56th Golden Horse Awards () took place on November 23, 2019 at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the n ...

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. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best in

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films of 2018 and 2019. The ceremony was televised by TTV.

Winners and nominees

In the news

Following a boycott by

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's national film governing board

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due to political tensions between Taiwan and China, films from

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were completely absent from the list of nominees. Hong Kong director

Johnnie To Johnnie To Kei-fung (born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in ...

, who was announced as the jury president for the 56th Golden Horse Awards in June 2019, resigned his position in late September after Hong Kong film studios were reportedly pressured to withdraw from the awards ceremony; To cited his reason as having "previously signed film production contractual obligations". Following the announcement of the Chinese boycott, some production companies in Hong Kong also pulled films from consideration at the award ceremony. Despite this, there were a number of Hong Kong titles in the awards running which include ''

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'', ''

My Prince Edward ''My Prince Edward'' () is a 2019 Hong Kong romance drama film directed by Norris Wong in her directional debut. It starred Stephy Tang and Chu Pak-hong, who portrayed a pair of lovers experiencing challenges as they prepare to step into marriag ...

'' and documentary ''Bamboo Theatre''.

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announced on

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in October 2019 that it had ended sponsorship of the Golden Horse Awards, stating in part, "Maserati always respects China's territorial integrity, history and culture, and firmly upholds the one-China principle."

References

External links

Official website of the Golden Horse Awards
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