# 46th Golden Horse Awards

The 46th Golden Horse Awards was held on November 28, 2009.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
| Best Feature Film Cannot Live Without You Cow Crazy Racer Face Like a Dream | Best Short Film Sleeping With Her Invisible Loneliness Ending Cut |
| Best Documentary KJ - Music and Life Baseball Boys Let The Wind Carry Me | Best Animation Feature - |
| Best Director Leon Dai − Cannot Live Without You Guan Hu — Cow Tsai Ming Liang — Face Clara Law — Like a Dream | Best Leading Actor Nick Cheung − The Beast Stalker Huang Bo − Cow Akira Chen — Cannot Live Without You Daniel Wu — Like a Dream |
| Best Leading Actress Li Bingbing − The Message Sandrine Pinna — Yang Yang Yuan Quan — Like a Dream Zhou Xun — The Message | Best Supporting Actor Wang Xueqi − Forever Enthralled Tsai Chen-nan — Ending Cut Jag Huang — Yang Yang Zhang Hanyu — The Equation of Love and Death |
| Best Supporting Actress Kara Wai — At the End of Daybreak Liu Yin-shang — Sleeping With Her Lu Yi-ching — A Place of One's Own Zhang Ziyi — Forever Enthralled | Best New Performer Yu Shaoqun — Forever Enthralled Akira Chen — Cannot Live Without You Her Sy-Huoy — Yang Yang Michelle Chen — Hear Me |
| Best Original Screenplay Leon Dai and Akira Chen — Cannot Live Without You Cui Siwei, Xing Aina, Wang Hongwei, Wang Yao, Zhou Zhiyong, Yue Xiaojun and Zhang Cheng — Crazy Racer Cheng Wen-tang, Cheng Jin-fen and Chang I-feng — Tears Eddie Fong and Clara Law — Like a Dream | Best Adapted Screenplay Guan Hu — Cow Chen Kuo-fu and Zhang Jialu — The Message Gu Xiaoni — Death Dowry |
| Best Cinematography Cao Yu — City of Life and Death Song Xiaofei — Cow Sion Michel ACS — Like a Dream Zhao Xiaoshi — Wheat | Best Visual Effects Wang Jianxiong, Jimmy Chen and Li Liping — Crazy Racer Jiang Weibin and Lei Zaixing — Da Ming Palace Don Ma — City of Life and Death Hu Xuan and Xiao Yang — The Message |
| Best Art Direction Lee Tian-jue, Patrick Dechesne and Alain-Pascal Housiaux — Face HuaTa-Hua — Cannot Live Without You Yee Chung-man and Penny Tsai — Like a Dream Shi Haiying and Yang Haoyu — The Message | Best Makeup & Costume Design Christian Lacroix, Wang Chia-hui and Anne Dunsford — Face Emi Wada — The Warrior and the Wolf Chen Tong Xun — Forever Enthralled Ye Jingtian — The Message |
| Best Action Choreography Sammo Hung and Leung Siu-hung — Ip Man Tung Wai and Bruce Law — The Beast Stalker Chen Guanlong and Qin Haiqiang — Cow Philippe Decouflé — Face | Best Original Film Score Dou Wei and Bi Xiaodi — The Equation of Love and Death Lim Giong — Yang Yang Paul Grabowsky — Like a Dream Liu Xing — Wheat |
| Best Original Film Song "For My Heart" — Death Dowry Lyrics： Zeng Yan Composer： Zeng Yan Performers： Tao Hong and Tan Weiwei "Sayonala" — Tears Lyrics： Yang Ta-Cheng and ENNO Composer： ENNO Performer： ENNO "The Flow of Clouds" — Young Spirit of a Taiwanese Opera Singer Lyrics： Peng Zhang-zhan Composer： Peng Zhang-zhan Performer： Christine Shu | Best Film Editing Cheung King-wai — KJ - Music and Life Leon Dai — Cannot Live Without You Kong Jinlei — Cow Zhang Yifan, Du Yuan and Tang Hua — Crazy Racer |
| Best Sound Effects Cheung King-wai — KJ - Music and Life Tu Duu-chih — Yang Yang Tu Duu-chih — Like a Dream Wang Changrui — Wheat | Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year Cannot Live Without You Let The Wind Carry Me Yang Yang |
| FIPRESCI Prize (award for first and second features) Yang Yang | Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year Lee Lung-yue Jack Kao Leon Dai |
| Lifetime Achievement Award Ming Ji | Special Contribution Award George Wang |