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Malaysian film talent made the country proud at the 57th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan last night.
Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun won the Best New Director award for his film The history of Southern Islet, a movie inspired by a real incident that occurred in the 1980s in Kedah’s Gunung Keriang.
The film, which was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay, is about a desperate wife who sets out on a journey to find a remedy for her husband, who fell ill after a fight with a neighbor. Along the way, he endures strange encounters and supernatural experiences.
The film stars Season Chee, Pearlly Chua, Jojo Goh, Mei-Sim Hoon, and Ling Tang, among others, and had previously won the Best Picture award at the Istanbul Film Awards in September.
Malaysian stylist Raymon Kuek was also honored for his makeup work on a Singaporean film. Number 1, which won the award for Best Makeup and Costume Design.
In accepting the award together with Singaporean film director Ong Kuo Sin, Kuek thanked the cast and crew of Number 1 and her parents for giving birth to a “short but talented man”, The times of the strait reported. The film stars Mark Lee as a fired man who decides to work as a drag queen to make ends meet.
Malaysian composers Keon Chia and Hooi Yuan Teng also had cause for celebration, as the song they wrote together with Singaporean Tan Boon Wah, Your name engraved here, won the award for Best Original Film Song. It is the title track of the movie of the same name and is played by Crowd Lu and the movie actor Edward Chen.
Veteran Taiwanese actress Chen Shu-fang was the biggest individual winner of the night, taking the awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Photo: Reuters
The big winner at last night’s awards was the Taiwanese romantic comedy. My lost valentine, which also won the gong for Best Director for Chen Yu-hsun, as well as awards for Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay.
Veteran Taiwanese actress Chen Shu-fang was the biggest individual winner of the night, garnering Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards for her performances in Little Big Women Y Dear tenant respectively. its Dear tenant his co-star Mo Tzu-yi won the Best Actor award.
2020 Taipei Golden Horse Awards Winners
- The best movie: My lost valentine
- Best directA: Chen Yu-hsun (My lost valentine)
- best Actor: Mo Tzu-yi (Dear tenant)
- Best actress: Chen Shu-fang (Little Big Women)
- Best Supporting Actor: Nadow Lin (Companions Less)
- Best Supporting Actress: Chen Shu-fang (Dear tenant)
- Best New Artist: Chen Yan-fei (The silent forest)
- Best Original Screenplay: My lost Valentine
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Beyond the dream
- Best New Director: Chong Keat-aun (The history of Southern Islet)
- Best documentary: Course missed
- Best Animated Feature Film: City of lost things
- Best Live Action Short: The night is young
- Best Animated Short Film: Night bus
- Best cinematography: Your name engraved here
- Best Editing: My lost valentine
- Better visual effects: My lost valentine
- Best Art Direction: Companions Less
- Best Makeup and Costume Design: Number 1
- Best Action Choreography: Get out of here
- Best Original Soundtrack: Dear tenant
- Best Original Movie Song: Your name engraved here
- Better sound effects: The silent forest
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Hou Hsiao-hsien
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