Chen Yu-hsun’s A Foggy Tale, a historical drama set during Taiwan’s White Terror period, was awarded Best Feature and three other prizes at this year’s Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan. The film was also awarded Best Original Screenplay for Chen’s script, Best Art Direction (Wang Chih-cheng and You Li-wun) and Best Makeup & Costume Design (Hsu Li-wen). Lucky Lu, directed by Lloyd Lee Choi, and Mother Bhumi, from Malaysia’s Chong Keat-aun, were both awarded with three prizes. Lucky Lu picked up Best Actor for Chang Chen’s performance, along with Best New Director for Choi and Best Original Film Score (Charles Humenry). Mother Bhumi took Best Actress for Fan Bingbing; Best Cinematography for the work of Hong Kong DoP Leung Ming-kai, and Best Original Film Song, Bhujanga (lyrics by Chong Keat-aun and performed and composed by Penny Tai). Hong Kong productions and co-productions were also honoured at the event with Jun Li taking Best Director for Queerpanorama, while Mary Stephen’s Palimpsest: The Story Of A Name won Best Documentary Feature and Tommy Ng Kai-chung’s Another World took Best Animated Feature. Palimpsest: The Story Of A Name also won Best Film Editing. Best Supporting Actor went to Tseng Jing-hu for Pan Ke-yin’s Family Matters, which was also awarded Best Adapted Screenplay, while Vera Chen took Best Supporting Actress for Lau Kek-huat’s The Waves Will Carry Us. In the technical categories, action thriller 96 Minutes took the award for Best Visual Effects; Marching Boys was awarded Best Action Choreography, and Toe Yuen’s animation A Mighty Adventure took Best Sound Effects. Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards took place on November 22, towards the end of Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, which ran November 6-23.
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