A Historical Review of the Golden Horse Awards for Taiwan Films

Fifty years in the Jianghu, Golden Horse Drifting (1)

Qiong Yao, Hu Jinquan, Gui Yalei, Feng Hsu

Zhang Aijia and Ke Junxiong cooperated to kill my grandfather.

Over the past half century, the Golden Horse Award has spread from Taiwan Province Province to the whole Chinese-speaking area, becoming one of the most eye-catching film festivals in Chinese film industry and the highest honor for Chinese filmmakers. Unlike the Golden Rooster Award and the Hong Kong Film Awards, the Golden Horse Award is more open. Before the 40th session, the participating films could only be "films with Chinese as the main pronunciation" (after that, the word "main" was deleted, as long as there was Chinese in the film), and there was no stipulation whether it had been released. This openness has given people from Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and even Singapore, Australia, the United States and other places a chance to gain recognition.

In the 1990s, after the Golden Horse Award was held entirely by the people, its inclusiveness and foresight became more obvious. Big productions and big stars can win trophies, and small-budget literary films and unknown actors can also win prizes. Many famous filmmakers must be the first prize of Golden Horse.

Looking at the Golden Horse Awards in the past 50 years, it's like reading a condensed history of China movies. We can not only see the changes in the spirit of the times and the award criteria, but also appreciate the outstanding style of filmmakers in each era. From Jinmen Mazu

1962 In order to encourage excellent Mandarin films and excellent filmmakers, Taiwan Province Province officially held the Golden Horse Award of the Information Bureau. Twenty years before the Golden Horse Awards, because the awards were officially sponsored, most of the winning films were in Taiwan Province Province and Hong Kong Mandarin films. The word "Golden Horse" originated from the prefix of place names of Jinmen and Mazu, which is just in line with the trend of the world's major film festivals with the word "golden" as the head. In the first ten sessions, most of the winning films were produced by the Central Film Company and the Taiwan Province Film Studio. Many movies are also quite thoughtful, and officials often attend awards.

Electric cat VS Shaw

In the 1960s, it happened that the Shaw Brothers and the film industry (hereinafter referred to as Dianmao) had a fierce competition in Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia. The best film of the first Golden Horse Award, Stars, the Moon and the Moon, came from Dianmao, whose strength at that time was slightly better than that of Bernard Shaw. For example, the Golden Horse Award was suspended for one year in 1964. On the one hand, it collided with1Asia Film Festival (now Asia-Pacific Film Festival), and more importantly,

1963 in the second golden horse award, Liang Zhu, produced by Shaw Film Company, won six awards, which was one of the most awarded films in the previous ten years. It can be said that after Loke Wan Tho's death, Shaw Pictures began to dominate the film industry in China for more than 30 years.

Han Hsiang Li

As a legend in China's film history, Li Hanxiang has made countless films in his life, spanning history, drama, romance, romance, singing and horror. The second Golden Horse Award won six awards, including the best director of the fourth "Butterfly Lovers", the best film and director of Shi, and the best screenwriter of the ninth. Although Li Hanxiang is not the filmmaker who won the most Golden Horse Awards, there is no doubt about the box office record, the controversy and the influence on the film industry in the three places.

Lee Hsing

Since the third session, four films directed by Li Hsing have won the Golden Horse Award, including Duck Family (pictured above), Dumb Girl, Cousin's International Nuclear Accident Grade and Return My Rivers and Mountains. Among them, "Duck Family" won the Best Film and Best Director Award in the 3rd Golden Horse Award with 1965, which started the wave of healthy realism in Taiwan Province Province. Since then, Li Hsing has become the leading director in Taiwan Province Province, and has done a lot of work for cross-strait film cultural exchanges in his later years. He is the filmmaker who won the most Best Director Awards in the 50-year history of Golden Horse (tied with Du Qifeng three times), and all seven films he directed won the Best Film, which is even more difficult to compare with.

-Make yourself famous

Since the 1960s, many films adapted from Qiong Yao's novels have won the Golden Horse Award. In addition to Sargam and Cousin's International Nuclear Accident Scale, there are many films such as Misty Rain, Sunsets Several Times and Deep Courtyard that won performance awards. Since 1970s, more Qiong Yao's novels have been adapted into movies and TV series, which has made the legend of Qiong Yao in China film and television circles last for nearly 50 years.

Hu Jinquan, who co-produced with Zhang Che in filming China's new martial arts film, also made his mark at this stage. Starting as an actor, he won the Best Screenplay Award in the 4th and 6th Golden Horse Awards for his self-directed and self-performed Sons of the Earth and Longmen Inn. And more definitely, later, 1979 won the 16 golden horse award for best director for "The Legend of Mountain Residence".

To this day, Gui Yalei is still active on the TV screen in China. Nearly 70 years old, she made her debut very early. At the age of 22, he starred in the first film misty rain, and 1966 won the fourth Golden Horse Award. After starring in many movies and TV series. Home in Taipei (1970) is another film that won the 8th Golden Horse Award. Erqin erlin

In Taiwan Province in the 1970s, romantic literary films represented by Qiong Yao's novels became the mainstream. The handsome men and beautiful women in these films quickly became superstars, and a beautiful scenery called "The Times of Two Qin Dynasties and Two Forests" appeared: Qin and Han Dynasties, Qin Xianglin, Fengqiaolin and Brigitte Lin. These four handsome men and beautiful women performed touching love stories on the screen. There are also wonderful emotional scenes off the screen.

Qin Xianglin was the first to become popular, starring in Curtain of Dreams, I am a Cloud, Birds in the Moonlight and so on. 1975 won the best actor in the 12 golden horse for Long Love, and 1977 won the best actor in the 14 golden horse for The End of the World. However, compared with Qin Xianglin, the resume of Golden Horse in Qin and Han Dynasties was not so brilliant. The only Golden Horse Award in the Qin and Han Dynasties was not Qiong Yao's film, but 1978 Li Hsing's Ship in the Ocean, which played the disabled Zheng Fengxi. However, compared with these performing arts undertakings, the audience seems to be more keen on Brigitte Lin's scandal. Compared with Brigitte Lin, Feng-Chiao Lin married Jackie Chan in the most popular era (1982), and they got married from then on.

Feng Hsu

From a generation of chivalrous women to an internationally renowned producer, Feng Hsu is a rare legendary woman in the film history of China. At the age of 65,438+07, he became famous in Hu Jinquan Longmen Inn. 1976 won the 13th Golden Horse Award for her outstanding performance in League of Assassins, and 1980 won the 17th Golden Horse Award for Best Actress. After xu feng married Tang Jun, a wealthy Hong Kong businessman, she turned to be a producer and made even greater achievements. The best film of the 27th Golden Horse Award, Rolling Red Dust, is the only China film Farewell My Concubine that won the Palme d 'Or at Cannes Film Festival.

Chun-hsiung Ko

Ke Junxiong is a "model worker" in the film industry of Taiwan Province Province, and has participated in more than 200 films, covering love, action and history. 1999, Ke Junxiong won the Best Actor in the 16th Golden Horse Award for "The Soul of the Whampoa Army".1999, directed and performed "Cao Cao" and won the Best Actor in the 36th Golden Horse Award. During his film career in Hong Kong, his performance in The Last Big Brother in Jianghu left an indelible mark on the hearts of many young people in video halls. But people prefer to talk about his "Jianghu" rumors, the most famous of which are "longing for Shu Qi's debut" and "the death of Dou Gulong".

Sylvia Chang

As a rare all-round female filmmaker in China film circle, Zhang Aijia started filming in the late 1970s, and was shortlisted for many awards such as director, heroine, supporting actress, original script, adapted script, and even served as the host of the Golden Horse Award. She was shortlisted for Best Actress seven times and won two Golden Horse Awards. 198 1 The 18th Golden Horse Award My grandfather won the Golden Horse Award, and the 23rd Golden Horse Award 1986 won the Golden Horse Award.

-Make yourself famous

The Tsui Hark Golden Horse Award has always been an eclectic talent, and its foresight has been repeatedly proved by time. 198 1 tsui hark, who just turned 30, won the18th golden horse award for best director for "Ghost Horse Comes with Stars" and is still the youngest director winner in the history of the golden horse award. Before that, his Spy, Hell No Gate and The First Danger set off a new wave in Hong Kong, but they never won an award. The encouragement of Golden Horse made Tsui Hark more determined to innovate. New Wave

The mid-1980s to the mid-1990s was the golden age of Hong Kong films, and the openness of the Golden Horse Award fully affirmed Hong Kong films in this period, including Chow Yun Fat, Anita Mui, Stephen Chow, Maggie Cheung, Jackie Chan, Wong Kar-wai and other stars and directors. At the same time, the film "New Wave" movement in Taiwan Province rose, and directors such as Hou Xiaoxian, Yang Dechang and Ang Lee stood out. Especially in the 26th Golden Horse Award from 65438 to 0989, Hou Xiaoxian and his City of Sadness are the most iconic films. The film not only won the Golden Lion Award at the 46th Venice International Film Festival, but also won many awards such as the Best Director Award, which also started the wave of China directors winning the European Film Festival awards. City of Sadness directly confronted the sensitive "February 28th" incident in Taiwan Province Province, and indirectly promoted the loosening of the electrical inspection system in Taiwan Province Province. The film not only laid the foundation for Hou Hsiao-hsien's personal style, but also opened a brilliant road for Taiwan's new films.

Edward Yang

At the 23rd Golden Horse Award of 1986, it was a film called Terrorists that surpassed John Woo's The True Color of Heroes and won the best film. This film was directed by Yang Dechang, who only directed three films at the age of 39. Terrorists is his first multi-hero film. He viewed the cultural changes and worldly wisdom of Taiwan Province provincial cities from the perspective of modern changes, emphasizing rational analysis and critical consciousness. 199 1 year, Yang Dechang brought Brighter Summer (above), which became the masterpiece of his career and won the best film and the best original script at the 28th Golden Horse Award that year. This four-hour epic also made Yang Dechang known to western critics. Unfortunately, in 2000, he won the best director award at Cannes Film Festival for 1 1, but he suffered from rectal cancer at the peak of his career. His artistic career came to an abrupt end and he died in 2007.

Filial piety and filial piety

If you want to select the director who best represents Taiwan Province Province in the past 30 years, Hou Xiaoxian ranks second, and no one can say that he ranks first. Ang Lee wrote more works in the United States, while Yang Dechang is famous for its slow shooting. Hou Xiaoxian 1973 entered the film circle as a reporter, and City of Sorrow 1989 won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director, and Good Boys and Girls 1995 won the recognition of the 32nd Best Director. The Golden Horse Award is only a part of Hou Xiaoxian's works.

Whether it's The Man in the Wind Cabin, Winter and Winter Vacation, or autobiographical movies, Childhood Past and Love Dust, they all lead the trend. Taiwan Province trilogy (Tragedy Trilogy), City of Sadness, Dream Life and Good Men and Good Women established his status as a master. Today, Hou Hsiao-hsien has become a film leader in Taiwan Province Province. As the chairman of Golden Horse Executive Committee for several years, this award has become the most influential event in China film industry.

Ang Lee

199 1 The 28th Golden Horse Award was a brilliant year for film directors. At that time, Ang Lee and Guan were nominated as best directors together with Wong Kar-wai and Guan. 199 1 year, Ang Lee entered the competition with her debut novel Pushing Hands (above), Lang Xiong won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, and Wang Lai won the Best Supporting Actress. Ang Lee hiding behind seems to be neglected, but it is this movie that started Ang Lee's movie dream. 1993 30th Golden Horse Award, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay of Wedding Banquet, Best Film of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000, Best Director and Best Film of Lust, Caution in 2007.

Ang Lee, who became famous with Golden Horse, is now very famous in the global film industry. He is good at the integration of Chinese and western cultures. He won the Oscar for Best Director twice and was the only China native to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. On the 50th anniversary of the Golden Horse Award, the jury was chaired by the most internationally influential director in Taiwan Province film industry. The Golden Horse Award has a very strong sense of starting from a broader perspective.

-Hong Kong Star "Turn Over"

Chow Yun Fat

From 65438 to 0985, the 22nd Chow Yun Fat won the Best Actor in Golden Horse for the first time with Waiting for Dawn, which was the first affirmation he got after he ended his contract with TV station and joined the film field. For Chow Yun Fat, the star of the film, Waiting for Dawn is not a watershed in his acting career, but it is also very important. In this tragic film, his acting skills successfully broke through the bottleneck of the past. From then on, Xinglu gradually stepped out of the trough and entered the peak. At the 24th Golden Horse Award on 1987, Chow Yun Fat was once again recognized by the winner for her Fairy Tales in Autumn.

Jackie Chan

Who was the first person in the history of Golden Horse to win the title of film emperor twice in a row? Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chow Yun Fat, no, Jackie Chan. 1992, as the son-in-law of Taiwan Province province, became the winner of the 29th Golden Horse Award with Police Story 3: Super Police, and became the winner again with Serious Crime the following year. Although Jackie Chan was popular all over Asia at that time, action films have always been the representative of commercial films, and they often missed the film awards. The Golden Horse brought Jackie Chan into the field of vision, which was also a change from sticking to art and ideology to compromising more and more commercial films.

Wong Kar-wai

At 199 1 the 28th Golden Horse Award, Wong Kar-wai won the Yang Dechang and the best director award. His entry at that time was called The Story of Teddy Boy. Looking back many years later, this result is actually fair. Wong Kar-wai is the most internationally renowned director in Hong Kong and even in the Chinese film industry. His unique narrative and image aesthetics have established a strong personal style and even influenced many foreign directors. Wong Kar-wai has been nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Director for five times. Although only The True Story of Teddy Boy won the prize, Chongqing Forest, Time Ashes, In the Mood for Love, Spring Break and other films have been recognized by international film festivals. 20 13 in the 50th Golden Horse, Wong Kar-wai came with "The Grand Master", which was regarded as the favourite to win the championship.

Maggie Cheung

1989, The Story of Three Women beat The City of Sorrow to win the best film. The director of this film also made a splash later. His name is Guan, but more importantly, the 25-year-old won the Golden Horse Award for the heroine of that year with this film, which paved the way for the Hong Kong actress to win this award. Later, Maggie Cheung won the heroine's affirmation in The 28th Ruan, The 34th Sweet Honey and In the Mood for Love, and also won the Hong Kong Golden Award. So far, Maggie Cheung is the only actress who has won four heroines in the history of the Golden Horse Awards, while none of the leading actors has won four titles. It is worth mentioning that in 1990, she also won the 27th Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rolling Red Dust.

Stephen Chow

1988 The 25th Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor was awarded to Stephen Chow, a newcomer in the Hong Kong film circle, who was only a TV drama extras and children's program host for many years before taking part in this film. This award seems to symbolize "many years' daughter-in-law makes a woman". From then on, his films began to increase, and 1990 film "Gambling Saint" made great contributions at the box office in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In the following three years, he performed more than 30 comedies in succession, laying a unique "nonsense" style. Stephen Chow won the Golden Horse Award for the first time on 17, and then won the 42nd Golden Horse Award for Best Director and Best Film for Kung Fu in 2005.

Local low tide

With the frequent cross-strait cultural exchanges, mainland films began to enter the Golden Horse Award in this decade, and directors such as Jiang Wen and Chen Chong won the Golden Horse Award. The beginning of Liu Ye, Li XiaoLu, Amanda and other performing arts careers also came from the affirmation of the Golden Horse Award. In this decade, local films in Taiwan Province Province began to fall into a trough. Except for Beautiful Time, Long Live Love and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the best films were all won by Hong Kong and mainland films. In the past ten years, Du Qifeng and Tony Leung Chiu Wai have won three best directors and best actors. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has set off an upsurge of China's martial arts movies all over the world. Tony Leung Chiu Wai

12 Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who debuted at 1994, finally won the Golden Horse Award for the leading actor with "Chongqing Forest", which is the first time he won the leading actor award. This award seems to have started the second pulse of Tony Leung Chiu Wai's appointment as governor. He started the process of winning five leading roles and three Golden Horse Awards in the Hong Kong Film Awards, both of which set a record for the two awards. In 2000, he won the leading role in Cannes Film Festival with In the Mood for Love, which made him gain an international reputation. Golden Horse 50 was once again selected as the leading actor with The Grand Master, and his opponents were Tony Leung Ka Fai, Li Kangsheng and Wang Yu. Will he improve the golden horse record again this time?

Ming-liang Tsai

1994 seems to be the year of Cai Mingliang. That year, his second film, Long Live Love, won the Golden Lion Award and the 3 1 Golden Horse Award for best film and best director at the Venice Film Festival. Cai Mingliang is another Taiwan Province director who enjoys a high reputation in the European Film Festival after Hou Xiaoxian, Yang Dechang and Ang Lee. His later works include The River, Don't Go, When Were You There, The Willful Cloud, etc. , have a good reputation. However, because of disagreement with the jury, he once withdrew from the Golden Horse Award twice because of Cave and dark circles. In 20 13, his Venice entry "outing" participated in the Golden Horse again. I don't know what the result was.

Johnny To

In 2000, Du Qifeng's Gunfire was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for best director for the first time. His opponents were Ang Lee in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Wong Kar-wai in In the Mood for Love, and he finally broke through. At this time, he has been debuting for 20 years. In the 265,438+0th century, Hong Kong movies are going downhill, but Du Qifeng is getting better and better. In 2004, he won the best director twice for The Big Event, and won 2065,438+02 for Death Gold, which tied with Li Hsing as the best director record holder of the Golden Horse Award. More importantly, through Du Qifeng's films, Andy Lau and Liu Qingyun finally won the recognition of the Golden Horse hero after years of career struggle.

Kwai Lun Mei

The 49th Golden Horse Award won the title of girlfriend. My boyfriend won the Best Actress, which is the actor who returned to Taiwan Province Province after Shu Qi won the prize for seven years.

Leon Dai

At the 46th Golden Horse Awards in 2009, Dai Liren, an actor-turned-director, won the best film, best director and best original screenplay for Without You. The film covers the lives of the poorest people in Taiwan Province Province, and its attitude towards social care has been affirmed by the jury. The industry has also recognized that Dai Liren has multiple talents as a performer, screenwriter and director.

Doze Niu

Like Wei Desheng, Doze Niu is also the representative of "bottoming out" in Taiwan Province Province. In 20 10, his "monga" made the local films in Taiwan Province Province re-enter the Spring Festival, and achieved good box office results. Although he has never won the Golden Horse Award himself, he has trained a new generation of Taiwan Province actors, such as Han Juan and Mark Chao. Love, co-produced with the mainland, has also been recognized by the cross-strait market. Bottom rebound

After entering 2004, the ecology of China film circle has changed greatly again. Due to the rise of the mainland film market and the decline of the Hong Kong film market, and the increase in the number of co-productions between the mainland and Hong Kong, these films have gradually occupied the stage of the Golden Horse Award, and the integration of filmmakers from the three places across the Taiwan Straits has reached an unprecedented climax. Since 2008, local films in Taiwan Province Province, such as Cape No.7 and monga, have started the trend of "bottoming out".

Ehan Juan

In the 47th Golden Horse Awards, "monga" won the best actor, which is an actor who returned to Taiwan Province Province after Ke Junxiong won 1 1 year.

Peter Chan

In 2 1 century, the film production in Hong Kong dropped rapidly, and Chen Kexin was one of the few directors who could guarantee the production and quality. 1996' s Sweet Honey won him the recognition of the best director in the Hong Kong Academy Awards, but the recognition of the Golden Horse Award was 10 years later. In the 43rd Golden Horse Award in 2006, he won the best director for If Love. On the night of winning the prize, he was preparing "Warlords" in Beijing, and the script had just been rejected by investors. In extreme despair, he received a phone call from the winner Wu Junru, which can be described as "timely assistance". Coincidentally, at the 45th Golden Horse Awards two years later, The warlords won the best director and best film for Chen Kexin.

Aaron Kwok

Nowadays, summing up the example of "salted fish turning over" in the entertainment circle, Aaron Kwok is always the first to be selected. In 2005, his decadent performance in Sanchakou won him the 42nd Golden Horse Award for Best Actor and ushered in the second spring of his acting career. Since then, Aaron Kwok seems to have been inspired in acting and played many challenging roles in succession. In 2006, he won the second best actor in Golden Horse with Father and Son, becoming the second person after Jackie Chan.

Mong-Hong Chung

Among the new generation directors in Taiwan Province, Zhong is the most recognized director in the European Film Festival. At 49, he has only three works. "Parking" won the Golden Horse Award of international film critics in 2008, "The Fourth Painting" won the 20 10 Best Director Award, and "Lost Soul" was shortlisted for the Golden Horse 50 Best Director and Best Actor, representing Taiwan Province Province in the competition for the best foreign language film. Zhong's works are good at targeting the dark side of urbanites. Unlike Harmony, Zhong seems to be more like such a director.

Andy Lau

Andy Lau, known as a model worker in Chinese film circle, finally won the 4 1 Golden Horse Award for Best Actor in 2004. This is because his acting skills have been fully affirmed by filmmakers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait after winning the Hong Kong Academy Awards for Dark War in 2000 and Big Guy in 2004. The hero of Golden Horse in 2004 is of special significance to Andy Lau, because the year before last, he and Tony Leung Chiu Wai were both shortlisted for Infernal Affairs, not only losing to the latter, but also being teased by the host Cai Kangyong. When Andy Lau won the best actor for Tao Jie again on 20 12, he had learned to tease himself: "I'll pay for the best actor myself." ("Sister Tao" has Andy Lau's investment)