The annual awards which close China’s Hundred Flowers Film Festival, were held this year in Changchun, Jilin Province. Here is the list of winners:
Best Original Screenplay: Li Qiang (The Golden Era)
Best Editing: Yu Boyang (The Taking of Tiger Mountain)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ang Xu, Yujiao Li, Jinglong Han (12 Citizens)
Best Sound: Jing Tao (Coming Home)
Best Chinese Opera Film: Female Governor in the Tang Dynasty
Best Cinematography: Zeng Jian (Phurbu & Tenzin)
Award for Low Budget Feature: Nuo Ri Ji Ma
Best Music: Hao Weiya (Phurbu & Tenzin)
Best Animation: Monkey King: Hero is Back
Best Art Direction: Quan Rongzhe (Wolf Totem)
Best Director: Tsui Hark (The Taking of Tiger Mountain)
Best Directorial Debut: Jianbin Chen (A Fool)
Best Supporting Actor: Yi Zhang (Dearest)
Best Actor: Zhang Hanyu (The Taking of Tiger Mountain)
Best Picture: Wolf Totem (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Best Supporting Actress: Deng Jiajia (Silent Witness)
Best Actress: Ba Dema (Nuo Ri Ji Ma)
The Best Actor and Best Actress awards were considered upsets, particularly the latter, since the 75-year-old Mongolian had to compete with Vicky Zhao Wei and Tang Wei.
Another surprise was the Best Directorial Debut award, because A Fool, has not yet been released in China, as a result of the drug arrest of Wang Xuebing, one of its stars.
Tsui Hark, whose film about a conflict between the the People’s Liberation Army of China and a gang of bandits, led the competition with 18 nominations, stated: “It’s the first time that I got an award in the Chinese Mainland. It’s the first time for a Hong Kong director to get the award for Best Director at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival. It has a special meaning for me.”
Zhang Hanyu, who played the real-life character Yang Zirong stated: “It is my second Best Actor award at the Golden Rooster Film Festival. Last time, I was nominated for the film “Assembly.” Yang Zirong has been a hero to me from a very young age. I wanted to become a person like him, and I can sing all the songs in the Beijing-opera version of ‘The Taking of Tiger Mountain.”
