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Sean Wong Tsz-lok in a still from “Time Still Turns the Pages”. The film leads Hong Kong contenders at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.

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Golden Horse Awards 2023 nominations: Time Still Turns The Pages, In Broad Daylight lead Hong Kong contenders at Taiwan film event once again shunned by Beijing

Time Still Turns The Pages and In Broad Daylight both have five nominations, with other Hong Kong films including The Lyricist Wannabe and Fly Me to the Moon
Elsewhere, the historical drama Snow in Midsummer, directed by Malaysian filmmaker Chong Keat-aun, leads the field overall with nine nominations

Golden Horse awards

Edmund Lee

Published: 11:25am, 4 Oct 2023

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Hong Kong filmmakers continue to be amply represented at the Golden Horse Awards, a Taiwan showpiece film event entering its 60th edition that has – for the fifth year running – been boycotted by mainland Chinese authorities.

Leading the Hong Kong contenders is first-time director Nick Cheuk Yik-him’s Time Still Turns The Pages, a socially conscious drama about family trauma and student suicides. The film is in the running for best narrative feature, as well as four other nominations that include best new director and best original screenplay.

The other nominated films by young Hong Kong directors are In Broad Daylight (with five nods, including Jennifer Yu Heung-ying for best leading actress), The Lyricist Wannabe (with two, including Chung Suet-ying for lead actress), and Fly Me to the Moon (also with two).

Elegies, Hong Kong film legend Ann Hui On-wah’s portrait of some of the city’s most revered poets, is nominated for best documentary feature, and long-retired Taiwanese actress Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, another icon of Hong Kong cinema, is recognised with a lifetime achievement award.

Jennifer Yu is a best leading actress nominee for her part in “In Broad Daylight”.

Sharp-eyed viewers will also notice that The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon, the stylish Taiwanese crime drama feted with seven nominations, is directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Ching-po (of Jiang Hu and Mob Sister fame), whose last film to open in his home city was 2014’s Once Upon a Time in Shanghai.

Elsewhere, the historical drama Snow in Midsummer, written and directed by the Malaysian filmmaker Chong Keat-aun, leads the field overall with nine nominations, including best narrative feature and best director.

“Snow in Midsummer” has been nominated in nine categories, including best narrative feature.

The three other best picture nominees are popular LGBTQ ghost comedy Marry My Dead Body (with eight nominations); Eye of the Storm (also with eight nods), a Taiwanese medical thriller based on the 2003 Sars outbreak; and acclaimed indie drama Stonewalling (with four nods), by the husband-and-wife team of Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji.

The winners of the 2023 Golden Horse Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Taipei on November 25.

The full list of nominations is as follows:

Austin Lin (left) and Greg Hsu in a still from “Marry My Dead Body”.

Best narrative feature

Stonewalling; Marry My Dead Body; Time Still Turns the Pages; Eye of the Storm; Snow in Midsummer

Best documentary feature

Elegies; Where; Free Beats: The Musical Journey of Chen Ming Chang; The Clinic; Youth (Spring)

A still from “Elegies”, the documentary feature directed by Ann Hui.

Best animated feature

Pigsy

Best live action short film

Reclaim My Summer; Boys on the Bridge; Al Niente; Before the Box Gets Emptied; The Stag

Best documentary short film

The Memo; Of Dreams in the Dream of Another Mirror; Hearing from the Dolphin; Eviction and Beyond; Girl of Wind

Best animated short film

The Egret River; Ever-Changing Clouds, Like My Ever-Changing Life; Monsoon Blue; Ghost of the Dark Path; Braided

Ethan Juan in a still from “The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon”.

Best director

Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka (Stonewalling); Cheng Wei-hao (Marry My Dead Body); Hsiao Ya-chuan (Old Fox); Chong Keat-aun (Snow in Midsummer); Wong Ching-po (The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon)

Best leading actor

Hsu Kuang-han (Marry My Dead Body); Austin Lin (Marry My Dead Body); Wu Kang-ren (Abang Adik); Wang Po-chieh (Eye of the Storm); Ethan Juan (The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon)

Best leading actress

Hu Ling (Carp Leaping Over Dragon’s Gate); Audrey Lin (Trouble Girl); Chung Suet-ying (The Lyricist Wannabe); Monica Lu (Day Off); Jennifer Yu (In Broad Daylight)

Chung Suet-ying in a still from “The Lyricist Wannabe”.

Best supporting actor

Jack Tan (Abang Adik); Sean Wong Tsz-lok (Time Still Turns the Pages); Akio Chen (Old Fox); Fu Meng-po (Day Off); Bowie Lam (In Broad Daylight)

Best supporting actress

Eugenie Liu (Old Fox); Chen Yi-han (Trouble Girl); Wan Fang (Snow in Midsummer); Beatrice Fang (Day Off); Rachel Leung (In Broad Daylight)

Best new director

Alan Zhang (This Woman); Jin Ong (Abang Adik); Nick Cheuk (Time Still Turns the Pages); Lee Hong-chi (Love Is a Gun); Sun Jie (The Mountain Is Coming)

Tse Wing-yan in a still from “Fly Me to the Moon”.

Best new performer

Tan Kim-wang (Abang Adik); Daniel Hong (Miss Shampoo); Travis Hu (A Boy and a Girl); Tse Wing-yan (Fly Me to the Moon); Yeh Hsiao-fei (Who’ll Stop the Rain)

Best original screenplay

Carp Leaping Over Dragon’s Gate; Stonewalling; Time Still Turns the Pages; Trouble Girl; The Mountain Is Coming

Best adapted screenplay

Marry My Dead Body; The Lyricist Wannabe; Snow in Midsummer; Fly Me to the Moon

Wu Kang-ren (left) and Jack Tan in a still from “Abang Adik”.

Best cinematography

Abang Adik; Eye of the Storm; Snow in Midsummer; Fish Memories; Who’ll Stop the Rain

Best visual effects

Trouble Girl; Eye of the Storm; The Bridge Curse: Ritual; The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon

Best art direction

Old Fox; Trouble Girl; Eye of the Storm; Miss Shampoo; In Broad Daylight

Wang Po-chieh in a still from “Eye of the Storm”.

Best make-up & costume design

Abang Adik; Old Fox; Snow in Midsummer; Miss Shampoo; In Broad Daylight

Best action choreography

Pigsy; Marry My Dead Body; Miss Shampoo; The Bridge Curse: Ritual; The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon

Best original film score

Old Fox; Trouble Girl; Eye of the Storm; Snow in Midsummer; The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon

Best original film song

Marry My Dead Body; Abang Adik; Old Fox; Snow in Midsummer; Day Off

Yao Honggui in a still from “Stonewalling”.

Best film editing

Stonewalling; Marry My Dead Body; Time Still Turns the Pages; Eye of the Storm; The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon

Best sound effects

Trouble Girl; Eye of the Storm; Snow in Midsummer; A Boy and a Girl; The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon

Outstanding Taiwanese filmmaker of the year

Lin Shih-ken

Lifetime achievement award

Brigitte Lin, Chen Kun-hou

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