The 50th Golden Horse Awards Nomination List

Published on 2013-10-01 in goldenhorse.org.tw

Golden Horse Film Festival announced today (1st Oct) the nominees for the 50th Golden Horse Film Awards. This year the Festival received 265 submissions in total including 122 features, 101 short films, 40 documentaries, 2 animation features.

Amongst the nominated films, WONG Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster leads with 11 nominations including Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Leading Actor, Best Leading Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Director, Best Makeup & Costume Design, Best Action Choreography, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Effects.

The other Best Feature Film nomination includes JIA Zhang-ke’s A Touch of Sin and Anthony CHEN’s Ilo Ilo, both received six nominations, joined by TSAI Ming-Liang’s Stray Dogs and Johnny TO’s Drug War.

Best Leading Actor category includes Tony LEUNG Chiu-Wai from The Grandmaster, Tony Leung Ka-Fai from Cold War, Nick CHEUNG from Unbeatable, LEE Kang-Sheng from Stray Dogs and Jimmy WANG from Soul. Best Leading Actress includes SHU Qi from Journey to the West, ZHANG Ziyi from The Grandmaster, GWEI Lun-Mei from Christmas Rose and Cherry NGAN from The Way We Dance. These nominees, along with previous award winners, will surely shine the red carpet with splendid stardom.

The judging process is divided into three stages. At the first stage, all the films were viewed by eight judges who are either film critics, film academics or directors from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China before going through to the next stage. At the second stage, the jury was composed of eleven renowned film-makers and industry representatives. They spent almost a month watching all the films, and finally produced the list of nominations after an eight-hour meeting in which they debated and voted. The winners will be decided by the second-stage judges together with new jury panel at the final stage. The members of this new jury include Ang LEE, TSAI Kang-Yung, LI Bingbing (who won Best Actress at the 46th Golden Horse Awards), PU Ruo-Mu (five-time winner of Golden Horse Best Art Direction/Best Makeup & Costume Design) and CHANG Chia-Lu (winner of the Golden Horse Best Adapted Screenplay in 2005).

All nominated films will be screened during Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival which opens on 8th November. The 50th Golden Horse Award Ceremony will be held in Dr Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall on 23rd November and broadcast live exclusively on TTV (Taiwan Television).

Nominees of 50th Golden Horse Awards

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