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The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (臺北金馬影展) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan, Republic of China.

Fashioned after the Academy Awards, the Golden Horse Awards (金馬獎) are generally held to be the most prestigious film awards for Chinese language films outside the People's Republic of China. Unlike the Academy Awards however, whereby winners are chosen through public vote by fellow colleagues in an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Golden Horse Awards winners are selected by a panel of judges during the week before the ceremony is held. Winners are awarded with a statuette modelled after a golden horse.

The Golden Horse Film Awards ceremony is held after a month of festival showcasing some of the film features nominated for the awards. Under current regulations, every film made primarily in a Chinese language is eligible for the Awards. Since 1996, a liberalization act allows for an artiste or film from the People's Republic of China to be eligible for the Awards, as in Best Actor Xia Yu (夏雨) (1996) and Best Actress Qin Hailu (秦海璐) (2001).

The name 金馬 comes from the islands of Quemoy (金門) and Matsu (馬祖), to commemorate the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

Highlights

1959

The Executive Yuan issued the "Mandarin Films Award Regulation" to subsidize movies granted in the previous year on three aspects: feature films, documentary and individual techniques. The number of awards was unlimited and therefore each category had multiple awardees. Each winner received both substantial incentives (the prize, the trophy, the quota of imported foreign films) and honorary tokens (the certificate, the medal). With three successive year of holding this event, the prototype of the film festival was gradually formed.

1962

In May, the Government Information Office enacted the "Mandarin Film Award Regulation of Year 1962" to officially found the Golden Horse Awards. It applied different genres and fixed amounts to scrutinize the nominated films. Eighteen categories in total were designated along with the individual techniques separately awarded. The scale of the Golden Horse Awards thus sustained to become the annual ceremony in October ever since.
The term "Golden Horse" quoted from the first letter of Kin-Men and Ma-Tsu.
The 1st and 2nd Golden Horse Film Festivals released the winners list ahead of time then held the awarding ceremony to celebrate the President CHIANG Kai-Shek's birthday on Oct. 31.
The first best film entitled Sun, Moon and Star depicted the love multi-angle during the Resistant War to the Japanese Invasion period.
LIN Dai was awarded as the best actress of Love Without End in the 9th Asian Film Festival. It was the fourth time of her winning the prize.

1963

The Love Eterne blasted the box office success and consecutively showed for 186 days. Taipei audiences went crazy about Ivy LIN Po's arrival to receive the Golden Horse Award. Such phenomenon was teased by the Hong Kong daily news as "The City of Lunatics". Nevertheless, the jury hesitated to classify Ivy LIN Po's travesty role into either Best Actor or Best Actress categories. Eventually she was presented "Best Acting Special Award", which set a precedent example of the special award.
TU Juan proclaimed to decline being awarded as the best supporting actress in the Golden Horse Film Festival conducted by the Government Information Office. It was due to her regarding the role as the leading instead of a supportive character in The Remarriage.
In September, the Ministry of Interior Affairs summoned the "Film Guidance Conference". It set a precedent for the officials, scholars and cinema figures to resolve the film crisis in the future.
MP & GI Co., managed to establish the film studio in Taiwan.
Director LI Han-Hsiang founded Kuo Lien Entertainment Ltd, directly subject to Cathay Organization .
The diplomatic tie between Taiwan and Japan began to deteriorate and caused the prohibition against the import of Japanese films for 2 years as a result.

1964

The Golden Horse Film Festival was suspended for one round due to the following reasons addressed by the Government Information Office:
# The Asian Film Festival just took place in Taipei and there was no urgent need to conduct a film festival with the similar nature.
# In recent years, the residents had indulged themselves within flamboyant extravagance and negligence. From the perspective of society as a whole, there should be no necessity to hold such an event.
# The air crash tragedy of the tycoon Dato LOKE Wan-Tho
, who owned the MP & GI Co., severely traumatized the Hong Kong film
field. No sufficient films were submitted to the film festival.

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