Golden Horse Awards: Two Oscar Submissions Win Big

I'm so itching for a big American awards show to hit us. Soon, soon. But until then, let's look to Taipei where The Golden Horse Awards were just handed out.

As expected the hit Taiwanese film Warriors of The Rainbow: Seediq Bale took home Best Picture. There's the jubilant cast doing an aboroginal dance on the red carpet. Fun!

Andy Lau and Deanie YipThe big winners of the night are both Oscar submissions this year in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Taiwan's Seediq Bale which is a action drama about aboroginal tribes battling occupying Japanese forces won the top prize and four other statues including "Audience Choice". Hong Kong's caretaking drama A Simple Life must have been close to a surprise sweep since it managed three of the top four statues: Director, Actor and Actress.

Superstar Andy Lau won Best Actor for the second time. He'd previously won for an Infernal Affairs sequel (the original Infernal Affairs was remade into the Oscar winning The Departed where Matt Damon took on Lau's role). Lau then presented Best Actress a category wherein he'd worked with 3 of the 4 nominees. You can see Shu Qi, he calls her "the most huggable woman ever", grinning throughout the presentation. Best Actress went to Lau's costar and actual godmother Deanie Yip. She also won the Volpi Cup at Venice this year for this role as a grown man's lifelong help who he must then care for when she has a stroke.

Video, complete list of winners, and fashion after the jump.

The hosts with him on stage are actually father and daughter. This made me giggle. I can't imagine a father daughter or mother son combo hosting anything in America. 

Complete List of Winners
Picture Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Documentary Hometown Boy
Short Film Thief
Director Ann Hui, A Simple Life (Hong Kong's Oscar Submission this year) 
Actor Andy Lau, A Simple Life
Actress Deanie Ip, A Simple Life 
Supporting Actor Bokeh Kosang, Warriors of the Rainbow
Supporting Actress Tang Qun, Return Ticket
New Performer Chen-Tung Ko, You Are the Apple of My Eye 
Original Screenplay Return Ticket
Adapted Screenplay Let the Bullets Fly
Cinematography Zhao Fei, Let the Bullets Fly

Visual Effects Wu Xia
Makeup and Costume Design The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman
Action Choreography Wu Xia
Original Score Ricky Ho, Warriors of the Rainbow
Original Song 完美落地, Jump Ashin!
Editing The Man Behind the Book
Sound Effects Warriors of the Rainbow
Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker Wong Wei-Lu
Audience Choice Award Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
FIPRESCI Prize The Piano in the Factory
Lifetime Achievement Award Ting Shan-His

And finally here are some of the most popular Asian goddesses on the red carpet...

From left to right: Carina Lau looking smashing, Shu Qi in a daringly odd pant suit, the very popular new star Michelle Chen (You Are the Apple of My Eye), and TFE favorite Tang Wei who presented Best Newcomer which she won years ago for Lust Caution. 

Comments

[joy]

I was rooting for "Return Ticket" & "The Piano in the Factory" but this is not a bad set of winners.

Little trivia: The father host Eric Tsang Chi-Wai is also one of the best actors in Hong Kong, and two of his award-winning performances “Alan & Eric - Between Hello and Goodbye” & "Comrades, Almost a Love Story" were opposite the great Maggie Cheung.

Ann Hui is now officially "the quintessential actor's director" of chinese film (more than 14 actors won acting prize under her direction). It's weird how little-known she is outside of Asia. Although none of her best works is available on Netfilx, you can now stream one of her second-tier films "Visible Secret" with Shu Qi as the lead.

[kin]

Eric Tsang was also in Infernal Affairs; Jack Nicholson played his role in The Departed. *full circle

[joy]

Somebody uploaded the entire film of "The Piano in the Factory" (english subtitle imprinted) on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu8hb8U27P4&feature=related

For all the actressexuals, this year's arthouse hit in China "Buddha Mountain" (Fan Bingbing, best actress of 2010 Tokyo International Film Festival) is also available with english sub:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJrx55GBfI

[Jeff]

Eric Tsang is actually a very good comedian and both Eric and Andy Lau known each other for years for they had been in the entertainment industry for a long time. While I had yet to watch Deanie Ip's latest movie, I always have a fond memory of hers as I grew up watching old Hong Kong movies. She was always the funny one, especially those in the mainstream Hong Kong movies. In the clip, Andy said that of all the four nominees, it is Shu Qi that he had kissed before. The banter between him and Eric is very delightful.

[Tresel Life]

Anyone else think its kinda funny that Andy Lau actually looks like Matt Damon? Too be honest though I was rooting for a Simple Life to win it all. :) Oh well.