Golden Horse Awards 2023 nominations: Time Still Turns The Pages, In Broad Daylight lead Hong Kong contenders at Taiwan film event once again shunned by Beijing

Time Still Turns The Pages and In Broad Daylight both have five nominations, with other Hong Kong films including The Lyricist Wannabe and Fly Me to the Moon

Elsewhere, the historical drama Snow in Midsummer, directed by Malaysian filmmaker Chong Keat-aun, leads the field overall with nine nominations

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Sean Wong Tsz-lok in a still from “Time Still Turns the Pages”. The film leads Hong Kong contenders at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.

Published: 11:25am, 4 Oct 2023

Hong Kong filmmakers continue to be amply represented at the Golden Horse Awards, a Taiwan showpiece film event entering its 60th edition that has – for the fifth year running – been boycotted by mainland Chinese authorities.

Leading the Hong Kong contenders is first-time director Nick Cheuk Yik-him’s Time Still Turns The Pages, a socially conscious drama about family trauma and student suicides. The film is in the running for best narrative feature, as well as four other nominations that include best new director and best original screenplay.

The other nominated films by young Hong Kong directors are In Broad Daylight (with five nods, including Jennifer Yu Heung-ying for best leading actress), The Lyricist Wannabe (with two, including Chung Suet-ying for lead actress), and Fly Me to the Moon (also with two).

Elegies, Hong Kong film legend Ann Hui On-wah’s portrait of some of the city’s most revered poets, is nominated for best documentary feature, and long-retired Taiwanese actress Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, another icon of Hong Kong cinema, is recognised with a lifetime achievement award.

Jennifer Yu is a best leading actress nominee for her part in “In Broad Daylight”.

Sharp-eyed viewers will also notice that The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon, the stylish Taiwanese crime drama feted with seven nominations, is directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Ching-po (of Jiang Hu and Mob Sister fame), whose last film to open in his home city was 2014’s Once Upon a Time in Shanghai.

Elsewhere, the historical drama Snow in Midsummer, written and directed by the Malaysian filmmaker Chong Keat-aun, leads the field overall with nine nominations, including best narrative feature and best director.