On the last day of September, the shortlist of the 57th Golden Horse Awards was announced as scheduled. After being "suspended" last year, compared with previous years, this year's Golden Horse Awards are still low-key and there are relatively few media reports. Therefore, with the exception of Gui Lunmei, who was nominated for Best Actress with "Legs", the names on the shortlist are a bit strange.
Gui Lunmei was once again nominated for Best Actress with "Legs", and the film's actor is Yang Youning. Picture: Online
In addition to being nominated for Best Actress, "Legs" was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Model Design. This is similar to the nomination status of other films. A film has been nominated in multiple awards, the most exaggerated is the film "The Vanishing Valentine", which was nominated for 11 awards. Therefore, after the announcement of the nomination for the Golden Horse Awards, the final result is still confusing, and can only wait until the on-site award ceremony on November 21.
So, what are the highlights of this year's Golden Horse Awards? Let's take a look.
"Freak" was shortlisted for its first full-mobile photography, an unprecedented
shortlisted for the 57th Golden Horse Awards, "Freak" is the most special one. The whole film was completed with iPhone XS Max, telling a story about "OCD" A love story that is slightly sad and humorous. The film was shortlisted for the best new director, best actor, best actress, best photography, best visual effects and best art design at this Golden Horse Awards.
"Freak" stills, left: heroine Xie Xinying, right: Lin Baihong. Photo: Network
Among them, it is worth mentioning that the hero and the heroine were nominated for the actor and the actress. The actor Lin Baihong won the best supporting actor in "Six Lane Cafe" four years ago, and the heroine Xie Xinying was in 2006. With "Alice in the Mirror" won the best female match. Regarding this shortlist, Xie Xinying said: "After 14 years, I was shortlisted for Golden Horse again. Thank you for your affirmation of the Golden Horse judges. Waiting in front of the TV and waiting for the shortlist to hear my name, I felt heartbroken and moved! Congratulations "Baby" was shortlisted for six, happy for myself, happy for everyone."
"Disappearing Valentine's Day" is the most nominated, whether the biggest winner is still suspense
The most watched movie "Disappearing Valentine's Day", this is by Chen Yuxun The directed fantasy romantic comedy has won 11 awards including best feature feature film, best director, best male and female lead. The film was released in Taiwan on September 18, and the cumulative box office of the two-week release in Taiwan reached NT$8.2 million. More fierce than "Freak" actor Lin Baihong, "The Vanished Valentine's Day" actor Liu Guanting won the best supporting actor last year, this year he will challenge the best actor. Actress Li Peiyu was the host of the Golden Bell Awards last year. This is her first time to challenge the big screen. Director Chen Yuxun was shortlisted for the Golden Horse Award for Best Director in 1995. Although he was defeated by Hou Xiaoxian , his work "Tropical Fish" was his first feature film at that time.
"Disappearing Valentine's Day" poster. Picture: Official Facebook
In addition, although "Disappearing Valentine's Day" has nominated 11 awards this year, at present, due to the large number of strong films and the overlap of award nominations, the final result is quite unpredictable. "Classmate Manas" was also shortlisted for 9 nominations including Best Feature Feature Film and Best Director. Its director Huang Xinyao won the Best New Director and Best Adapted Screenplay awards with " Big Buddha Plus " in 2017. . This time, it is the second film directed by Huang Xinyao, and it is now competing for the best director award.
Other strong films, such as the Hong Kong film "Hand-rolled Cigarettes" was shortlisted for 7 awards including Best Feature Film, Best Actor, Best New Director, etc. The actor won the three-material actor (Hong Kong) The 53-year-old Lin Jiadong of the Academy Awards, the Hong Kong Film Critics Society and the Hong Kong Film Directors’ Association Annual Awards will compete for the best actor with 32-year-old Lin Baihong and 31-year-old Liu Guanting.
Lin Jiadong was shortlisted for Best Actor with "Hand-rolled Cigarettes". Picture: Network
The 81-year-old actor Chen Shufang was shortlisted for the first time and was nominated for double nomination
. Among the nominations of female actors, the 81-year-old Chen Shufang was particularly noticeable. From black and white Taiwanese films to new Taiwanese films, and to witness the establishment of Taiwan's first television station...Along the way, Chen Shufang has been acting for more than 60 years. It can be said that she has participated in most of the history of Taiwanese film and television.
Chen Shufang was shortlisted for the best actress with "Lonely Flavor", and she has to sing all the time in the film. Picture: Network
But it was not until this year that Chen Shufang was shortlisted for the Golden Horse Award for the first time. Before that, she had won the "Golden Bell Award", the highest award in Taiwan's TV series. This time, she competed for the best actress with the aforementioned Xie Xinying and Li Peiyu with "Lone Flavor". In "Lone Flavor", Chen Shufang continued her image of "Grandma of the People", but compared to previous performances, she played in The roles in "Taste" may be more entangled, not only having to bear the responsibility of raising multiple children, but also facing the inner entanglement of the absence of a partner and the disagreement between mother and daughter. Other contestants include actor Gui Lunmei, who is most familiar to inland audiences, and Bai Ling, the 2004 Golden Horse Award for Best Female Matchmaker.
At the same time, Chen Shufang was nominated for Best Supporting Actress by virtue of "Dear Tenant" and was the only double nominee in this Golden Horse Awards. In "Dear Tenant", Chen Shufang plays a diabetic mother. The tenant who has taken care of her for many years without complaints and regrets may be the murderer of her son. Therefore, her relationship with the actor Mo Ziyi is this The performance of this film is difficult. It is worth noting that the actor Mo Ziyi was also nominated for the best actor with this film, and "Dear Tenant" was nominated for the best feature film.
"Dear Tenant" poster, the film was nominated for the best feature feature film, and the actor Mo Ziyi was nominated for the best actor. Photo: Online
overseas films, starlight "dark"
Although according to Taiwan media reports, Golden Horse Executive Committee Executive Director Wen Tianxiang said that this year there are 465 feature films, short films, documentaries and cartoons registered. However, judging from the results, Taiwanese local works are the majority of the shortlist, while overseas films are rarely shortlisted. The representative of
is the movie "South Witch" from Malaysia. This work has been supported since the 2018 Golden Horse Venture Capital Conference. Therefore, the shortlist for the Best New Director of the Golden Horse Awards is, to some extent, an athlete. , As a referee, the quality of the film and the final award will be under scrutiny. However, judging from the completion of the film, "Nan Witch" may be worth looking forward to. In order to better reflect the local customs and customs of Malaysia, the whole film uses the native languages such as Hokkien, Malay, and Siamese. "The heroine is the 2019 Golden Horse Queen Yang Yanyan, all of which constitute the highlight of the film.
The movie "South Witch" opens, telling about the multi-religious Malaysian society. Picture: Official Facebook
In addition, Huang Mingzhi, known as the "Malaysian Ghost", was shortlisted for the best film original song with the song "Happy Family" composed by the movie "You Are a Pig" after being shortlisted for this year's Golden Melody Awards. Li Guohuang from Singapore was shortlisted for the best actor with "The King of Boys" and is one of the few overseas nominees in the non-technical awards; in the technical awards, the Singaporean film "Treasure Tonight" was nominated for the best photography award.
Hou Xiaoxian won the Lifetime Achievement Award, as he deserves it.
Earlier in August, there was news that the Golden Horse Award Executive Committee held a meeting, and the director Hou Xiaoxian was unanimously elected as the winner of the 57th Golden Horse Award "Lifetime Achievement Award". His outstanding achievements in film aesthetics and his painstaking efforts in film heritage. In this regard, Hou Xiaoxian said: "I like movies, I make movies, and this is my belief."
Hou Xiaoxian entered the film industry in 1973, accumulating experience from the scene, screenwriter, and assistant director. In 1980, he directed the first film "Just Yoyo". Of her. Since then, Hou Xiaoxian has been named in the Golden Horse Awards many times, and won the best guide three times with "City of Sadness", "Good Man and Woman" and "Assassin Nie Yinniang" Acting, won two best adapted screenplays with "Little Bi's Story" and "Linseed Rapeseed", and won the best original screenplay with "My Childhood" and . Among them, "City of Sadness" and "Assassin Nie Yinniang" also shined in international film festivals.
movie "City of Sadness" poster. Picture: Online
Hou Xiaoxian's film style has a profound influence on the younger directors. Jia Zhangke once talked about watching "The Man from the Wind Cabinet", "I don't understand why a Taiwanese movie seems to be filming the story of my friends in my hometown in Shanxi", and Hou Xiaoxian's teaching to himself, "The most concerned thing is not to go. What to shoot, but who to shoot”.
Therefore, no matter from which point of view, Hou Xiaoxian received the Golden Horse Award for Lifetime Achievement, he deserves it.
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