Hong Kong movies win 9 accolades at Taiwan’s Golden Horse awards amid Beijing boycotts

4 Hong Kong movies gained a complete of 9 accolades on the 59th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei on Saturday night time.

Dubbed the Chinese language-language Oscars, this was the fourth yr the Taiwan occasion was boycotted by Beijing. Seven Hong Kong movies have been nominated for awards, however various town’s filmmakers and actors within the working have been absent from the occasion, together with finest director nominee Cheang Pou-soi.

Cheang’s Crime thriller Limbo – which was nominated for 14 awards – gained in the perfect cinematography, tailored screenplay, visible results and artwork course classes. It gained the most important variety of awards on the night time.

Winners of the Greatest Visible Results award, Ho Man-lok and Diu King-wai, have been current on the ceremony, whereas the awardees of Greatest Cinematography Cheng Siu-keung, Greatest Artwork Course Renee Wong and Greatest Tailored Screenplay Shum Kwan-sin didn’t attend the awards.

Amongst those that starred in Limbo, solely Mason Lee, Taiwanese-American actor and son of Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, was current.

In a September letter, the Hong Kong Motion Picture Industry Association urged its members to “suppose twice” about becoming a member of the “politicised” Golden Horse occasion.

Most mainstream mainland Chinese language and Hong Kong film stars have shunned the occasion after a Taiwanese director voiced assist for the island’s independence on the awards in 2018.

4 Hong Kong movies gained

Three different Hong Kong titles picked up prizes at Saturday’s Golden Horse awards, together with The Sunny Facet of the Avenue with three wins, and A Mild By no means Goes Out and The Slim Highway, which gained one award every.

Hong Kong veteran actor Anthony Wong, who was reportedly blacklisted by Beijing for supporting Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution in 2014, gained Greatest Actor for The Sunny Facet of the Avenue – the story of a Hong Kong taxi driver who helped a Pakistani refugee.

Hong Kong actress Sylvia Chang was awarded Greatest Actress for enjoying a neon artist’s spouse in A Mild By no means Goes Out, making Hong Kong movies the most important winner within the performing class. Each Wong and Chang attended the ceremony.

Lam Sum’s The Slim Highway gained within the Greatest Unique Movie Rating class. The film was Sum’s second characteristic after Might You Keep Without end Younger, which was a couple of teenage rescue workforce trying to find a protester who expressed suicidal ideas on-line in the course of the 2019 protests and which didn’t get approval from the movie censorship authorities to be screened in Hong Kong.

Taiwanese documentary And Miles to Go Earlier than I Sleep directed Tsai Tsung-lung triumphed over Hong Kong’s The Blue Island in the Best Documentary category. The class was final yr gained by Hong Kong film Revolution of Our Times from director Kiwi Chow.

The most effective quick documentary Will You Look At Me – about director Huang Shu-li’s journey to return out to his mom – was the one work from mainland China that gained an award on Saturday.

Huang, certainly one of few mainland Chinese language filmmakers in attendance, addressed the difficulty of concern in his acceptance speech: “I consider love can conquer concern. I hope everybody can persist in filming, and face the world and your self truthfully.”

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