Taipei is hosting the 52nd Golden Horse Awards today, when 39 movies are to compete for awards in 22 categories.
A total of 427 films were submitted for the competition this year, the most ever, and up from 364 last year, while 42 are Taiwanese.
Leading the pack is Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s (侯孝賢) Tang Dynasty martial arts movie The Assassin (刺客聶隱娘). It has received 11 nominations, including best feature film, best director and best lead actress.
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The film with the second-highest number of nominations is also Taiwanese — Thanatos, Drunk (醉．生夢死) by director Chang Tso-chi (張作驥).
The film, which touches on parent-child relationships, and sibling and gay love, has 10 nominations, including best feature film, best director and best lead actor.
In third place is Hong Kong director Philip Yung’s (翁子光) crime thriller Port of Call (踏血尋梅) with nine nominations.
This year’s Golden Horse Awards committee is chaired by Taiwanese director, screenwriter and producer Chen Kuo-fu (陳國富).
Chen is to present the best feature film award, the night’s biggest, with actress-producer Hsu Feng (徐楓).
Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (李安) is to team up with actress Shu Qi (舒淇) to hand out the best director award.
Other presenters include Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan (成龍), who will give the Lifetime Achievement Award to Lee Li-hua (李麗華), as well as Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee chair Sylvia Chang (張艾嘉), who is to present the Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year award to Hou Hsiao-hsien, along with director Chu Yen-ping (朱延平).
The award ceremony is due to take place at the National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and is to be hosted by model and actress Lin Chi-ling (林志玲) and TV host Mickey Huang (黃子佼).
Taiwan Television Enterprise is to broadcast the event beginning at 7pm.
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