Sabu's 'Arrested Memory' leads 63rd Golden Horse nominations with 11

Sabu's "Arrested Memory" leads the 63rd Golden Horse Awards with 11 nominations, one more than Shu Qi's "Girl", which has 10. 1 Joseph Hsu Chen-chieh's "Double Happiness" and Yeung Leung-chuen's "We Are Born Good" follow with nine each, and Variety reports that these four films are all up for best narrative feature and best film editing. 1 Anthony Chen's "We Are All Strangers" takes the fifth best narrative feature slot; the best director field is Sabu, Hsu, Chen, Herman Yau ("We're Nothing at All") and Edmund Yeo ("The Age of Goodbyes"). 1

Organisers received 587 entries this year, and the nominations were read out by Ma Shih-yuan and Jimmy Liu. 1 Colorist Moya Chou was named Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year and Yu Kan-ping is the lifetime achievement honoree. 1 CNA reports that five Singapore films were nominated: "We Are All Strangers", "The Violinist", "Ah Girl", "Buah" (also known as "Fruit") and "She Said". 2

"We Are All Strangers" has seven nominations, including best director for Anthony Chen and best leading actress for Yeo Yann Yann, while "The Violinist" and "Ah Girl" have three each. 2 Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority called it "a proud moment for our film industry"; CNA adds that "We Are All Strangers" is Singapore's entry for the 99th Academy Awards' international feature category and that "The Violinist" won the top feature prize at Annecy. 2 The Golden Horse Film Festival opens on 6 November and screens every nominated film; the ceremony is on 22 November at Taipei Music Center, a Sunday for the first time, with TTV broadcasting in Taiwan, StarHub in Singapore and Astro in Malaysia, and the jury to be revealed in late October. 1 2