59th Golden Horse Awards


59th Golden Horse Awards


The 59th Golden Horse Awards (Chinese: 第59屆金馬獎) was held on November 19, 2022, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best in Chinese-language films of 2021 and 2022. Nominations were announced on September 27, 2022. Despite receiving the warning from Chinese authorities, Hong Kong action thriller Limbo led the nominations with 14, while Taiwanese films Incantation and Coo-Coo 043 each received 13 nominations.

Taiwanese drama Coo-Coo 043 won Best Narrative Feature, while Limbo was the biggest winner overall with 4 awards, mostly won technical categories, followed by The Sunny Side of the Street with 3, including Best Leading Actor.

The ceremony

  • Cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing leads the awards executive committee for the first time, taking over the duties of former head Ang Lee.
  • The 59th Golden Horse Awards is tentatively the last edition held at the Taipei Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, as the venue undergoes refurbishment til 2025.
  • The Narrow Road was disqualified from the Best Original Film Song nomination ("On the Road"), after the awards executive committee was informed by the film distributor MM2 Studios that the song had been publicly performed prior to the film production.
  • The 17-person jury unanimously decided Anthony Wong (The Sunny Side of the Street) as the winner for Best Leading Actor, Hu Jhih-ciang (Coo-Coo 043) for Best New Performer, and Limbo for Best Cinematography and Best Adapted Screenplay, among others.
  • There were also 7 award categories where the winners were a close call (9 votes versus 8 votes), the most categories in the awards history. They were:
    • Coo-Coo 043 winning Limbo (Best Narrative Feature)
    • Laha Mebow (Gaga) winning Cheang Pou-soi (Limbo) for Best Director
    • Sylvia Chang (A Light Never Goes Out) winning Cya Liu (Limbo) for Best Leading Actress
    • Kagaw Piling (Gaga) winning Yang Li-yin (Coo-Coo 043) for Best Supporting Actress
    • Sheu Fang-yi (Salute) winning Jack Wong Wai-leung (Limbo) for Best Action Choreography
    • And Miles to Go Before I Sleep winning Silence in the Dust for Best Documentary Feature
    • Will You Look at Me winning Kaohsiung City, Yancheng District, Fubei Rd., No. 31 for Best Documentary Short Film.
  • No jury member raised the possibility of a tie (split between two winners) for all the 23 award categories.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Jury

Winners will be jointly voted by six final stage jurors, along with eleven shortlist stage jurors who earlier decided the nominees.

Final stage jurors

  • Ann Hui, Hong Kong filmmaker (Jury President)
  • Gwei Lun-mei, Taiwanese actress
  • Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor
  • Cheng Wei-hao, Taiwanese filmmaker
  • Yeh Ju-feng, Taiwanese film producer
  • Yu Jing-pin, Taiwanese cinematographer

Shortlist stage jurors

  • Chou I-wen, Taiwanese cinematographer
  • Chiu Li-wei, Taiwanese animation director
  • Silver Cheung, Hong Kong production designer
  • Chang Jung-chi, Taiwanese film director
  • Chang Yao-sheng, Taiwanese filmmaker and novelist
  • Allen Leung, Hong Kong film editor
  • Huang Hui-chen, Taiwanese documentary filmmaker
  • Essay Liu, Taiwanese screenwriter
  • Henry Tsai, Taiwanese filmmaker
  • Penny Tsai, Taiwanese production designer
  • Henry Lai, Hong Kong composer

FIPRESCI Prize jury

  • Ernesto Diezmartínez, Mexican film critic
  • Estella Huang, Taiwanese film critic and writer
  • Jason Tan Liwag, Filipino scientist, actor, writer and film programmer

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NETPAC Award jury

  • Cecilia Wong, Hong Kong film critic and film programmer
  • Singing Chen, Taiwanese film director
  • Tan Tang-mo, Taiwanese film critic

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See also

  • 40th Hong Kong Film Awards

References

External links

  • Official website of the Golden Horse Awards

Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: 59th Golden Horse Awards by Wikipedia (Historical)



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