Veteran actress Chen Shu-fang (陳淑芳) has been named the recipient of the lifetime achievement award at the 62nd Golden Horse Awards, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee said.
Chen, 86, made her debut in the 1957 Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) film Who’s Crime (誰的罪惡) and has since built a career spanning 68 years, appearing in a wide range of productions from black-and-white Hoklo-language films to television dramas and Taiwan New Wave cinema, the committee said in a news release earlier in the week.
Her credits include The Boys From Fengkuei (風櫃來的人), Taipei Story (青梅竹馬), A City of Sadness (悲情城市), A Borrowed Life (多桑) and March of Happiness (天馬茶房). Over the past few years, Chen won acclaim for her performance in director Joseph Hsu’s (許承傑) Little Big Women (孤味), which earned her the Golden Horse Award for best leading actress in 2020.
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The same year, she also won the Golden Horse for best supporting actress in director Cheng Yu-chieh’s (鄭有傑) Dear Tenant (親愛的房客), becoming the first performer in the awards’ history to win in both categories in the same year.
Chen has also appeared in animated works, providing the voice for director Joe Hsieh’s (謝文明) Night Bus (夜車), which won best animated short film at the Golden Horse Awards, and the upcoming Praying Mantis (螳螂), which has been selected for the Venice and Toronto international film festivals.
Chen said she will continue acting as long as she is offered roles, adding that she does not plan to raise her salary demands or become more selective because of the award.
The lifetime achievement award would be presented at the Golden Horse Awards ceremony on Nov. 22 at the Taipei Music Center. Nominees for this year’s awards are to be announced on Oct. 1.
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