59th Golden Horse Awards

The 59th Golden Horse Awards (Chinese: 第59屆金馬獎) was held on November 19, 2022, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.^[3] 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.^[4] Despite receiving the warning from Chinese authorities,^[5] Hong Kong action thriller Limbo led the nominations with 14, while Taiwanese films Incantation and Coo-Coo 043 each received 13 nominations.^[6][7]

59th Golden Horse Awards
Promotional poster
Date	November 19, 2022
Site	Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
Hosted by	Hsieh Ying-xuan[1]
Preshow hosts	Pink Yang Wu Nien-hsuan[2]
Organized by	Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee
Highlights
Best Feature Film	Coo-Coo 043
Best Director	Laha Mebow Gaga
Best Actor	Anthony Wong The Sunny Side of the Street
Best Actress	Sylvia Chang A Light Never Goes Out
Most awards	Limbo (4)
Most nominations	Limbo (14)
Television in Taiwan
Network	TTV Taiwan Mobile myVideo (Internet)
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Taiwanese drama Coo-Coo 043 won Best Narrative Feature,^[8] while Limbo was the biggest winner overall with 4 awards, mostly won technical categories,^[9] followed by The Sunny Side of the Street with 3, including Best Leading Actor.^[10]

Winners and nominees

Cast and crew members of Coo-Coo 043 (winner for Best Narrative Feature)

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Narrative Feature Coo-Coo 043 Incantation Gaga Limbo The Sunny Side of the Street	Best Documentary Feature And Miles to Go Before I Sleep Silence in the Dust A Holy Family The King of Wuxia Blue Island
Best Animated Feature -	Best Live Action Short Film Can You Hear Me? To the Sea Big Day Frontier The Thing with Feathers
Best Documentary Short Film Will You Look at Me The Lighting Between the Stars and Waves Kaohsiung City, Yancheng District, Fubei Rd., No. 31 The Black Wall	Best Animated Short Film Compound Eyes of Tropical The Loach A Dog Under Bridge The Island of Us A Night with Moosina
Best Director Laha Mebow — Gaga Kevin Ko — Incantation Chang Tso-chi — Flotsam and Jetsam Cheang Pou-soi — Limbo Chan Ching-lin — Coo-Coo 043	Best Leading Actor Anthony Wong — The Sunny Side of the Street Louis Cheung — The Narrow Road Gordon Lam — Limbo Joseph Chang — The Post-Truth World Yu An-shun — Coo-Coo 043
Best Leading Actress Sylvia Chang — A Light Never Goes Out Tsai Hsuan-yen — Incantation Angela Yuen — The Narrow Road Cya Liu — Limbo Hong Huifang — Ajoomma	Best Supporting Actor Berant Zhu — Bad Education Kao Ying-hsuan — Incantation Mason Lee — Limbo Jung Dong-hwan — Ajoomma Hu Jhih-ciang — Coo-Coo 043
Best Supporting Actress Kagaw Piling — Gaga Jennifer Yu — Far Far Away Caitlin Fang — The Post-Truth World Yang Li-yin — Coo-Coo 043 Rimong Ihwar — Coo-Coo 043	Best New Director Lau Kok Rui — The Sunny Side of the Street Kai Ko — Bad Education He Shu-ming — Ajoomma Tseng Ying-ting — The Abandoned Hong Heng-fai — Kissing the Ground You Walked On
Best New Performer Hu Jhih-ciang — Coo-Coo 043 Huang Sin-ting — Incantation Yukan Losing — Gaga Eric Chou — My Best Friend's Breakfast Sahal Zaman — The Sunny Side of the Street	Best Original Screenplay Lau Kok Rui — The Sunny Side of the Street Chang Che-wei and Kevin Ko — Incantation Laha Mebow and Hsieh Hui-ching — Gaga He Shu-ming and Kris Ong — Ajoomma Chan Ching-lin — Coo-Coo 043
Best Adapted Screenplay Au Kin-yee and Shum Kwan-sin — Limbo Ryan Tu — My Best Friend's Breakfast	Best Cinematography Cheng Siu-Keung — Limbo Chen Ko-chin — Incantation Leung Ming Kai — The Sunny Side of the Street Yao Hung-i — Salute Charlie Sou — Kissing the Ground You Walked On
Best Visual Effects Garrett Lam, Ho Man-lok and Diu King-wai — Limbo Huang Min-pin, Hsieh Meng-cheng, Lu Kuan-sang and Li Che-cheng — Incantation ArChin Yen — Bad Education Dennis Yeung — A Light Never Goes Out	Best Art Direction Mak Kwok-keung and Renee Wong — Limbo Otto Chen — Incantation Lin Tien-yu, Tseng Hao-ming and Lin Chih-wei — Demigod: The Legend Begins Yeh Tzu-wei — The Abandoned Chang Yi-feng — Coo-Coo 043
Best Makeup & Costume Design Ken Fan and Chen You-feng — Demigod: The Legend Begins Dong Yan-xiu and Chu Chia-yi — Incantation Bruce Yu Ka-on and Karen Yip — Limbo Lore Shih and Chang Fu-chen — The Abandoned Emma Chen — Coo-Coo 043	Best Action Choreography Sheu Fang-yi — Salute Liao Jia-sheng, Lin Kuei-hsieh and Chuang Jen-ming — Demigod: The Legend Begins Jack Wong Wai-leung — Limbo Hung Shih-hao — The Abandoned Sunny Pang — Geylang
Best Original Film Score Wong Hin-yan — The Narrow Road Rockid Lee — Incantation Kenji Kawai — Limbo Lee Che-yi and Lim Giong — Salute Point Hsu — Coo-Coo 043	Best Original Film Song "What's on Your Mind" — My Best Friend's Breakfast Composer: Eric Chou Lyrics: Eric Chou and Wu I-wei Performer: Eric Chou "Là vì em" — And Miles to Go Before I Sleep Composer: Shih Min-chieh Lyrics: Nguyen Quoc-phi Performer: Lai Hsueh-ching "Around The Hearth" — Gaga Composer: Baobu Badulu Lyrics: Laha Mebow and Baobu Badulu Performer: Ali Batu "A Place of Eternity" — Untold Herstory Composer: Olivia Tsao Lyrics: Olivia Tsao Performer: Olivia Tsao
Best Film Editing Kevin Ko — Incantation Huang Yi-ling — A Holy Family David M. Richardson — Limbo Shieh Meng-ju and Lee Huey — Bad Education Chan Ching-lin, Ian Lin and Chen Pei-ying — Coo-Coo 043	Best Sound Effects R.T Kao, Rockid Lee and Richard Hocks — Incantation Nopawat Likitwong — Limbo R.T Kao, Tsai Doit and Kenny Cheng — The Abandoned Ellison Lau Chi-keong — Kissing the Ground You Walked On Tu Duu-chih, Chiang Yi-chen, Chen Yu-chieh — Coo-Coo 043
Audience Choice Award (picked by 423 audience members who watched the Best Narrative Feature nominated entries in its entirety)[11][12] Limbo Incantation Gaga The Sunny Side of the Street Coo-Coo 043	FIPRESCI Prize (award for first and second features)[11] Coo-Coo 043 My Best Friend's Breakfast The Narrow Road Bad Education A Light Never Goes Out The Sunny Side of the Street Ajoomma The Abandoned The Post-Truth World Geylang Kissing the Ground You Walked On
NETPAC Award (award for feature films by Asian new talent)[13][14] Autobiography Coo-Coo 043 Bad Education The Sunny Side of the Street The Narrow Road Ajoomma Kissing the Ground You Walked On Jeong-sun Roleless Arnold Is a Model Student	Observation Missions for Asian Cinema Award (picked from NETPAC Award nominated entries)[13] Autobiography Jeong-sun Coo-Coo 043 Bad Education The Sunny Side of the Street The Narrow Road Ajoomma Kissing the Ground You Walked On Roleless Arnold Is a Model Student
Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year Chen Ming-ze	Lifetime Achievement Award Lai Cheng-ying Chang Chao-tang

The ceremony

• Cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing leads the awards executive committee for the first time, taking over the duties of former head Ang Lee.^[15]
• The 59th Golden Horse Awards is tentatively the last edition held at the Taipei Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, as the venue undergoes refurbishment til 2025.^[16][17]
• The Narrow Road was disqualified from the Best Original Film Song nomination ("On the Road"), after the awards executive committee was informed by the film distributor MM2 Studios that the song had been publicly performed prior to the film production.^[18]
• The 17-person jury unanimously decided Anthony Wong (The Sunny Side of the Street) as the winner for Best Leading Actor, Hu Jhih-ciang (Coo-Coo 043) for Best New Performer, and Limbo for Best Cinematography and Best Adapted Screenplay, among others.^[19]
• There were also 7 award categories where the winners were a close call (9 votes versus 8 votes), the most categories in the awards history. They were:
  • Coo-Coo 043 winning Limbo (Best Narrative Feature)
  • Laha Mebow (Gaga) winning Cheang Pou-soi (Limbo) for Best Director
  • Sylvia Chang (A Light Never Goes Out) winning Cya Liu (Limbo) for Best Leading Actress
  • Kagaw Piling (Gaga) winning Yang Li-yin (Coo-Coo 043) for Best Supporting Actress
  • Sheu Fang-yi (Salute) winning Jack Wong Wai-leung (Limbo) for Best Action Choreography
  • And Miles to Go Before I Sleep winning Silence in the Dust for Best Documentary Feature
  • Will You Look at Me winning Kaohsiung City, Yancheng District, Fubei Rd., No. 31 for Best Documentary Short Film.^[19]
• No jury member raised the possibility of a tie (split between two winners) for all the 23 award categories.^[16]

Jury

Winners will be jointly voted by six final stage jurors, along with eleven shortlist stage jurors who earlier decided the nominees.^[20][21][22]

Final stage jurors

• Ann Hui, Hong Kong filmmaker (Jury President)
• Gwei Lun-mei, Taiwanese actress
• Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor
• Cheng Wei-hao, Taiwanese filmmaker
• Yeh Ju-feng, Taiwanese film producer
• Yu Jing-pin, Taiwanese cinematographer

Shortlist stage jurors

• Chou I-wen, Taiwanese cinematographer
• Chiu Li-wei, Taiwanese animation director
• Silver Cheung, Hong Kong production designer
• Chang Jung-chi, Taiwanese film director
• Chang Yao-sheng, Taiwanese filmmaker and novelist
• Allen Leung, Hong Kong film editor
• Huang Hui-chen, Taiwanese documentary filmmaker
• Essay Liu, Taiwanese screenwriter
• Henry Tsai, Taiwanese filmmaker
• Penny Tsai, Taiwanese production designer
• Henry Lai, Hong Kong composer

FIPRESCI Prize jury

• Ernesto Diezmartínez, Mexican film critic
• Estella Huang, Taiwanese film critic and writer
• Jason Tan Liwag, Filipino scientist, actor, writer and film programmer

Source:^[23]

NETPAC Award jury

• Cecilia Wong, Hong Kong film critic and film programmer
• Singing Chen, Taiwanese film director
• Tan Tang-mo, Taiwanese film critic

Source:^[13]

See also

• 40th Hong Kong Film Awards

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External links

• Official website of the Golden Horse Awards