Multilingual Malaysian historical drama Snow in Midsummer (五月雪) led the nominations announced on Tuesday for this year’s Golden Horse Awards with nine nods.
Snow in Midsummer is a Malaysian, Singaporean and Taiwanese coproduction that features a cast from all three countries.
The film is centered around the “May 13 Incident” in Malaysia, where violence between the Malay and the Chinese populations in Kuala Lumpur, on May 13, 1969, resulted in the declaration of a national state of emergency, among other political fallout.
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The film was nominated for best narrative feature, best director, best supporting actress, best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best makeup and costume design, best original film score, best original film song and best sound effects awards.
The film is best director nominee Chong Keat-aun’s (張吉安) second feature film.
Following Snow in Midsummer, Taiwanese movies Marry My Dead Body (關於我和鬼變成家人的那件事) and Eye of the Storm (疫起) are both contenders in eight categories.
Marry My Dead Body, a supernatural rom-com mystery with LGBTQ+ themes, has been chosen as Taiwan’s submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards and the two male leads will be vying for best leading actor at the diamond jubilee of the Golden Horse Awards.
Veteran actress Lu Hsiao-fen (陸小芬) is contending once again for best leading actress since winning the category in 1983 at the 20th Golden Horse Awards for her role in A Flower in The Raining Night (看海的日子).
Lu came out of retirement to star in Day Off (本日公休), which has also been nominated for best supporting actor, best supporting actress and best original film song on top of Lu’s nomination this year.
The two lifetime achievement award recipients this year are accomplished director and cinematographer Chen Kun-hou (陳坤厚) and legendary actress Brigitte Lin (林青霞).
A total of 552 entries were submitted to the Golden Horse Awards this year, 95 more than last year’s 457, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee executive director Wen Tien-hsiang (聞天祥) said.
Wen said films from Hong Kong, Macau and China accounted for 210 of the entries, while Singaporean and Malaysian films saw the highest number of entries since the inception of the awards, at 62, which is evidence that the industry in both countries is flourishing.
Additionally, Wen said the deliberation to determine this year’s nominees took eight hours, one of the longest meetings the committee has ever had in recent years.
The awards ceremony is to take place at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei on Nov. 25.
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