A Foggy Tale (大濛) leads the nominations for the 62nd Golden Horse Awards with 11 nods.
A Foggy Tale was nominated for best narrative feature, director, leading actor, leading actress, original screenplay, visual effects, art direction, makeup and costume design, original film song, film editing and sound effects, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee said in a statement on Wednesday.
The drama focuses on the White Terror era and tells the story of a young girl on a life-threatening journey to raise money to redeem the remaining members of her family.
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Meanwhile, drama Left-Handed Girl (左撇子女孩), cowritten by Oscar-winning director Sean Baker, earned nine nominations.
This year’s competition received 593 submissions, including 80 feature films, three animated features, 64 documentaries, 310 narrative short films, 79 documentary shorts and 57 animated shorts, the committee said.
Ten actors and actresses were nominated in the leading role categories, including Hong Kong’s Will Or (柯煒林) for his role in A Foggy Tale, Taiwanese actress Ariel Lin (林依晨) for Deep Quiet Room (深度安靜) and Chinese actress Fan Bingbing (范冰冰) for Mother Bhumi (地母).
The committee also named Joy Chung (鍾瓊婷) this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year award, praising her “exceptional aesthetics and artistic touch” in her contributions to A Foggy Tale and Unexpected Courage (我們外的勇氣).
All nominated films are to be screened at select theaters during the Golden Horse Film Festival, which begins on Nov. 6, while the awards ceremony this year is scheduled for Nov. 22 at the Taipei Music Center, the committee said.
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