snow in Midsummer” was also mainly snubbed. It gained only in the finest sound results category.

The Golden Horse Film Awards are frequently considered as the most prestigious awards in Chinese-language cinema, nevertheless they have develop into significantly less representative of the full width of the Chinese-language sector in current a long time thanks to mainland Chinese pressure on Taiwan. But the Taiwan federal government is preventing back by bolstering other aspects of its cultural tender energy. And for those people in attendance Saturday at Taipei’s 2,500-seater Sunshine Yat-Sen Memorial Corridor venue this sort of trifles seemed much away.

Rather, the 60th anniversary version resembled an arms broad open, joyful and glitzy occasion. Presenters, awards winners and even the head of a regional telecoms business been given warm and plentiful applause from a fired-up viewers.

On the red carpet have been a parade of Chinese-language and Asian cinema celebrities. On stage at unique moments 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 job spectrum, retired actor Brigitte Lin and 12-year-old Audrey Lin received the evening’s most important cheers. While there ended up a good deal extra far too for producer Lin Shih-ken, announced as the filmmaker of the yr.

60th Taipei Golden Horse Movie Awards – 2023 Prize Winners:

Best Narrative Element
“Stonewalling”

Best Primary Actor
Wu Kang-ren in “Abang Adik”

Finest Director
Hsiao Yu-chuan

Ideal Documentary Attribute
“Youth”

Very best Top Actress
Audrey Lin in “Trouble Girl”

Very best First Film Rating
Chris Hou for “Old Fox”

Best Authentic Film Track
“The Usual” Lyricist : Wu Nien-jen Composer : George Chen Performer : Hung Pei-yu in “Day Off”

Most effective Supporting Actress
Beatrice Fang in “Day Off”

Ideal Movie Enhancing
Liao Ching-sung, Otsuka Ryuji for “Stonewalling”

Best Supporting Actor
Akio Chen for “Old Fox”

Most effective cinematography
Yu Jing-pin for “Fish Memories”

Very best Original Screenplay
Sun Jie “The Mountain Is Coming”

Finest Adapted Screenplay
Wu Chin-jung, Cheng Wei-hao for “Marry My Dead Body”

Very best Make Up and Costume Structure
Wang Chih-cheng, Shirley Kao for “Old Fox”

Greatest Artwork Route
Huang Mei-ching, Tu Shuo-feng for “Eye of the Storm”

Most effective Audio Consequences
Tu Duu-chih, Wu Shu-yao, Chen Kuan-ting for “Snow in Midsummer”

Finest New Performer
Tse Yoyo in “Fly Me to the Moon”

Best Motion Choreography
Hung Shi-hao for “The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon”

Best New Director
Nick Cheuk for “Time However Turns the Pages”

Best Visual Effects
ArChin Yen for “Eye of the Storm”

Very best Animated Characteristic
“Pigsy” Dir. Chiu Li-wei. (studio2 Animation Lab, Cheer Digiart Inc., MyVideo, Taiwan Cellular, Tomorrow Together Capital)

Very best Animated Shorter
“Monsoon Blue” Dirs. Ellis Chan Ka-yin, Wong Hiu-kit

Finest Are living Action Quick
“Before the Box Will get Emptied” Dir. Ho Sze-wai

Greatest Documentary Shorter
“The Memo” Badlands Film Team

Life span Accomplishment Awards (2x)
Chen Kun-hou
Brigitte Lin

Exceptional Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Calendar year
Lin Shih-ken