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Golden Horse Awards 2022 nominations: Limbo leads Hong Kong contingent at Taiwan film event despite warning from the city’s industry body

  • Crime thriller Limbo leads the field at the 59th Golden Horse Awards, with 14 nominations including best film, best director, best actor and best actress
  • Earlier this month, the Hong Kong Motion Picture Industry Association asked local producers to think twice before attending the event in Taiwan

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Lam Ka-tung (left) has been nominated for best actor at the 2022 Golden Horse Awards for his role in Limbo. It is one of 14 nominations that the film has received.
Edmund Lee

After dominating the Hong Kong Film Awards race with 14 nominations – and winning in four categories – earlier this year, Hong Kong crime thriller Limbo leads the field at the 59th Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan with 14 nominations, including best film, best director, best actor (for Lam Ka-tung) and best actress (Cya Liu Ya-se).

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Soi Cheang Pou-soi’s acclaimed feature is followed by a pair of Taiwanese films – found-footage horror Incantation and family drama Coo-Coo 043 – both nominated in 13 categories that also include best film and best director.
Beijing’s continued boycott of the event that had been known as the most prestigious awards for Chinese-language cinema had left the participation of Hong Kong films in some doubt, which was further exacerbated after the Hong Kong Motion Picture Industry Association issued a letter to the city’s producers earlier this month, asking them to think twice before attending.

Despite the warning, Hong Kong cinema is ably represented. Hong Kong-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lau Kok-rui’s feature debut, The Sunny Side of the Street, has six nominations, including a best actor nod for Anthony Wong Chau-sang, who plays a taxi driver helping a Pakistani refugee boy flee the city.

Another Hong Kong film, The Narrow Road, is nominated in four categories that include best actor (Louis Cheung Kai-chung) and best actress (Angela Yuen Lai-lam). The human drama set during the Covid-19 pandemic marks the solo directing debut of Lam Sum, who was one of two co-directors of protest drama May You Stay Forever Young (2021).

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Other Hong Kong productions with nominations are: Sylvia Chang Ai-chia (A Light Never Goes Out) for best actress; Jennifer Yu Heung-ying (Far Far Away) for best supporting actress; Blue Island, the latest feature by Yellowing director Chan Tze-woon, for best documentary feature; and The Black Wall for best documentary short film.
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