Hong Kong Schauspieler Lau Ching-wan (oder Sean Andy) stellt mit seiner Auszeichnung für den besten Hauptdarsteller während der 49Th Golden Horse Awards Zeremonie in Yilan, Ta
Hong Kong actor Lau Ching-wan (or Sean Andy) poses with his award for the best leading actor during the 49th Golden Horse Awards ceremony in Yilan, Taiwan, 24 November 2012. Chinas Beijing Blues has won the best film award and Hong Kongs Johnnie To took home the best directors award at Taiwans Golden Horse Film Festival, an event considered the Chinese-language Oscars. Beijing Blues portrays the lives of the urban dwellers through the work of a squad of plainclothes crime-hunters. In receiving the award, director Gao Qun Shu was visibly shocked, and he thanked the globe for giving an inexperienced director like him such honor and recognition. To won best director for Life Without Principle, which is about ordinary citizens in Hong Kong who are caught in the fallout of the global financial meltdown. The film also won veteran Hong Kong actor Lau Ching Wan the best actor award for his portrayal of a triad thug seeking to recover money lost in a loan shark scheme. Taiwans Gwei Lun-mei won the best actress award for portraying a woman involved in a romantic triangle in GF-BF, or Girlfriend-Boyfriend.
