‘Stonewalling’ Wins Best Film At Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards
25.11.2023 - 16:53
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China-set drama Stonewalling, co-directed by husband-and-wife team Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji, won best narrative feature at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards, which is celebrating its 60th edition this year.
The film, which premiered in Venice and won best film at Hong Kong film festival’s Young Cinema Competition, follows a young woman in mainland China grappling with issues around career, relationships, health and fertility. It also won best editing, which was shared by Otsuka and Taiwan’s Liao Ching-sung, with the latter winning his first Golden Horse award after 12 nominations stretching back four decades.
The awards were evenly spread among the nominated films. Taiwan’s Wu Kang-ren won best leading actor for his role as a deaf-mute in Malaysian drama Abang Adik. Best actress went to 12-year-old Audrey Lin for her role in Trouble Girl, making her the youngest ever best actress winner at the Golden Horse awards.
Best director went to Hsiao Ya-chuan for Old Fox, marking his first Golden Horse award, while Hong Kong filmmaker Nick Cheuk won best new director for Time Still Turns The Pages.
Old Fox was a multiple award winner, also taking best supporting actor for Akio Chen’s performance, best makeup & costume design and best original film score. Best supporting actresss when to Beatrice Fang for Day Off, which also won best original film song (see full list of award winners below).
Ang Lee, who was president of this year’s Golden Horse Awards jury, presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to iconic Taiwanese actress Brigitte Lin. Veteran cinematographer Chen Kun-hou was also presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award, while producer Lin Shih-ken (The Bold, The Corrupt, And The Beautiful) was awarded Outstanding