Golden Horse Nominations for 2023 
Friday, October 13, 2023 at 7:44PM
NATHANIEL R in Asian cinema, Golden Horse Awards, Marry My Dead Body

by Nathaniel R

Snow in Midsummer, Marry My Dead Body, and Stonewalling are nominees

Nominations have been announced for the 60th annual Golden Horse Awards. The annual juried event covers the best in Chinese-language cinema. The ceremony will be held on November 25th this year. Stonewalling, Taiwan's Oscar submission Marry My Dead Body, Time Still Turns The Pages, Eye of the Storm, and Snow in Midsummer are all up for the top prize and three of them are streaming. Read on for more about these films and the nominations list...

BEST FEATURE 

 

In terms of numbers the nominees were a bit surprising since four titles that weren't nominated had similar nomination tallies including Malaysia's undocumented orphan brothers drama Abang Adik and the Taiwanese drama Old Fox (both with 7 nominations), as well as the Taiwanese action film The Pig the Snake and the Pigeon and Taiwan's drama Trouble Girl (both with 6 nominations) but more on those titles in a bit.

Because Oscar eligibility for international feature film operates on a different calendar than each country or region's own awards, you'll sometimes see overlap between two separate years. For instance, Hong Kong's current Oscar submission A Light That Never Goes Out was a winner at last year's Golden Horse Awards while Taiwan's current Oscar submission Marry My Dead Body, is competing for the Golden Horse this season.

 

BEST DIRECTOR

Old Fox is a morality drama about a young boy and his father at a crossroads, while The Pig The Snake and the Pigeon is an action film about competing criminals. 

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

None of these pictures are nominated in the top category -- not unlike what sometimes happens with the Oscars best actress category sometimes. Day Off is about an older woman who runs a barbershop asked to travel for an old clients haircut. It's a comeback for Lu Hsiao-fen who hasn't been onscreen in 20 years. Trouble Girl, which does not yet have an IMDb page, stars Audrey Lin stars in Trouble Girl about a girl who is bullied at school and then realizes that her mother (also nominated Ivy Chen) is in a relationship with her teacher.  In Broad Daylight is a social issues drama about a reporter investigating abuse in an old folks home. 

We couldn't find info on the other two films Carp Leaping Over Dragon's Gate and The Lyricist Wannabe

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BEST NEW PERFORMER 

BEST NEW DIRECTOR

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST ART DIRECTION

BEST MAKEUP AND COSTUME DESIGN 

BEST ACTION CHOREOGRAPHY

BEST FILM EDITING

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE

BEST ORIGINAL FILM SONG

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT 

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

 

The following prizes are decided in different ways or by different sets of voters

AUDIENCE AWARD

 

OUTSTANDING TAIWANESE FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

 

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