# Taipei Film Awards

The Taipei Film Awards (Chinese: 台北電影獎; pinyin: Táiběi Diànyǐng Jiǎng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Tiān-iáⁿ-chióng) are given by the Taipei Film Festival to honor achievements in Taiwanese cinema. Winners are selected from Taiwanese films which are presented in the competition section at the festival.

## Grand Prize winners

| Year | Film | Director | Genre |
| 2002 | Summers | Leon Dai | Short Film |
| 2003 | Stardust 15749001 | Hou Chi-jan | Short Film |
| 2003 | Exit | Chen Lung-wei | Animation |
| 2004 | Farewell 1999 | Wuna Wu | Documentary |
| 2005 | Let It Be | Yen Lan-chuan and Juang Yi-tzeng | Documentary |
| 2006 | Do Over | Cheng Yu-Chieh | Narrative Feature |
| 2007 | I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | Tsai Ming-liang | Narrative Feature |
| 2008 | Cape No. 7 | Wei Te-sheng | Narrative Feature |
| 2009 | Cannot Live Without You | Leon Dai | Narrative Feature |
| 2010 | Let the Wind Carry Me | Kwan Pung-leung and Chiang Hsiu-chiung | Documentary |
| 2011 | Taivalu | Huang Hsin-yao | Documentary |
| 2011 | A Gift for Father's Day-The Tragedy of Hsiaolin Village Part 1 | Luo Hsing-chieh | Documentary |
| 2012 | Hometown Boy | Yao Hung-I | Documentary |
| 2013 | A Rolling Stone | Shen Ko-shang | Documentary |
| 2014 | Unveil the Truth II：State Apparatus | Kevin H.J. Lee | Documentary |
| 2015 | Thanatos, Drunk | Chang Tso-chi | Narrative Feature |
| 2016 | Lokah Laqi | Laha Mebow | Narrative Feature |
| 2017 | The Great Buddha + | Huang Hsin-yao | Narrative Feature |
| 2018 | On Happiness Road | Sung Hsin-yin | Animation |
| 2019 | Last Year When the Train Passed by | Huang Pang-Chuan | Documentary |
| 2020 | Detention | John Hsu | Narrative Feature |
| 2021 | The Catch | Hsu Che-chia | Documentary Short Film |
| 2022 | A Holy Family | Elvis Lu A-liang | Documentary |
| 2023 | Diamond Marine World | Huang Hsiu-yi | Documentary |

## Film awards

| Year | Best Narrative Feature | Best Documentary | Best Short Film | Best Animation | Press Award | Audience Choice Award |
| 1998 | Grandma and Her Ghosts | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1999 | Darkness and Light | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2000 | Mirror Image | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2001 (not held) | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2002 | — | Corner's | — | — | — | — |
| 2003 | Badu's Homework | Echo | — | Meteor | — | — |
| 2004 | Goodbye, Dragon Inn | The Spirit of Eight River | — | Innocent Life | Goodbye, Dragon Inn | Ocean Fever |
| 2005 | The Wayward Cloud | Biographies of the Macaques | — | The Man of the Hour | Let It Be: The Last Rice Farmers | Jump! Boys |
| 2006 | The Pain of Others | Doctor | — | Contagion | An Encounter with Chungliao | Do Over |
| 2007 | The Secret in the Wind | Rock the Boat | — | Check Mate | Island Etude | The Soul of Bread |
| 2008 | — | They Are Flying | The End of the Tunnel | — | Winds of September | What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?! |
| 2009 | — | Yellow Sheep River | Panic House | — | Cannot Live Without You | A Place of One's Own |
| 2010 | The Fourth Portrait | Let The Wind Carry Me | Dad's Not Home | A Piece of Cake | A Piece of Cake | Taipei Exchanges |
| 2011 | When Love Comes | Taivalu A Gift for Father's Day-The Tragedy of Hsiaolin Village Part 1 | The Blackout Village | The Other Side | Jump Ashin! The Man Behind the Book | Jump Ashin! |
| 2012 | Cha Cha for Twins | Hometown Boy | I Wake Up in a Strange Bed | The Present | Girlfriend, Boyfriend | Touch of the Light |
| 2013 | Soul | A Rolling Stone | The Coward | On Happiness Road Breathe | Together | Rock Me to the Moon |
| 2014 | Exit | Unveil the Truth II: State Apparatus | The Busy Young Psychic | Unknown Memory | Ice Poison | Kano |
| 2015 | Thanatos, Drunk | A Life That Sings | The Death of a Security Guard | The Vending Machine | Thanatos, Drunk | Panay |
| 2016 | Hang in There, Kids! | Hebei Taipei | Anchorage Prohibited | Crash Testing | The Taste of Apple | The Tenants Downstairs |
| 2017 | The Great Buddha + | Small Talk | True Emotion Behind the Wall | Stories About Him | The Road to Mandalay | Condemned Practice Mode |
| 2018 | Dear Ex | Our Youth, in Taiwan | 02-06 | On Happiness Road Neon | Dear Ex | On Happiness Road |
| 2019 | Dad's Suit | Your Face | Last Year When the Train Passed by | Where Am I Going? | Turning 18 | The Age of Awakening |
| 2020 | Detention | The Good Daughter | In This Land We're Briefly Ghosts | Grand Adventure Railroad | Whale Island | We Are Champions |
| 2021 | My Missing Valentine | The Catch | Piano Lessons | Night Bus | A Lean Soul | The Silent Forest |
| 2022 | American Girl | A Holy Family | Good Day | DEMIGOD：The Legend Begins | DEMIGOD：The Legend Begins | A Holy Family |
| 2023 | Gaga | Diamond Marine World | Big Day | The Egret River | Be Myself | Good Morni MIT |

## Individual awards

| Year | Best Director | Best Screenplay | Best Actor | Best Actress | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress | Best New Talent |
| 1998 | Hou Hsiao-hsien for Flowers of Shanghai | — | — | Rene Liu for The Personals | — | — | June Tsai for Jam |
| 1999 | — | — | — | Tsai Tsan-te for Bad Girl Trilogy | — | — | Lee Kang-i for Darkness and Light |
| 2000 | Chen Yi-wen for The Cabbie | — | Alex Fong for Red Rain | Lee Kang-i for Sunny Doll | Wang Jui for Forgive and Forget Cheung Ka-nin for The Cabbie | Chao Mei-ling for Lament of the Sand River | Leslie Hsiang for Pure Accidents |
| 2001 (not held) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2002 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Jag Huang for Summer, Dream |
| 2003 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2004 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2007 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2008 | Yang Ya-che for Orz Boyz | Henry Tsai and Tom Lin Shu-yu for Winds of September | Doze Niu for What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?! | Janine Chang for What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?! | — | — | Wang Po-chieh for Winds of September |
| 2009 | Chung Mong-hong for Parking | Chung Mong-hong for Parking | Akira Chen for Cannot Live Without You | Sandrine Pinna for Yang Yang | Lin Chih-ju for Cannot Live Without You | Lu Yi-ching for A Place of One's Own | Peggy Tseng for Parking |
| 2010 | Cheng Wen-tang for Tears | Essay Liu for Seven Days in Heaven | Bi Xiao-hai for The Fourth Portrait | Ivy Chen for Hear Me | Tsai Chen-nan for Ending Cut | Cheung Si-yin for Seven Days in Heaven | Amber Kuo for Au Revoir Taipei |
| 2011 | Chen Hung-i for Honey Pupu | Chang Tso-chi for When Love Comes | Wu Pong-fong for Ranger | Nikki Hsieh for Honey Pupu, Make Up | Lawrence Ko for Jump Ashin! | He Zi-hua for When Love Comes | Li Yi-jie for When Love Comes |
| 2012 | Yao Hung-i for Hometown Boy | Yang Yi-chien for Cha Cha for Twins | Joseph Chang for Girlfriend, Boyfriend | Sandrine Pinna for Touch of the Light | Bryan Chang for Girlfriend, Boyfriend | Amber Kuo for Love | Eric Lin for Starry Starry Night |
| 2013 | Chan Ching-lin for A Breath from the Bottom | Lin Chen-hao for Forever Love | Jimmy Wang for Soul | Lin Yen-Cheng for My Last Homework | Tsai Ming-shiou for A Breath from the Bottom | Ivy Yin for The Will To Power | Huang Shao-yang for Together |
| 2014 | Midi Z for Ice Poison | Yee Chin-yen for Meeting Dr. Sun | Lee Kang-sheng for Stray Dogs | Chen Shiang-chyi for Exit | Tsao Yu-ning for Kano | Lin Mei-hsiu for Zone Pro Site | Yu Pei-jen for The Busy Young Psychic |
| 2015 | Tsai Ming-liang for No No Sleep | Doze Niu and Tseng Li-ting for Paradise in Service | Lee Hong-chi for Thanatos, Drunk | Hiromi Nagasaku for The Furthest End Awaits | Cheng Jen-shuo for Thanatos, Drunk | Lü Hsueh-feng for Thanatos, Drunk | Wilson Hsu for Spring Awakening |
| 2016 | Laha Mebow for Hang in There, Kids! | Huang Ya-li for Le Moulin | River Huang for The Tag-Along | Hsu Wei-ning for The Tag-Along, White Lies, Black Lies, End of A Century: Miea's Story | Kaiser Chuang for Maverick | Jian Man-shu for Maverick | Ensemble cast of Hang in There, Kids! |
| 2017 | Lu Po-shun for Wild Tides | Huang Xi for Missing Johnny | Chris Wu for White Ant | Ivy Yin for The Island That All Flow By | Sean Huang for Missing Johnny | Liu Yin-shan for Cloudy | Rima Zeidan for Missing Johnny |
| 2018 | Hsiao Ya-Chuan for Father to Son | Gilles Yang for The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful | Roy Chiu for Dear Ex | Hsieh Ying-hsuan for Dear Ex | Cheng Jen-Shuo for GATAO 2-The New Leader Rising | Wen Qi for The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful | Utjung Tjakivalid for Alifu, the Prince/ss |
| 2019 | Tsai Ming-liang for Your Face | Lin Hao-pu for 3 Days 2 Nights | Hou Tao-hsiao for Dad's Suit | Lee Yi-chieh for Wild Sparrow Liu Yin-shang for A Trip with Mom | Da-her Lin for Secrets in The Hot Spring | Phoebe Huang for Dad's Suit | Tsai Jia-yin for Heavy Craving |
| 2020 | Chang Jung-chi for We Are Champions | Kao Pin-Chuan, Birdy Fong and Tsai Yi-ho for The Gangs, the Oscars, and the Walking Dead | Mo Tzu-yi for Dear Tenant | Gingle Wang for Detention | Li Ying-chuan for Synapses | Eleven Yao for The Gangs, the Oscars, and the Walking Dead | Li Li-jung for See You, Sir |
| 2021 | Chen Yu-hsun for My Missing Valentine | Mag Hsu for I Missed You | Roy Chiu for Man in Love | Peace Yang for Wrath of Desire | Liu Kuan-ting for Treat or Trick | Bai Bai for Treat or Trick | Buffy Chen for The Silent Forest |
| 2022 | Giddens Ko for Till We Meet Again | Lou Yi-an, Singing Chen for Goddamned ASURA | Kai Ko for Till We Meet Again | Chen Shiang-chyi for Increasing Echo | Kao Ying-hsuan for Incantation | Wang Yu-xuan for Goddamned Asura | Caitlin Fang for American Girl |
| 2023 | Lin Chun-yang for Eye of the Storm | Cheng Wei-hao, Sharon Wu Chin-jung for Marry My Dead Body | Wang Po-chieh for Eye of the Storm | Lu Hsiao-fen for Day Off | Fu Meng-po for Day Off | Yang Li-yin for Coo-Coo 043 | Wilang Lalin for Gaga Yeh Hsiao-fei for Who'll Stop the Rain |

## Outstanding Artistic Contribution awards

| Year | Music | Editing | Cinematography | Sound Design | Art Direction | Visual Effects |
| 1998 | — | — | — | — | Huang Wen-ying for Flowers of Shanghai | — |
| 1999 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2000 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2001 (not held) | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2002 | — | — | — | — | Tang Shu-fen, Jyu Zih and Jiang Wun-cih for A Garden in the Sky | — |
| 2003 | — | — | — | Nail | — | Dreams Are Floating |
| 2004 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2007 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2008 | Lu Sheng-fei and Luo Chii for Cape No. 7 | — | Chin Ding-Chang for Cape No.7 | — | Weng Kuei-pang for Orz Boyz | — |
| 2009 | Lim Giong for Yang Yang | William Chang for Miao Miao | Kwan Pun Leung for Miao Miao | — | Huang Mei-chin for A Place of One's Own | — |
| 2010 | Summer Lei and Ho Zhi-jian for Taipei Exchanges | Kwan Pun-leung and Hsu Hung-yuan for Let The Wind Carry Me | Liao Peng-jung for Face | — | Huang Mei-chin and Chen Po-jen for Monga | — |
| 2011 | Chang Wu-wu for Honey Pupu | Lin Wei-chih and Ko Meng-rong for My Buddies | Fisher Yu for Honey Pupu | — | Tseng Chia-chi for Libangbang | — |
| 2012 | Soler for Young Dudes | Adong Chen and Chiang Yi-ning for Cha Cha for Twins | Patrick Chow for Young Dudes | — | — | Xiao Yang, Chang Song, A Law, Li Ming-hsung, Li Jin-hui for Starry Starry Night |
| 2013 | Tseng Si-ming for Soul | Huang Kuan-Chun for A Rolling Stone | Nagao Nakashima for Soul | — | — | — |
| 2014 | — | Hung Chun-hsiu for The Lost Sea | Yao Hung-i for Pusu Qhuni | — | Huang Mei-ching for Zone Pro Site | Chen Ming-ho for Rock Rabbit |
| 2015 | — | Xu Wei-yao for A Life That Sings | Chen Hyin-gen and Chang Hao-jan for A Life That Sings | — | Huang Mei-ching for Paradise in Service | — |
| 2016 | Lim Giong for City of Jade | Kenji Chen for Hang in There, Kids! | Zhao Fei for The Left Ear | Huang Ya-li and Yannick Dauby for Le Moulin | — | — |
| 2017 | Lin Sheng-xiang for The Great Buddha + | Lai Hsiu-hsiung for The Great Buddha + | Yao Hung-i for Missing Johnny | — | Chao Shih-hao for The Great Buddha + | — |
| 2018 | Chris Ho, Summer Lei for Father to Son | Chen Chun-hong for The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful | Chung Mong-Hong for Xiao Mei | — | Hwang Wen-ying, Wang Chih-cheng for Father to Son | — |

### Outstanding Contribution Award

| Year | Recipient |
| 2010 | — |
| 2011 | Alphonse Perroquet / Parrot Caille / Quail Youth-Leigh |
| 2012 | Tsao Yuan-feng |
| 2012 | Funscreen Weekly |
| 2013 | Peggy Chiao |
| 2014 | Jiing Yng-ruey |
| 2015 | Ko I-chen |
| 2016 | Taipei Documentary Filmmakers' Union |
| 2017 | Jan Hung-tze |
| 2018 | Chen Kuo-fu |

### Other prizes
#### Lifetime Achievement Award

| Year | Recipient |
| 2009 | Li Hsing |
| 2009 | Ming Chi |
| 2010 | Ko Hsiang-ting |
| 2010 | Wen Ying |

#### Best Individual Achievement

| Year | Recipient |
| 2003 | Li Jing-huei for The Ballads of Grandmothers |

#### Special Mention, Actress

| Year | Recipient |
| 2008 | Mei Fang for Orz Boyz and Summer of Magic |

#### Special Grand Award of the Year

| Year | Recipient |
| 1999 | Mickey Chen for Boys for Beauty |

#### Special Jury Award

| Year | Recipient |
| 1998 | Tsai Ming-liang for The Hole |
| 1999 | Darkness and Light (cast of non-professional actors) |
| 2000 | The Cabbie |
| 2008 | Tom Lin Shu-yu for Winds of September |
| 2009 | Cheng Yu-Chieh for Yang Yang |
| 2015 | Huang Da-wang for TPE-Tics |

#### Special Mention

| Year | Recipient |
| 2004 | Chen Shang-po for Flyway |
| 2004 | Chen Lung-nan for Ocean Fever |
| 2004 | Wu Mi-sen for Experimental Taiwanese |
| 2004 | Tsai Yi-feng for To See or Not to See |
| 2005 | Chou I-wen for Go Out to Sea |
| 2005 | Wang Hsiu-ling and Lo Shin-chieh for Plan of Regeneration |
| 2005 | Pan Hsin-ping for Small and Deep, Love Stories |
| 2005 | Chen Po-wen for Grandpa's Mountain Ballad |
| 2005 | Lin Yu-hsien for Jump! Boys |
| 2006 | Huang Shu-mei for An Encounter with Chungliao |
| 2006 | Ho Wi-ding for Respire |
| 2006 | Kuo Liang-yin for SHONENKO: The Untold Stories of Taiwanese Child Laborers in WWII |
| 2006 | Jake Pollock (photographer) |
| 2007 | Lin Ching-chieh for The Most Distant Course and Street Survivor |
| 2007 | Tang Wei-hsuan and Chang Keng-hua (art designers) for The Wall-Passer |
| 2007 | En Chen (photographer) for Island Etude |
| 2007 | Sean Kao for A Starry Silent Night and The Soul of Bread |
| 2007 | Lin Shih-yung for Woodman 2: BBS Fighting |

#### Industry Award for Narrative Feature

| Year | Recipient |
| 2010 | Ho Wi Ding for Pinoy Sunday |

#### Non-Narrative Feature, Jury Prize

| Year | Recipient |
| 2009 | Chiang Hsiu-chiung for Hopscotch |

#### Best Experimental Film

| Year | Recipient |
| 2003 | Wu Jyun-huei and Sin Jian-zong for Sentimental Journey |
| 2003 | Siao Li-siou for Copy : Copy |
| 2004 | Wu Chun-hui for Noah Noah |
| 2006 | Tzou Nien-tsu for One Less American |
| 2007 | Chang Hao-chuan for Follow Me, Please |

#### Documentary Special Prize

| Year | Recipient |
| 2002 | Chen Lung-nan for The Lost Two Years |
| 2007 | Huang Shu-mei for Formosa Dream, Disrupted |
| 2008 | Ho Chao-ti for El Salvador Journal |
| 2009 | Chou Yu-hsin, Han Chung-han, Wang Chen-yu for Teen Patron |

#### Creative Genre Film Award

| Year | Recipient |
| 2003 | PaPa Blue |

#### Best Fictional Film-Video Award

| Year | Recipient |
| 2002 | Summer, Dream |

#### Best Animated Film-Video Award

| Year | Recipient |
| 2002 | The Toilet Republic |

#### Industry Award for Short

| Year | Recipient |
| 2010 | Cheng Wei-hao for Real Sniper |

#### Narrative Short – Jury Special Award

| Year | Recipient |
| 2008 | DJ Chen for My Superpower Girl |

#### Best Animation Short

| Year | Recipient |
| 2008 | Jack Shih for Fly Out Blue |
| 2009 | Lu Wen-chung for Ketchup |

#### Animation Short – Special Mention

| Year | Recipient |
| 2008 | Christy Chang for Fuji Shogun |

#### Audience's Choice Award (2nd and 3rd place)

| Year | Recipient |
| 2007 | Eternal Summer (2nd) |
| 2007 | Formosa Dream, Disrupted (3rd) |

#### Best Animation Directors Award

| Year | Recipient |
| 2002 | Chiou Yu-feng for Travel |
| 2002 | Jimmy Feng for Mystery Series |

#### Pro-Film Industry Award, Promising Talent Award

| Year | Recipient |
| 2009 | Doze Niu for Monga |

#### Most Promising Director of the Year

| Year | Recipient |
| 1999 | Lin Jing-jie for Bad Girl Trilogy |
| 2002 | Hsiao Ya-chuan for Mirror Image |
| 2002 | Chen Yi-hsiung for Sunny Doll |

#### Dedicative Independent Documentary Filmmaker Award

| Year | Recipient |
| 2002 | Lo Shin-chieh for Love It More Than I Can Say |

#### Independent Spirit Award of the Year

| Year | Recipient |
| 2000 | Lament of the Sand River |

#### Best Technical Achievements

| Year | Recipient |
| 2013 | Patrick Chou, Tu Dun-chih, Wenders Li, Chiang Yi-ning, Owen Wwang, Penny Tsai, Wei Hsiang-jung, Chau Chi-shing, Chas, Chan Chi-ho, Johnny Lin, Shaun Su for When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep |

#### Award of Outstanding Technique of the Year

| Year | Recipient |
| 2000 | Legend of the Sacred Stone |

#### Best Documentary Photography

| Year | Recipient |
| 2003 | Carry the Paramount of Jade Mountain on My Back |