According to the National Film Administration, mainland films and personnel were suspended from participating in the 56th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in 2019.
The 56th Golden Horse Awards Ceremony 2019 will be held in Taipei, China on 23 November, and the shortlist will be announced on 1 October, along with the announcement of all jury members.
Previously, mainland films such as "One Second", "The Party at South Station", "The Long Day", and "Lyceum Theatre" have all said that they did not register for the 56th Golden Horse Awards.
Stills from "The Party at South Station"
Stills from "The Earth Is Long"
The Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards are called the "Three Major Chinese Film Awards".
According to official information, the Golden Horse Awards is the oldest film award in the Chinese film industry, having been held 55 times since its inception in 1962.
Many people still remember that at the 55th Golden Horse Awards ceremony, Fu Yu, the winner of the "Best Documentary", set off a series of big waves.
When Fu Yu learned of his award, he made the following remarks: "Youth is very beautiful, youth is also the most prone to mistakes, it is also easy to project wrong expectations on others, it may also happen to people, or country to country, I hope that our country may be treated as an independent individual, this is my greatest wish." ”
Fu Yu's "Taiwan independence" remarks made Li An, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Golden Horse Awards, embarrassed and showed a bitter smile.
Gong Li, as the chairman of the jury, heard the remarks and her face immediately went black. Immediately, she was scheduled to present the award on stage, but she sat directly in her seat and refused to present the award.
According to netizens, after the Golden Horse Awards were awarded, mainland and Hong Kong actors were collectively absent from the Golden Horse Dinner. Many actors are also expressing their patriotism with their own practical actions.
It is understood that in the 55th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards in 2018, among the 23 film awards and individual awards, 6 Chinese mainland films won 14 awards, accounting for more than 61%.
The number of entries for the 56th Golden Horse Awards totaled 685, basically the same as the 667 in 2018, but only 148 feature films attracted the most attention, compared with 228 last year, a decrease of 35% year-on-year. It is the least time in the past four years.
Leaving the mainland movies, how much will the Golden Horse be affected?
Judging from the number of mainland and Taiwanese films and the proportion of mainland films that have won awards over the years, the impact is almost fatal.
With the rise of Chinese-language films on the mainland, Taiwanese have long accepted the fact that the Golden Horse Awards no longer belong to Taiwan. Among the 23 film awards and individual awards in the 55th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, a total of 6 Chinese mainland films won 14 awards, accounting for more than 61%, 6 Taiwan films won 8 awards accounting for only 35%, and 1 Hong Kong film won 1 award, accounting for 4%.
Some netizens said that without the Chinese films that are mostly mainland films, the 56th Golden Horse Awards have become "self-entertainment".
To tell the truth, the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards have developed well in recent years, but things will be reversed.
The preciousness of the Golden Horse Awards has always been not only in the affirmation of their own acting skills, but also with this honor, but also in the unlimited career and future.
However, in recent years, there are 12 film emperors or film queens who have an average score of less than 6 points after winning the award, in other words, failing to pass, which is really an embarrassment of capitalization.
In 2018, Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, responded to the statement that the mainland will ban the Golden Horse Awards starting next year.
"This time, some political forces have used cross-strait film exchange activities to make 'Taiwan independence' remarks and create political incidents, and I think this kind of behavior is unpopular and has been condemned by public opinion on the island." Therefore, we hope that the film and television circles on both sides of the strait and people from all walks of life will work together to do more things that are conducive to promoting cross-strait film and television exchanges, and jointly resist such words and deeds that interfere with and sabotage. ”
However, what I want to say is that the 28th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival will be held in Xiamen from November 19 to 23. Welcome taiwanese film and television industry colleagues to visit at that time.
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