John Hsu’s Taiwanese supernatural comedy Lifeless Abilities Society has scored 11 nominations for the 61st Golden Horse Awards, adopted by Tom Lin’s Yen And Ai-Lee and Geng Jun’s Bel Ami, with eight nods every.
Lifeless Abilities Society and Bel Ami are among the many 5 movies competing in the most effective movie class, together with Ray Yeung’s All Shall Be Nicely, Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes and Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Movie. The identical 5 movies are additionally operating in the most effective director class.
They replicate the general illustration at this 12 months’s Golden Horse Awards, with the participation of Hong Kong, mainland China and Singapore in addition to multiple-country worldwide collaborations with Taiwan.
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Sony-backed Lifeless Abilities Society has additionally secured nominations for Sandrine Pinna as finest supporting actress, finest authentic screenplay and quite a lot of technical awards. The movie has proved its crowd pleaser standing, having acquired viewers awards globally such because the individuals’s alternative Midnight Insanity awards first runner-up at Toronto the place it had its North American premiere.
Taiwanese mother-daughter household drama Yen And Ai-Lee, which is about to phrase premiere in Busan’s Jiseok competitors, has secured eight nominations, together with finest actress for Kimi Hsia, finest supporting actress for Yang Kuei-mei, and finest authentic screenplay.
This 12 months’s nominations function an growing variety of movies directed by mainland Chinese language administrators, together with Bel Ami, Lou Ye’s Cannes title An Unfinished Movie, Wang Xiaoshuai’s Berlinale title Above The Mud (nominated for finest tailored screenplay), Qiu Yang’s Berlinale title Some Rain Should Fall (nominated for finest new director), and Wang Bing’s documentary Youth (Exhausting Instances).
Hong Kong movies within the highlight embrace LGBTQ+ household drama All Shall Be Nicely, winner of the Teddy Award on the Berlinale, for which Patra Au is nominated for finest actress; and The Approach We Speak, which is about to premiere on the BFI London Movie Competition and has Yau Hawk Sau up for finest actor and Yau Hawk Sau nominated for finest actress, having beforehand acquired a nod in the identical class final 12 months for The Lyricist Wannabe. Additional Hong Kong titles within the operating embrace Love Lies, with Ho Miu Ki up for finest new director and Sandra Ng for finest actress; and Stuntman for motion choreography.
Surveillance drama Stranger Eyes, the primary ever movie from Singapore to be chosen for Venice’s Golden Lion competitors, has scored six nominations, which additionally embrace finest supporting actor for Lee Kang-sheng and finest authentic screenplay. It is going to subsequent open the Taipei Golden Horse Movie Competition (November 7-24) and the Singapore Worldwide Movie Competition (November 28-December 8).
This co-production between Singapore, Taiwan, France and the US is amongst a rising variety of Southeast Asian and worldwide collaborations which have Taiwan as a manufacturing companion. Likewise, Taiwan-Singapore-France coproduction Mongrel has acquired seven nominations, together with the primary finest actor nominee from Thailand for Wanlop Rungkumjad and finest new director for Singapore’s Chiang Wei Liang and Taiwan’s Yin You Qiao.
Embers, the newest movie by Taiwanese director Chung Mong-Hong whose A Solar was Oscar-shortlisted, is vying for 5 awards together with finest actor for Chang Chen and finest supporting actor for Mo Tzu-yi.
The nominations had been introduced on October 2 by Wen Tien-hsiang, CEO of the Taipei Golden Horse Movie Competition,. A record-breaking 718 submissions had been acquired, together with 99 narrative options, two animated options, 68 documentary options, 403 live-action quick movies, 90 documentary quick movies and 56 animated quick movies.
The 61st Golden Horse Awards Ceremony will probably be held on November 23 at Taipei Music Heart.
61st Golden Horse Awards
Greatest Narrative Function
All Shall Be Nicely
Stranger Eyes
Lifeless Abilities Society
An Unfinished Movie
Bel Ami
Greatest Director
Ray Yeung, All Shall Be Nicely
Yeo Siew-Hua, Stranger Eyes
John Hsu, Lifeless Abilities Society
Lou Ye, An Unfinished Movie
Geng Jun, Bel Ami
Greatest New Director
Qiu Yang, Some Rain Should Fall
Peng Tzu-Hui, Wang Ping-Wen, A Journey In Spring
Ye Xingyu, Three Castrated Goats
Chiang Wei-Liang, Yin You-Qiao, Mongrel
Ho Miu-Ki, Love Lies
Greatest Main Actor
King Jieh-Wen, A Journey In Spring
Chang Chen, The Embers
Yau Hawk-Sau, The Approach We Speak
Wanlop Rungkumjad, Mongrel
Zhang Zhiyong, Bel Ami
Greatest Main Actress
Patra Au Ga-Man, All Shall Be Nicely
Kimi Hsia, Yen And Ai-Lee
Chung Suet-Ying, The Approach We Speak
Sylvia Chang, Daughter’s Daughter
Sandra Ng, Love Lies
Greatest Supporting Actor
Lee Kang-Sheng, Stranger Eyes
Mo Tzu-Yi, The Embers
Zeng Guo-Cheng, Yen And Ai-Lee
Daniel Hong, Mongrel
Shih Ming-Shuai, Gatao: Like Father Like Son
Greatest Supporting Actress
Sandrine Pinna, Lifeless Abilities Society
Pets Tseng, Large
Yang Kuei-Mei, Yen And Ai-Lee
Lu Yi-Ching, Mongrel
Eugenie Liu, Daughter’s Daughter
Greatest New Performer
Yu Aier, Some Rain Should Fall
Feifei Cheng, Large
Tang Yung-Hsu, Salli
Lin Cheng-Hsun, Intimate Encounter
Alisia Liang, The Chronicles Of Libidoists
Greatest Unique Screenplay
Yeo Siew-Hua, Stranger Eyes
John Hsu, Vincent Tsai, Lifeless Abilities Society
Tom Lin Shu-Yu, Yen And Ai-Lee
Huang Xi, Daughter’s Daughter
Geng Jun, Bel Ami
Greatest Tailored Screenplay
Fujii Michihito, Hayashida Hirokawa, 18×2 Past Youthful Days
Crimson Chang, Joyce Liu Lei-Shuan, Chiang His-Wen, Shih Cheng-Yu, Gatao: Like Father Like Son
Wang Xiaoshuai, Above The Mud
Greatest Cinematography
Kartik Vijay, Yen And Ai-Lee
Imamura Keisuke, 18×2 Past Youthful Days
Michaël Capron, Mongrel
Aziz Zhambakiyev, Shambhala
Wang Weihua, Bel Ami
Greatest Visible Results
Tomi Kuo, Chiu Chun-Yi, Lifeless Abilities Society
Alex Lim Hung-Fung, Yee Kwok-Leung, Leung Wai-Package, Large
Shigeharu Tomotoshi, Gary Chen, Gatao: Like Father Like Son
Greatest Artwork Course
Wang Chih-Cheng, Liang Shuo-Lin, Lifeless Abilities Society
Chao Shih-Hao,, The Embers
Penny Tsai Pei-Ling, Yen And Ai-Lee
Yeh Tzu-Wei, Mongrel
LV Dong, Above The Mud
Greatest Make-up & Costume Design
Lore Shih, Lifeless Abilities Society
Hsu Li-Wen, The Embers
Yip Kar-Yan, Yen And Ai-Lee
Shirley Kao, Daughter’s Daughter
Dorjee Dradhul Gurung, Shambhala
Greatest Motion Choreography
Teddy Ray Huang, Lifeless Abilities Society
Hong Eui-Jung, Gatao: Like Father Like Son
Lin Wei-Yi, Yuan Hsu-Hu, Chang Ya-Wei, Extra, Liao Hsiao-Ting, The Chronicles Of Libidoists
Kong Tao-Hoi, Leung Pok-Yan, Stuntman
Greatest Movie Modifying
Anna Schlenker, Xixi
William Chang Suk-Ping, Lai Kwun-Tung, All Shall Be Nicely
Tom Lin, Yen And Ai-Lee
Tian Jiaming, An Unfinished Movie
Chen Hoping, Bel Ami
Greatest Sound Results
Chen Yi-Ling, Eddie Huang, Yannick Dauby, From Island To Island
Tu Duu-Chih, Tu Tse-Kang, Stranger Eyes
E-book Chien, Tang Hsiang-Chu, Chen Jia-Li, Lifeless Abilities Society
Cyrus Tang, The Approach We Speak
R.T Kao, Lim Ting-Li, Chen Yung, Mongrel
Greatest Unique Movie Rating
Thomas Foguenne, Stranger Eyes
Band The Lifeless Abilities, Lifeless Abilities Society
Ohmama Takashi, 18×2 Past Youthful Days
Hanno Yoshihiro, Meuko! Meuko!, Locust
Amy Chen Xiaoshu, Bel Ami
Greatest Unique Movie Track
Lifeless Abilities Society, Lifeless Abilities Society
Folks From The North, The Embers
Kiokunotabibito, 18×2 Past Youthful Days
Pay attention, Daughter’s Daughter
Bel Ami, Bel Ami
Greatest Documentary Function
From Island To Island, Lau Kek-Huat
Service Basis After The Snowmelt, Lo Yi-Shan
Xixi, Fan Wu
Soul Of Soil, Yen Lan-Chuan
Youth (Exhausting Instances), Wang Bing
Greatest Dwell Motion Quick Movie
The Burning Night time, Demon Wong
4 Sundays In September, Yong Mun-Chee
Facet A: A Summer time Day, Wan Kin-Fai
Caged Canine, Yen Hao-Hsuan
The Fishbowl Lady, Wu Hung-Yi
Greatest Documentary Quick Movie
Earlier than Then, Xue Mengzhu
Wild Street, Chen Chiao-Wei
Color Ideology Sampling.Mov, Chan Cheuk-Sze, Kathy Wong
One thing About Us, Rex Ren
Letters From The Imprisoned: Chow Hold Tung, Paul Lee
Greatest Animated Quick Movie
Minus Plus Multiply, Lee Chu-Chieh
Essence, Hung Wan-Yu
Father Determine, Shek Ka-Chun
Unhealthy Children, Chuang Yu-Jin
Ruthless Blade, Zhang Bo
Excellent Taiwanese Filmmaker Of The Yr
Li Si-Jian
Lifetime Achievement Award
Cheng Pei-Pei
Lin Wen-Chin
