The 60^th Golden Horse Awards honors Brigitte LIN and CHEN Kun-hou with Lifetime Achievement Award

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee announced today (Jun 23^rd) the recipients of the 60^th Golden Horse Lifetime Achievement Award: cinema legend and Golden Horse Awards Best Leading Actress Brigitte LIN Ching Hsia, and Golden Horse Awards winning director-cinematographer CHEN Kun-hou. When informed of the award giving, CHEN modestly expresses his gratitude and extends it to the many co-workers and predecessors over the six decades of his career, and Brigitte LIN responds, “Much appreciation to the Golden Horse for the honor of Lifetime Achievement Award. See you on November 25^th.”

Brigitte LIN Ching Hsia made her cinema debut with Outside the Window (1973). Though this movie was unable to hit the big screen in Taiwan at that time, LIN still rose to fame with many other works. In the climax of romantic drama, LIN is among the top-tier actresses with multiple blockbusters adapted from romance novels by Chiung Yao, like Cloud of Romance (1977), Moon Fascination, Bird Sweet (1978), The Wild Goose on the Wing (1979) and A Love Seed (1979). Unaffected by the swift movie trends, LIN continuously succeeded in film of other genres in Hong Kong, such as Police Story (1985), Peking Opera Blues (1986) and Starry Is the Night (1988), as well as martial arts classics like The Legend of the Swordsman (1992) and Dragon Inn (1992). Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express (1994) and Ashes of Time (1994) pushed her to new heights of stardom and brought her international fame. In the meantime, LIN took her performing skill up a notch in both award-winning Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land (1992) and the same stage play.

Brigitte earned two Golden Horse Awards nominations for Best Leading Actress in Magnificent 72 (1980) and The Switch (1982), and later won the Award at the 27^th Golden Horse Awards with Till the End of the World (1990). Brigitte has delivered many great performances with varied characters and genres, and she is undoubtedly a genuine actress, a star and a legend. In recent years, she has devoted on writings but still remains the focus of cinephiles. The year of 2023 marks the 50^th anniversary of her big screen debut, and this Golden Horse Lifetime Achievement honor comes just in time.

CHEN Kun-hou began his career in the film industry in the 1960s, starting as an assistant and moving on to become Director of Photography in the 70s. His works as D.P. include Story of Mother (1973, dir. Song Chun-so) and director Lee Hsing’s He Never Gives Up (1978), Story of a Small Town (1979), Good Morning, Taipei (1979) and My Native Land (1980). In the early 80s, he served as D.P. for Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Loveable You (1981), Cheerful Wind (1982), Green Green Grass of Home (1982), The Sandwich Man (1983), The Boys from Fengkuei (1983) and A Summer at Grandpa’s (1984). CHEN also directed Spring in Autumn (1980), Six Is Company (1982), Growing Up (1983), Out of the Blue (1984), His Matrimony (1985), My Favorite Season (1985), Osmanthus Alley (1987) and My Mother’s Tea House (1988). Growing Up is the first film among the Taiwan New Wave to be awarded Best Feature Film at Golden Horse Awards, for which CHEN gained Best Director too; he as well won two other Golden Horse for Best Cinematography with He Never Gives Up and His Matrimony. Six decades of devotion in the film industry, CHEN Kun-hou has made great contributions in varied professional fields and the movie movement. This year also marks the 40^th anniversary of his winning film Growing Up.

The 60^th Golden Horse Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday, November 25^th at the National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei. Short film (live-action, documentary, animation) submission to the 60^th Golden Horse Awards will be due on June 30^th; submission of feature-length movies will be open from July 1^st. For more information, please check the Golden Horse official website, Facebook and Instagram.