[2012.11.25] LAU CHING WAN, KWAI LUN-MEI WIN GOLDEN HORSE AWARDS

Lau Ching Wan thanks his father in law who lives in Taipei.  "Every time  I have a movie release in Taiwan, he would tell me the media response."

Lau Ching Wan accepts the Best Actor award from Deanie Ip

Kwan Lun-Mei embraces Li Bingbing after accepting the Best Actress award and Jackie Chan is happy for her

Lin Chiling wows the crowd with a pretend kiss with Huang Bo

Ronald Cheng wins for the glory of Hong Kong films and comedy films.  He says that he watched a 80s Chow Yun Fat film for research but forgot the title

Best Supporting Actress Liang Jing accepts the award from presenter Jay Chou and breaks down

Sally Yeh performs many hits

Host Tsang Bo Yi says that each Best Actor nominee 's other half is very pretty, Huang Bo says, "Everything has an exception, he is (Nicholas) Tse Ting Fung!"  Tsang Bo Yi says that is a sore spot and Ting Fung awkwardly smiles.

Dada Chen

Lin Chiling

Kwai Lun-Mei

Li Bingbing

Denise Ho's look is a salute to her mentor Anita Mui

Sandrine Pinna

Amber Kuo (left) and Ivy Chen drag direcotr Doze Niu to the red carpet

Mavis Fan's tattoo gets more attention than her dress

Host Huang Bo accidentally steps on host Tsang Bo Yi's dress

Best Make Up & Costume Design: Stanley Cheung (THE BULLET VANISHES)

Best Sound Effects: Kinson TSANG, Lai Chi Hung (NIGHTFALL)

Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year: Huang Yu-Siang

Sammie Yu calls her husband the best online when Ronald Cheng wins Best Supporting Actor

Chin Kar Lok jokes that he loses to his mentor Sammo Hung every time but still thanks him

courtesy of singtao.com

Lau Ching Wan gets teary eyed with his first Golden Horse Best Actor award

Best Actress Kwai Lun-Mei (GF*BF) is both emotional and elated

Best New Performer Qi Xi (MYSTERY)

Best Supporting Actress: Liang Jing (DESIGN OF DEATH)

BEIJING BLUES edges out LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE by one vote

Joseph Chang is obviously disappointed

Amy Kwok breaks down in tears of joy for her husband Lau Ching Wan

Best Supporting Actor Ronald Cheng (VULGARIA)

Ronald Cheng publicly thanks his wife Sammie Yu

BEIJING BLUES wins Best Feature Film

Chin Kar Lok has a full harvest this year, with a wife, a child and a Golden Horse award

Lin Chiling and Huang Bo present the Best Director award.  Some online are less than pleased with Lin Chiling's performance

Lin Chiling shows off her fit body

Denise Ho dresses femininely but does not win Best Actress

Kwai Lun-Mei

Deanie Ip would rather stay warm than look sexy

Lau Ching Wan and his wife Amy Kwok

Jackie Chan and Li Bingbing present the Best Actress award

Andy Lau is praised as the most handsome jury chair in history

Nicholas Tse looks cool on the red carpet

Angelababy is asked about boyfriend Huang Xiaoming's condition.  He is stable so she can relax.

Rain welcomes the Golden Horse Awards to Yilan

Ko Chen-Tung is drenched

Sandrine Pinna has someone holding an umbrella for her
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Lin Chiling
courtesy of takungpao.com

The 49th Golden Horse Award last night took place in Yilan, Taiwan. Lau Ching Wan and Kwai Lun-Mei won the Golden Horse Best Actor and Best Actress award with Hong Kong Film LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (DUET MING GUM) and Taiwan film GF*BF. With six nominations LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE also won Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, but these two favorites were unable to win the Best Feature Film. Instead Mainland film BEIJING BLUES won the prize as well as Best Editing and Best Cinematography. With seven nominations GF*BF only won Best Actress and Audience's Choice Award, much to the surprise of many.

To Kei Fung was absent and Lau Ching Wan accepted the award on his behalf. With three awards, Ah To through the film company revealed, "Thank you boss (Peter) Lam Kin Ngok, the entire LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE team for their patience and effort so I was able to spend three years to make my favorite film; also congratulations to the Milky Way Creative Team, we will continue to work hard for film. Thank you viewers who love movies." Later when Ching Wan accepted the Best Actor, he first embraced host Tsang Bo Yi and accepted the award from presenter Deanie Ip Tak Han. His wife Amy Kwok Oi Ming broke down in the audience. During his speech Ching Wan joked, "Filmmaking is not to win an award. This of course is a joke, I still want to win an award." This was Ching Wan's second Golden Horse nomination but first award. He admitted that he never expected to win the Golden Horse award because he had to be nominated many times for the Hong Kong Film Award. He was able to win to the Golden Horse with his second nomination and he was elated. He also said that he would give this award to his mother and his father in law, as he wished good health for them. Ching Wan continued, "Acting is my job, whether I win an award or not I still have to make movies. Of course I am very happy about winning an award, I always want to work with more good directors and make good movies."

Kwai Lun-Mei immediately cried when she learned that she won. She thanked the event for giving her this honor. She said, "Thank you very much Golden Horse jury. winning this award on the road of learning, it is a very important encouragement to me. I really like making movies, and I will keep making them." Finally she even thanked her parents for their support all along and everyone for giving her so much love, all of which she has received.

Ronald Cheng Chung Kei with VULGARIA (DAI JOOK HEI KET) won the Best Supporting Actor. On the stage he repeatedly said he never thought that he would win and thanked director Pang Ho Cheung, Chapman To Man Jat, and the boss for giving him the chance to play this character. He also thanked his parents for their support and his wife for taking care of their daughter well so he was able to work in peace. He also said he was somewhat sorry about winning this award because he only performed for two days. Best Supporting Actress went to Mainland actress Liang Jing for DESIGN OF DEATH. She even gave a special thanks to the director and husband Guan Hu and her children. This time in the film she played ugly and joked that she felt she looked too pretty (in comparison to what the character required), so she added the false teeth.

Best New Director went to TOUCH OF THE LIGHT's Chang Jung-Chi. This film not only was a box office hit but also won awards after awards. It will even represent Taiwan in competition for the Oscar Best Foreign Film nomination, which was already a recognition for this new director. Best New Performer was MYSTERY's Qi Xi. After just one year of marriage her husband was in the audience to support her. She said that she attended just for the experience but was elated to win an award. She wanted to party with the team and was certain that she would not be able to sleep. In addition, Chin Kar Lok with MOTORWAY (CHEH SAU) won Best Action Choreography, on the stage he said that after marriage his lucky has been especially good.

2012 GOLDEN HORSE AWARD WINNERS
http://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/ui/index.php?class=ghac&func=nw&lang=en&switch_lang=1

BEST FEATURE FILM
BEIJING BLUES

BEST SHORT FILM
THE HOME GLEANERS

BEST DOCUMENTARY
CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT

BEST DIRECTOR
Johnnie To Kei Fung (LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE)

BEST NEW DIRECTOR
Chang Jung-Chi (TOUCH OF THE LIGHT)

BEST LEADING ACTOR
Lau Ching Wan (LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE)

BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Gwei Lun-Mei (GF*BF)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ronald Cheng Chung Kei (VULGARIA)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Liang Jing (DESIGN OF DEATH)

BEST NEW PERFORMER
Qi Xi (MYSTERY)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Milkyway Creative Team, Au Kin Yee, Wong King Fai (LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Bao Jingjing (LOVE IS NOT BLIND)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WU Di (BEIJING BLUES)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Wook Kim, Frankie Chung, Josh Cole (FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE)

BEST ART DIRECTION
Lin Mu (DESIGN OF DEATH)

BEST MAKEUP & COSTUME DESIGN
Stanley CHEUNG (THE BULLET VANISHES)

BEST ACTION CHOREOGRAPHY
CHIN Ka Lok (MOTORWAY)

BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE
Peyman Yazdanian, Johann Johannsson (MYSTERY)

BEST ORIGINAL FILM SONG

DOREMI
Lyric : Lin Xi
Composer : LO Tayu
Performer : Sammi CHENG
(ROMANCING IN THIN AIR)

BEST FILM EDITING
YANG Hongyu (BEIJING BLUES)

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Kinson TSANG, Lai Chi Hung (NIGHTFALL)

OUTSTANDING TAIWANESE FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR
HUANG Yu-Siang

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
GF*BF

FIPRESCI PRIZE
TOUCH OF THE LIGHT

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Shih Chun