Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (臺北金馬影展) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taipei, Republic of China.Fashioned after the Academy Awards, the Golden Horse Awards (金馬獎) are generally held to be the most prestigious film awards for Chinese-language films outside the People's Republic of China. Unlike the Academy Awards however, whereby winners are chosen through public vote by fellow colleagues in an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Golden Horse Awards winners are selected by a panel of judges during the week before the ceremony is held. Winners are awarded with a statuette modelled after a golden horse.
The Golden Horse Film Awards ceremony is held after a month of festival showcasing some of the film features nominated for the awards. Under current regulations, every film made primarily in a Chinese language is eligible for the Awards. Since 1996, a liberalization act allows for an artiste or film from the People's Republic of China to be eligible for the Awards, as in Best Actor Xia Yu (夏雨) (1996) and Best Actress Qin Hailu (秦海璐) (2001).
The current (2003) recipients of Best Actor and Best Actress are Tony Leung Chiu Wai for his role as an undercover cop in Infernal Affairs 3, and Wu Junru (Sandra Ng Kwun-Yu) as a prostitute in Golden Chicken. The best Chinese film for 2003 is adjudged to be Infernal Affairs 3. The Golden Horse Film Awards is in its 40th year in 2003.
See also: Cinema of China