‘Assassin’ tops the bill at Golden Horse Awards
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“THE Assassin” by veteran Taiwan director Hou Hsiao-hsien grabbed five awards, including best director and best feature, at the Golden Horse Awards in Taipei at the weekend. The awards are considered the equivalent of Oscars for Chinese-language films.
The movie, featuring a trained female killer faced with a choice between love and duty, also won best cinematography, best makeup and costume design and best sound effects.
However, one of its stars, Shu Qi, a two-time Golden Horse winner, lost out on the best actress award to Hong Kong’s Karena Lam in “Zinnia Flower.”
Lam plays a woman struggling to cope after her fiance is killed in a car accident.
“I want to thank my father in heaven. I felt he was with me while we were shooting the film,” Lam said in tears during her acceptance speech.
Chinese mainland film director Feng Xiaogang was named best actor for his performance as an aging gangster who rallies friends to rescue his son in “Mr. Six.”
Best new director award went to Bi Gan, a 26-year-old independent filmmaker, for “Kaili Blues,” the tale of a doctor in a rural town in China and his journey along the Kaili River where he finds his present, past and future woven together.
Mainland director Jia Zhangke won best original screenplay for “Mountains May Depart.”
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