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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 since since 1962. The awards ceremony is usually held in November/December in Taipei, though the venue has been shifted around the island on recent times. Image File history File links Information. ... Shortcut: WP:WIN Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, also an online community. ... A film festival is the presentation or showcasing of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues. ... Motto none Anthem National Anthem of the Republic of China Capital Taipei (formerly and de jure Nanking) Largest city Taipei Official languages Standard Mandarin (GuóyÇ”) Government Semi-presidential system  -  President Chen Shui-bian  -  Vice President Annette Lu  -  Premier Chang Chun-hsiung Establishment Xinhai Revolution   -  Independence declared October 10, 1911... Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Taipei (disambiguation). ...

The Golden Horse Film Awards (金馬獎) are modelled after the Academy Awards and major film festivals worldwide. The awards, contested by submitted Taiwan, Hong Kong, PRC films and from elsewhere, are generally held to be the most prestigious for Chinese-language films outside the People's Republic of China. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... A film festival is the presentation or showcasing of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues. ... Chinese or the Sinitic language(s) (汉语/漢語, Pinyin: HànyÇ”; 华语/華語, HuáyÇ”; or 中文, Zhōngwén) can be considered a language or language family. ...

Winners are selected by a jury of judges during the week before the ceremony is held. Winners are awarded with a golden horse statuette, with a citation, during a broadcast ceremony. A citation or bibliographic citation is a reference to a book, article, web page, or other published item with sufficient details to identify the item uniquely. ...

Overview

The Golden Horse awards ceremony is held after a month-long festival showcasing some of the nominated feature films for the awards.

Under current regulations, every film made primarily in a Chinese language is eligible for competition. Since 1996, a liberalization act allows for an artiste or film from the People's Republic of China to enter the Awards. A few Mainland artistes and films have won, as in Best Actor Xia Yu (夏雨) in 1996, Best Actress Qin Hailu (秦海璐) in 2001 and Kekexili: Mountain Patrol in 2004. Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... Xia Yu is a Chinese actor. ...

The name 金馬 comes from the islands of Quemoy (金門) and Matsu (馬祖), to commemorate the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. Quemoy, Kinmen, or Chinmen (金門, pinyin: Jīnmén, POJ: Kim-mn̂g) (pop. ... The Matsu Islands (Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) are a minor archipelago of 19 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait administered as Lienchiang County (連江 Pinyin: Liánjiāng), Fukien Province of the Republic of China (ROC, now based on Taiwan). ... Taiwan Strait The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict that took place between the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) governments in which the PRC was accused by Taiwan of shelling the islands of Matsu and...