Chen Kun-hou (陳坤厚) is a veteran cinematographer, who started his career in the 1960s. He won his first best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards in 1978 for He Never Gives Up (汪洋中的一條船), directed by Lee Hsing (李行). In the early 1980s he began to direct his own films in collaboration with Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢). After series of urban comedies, he made quite a few representative films of the Taiwan New Cinema, such as Growing Up, which won him the best director award at the Golden Horse Awards, His Matramony, which won him the second best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards, and My Favorite Season, and Osmanthus Alley. He is awarded for his life achievement in Taiwan cinema at the 60th Golden Horse Awards in 2023.
Li Hsing or Lee Hsing (李行) was a Taiwanese film director. He was born Lee Tz-da (李子達) in 1930 in Shanghai and died in 2021. He made one of the early popular Taiwanese films in the late 1959, Wang and Liu Tour Taiwan (王哥柳哥遊台灣), though he did not speak Taiwanese. He was also the key director in the promotion of Healthy Realist film (健康寫實片) and Literary Romantic film (愛情文藝片). He was awarded the best director at Golden Horse Awards three times and had seven films awarded the best feature film: Beautiful Duckling, The Road, Execution in Autumn, Land of the Undaunted,, He Never Gives Up, The Story of a Small Town, and Good Morning, Taipei. After he made his last film The Heroic Pioneers, he vowed to be the lifetime volunteer for the promotion of development of Taiwan cinema. In 2009 he established the Cross-Strait Films Exchange Committee, which has been the main, if not only, organization promoting the interaction and cooperation of Taiwanese and Chinese filmmakers. Lee Hsing is often referred to as the "godfather of Taiwan cinema" for his great contribution to Taiwan cinema.
Lee Hong-chi is a Taiwanese actor. He is best known for starring in the 2015 film Thanatos, Drunk, for which he was named Best New Performer at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards. In 2023, he won Lion of the Future Award at the 80th Venice International Film Festival for his film directorial debut, Love Is a Gun.
Hou Chi-jan is a Taiwanese director and writer. His works are often related to historical memories.
Liu Kuan-ting is a Taiwanese actor. He received the Golden Bell Award for Best Supporting Actor for the hit drama series A Boy Named Flora A (2017). In 2019, he won Best Supporting Actor at the 56th Golden Horse Awards for the film A Sun.
Central Motion Picture Corporation, also known as Zhong Ying (中影) was established in 1954. It was formed through the merger of the Agricultural Educational Film Company and Taiwan Film Corporation. Like the China Television Company and the Broadcasting Corporation of China, it was operated under the party of Kuomintang (KMT) as well as the government.
My Missing Valentine is a 2020 Taiwanese romantic comedy film written and directed by Chen Yu-hsun, and starring Liu Kuan-ting, Patty Lee. The film was released in Taiwan on September 18, 2020, and it was selected for Open Cinema of the 25th Busan International Film Festival on October 29. It received 11 nominations at the 57th Golden Horse Awards, winning Best Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing and Best Director for Chen.
Classmates Minus is a 2020 Taiwanese political black comedy-drama film written and directed by Huang Hsin-yao, and starring Shih Ming-shuai, Cheng Jen-shuo, Nadow Lin, Liu Kuan-ting and Chen Yi-wen. The film was screened at the 57th Golden Horse Awards on November 5, 2020, and it had seen a theatrical release in Taiwan on the 20th of the same month. It was available for streaming worldwide via Netflix on February 20, 2021.
The 59th Golden Horse Awards was held on November 19, 2022, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best in Chinese-language films of 2021 and 2022. Nominations were announced on September 27, 2022. Despite receiving the warning from Chinese authorities, Hong Kong action thriller Limbo led the nominations with 14, while Taiwanese films Incantation and Coo-Coo 043 each received 13 nominations.
Caitlin Fang is a Taiwanese actress. She won the Golden Horse Award for Best New Performer and the Taipei Film Award for Best New Talent for her role in the film American Girl (2021). In 2022, at age 16, Fang became the youngest actor to receive nominations for all three acting awards from Golden Horse Award; namely, Best Leading Actress, Best New Performer and Best Supporting Actress − with the former two for American Girl and the latter for The Post-Truth World (2022).
A Flower in the Raining Night is a 1983 Taiwanese film directed by Wang Toon. Adapted from the novel, Days of Watching the Sea written by Huang Chun Ming, the film portrays the journey of a prostitute who is determined to become a mother to regain her dignity as a human being. It is one of the few commercially successful films of the New Taiwan Cinema in the 1980s, in which its box office reached TWD$23,000,000, HKD$2,536,132.00 and was nominated for Best Narrative Feature in the 20th Golden Horse Awards.
Yang-Yang is a 2009 Taiwanese film directed by Cheng Yu-Chieh. It is the director’s second feature film, and also the first film in Ang Lee and Khan Lee’s Tui Shou Ji Hua . The film stars Sandrine Pinna, Chang Ruei-Jia, and Huang Chien-Wei to tell the story of a Taiwanese-French biracial girl Yang-Yang, who struggles to balance the image of a nice girl expected of her in the society and her true self longing for love.
Wang Tong or Wang Toon is a Taiwanese director who started his career as an art director and production designer and later became a film director and educator.
Singing Chen is a Taiwanese film director, documentary filmmaker, and music composer. She graduated from Advertising in the Department of Mass Communication at Fu Jen Catholic University in 1997. Her works primarily focus on topics related to humanities and arts and culture, and she uses a magical realism approach to establish her visual style. She has received numerous international and domestic awards nominations for her work.
A Time in Quchi, directed by Chang Tso-Chi, is a 2013 Taiwanese film. The film premiered in competition at the 66th Locarno International Film Festival. A Time in Quchi features cameo appearances by Yang Liang-Yu, poet Kuan Kuan, Nick Yen, and Taiwanese actress Hanyi Yao.
Hsin Chi (辛奇) , birth name as Hsin Jin-Chuan (辛金傳), was a Taiwanese film director who was known for his Taiwanese-language films in the 1960s, including The Bride Who Has Returned From Hell, Foolish Bride, Naive Groom, and The Rice Dumpling Vendor. He directed nearly fifty Taiwanese-language films, most of them have a close relationship with plays and literature.
The 60th Golden Horse Awards took place on November 25, 2023, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honoured the best in Chinese-language filmography of 2022 and 2023. Nominations were announced on October 3, 2023.
Lu Lu-ming, also known as Luming Lu, is a Taiwanese film score composer. He won Best Original Film Song with the horror film Detention (2019) in the 56th Golden Horse Awards and Best Original Film Score with the drama film The Falls (2021) in the 58th Golden Horse Awards.
Liao Ming-yi is a Taiwanese filmmaker best known for his directorial and cinematographic debut I WeirDo (2020), which is the first Asian feature film to be shot entirely on an iPhone and earned him nominations for Best New Director and Best Cinematography in the 57th Golden Horse Awards.
Berant Zhu Xuan-yang is a Taiwanese actor best known for his role as Chang in the crime mystery film Bad Education (2023), for which he won Best Supporting Actor in the 59th Golden Horse Awards.
