# 56th Golden Horse Awards

The 56th Golden Horse Awards (Chinese: 第56屆金馬獎) took place on November 23, 2019 at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best in Chinese-language films of 2018 and 2019. The ceremony was televised by TTV.

## Winners and nominees

| Best Feature Film A Sun Suk Suk The Garden of Evening Mists Wet Season Detention | Best Documentary Your Face The Tree Remembers The Good Daughter [zh] Bamboo Theatre Last Year When the Train Passed By |
| Best Animation Feature - | Best Live Action Short Film 3 Generations 3 Days Old Man and A Dog Liu A, Sing A, and Bi Hong Rebel Boy Langit Budak Biru |
| Best Animated Short Film Gold Fish Hidden Zone My Father at Grandma's Funeral Adorable The Lighthouse | Best Director Chung Mong-hong — A Sun Tom Lin Shu-yu — The Garden of Evening Mists Anthony Chen — Wet Season Chang Tso-chi — Synapses Midi Z — Nina Wu |
| Best Leading Actor Chen Yi-wen — A Sun Wu Chien-ho — A Sun Tai Bo — Suk Suk Ben Yuen — Suk Suk Chu Pak Hong — My Prince Edward | Best Leading Actress Yeo Yann Yann — Wet Season Samantha Ko — A Sun Angelica Lee — The Garden of Evening Mists Lü Hsueh-feng — Synapses Gingle Wang — Detention |
| Best Supporting Actor Liu Kuan-ting — A Sun Duan Chun-hao — We Are Champions Koh Jia Ler — Wet Season Yang Shi Bin — Wet Season Li Ying-chuan — Synapses | Best Supporting Actress Winnie Chang — The Teacher Eleven Yao — The Gangs, The Oscars, and The Walking Dead Wen Chen-ling — A Sun Patra Au — Suk Suk Lu Yi-ching — 3 Days 2 Nights |
| Best New Director John Hsu — Detention Lau Kek-huat and Vera Chen — Boluomi Hung Tzu-hsuan — The Scoundrels Hsu Chia-kai — The Last Thieves Wong Yee-lam — My Prince Edward | Best New Performer Fandy Fan — We Are Champions Yuan Teng — The Paradise Tsai Jia-yin — Heavy Craving Oscar Chiu — The Teacher Tseng Ching-hua — Detention |
| Best Original Screenplay Yeo Siew Hua — A Land Imagined Chung Mong-hong and Chang Yao-sheng — A Sun Ray Yeung — Suk Suk Anthony Chen — Wet Season Wu Ke-xi and Midi Z — Nina Wu | Best Adapted Screenplay John Hsu, Fu Kai-ling, Chien Shih-keng — Detention Lai Meng-jie, Neverland Entertainment Limited, Liu Hsueh-jung — Stand by Me Richard Smith — The Garden of Evening Mists |
| Best Cinematography Chen Ko-chin and Chen Chih-hsuan — The Scoundrels Nagao Nakashima — A Sun Chen Tapu — We Are Champions Kartik Vijay — The Garden of Evening Mists Florian Zinke — Nina Wu | Best Visual Effects Renovatio Pictures and Tomi Kuo — Detention Charles Lee and Yeh Jen-hao — The Devil Fish Wells Tu — We Are Champions Simple View Production Company — Synapses Grass Jelly Studio, MoonShine VFX and The White Rabbit Entertainment, Inc. — Mayday Life |
| Best Art Direction Wang Chih-cheng — Detention Hsiao Jen-chieh — Paradise Next Lai Yung-kun — The Magnificent Bobita Penny Tsai, Lum Heng-soon and Chen Hsuan-shao — The Garden of Evening Mists Kuo Chih-da — Nina Wu | Best Makeup & Costume Design Nikki Gooley, Biby Chow, Penny Tsai and Nina Edwards — The Garden of Evening Mists Kao Chia-lin — The Magnificent Bobita Lore Shih — The Gangs, The Oscars, and The Walking Dead Hsu Li-wen and Lo Wan-yi — The Scoundrels Jelly Chung and Chan Cheuk-ming — Nina Wu |
| Best Action Choreography Hung Shih-hao — The Scoundrels Hung Shih-hao and Chia Fan — We Are Champions Jimmy Hung — Detention Gino Yang — Mayday Life | Best Original Film Score Teo Wei Yong — A Land Imagined Ryuichi Sakamoto — Your Face Onn San — The Garden of Evening Mists Luming Lu — Detention Lim Giong — Nina Wu |
| Best Original Film Song "The Day After Rain" — Detention Composer： Luming Lu and Summer Lei Lyrics： Summer Lei Performer： Summer Lei "A Kind of Sorrow" — More than Blue Composer： Alex Chang-Chien Lyrics： Gavin Lin Performer： A-Lin "Distant Journey" — A Sun Composer： Lin Sheng Xiang Lyrics： Chung Mong-hong Performer： Lin Sheng-xiang "Nina Wu" — Nina Wu Composer： Sandee Chan Lyrics： Sandee Chan Performer： Sandee Chan "My Prince Edward" — My Prince Edward Composer： Eman Lam Lyrics： Wong Yee-lam Performer： Stephy Tang | Best Film Editing Lai Hsiu-hsiung — A Sun Wenders Li, Kao Ming-sheng, Li Bin and Barfuss Hui — The Scoundrels Daniel Hui — A Land Imagined Soo Mun-thye — The Garden of Evening Mists Shieh Meng-ju — Detention |
| Best Sound Effects Li Danfeng, Chou Cheng and Morgan Yen — Nina Wu Narubett Peamyai and Sidney Hu — The Scoundrels R.T Kao, Aki Chen — We Are Champions Damien Guillaume and Gilles Benardeau — A Land Imagined Dennis Tsao and Book Chien — Detention | Audience Choice Award A Sun |
| FIPRESCI Prize Heavy Craving | Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year Tang Shiang-chu |
| Lifetime Achievement Award Wang Toon Jimmy Wang |

## In the news

Following a boycott by China's national film governing board National Radio and Television Administration due to political tensions between Taiwan and China, films from Mainland China were completely absent from the list of nominees. Hong Kong director Johnnie To, who was announced as the jury president for the 56th Golden Horse Awards in June 2019, resigned his position in late September after Hong Kong film studios were reportedly pressured to withdraw from the awards ceremony; To cited his reason as having "previously signed film production contractual obligations". Following the announcement of the Chinese boycott, some production companies in Hong Kong also pulled films from consideration at the award ceremony. Despite this, there were a number of Hong Kong titles in the awards running which include Suk Suk, My Prince Edward and documentary Bamboo Theatre. Maserati announced on Sina Weibo in October 2019 that it had ended sponsorship of the Golden Horse Awards, stating in part, "Maserati always respects China's territorial integrity, history and culture, and firmly upholds the one-China principle."