Golden Horse Film Festival and AwardsThe Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Taipei Golden Horse Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) are a film festival and associated awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. The festival and ceremony were founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan and is now run as an independent organisation.
Golden Horse Award for Best Leading ActorThe Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor (Chinese: 金馬獎最佳男主角) is presented annually at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Awards. Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai holds the record for the most wins in this category, with three, for his performances in Chungking Express (1994), Infernal Affairs (2003), and Lust, Caution (2007). He also holds the record for the most nominations, with seven.
Tsai Ming-liangTsai Ming-liang (Chinese: 蔡明亮; born 27 October 1957) is a Malaysian filmmaker based in Taiwan and one of the most celebrated directors in the Slow Cinema genre and the "Second New Wave" of Taiwanese cinema. Tsai has written and directed 11 feature films and many short films and television films. He is best known for his feature films Vive L'Amour (1994, for which he won the Golden Lion), The River (1997), Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) and Stray Dogs (2013).
Golden Horse Award for Best New DirectorThe Golden Horse Award for Best New Director (Chinese: 金馬獎最佳新導演) is presented annually at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Awards.
Golden Horse Award for Best Leading ActressThe Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress (Chinese: 金馬獎最佳女主角) is presented annually at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Awards. Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung holds the record for the most wins in this category, with four, for her performances in Full Moon in New York (1989), Center Stage (1991), Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1997), and In the Mood for Love (2001). Taiwanese actress Sylvia Chang holds the record for the most nominations, with eleven.
Ann HuiJapanese nameKanji許 鞍華Ann Hui On-wahBBSMBE (Chinese: 許鞍華; born 23 May 1947) is a Hong Kong filmmaker and actress. One of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave, she is known for her films about social issues in Hong Kong which include literary adaptations, martial arts, semi-autobiographical works, women's issues, social phenomena, political changes, and thrillers.
Li HsingLi Hsing or Lee Hsing (李行) was a Taiwanese film director. He was born Lee Tz-da (李子達) in 1930 in Shanghai and died in 2021. He made one of the early popular Taiwanese films in the late 1959, Wang and Liu Tour Taiwan (王哥柳哥遊台灣), though he did not speak Taiwanese. He was also the key director in the promotion of Healthy Realist film (健康寫實片) and Literary Romantic film (愛情文藝片).
Hou Hsiao-hsienHou Hsiao-hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; pinyin: Hóu Xiàoxián; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015).
Johnnie ToJohnnie To Kei-fung (born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Widely regarded as a pivotal figure of the Hong Kong New Wave and in contemporary Hong Kong cinema, he is best known internationally for his highly stylized action, crime, and triad films.59th Golden Horse AwardsThe 59th Golden Horse Awards (simplified Chinese: 第59届金马奖; traditional Chinese: 第59屆金馬獎; pinyin: Dì 59 jiè jīnmǎ jiǎng) was held on November 19, 2022, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best in Chinese-language films of 2021 and 2022. Nominations were announced on September 27, 2022.Traditional Chinese charactersTraditional Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets used to write the Chinese language, with the other being simplified characters. Traditional characters predominated in written Chinese, the historical lingua franca of East Asia, until the mid-20th century. Today, they are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia.
Jun Li (director)Jun Li (Chinese: 李駿碩; born 3 August 1991) is a Hong Kong filmmaker and critic. Li made his feature film debut with Tracey in 2018. He won the Golden Horse Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 58th Golden Horse Awards in November 2021 for his second film Drifting. In November 2025, he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director for his third film Queerpanorama. He is also a member of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.