# 61st Golden Horse Awards

The 61st Golden Horse Awards (Chinese: 第61屆金馬獎) took place on November 23, 2024, at the Taipei Music Center in Taipei, Taiwan, which marked the first time the ceremony was held at a different venue following the closure of the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall for major renovations.
Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best works in the world of Chinese-language cinema in 2023 and 2024. Nominations were announced on October 2, 2024. Hong Kong film veteran Patrick Tam was originally slated to chair the jury, but withdrew due to the recurrence of a prior spinal injury and was subsequently replaced by Taiwanese production designer Huang Mei-ching.
Lou Ye's docufiction An Unfinished Film, set during the pandemic, won Best Narrative Feature alongside Best Director. The celebrated late actress Cheng Pei-pei and cinematographer Lin Wen-chin were honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
| Best Narrative Feature An Unfinished Film All Shall Be Well Stranger Eyes Dead Talents Society Bel Ami | Best Documentary Feature From Island to Island – Lau Kek-huat After the Snowmelt – Lo Yi-shan XiXi – Fan Wu Soul of Soil – Yen Lan-chuan Youth (Hard Times) – Wang Bing |
| Best Live Action Short Film Side A: A Summer Day – Wan Kin-fai The Burning Night – Demon Wong 4 Sundays in September – Yong Mun-chee Caged Dog – Yen Hao-hsuan The Fishbowl Girl – Wu Hung-yi | Best Documentary Short Film Colour Ideology Sampling.mov – Chan Cheuk-sze, Kathy Wong Before Then – Xue Mengzhu Wild Road – Chen Chiao-wei Something About Us – Rex Ren Letters from the Imprisoned: Chow Hang Tung – Paul Lee |
| Best Animated Short Film Father Figure – Shek Ka-chun Minus Plus Multiply – Lee Chu-chieh Essence – Hung Wan-yu Bad Kids – Chuang Yu-jin Ruthless Blade – Zhang Bo | Best Director Lou Ye – An Unfinished Film Ray Yeung – All Shall Be Well Yeo Siew Hua – Stranger Eyes John Hsu – Dead Talents Society Geng Jun – Bel Ami |
| Best Leading Actor Zhang Zhiyong – Bel Ami Jason King – A Journey in Spring Chang Chen – The Embers Neo Yau – The Way We Talk Wanlop Rungkumjad – Mongrel | Best Leading Actress Chung Suet Ying – The Way We Talk Patra Au – All Shall Be Well Kimi Hsia – Yen and Ai-Lee Sylvia Chang – Daughter's Daughter Sandra Ng – Love Lies |
| Best Supporting Actor Shih Ming-shuai – GATAO: Like Father Like Son Lee Kang-sheng – Stranger Eyes Mo Tzu-yi – The Embers Sam Tseng – Yen and Ai-Lee Daniel Hong – Mongrel | Best Supporting Actress Yang Kuei-mei – Yen and Ai-Lee Sandrine Pinna – Dead Talents Society Pets Tseng – BIG Lu Yi-ching – Mongrel Eugenie Liu – Daughter's Daughter |
| Best New Director Chiang Wei-liang, Yin You-qiao – Mongrel Qiu Yang – Some Rain Must Fall Peng Tzu-hui, Wang Ping-wen – A Journey in Spring Ye Xingyu – Three Castrated Goats Ho Miu-ki – Love Lies | Best New Performer Feifei Cheng – BIG Yu Aier – Some Rain Must Fall Tang Yung-hsu – Salli Lin Cheng-hsun – Intimate Encounter Alisia Liang – The Chronicles of Libidoists |
| Best Original Screenplay Daughter's Daughter – Huang Xi Stranger Eyes – Yeo Siew Hua Dead Talents Society – John Hsu, Vincent Tsai Yen and Ai-Lee – Tom Lin Shu-yu Bel Ami – Geng Jun | Best Adapted Screenplay Above the Dust – Wang Xiaoshuai 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days – Michihito Fujii, Hayashida Hirokawa GATAO: Like Father Like Son – Red Chang, Joyce Liu Lei-shuan, Chiang Hsi-wen, Shih Cheng-yu |
| Best Cinematography Bel Ami – Wang Weihua Yen and Ai-Lee – Kartik Vijay 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days – Imamura Keisuke Mongrel – Michaël Capron Shambhala – Aziz Zhambakiyev | Best Film Editing Bel Ami – Chen Hoping XiXi – Anna Schlenker All Shall Be Well – William Chang, Lai Kwun-tung Yen and Ai-Lee – Tom Lin An Unfinished Film – Tian Jiaming |
| Best Original Film Score Stranger Eyes – Thomas Foguenne Dead Talents Society – The Dead Talents 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days – Takashi Ohmama Locust – Yoshihiro Hanno, Meuko! Meuko! Bel Ami – Amy Chen Xiaoshu | Best Original Film Song "Dead Talents Society" from Dead Talents Society Lyricist: Chen Hong-ren Composer/Performer: Joanna Wang "People From the North" from The Embers Lyricist: Chung Mong-hong Composer: Luming Lu Performer: TMC Children's Choir "Kiokunotabibito" from 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days Lyricist/Composer: Kazutoshi Sakurai Performer: Mr. Children "Listen" from Daughter's Daughter Lyricist/Composer/Performer: Deserts Chang "Bel Ami" from Bel Ami Lyricist: Geng Jun Composer/Performer: Liang Long |
| Best Makeup & Costume Design Dead Talents Society – Lore Shih The Embers – Hsu Li-wen Yen and Ai-Lee – Yip Kar-yan Daughter's Daughter – Shirley Kao Shambhala – Ramlal Khadka | Best Art Direction Dead Talents Society – Wang Chih-cheng, Liang Shuo-lin The Embers – Chao Shih-hao Yen and Ai-Lee – Penny Tsai Pei-ling Mongrel – Yeh Tzu-wei Above the Dust – Lü Dong |
| Best Sound Effects From Island to Island – Chen Yi-ling, Eddie Huang, Yannick Dauby Stranger Eyes – Tu Duu-chih, Tu Tse-kang Dead Talents Society – Book Chien, Tang Hsiang-chu, Chen Jia-li The Way We Talk – Cyrus Tang Hok-lun, Mandy Kwan Wai-sum Mongrel – R.T Kao, Lim Ting-li, Chen Yung | Best Action Choreography Dead Talents Society – Teddy Ray Huang GATAO: Like Father Like Son – Hong Eui-jung The Chronicles of Libidoists – Lin Wei-yi, Yuan Hsu-hu, Chang Ya-wei, More, Liao Hsiao-ting Stuntman – Kong Tao-hoi, Leung Pok-yan |
| Best Visual Effects Dead Talents Society – Tomi Kuo, Chiu Chun-yi BIG – Alex Lim Hung-fung, Yee Kwok-leung, Leung Wai-kit GATAO: Like Father Like Son – Tomotoshi Shigeharu, Gary Chen |

## Honorary awards

| Lifetime Achievement Award Lin Wen-chin Cheng Pei-pei (posthumous honor) | Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year Li Si-jian |

## Out-of-competition awards

| Audience Choice Award Bel Ami – Geng Jun An Unfinished Film Stranger Eyes All Shall Be Well Dead Talents Society | FIPRESCI Prize Some Rain Must Fall – Qiu Yang A Journey in Spring Salli Three Castrated Goats Mongrel Locust Love Lies Stuntman |
| Observation Missions for Asian Cinema Award Happyend – Neo Sora | NETPAC Award Montages of a Modern Motherhood – Oliver Chan Mongrel Some Rain Must Fall Three Castrated Goats Tale of the Land MA – Cry of Silence Regretfully at Dawn Don't Cry, Butterfly The Tenants Happyend Blossoms Under Somewhere |

## Jury

* Huang Mei-ching, Taiwanese production designer – Convener
* Hsieh Ying-xuan, Taiwanese actress
* Giddens Ko, Taiwanese novelist and filmmaker
* Lin Chun-yang, director and cinematographer
* Toe Yuen, animation director and screenwriter
* Lien Yi-chi, director, screenwriter and producer
* Chen Ta-pu, director and cinematographer
* Wong Hin-yan, musician, singer-songwriter and actor
* Soo Mun-thye, editor
* Ho Chao-ti, producer and director
* Nicole Teoh, producer
* Fang-Yi Sheu, Taiwanese-American dancer and choreographer
* Cincin Lee, composer, arranger and music producer
* Singing Chen, Taiwanese film director and screenwriter
* Hsiao Ya-chuan, Taiwanese film director and screenwriter
* Law Chi-leung, Hong Kong film director and screenwriter