Golden Horse Nominations for 2019

by Nathaniel R
A lonely student and his teacher become friendly in "Wet Season"
Usually the Golden Horse nominations are a fun and glamorous mix of all the hot movies and movie stars from various Chinese language countries. This year, however, due to political fallout from a speech last year and a Chinese boycott because of increasing tension between the way China sees Taiwan and the way Taiwan sees itself, no films from Mainland China are competing (which takes out a huge chunk of movies and a lot of the most famous movie stars). So the bulk of the features nominated this year are features from Taiwan with a little Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong thrown in. UPDATED WITH THE WINNERS MARKED BY STARS
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
- A Sun (Taiwan) ★
- Suk Suk (Hong Kong)
- The Garden of Evening Mists (Malaysia)
- Wet Season (Singapore)
- Detention (Taiwan)
You may have noticed that Taiwan's current Oscar submission Dear Ex (streaming on Netflix) is not nominated here. That's because it was a major nominee last year at these same awards. Curiously Singapore's current Oscar submission A Land Imagined (streaming on Netflix) was not nominated in Best Feature at the Golden Horse Awards. It had to settle for a few craft nominations...