Golden Horse Winners 2017
Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 6:14PM by Nathaniel R
The 54th Annual Golden Horse Awards were held today in Taipei. That's the Taiwanese Oscars if you will. Though a female-led comedy called The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful took the top prizes, the film with the most wins was The Great Buddha+ which took home five. A romantic comedy called See You Tomorrow (the all-star cast includes TFE favorites Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Angelababy) took home most of the 'eye candy' prizes. The family tragedy Old Beast, about a father in court and at war with his kids, also did well.
Curiously Taiwan's Oscar submission Small Talk was eligible last year at this ceremony but wasn't a major player. You can see the whole 2017 ceremony online here but it's not subtitled so good luck! Toward the end of the ceremony Jessica Chastain even shows up to help Ang Lee present Best Actress (which went to Kara Wai) so we've included gifs of that and the list of winners after the jump...
FEATURE FILM The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful
DIRECTOR Vivian Qu, Angels Wear White
ACTOR Tu Men, Old Beast
ACTRESS Kara Hui, The Bold, The Corrupt, and the Beautiful
SUPPORTING ACTOR Bamboo Chen, Alifu, The Prince/ss
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Vicky Chen, The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful
NEW DIRECTOR Huang Hsin-Yao, The Great Buddha
NEW PERFORMER Rima Zeidan, Missing Johnny
SCREENPLAY Zhou Ziyang, Old Beast
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Huang Hsin-Yao, The Great Buddha
CINEMATOGRAPHY Nagao Nakashima, The Great Buddha
The "See You Tomorrow" trailer is trying to bait me, specifically, with this Tony/Takeshi pairing
VISUAL EFFECTS See You Tomorrow
ART DIRECTION See You Tomorrow
MAKEUP AND COSTUME DESIGN See You Tomorrow
ACTION CHOREOGRAPHY Sang Lin, Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield
ORIGINAL SCORE The Great Buddha
ORIGINAL SONG "To Have, and Not to Have" from The Great Buddha
EDITING Plastic China
SOUND EFFECTS Mon Mon Mon Monsters!
OUTSTANDING TAIWANESE FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR Hu Ding-yi
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful
FIPRESCI PRIZE Old Beast
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Hsu Feng
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Inmates
ANIMATED FEATURE Have a Nice Day
LIVE ACTION SHORT Babes' Not Alone
ANIMATED SHORT Losing Sight of the Longed Place
Vicky Chen is apparently the new teen sensation in Taiwanese cinema. She made her film debut last year and this year she stars in two of the Best Picture nominees and wins supporting actress
Reader Comments (9)
So cool to see post on the Golden Horse here; I'm from Taiwan!
I'd say the Golden Horse Award is Oscar for Chinese-speaking films, since countries like China, Hong Kong, Malaysia can submit as well. It's the most prestigious movie award among Chinese-speaking countries.
Small Talk was eligible last year. (Nominated for best documentary but didn't win)
And in last year's ceremony Juliette Binoche was presenting the best director along with Hou Hsiao-hsien;)
The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful is not a comedy - apparently it's being compared to The Handmaiden ;)
God, I would give it all up to be in between Tony and Takeshi.
Trivia: Sylvia Zhang who is like the Meryl o Taiwan was nom for best actress n director but lost both.. The panel head said tt she was the runner up in both cat!
And she is the Chairman o the award commitee for 4 yrs running!! She passed the baton to Lee Ang last night.
Kara Wai is an amazing actress, and so proud she’s from my home country Hong Kong! She was last year best actress in the Hong Kong Academy Awards for “Happiness” and she was recently nominated best actress for an Asian tv award for a very touching short. She has been through so much and it really registered in her acting (and it’s a really up and down life). Cannot wait to see this prize winning film!
Sylvia Zhang is phenomenal. I've watched many of her movies and like Meryl or Huppert, she never fails to give a bad performance even if the material doesn't warrant her talent. Not to mention she is equally adept at directing. An Asian treasure in the league of Maggie Cheung and an early Gong Li.
Hi, I'm from Taiwan! Glad to see you post Golden Horse Award news on here. But I would like to remind you that Small Talk was already nominated for best documentary and best Film Editing last year. Thanks!
Oops I mean a good performance...hehe:)
Ang Lee's son was nominated for Best Supporting Actor..at one point, the host was asking him what's his thought about his son's nomination and he was like he hoped someone else would win it as he's still young and need more experience/exposure/training...