Mainland films conquers Golden Horse Film Awards
- By Zhang Rui
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E-mail China.org.cn, November 28, 2016
Films from the Chinese mainland stunningly swept top honors at Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscars for Chinese-language films, Golden Horse Film Awards, on Saturday in Taipei with "The Summer Is Gone," wining best picture and Feng Xiaogang the best director.
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Feng Xiaogang poses for photos after winning the Best Director award for his movie "I Am Not Madame Bovary" at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Nov. 26, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Best feature film prize was awarded to Zhang Dalei's "The Summer Is Gone," about a boy's summer vacation in Inner Mongolia in the early 1990s against a background of shrinking jobs at state-owned companies during a time of economic reform. It also picked up a best new performer award for 10-year-old Kong Weiyi and the FIPRESCI prize awarded by a separate jury of critics.
"What should I say? I really wasn't expecting this. It's unbelievable... It's like a pilgrimage for me coming to Taipei," Zhang, director of the film, "The Summer is Gone," told the press after winning the best picture award.
Feng picked up the best director award for "I Am Not Madame Bovary" at the ceremony. Feng said the film was the closest to his artist vision and heart. Interestingly, the director also won the best actor award at last year's Golden Horse Film Awards for his impressive performance in "Mr. Six," a rare project of Feng as an actor in a feature film for the first time.
"I Am Not Madame Bovary" stars actress Fan Bingbing, who plays the role of a peasant woman who sues her ex-husband and fights China's bureaucracy for years. The film also won the audience choice award in Taipei.
"I want to thank Fan Bingbing. She is a movie star but acts in this art film without taking any pay-ment," Feng said. He hoped the Golden Horse Film Awards can award Fan so that as he said, “I hope to encourage more stars to use their influence to get the audience to go to the theaters to watch art house films.”
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