50th Golden Horse Awards

Award ceremony for Chinese-language films of 2012 and 2013

The 50th Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin:第50屆金馬獎) took place on November 23, 2013 at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[2]

Best Feature Film Ilo Ilo A Touch of Sin The Grandmaster Stray Dogs Drug War	Best Documentary Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above Bridge over Troubled Water Pusu Qhuni Boundary Revelation
Best Short Film Butter Lamp Downstream The Busy Young Psychic A Breath from the Bottom	Best Animation Feature -
Best Director Tsai Ming-liang — Stray Dogs Chung Mong-hong — Soul Jia Zhangke — A Touch of Sin Wong Kar-wai — The Grandmaster Johnnie To — Drug War	Best New Director Anthony Chen — Ilo Ilo Zhao Wei — So Young Sunny Luk and Longman Leung — Cold War Juno Mak — Rigor Mortis Hsu Chao-jen — Together
Best Leading Actor Lee Kang-sheng — Stray Dogs Jimmy Wang Yu — Soul Tony Leung Chiu-wai — The Grandmaster Nick Cheung — Unbeatable Tony Leung Ka-fai — Cold War	Best Leading Actress Zhang Ziyi — The Grandmaster Cherry Ngan — The Way We Dance Gwei Lun-mei — Christmas Rose Shu Qi — Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons Sammi Cheng — Blind Detective
Best Supporting Actor Li Xuejian — Back to 1942 Chen Tianwen — Ilo Ilo Eddie Peng — Unbeatable Huang Bo — Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons Tong Dawei — American Dreams in China	Best Supporting Actress Yeo Yann Yann — Ilo Ilo Crystal Lee — Unbeatable Siu Yam-yam — Tales from the Dark 1 Lin Mei-hsiu — To My Dear Granny Xue Hong — Longing for the Rain
Best New Performer Kuo Shu-yao — Step Back to Glory Koh Jia Ler — Ilo Ilo Yang Liang-yu — A Time in Quchi Huang Shao-yang — Together Dong Zijian — Young Style	Best Original Screenplay Anthony Chen — Ilo Ilo Jia Zhangke — A Touch of Sin Chu Yu-ning — To My Dear Granny Wai Ka-fai, Yau Nai-hoi, Ray Chan and Yu Xi — Drug War Zhou Zhiyong, Zhang Ji and Aubrey Lam — American Dreams in China
Best Adapted Screenplay Li Qiang — So Young Liu Zhenyun — Back to 1942 Stephen Chow, Derek Kwok, Jiro Lee and Y. Y. Kong — Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons	Best Cinematography Philippe Le Sourd — The Grandmaster Nakashima Nagao — Soul Lü Yue — Back to 1942 Yu Lik-wai — A Touch of Sin Liao Pen-jung, Shong Woon-chong, Lu Qing-xin — Stray Dogs
Best Visual Effects Pierre Buffin — The Grandmaster Chang Hong-song — Back to 1942 Lee In-ho, Kim Jong-pil, Ken Law Wai-ho and Wing Tsang — Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons Enoch Chan — Rigor Mortis Chas Chau Chi-shing, Lewis Chan Chi-ho, Johnny Lin and Shaun Su — When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep	Best Art Direction William Chang and Alfred Yau — The Grandmaster Chao Shih-hao — Soul Shi Haiying — Back to 1942 Li Yang — So Young Penny Tsai Pei-ling — When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep
Best Makeup & Costume Design William Chang — The Grandmaster Timmy Yip — Back to 1942 Bruce Yu and Lee Pik-kwan — Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons Miggy Cheng, Phoebe Wong, Heidi Chun and Kittichon Kunratchol — Rigor Mortis Dora Ng — American Dreams in China	Best Action Choreography Jackie Chan, He Jun and JC Stunt Team — CZ12 Shing Mak — The Way We Dance Yuen Woo-ping — The Grandmaster Tony Ling Chi-wah — Unbeatable Stephen Chow and Ku Huen-chiu — Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
Best Original Film Score Lim Giong — A Touch of Sin Ricky Ho and Nolay Piho — Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above Patrick Jonsson — Bends Wu Rui-ran — A Time in Quchi Owen Wang — Zone Pro Site	Best Original Film Song "I Love You" — Rock Me to the Moon Composer: Spark Chen Lyrics: Spark Chen Performer: Sleepy Dads "Make a Film" — Forever Love Composer: Ah Di-zai and Liao Wei-chieh Lyrics: Ah Di-zai Performer: One Two Free "To Youth" — So Young Composer: Dou Peng Lyrics: Li Qiang Performer: Faye Wong "Jin Ma Mo Un" — Zone Pro Site Composer: Ma Nien-hsien Lyrics: Ma Nien-hsien Performer: Lin Mei-hsiu "Old Love Song" — Together Composer: Suming Lyrics: Sonia Sui and Suming Performer: Kenny Bee
Best Film Editing Matthieu Laclau and Lin Xudong — A Touch of Sin William Chang, Benjamin Courtines and Poon Hung-yiu — The Grandmaster Azrael Chung — Unbeatable David M. Richardson and Allen Leung Chin-lun — Drug War Xiao Yang — American Dreams in China	Best Sound Effects Tu Duu-chih and Kuo Li-chi — Soul Wu Shu-yao and Lee Yu-chih — Pusu Qhuni Robert Mackenzie and Traithep Wongpaiboon — The Grandmaster Phyllis Cheng — Unbeatable Tu Duu-chih, Kuo Li-chi and Mark Ford — Stray Dogs
Audience Choice Award The Grandmaster Ilo Ilo A Touch of Sin Stray Dogs Drug War	FIPRESCI Prize (award for first and second features) Rigor Mortis
NETPAC Award (award for feature films by Asian new talent)^[3] Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy
Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year Yeh Jufeng Tsai Ming-hsiu Liao Ching-sung	Lifetime Achievement Award Chen Chen

References

^ "台北金馬影展 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival". www.goldenhorse.org.tw. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^ "2013年第50屆金馬獎完整名單揭曉！《一代宗師》章子怡、《郊遊》李康生封王封后蔡明亮奪最佳導演《爸媽不在家》成本屆最佳劇情片-時尚新聞-GQ瀟灑男人網". GQ Taiwan (in Chinese). 23 November 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
^ "《幸福路上》突圍而出勇奪金馬創投百萬首獎". www.goldenhorse.org.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 1 October 2023.