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Chung Suet Ying
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| Chung Suet Ying with THE WAY WE TALK wins her first Golden Horse Best Actress award |
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| Mainland actor Zhang Zhiyong with BEL AMI won the Golden Horse Best Actor award as the dark horse |
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| Last year's Golden Horse Best Actor Wu Kang-ren and Best Actress Audrey Lin present the Best Actress award |
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| Best Suporting Actor Shih Ming-shuai and Best Supporting Actress Yang Kuei-mei congratulate each other |
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| Hong Kong media workers Chan Cheuk Sze and Kathy Wong with COLOR IDEOLOGY SAMPLING.MOV win Best Documentary Short Film |
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| The late "heroine" Cheng Pei Pei received the Lifetime Achievement Award, which her four children accepted on her behalf. |
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| Ang Lee comforts a tearful Marsha Yuan |
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| Sandra Ng wears over HK$ 10 million in diamond jewelry on the red carpet |
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| Sandra Ng does Not win Best Actress but helps herself to a little fun with Greg Hsu |
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| Sandra Ng and Greg Hsu "position" themselves for a "kiss" |
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| Neo Yau and his girlfriend Jessica Chan walk the red carpet with director Adam Wong, Chung Suet Ying and THE WAY WE TALK team |
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| Angela Yuen |
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| Eugenia Liu, Sylvia Chang and Karena Lam |
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| Japanese Best Actor Hiroshi Abe turns on his charm |
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Ke Huy Quan says that he would sightsee with his family in Taiwan for a few days
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The 61st Golden Horse Awards Ceremony was held at the Taipei Pop
Music Center last night. The 29-year-old Chung Suet Ying was
nominated for the second consecutive years, beating DAUGHTER'S DAUGHTER's
Sylvia Chang, LOVE LIES (NGOR TAM DIK NA CHEUNG LUEN OI)'s Sandra Ng
Kwan Yu, ALL SHALL BE WeLL (CHUNG GUM YI HAU)'s Patra Au Ga Man, and YEN
AND AI-LEE's Kimi Hsia to surprisingly win her first Best Actress Award.
Also nominated for Best Actor with THE WAY WE TALK (HONG NGOR GUM TIN JUM
MOR SUET), Neo Yau Hawk Sau did not win. Favorite Chang Chen of THE
EMBERS did not neither as the award went to BEL AMI's mainland actor Zhang
Zhiyong. Hong Kong media workers Chan Cheuk-sze and Kathy Wong Kei-yiu
won the Best Documentary Short Film for COLOR IDEOLOGY SAMPLING.MOV. The
Best Narrative Feature and Best Director went to mainland director Lou Ye
for AN UNFINISHED FILM.
This year's Golden Horse Awards were held in the cold, but
still attracted a large number of fans to watch. Zhang Zhiyong won
the Best Actor award by beating the favorite Chang Chen with the
movie BEL AMI, but he was unable to accept the award in person due to
work. Director Geng Jun accepted the award and spoke on his behalf.
"I am very grateful to the Golden Horse Awards, his family, and all
the staff, and the director is my mentor and friend. I will continue
to work hard and love everyone." Geng Jun added, "Zhang Zhiyong is
my childhood friend, we were also wild children; once he picked up
something out of curiosity and tried to study it, but his eyes and
fingers were blown up. Fortunately the physique recovered well; but
when he acted as a disabled actor, at first he was not confident. He
often avoided his scars, then he finally found his own
self-confidence. I told him, 'You are a very unique actor.'"
Chung Suet Ying did not win the Golden Horse Award last year with
THE LYRICIST WANNABE (TIN CHI L), made a comeback this year and won the
Best Actress for the first time with THE WAY WE TALK. She played a deaf
person in the film, and through a cochlear implant she could communicate
with others in spoken language. In order to adjust the way she spoke for
the role, she learned the tone of the deaf person's speech and her
outstanding acting skills have brought her the honor of Best Actress.
Chung Suet Ying took the stage to accept the award, got choked up
and said, "I am a person who likes movies. Thank you to every
participant, because you all are the people I have watched since I was a
child. Because of your hard work, I fell in love with movies." Then she
put down the Golden Horse award and said while signing, "Thank you to the
friends who helped me with sign language. This is a story about the deaf
people in Hong Kong, I couldn't have completed the film without your help.
Also thank you to the team. In addition, when I didn't know if I could at
the beginning, I would like to thank the people who were willing to
believe in me, including (Sandra) Ng Kwan Yu and (Gordon) Lam Ka Tung.
It's a great honor to be nominated with such excellent actresses this
year, and I will continue to work hard." She revealed that when she
could not move during the shoot, she lay in the room but there was always
a small ring of light in her heart to guide her. She hoped that people
with similar experiences could press the small ring of light in their
hearts and be led to their place of dream.
Hong Kong media workers Chan Cheuk-sze and Kathy Wong Kei-yiu won
the Best Documentary Short Film for COLOR IDEOLOGY SAMPLING.MOV and the
two were moved to tears. Chan Cheuk-sze said, "Our story is to find the
light that belongs to the times in the darkness. I want to say to Wong
Kei-yiu, thank you for always believing in me. This is our first step,
we have to be each other's light, become our own light, be the light of
others; we must go to places we have never thought of." Wong Kei-yiu
thanked her family for their support, but said that he had not yet made
any money, "Thank you to the news and politics for giving me the ability
to think about change, thank you film for giving me the space to create.
If a place no longer has color, it may be black and white, it may be
monochrome; but perhaps we truly need to properly perserve the brightly
colored memories of the past, we can perhaps have a little strength to
hold on to the end of the light. I think this is the motivation for each
of us to continue to create and move forward. Thank you everyone, Thank
you Golden Horse Awards."
The late "Heroine" Cheng Pei-Pei was posthumously presented with
the Lifetime Achievement Memorial Award, and her eldest daughter Eugenia
Yuan Lai Kei, second daughter Jennifer Yuan, third daughter Marsha Yuan
Chi Wai and the youngest son Harry Yuan Wor Yuk took the stage to receive
the award from director Ang Lee. All of them shed tears as they remembered
their mother. "This award is the achievement of our beloved mother Cheng
Pei Pei. We are grateful to the Golden Horse Awards for presenting this
award to our beloved mother, and we are especially honored to be able to
receive this award from director Ang Lee on her behalf. If our mother is
still here today, we four children would definitely accompany her here to
witness this unforgettable moment, because we are all proud of our mother.
Of course, in our eyes, she has already won the Lifetime Achievement Mother
Award." Harry Yuan raised the award high and shouted, "Mama, this award
is for you!"
Shek Ka-chun from Hong Kong created the Best Animated Short Film
FATHER FIGURE based on his childhood experience with his father. He said
that he knew that he has not performed well enough, but with everyone's
encouragement he would continue to work hard.
Although Ng Kwan Yu did not win the Golden Horse Best Actress, she
successfully "fattened herself" when she and the male god Greg Hsu
Guang Han presented the Best Original Screenplay Award. She stared at
Greg Hsu and claimed to have forgotten her lines, and added her own
material to be funny. She asked if he has read the story of Snow White,
in which the princess needed to be kissed by the prince to wake up. Greg
Hsu cooperated and asked Kwan Yu: "Is it a kiss, is a cheat cut?" Then
the two of them hilariously performed a cheat cut kiss, and afterwards
Kwan Yu wiped her mouth and showed a satisfied expression. Then they were
even addressed each other with "husband" and "wife". Kwan Yu was so happy
that she laughed, all because she got yet another "husband". The audience
burst into laughter.
Wu Kang-ren won the Golden Horse Best Actor last year with ABANG
ADIK and previously said that he could not attend due to work; but he
appeared at the last minute to present the Best Actress Award with the Best
Actress last year, Audrey Lin. When introducing the nominated films, Wu
Kang-ren introduced Chung Suet Ying in Cantonese and sign language.
Shih Ming-shuai won the "Best Supporting Actor" for his role
in GATAO: LIKE FATHER LIKE SON. With his first nomination he fended off
his fierce rival Lee Kang-sheng. After winning the award, he said,
"I am a little too excited. I want to thank my imagination, without
imagination I would not possibly be here." As for Yang Kuei-Mei, she
won the "Best Supporting Actress" for YEN AND AI-LEE. She said, "I
really don't dare to believe it. This year's nominees are all
excellent actors, how can it be me? However I'm sorry, since the
award is in my hands I would just help myself. Thank you to the jury
for seeing a different Yang Kuei-Mei through this role." At the age
of only 11, Feifei Cheng You-Fei won the "Best New Performer" for the
movie "BIG". She burst into tears after hearing the news, and then
she screamed and cried backstage to express her emotions and show her
cuteness and innocence.
Competiting for Best Actress, Chang Aijia was absent from the
Golden Horse Awards luncheon the day before yesterday because her
mother fell. She rushed back to Hong Kong then rushed back to Taiwan
yesterday. She admitted that she was a little from all the traveling.
When asked about her mother's condition, she said, "She just had the
operation. She is awake and is doing OK." Ang Lee specifically
returned to Taiwan from the United States to support the show. When
asked what he had to say to Taiwanese filmmakers, he said, "The
environment is not like before, risk-taking and innovation are
necessary. Let's all work together, especially the new generation of
filmmakers; don't give up on your dreams, and keep a firm grip on the
direction."
