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Golden Horse Awards 2026: Arrested Memory and Girl lead the nominees before the November 22 ceremony
Sabu’s Arrested Memory has 11 nominations and Shu Qi’s Girl 10 at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards. The Taipei ceremony streams on YouTube in most countries.
By 2020 Movie Reviews Team ·
In short
- The 63rd Golden Horse Awards are presented in Taipei on Sunday, November 22, from 6:30 p.m. local time, which by our conversion is 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
- Arrested Memory leads with 11 nominations, Girl has 10, and Double Happiness and We Are Born Good have nine each, the festival says.
- By our count from the nominee list, Kung Fu has eight nominations without a place in the best film or best director categories.
- Outside Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei, the festival lists live streams on its own YouTube channel and on TTV’s.
The 63rd Golden Horse Awards, a film prize first awarded in 1962, will be handed out on Sunday, November 22, at the Taipei Music Center. The red carpet starts at 5 p.m. and the ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Taipei time, which by our conversion is 4 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time the same day. From this year the ceremony moves to a Sunday, the organizers say. Sabu’s Arrested Memory leads the nominations with 11, followed by Girl, for which Shu Qi is nominated as best new director, with 10. Double Happiness and We Are Born Good have nine each.
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee announced the nominees on October 1, from 587 entries: 92 narrative features, 60 documentaries, three animated features, 294 live-action shorts, 71 documentary shorts and 67 animated shorts. This guide sets out the main categories and the ways the festival lists for watching the ceremony from abroad.
The films with the most nominations
| Film | Director nominated | Nominations | Among them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrested Memory | Sabu (best director) | 11 | Narrative feature; leading actor, Ethan Juan; supporting actor, Akira Huang |
| Girl | Shu Qi (best new director) | 10 | Narrative feature; supporting actress, Audrey Lin; new performer, Bai Xiao-ying |
| Double Happiness | Joseph Hsu Chen-chieh (best director) | 9 | Narrative feature; leading actor, Liu Kuan-ting; leading actress, Jennifer Yu |
| We Are Born Good | Yeung Leung-chuen (best new director) | 9 | Narrative feature; leading actor, Yeung Wai-lun; leading actress, Chung Suet-ying |
| Kung Fu | None | 8 (our count) | Leading actor, Leon Dai; supporting actor, Berant Zhu; six craft awards |
| We Are All Strangers | Anthony Chen (best director) | 7 (our count) | Narrative feature; leading actress, Yeo Yann-yann; supporting actor, Andi Lim |
Best Narrative Feature has five nominees: Girl, Double Happiness, We Are Born Good, Arrested Memory and Anthony Chen’s We Are All Strangers. The best director nominees are Herman Yau for We’re Nothing at All, Edmund Yeo for The Age of Goodbyes, Joseph Hsu Chen-chieh for Double Happiness, Sabu for Arrested Memory and Anthony Chen for We Are All Strangers. By our count, Kung Fu reaches eight nominations without either of those categories: besides its two actors, it is up for visual effects, art direction, makeup and costume design, action choreography, original score and sound effects.
The acting nominees
| Category | Nominees (film) |
|---|---|
| Leading actor | Leon Dai (Kung Fu); Liu Kuan-ting (Double Happiness); Yeung Wai-lun (We Are Born Good); Ethan Juan (Arrested Memory); Jack Tan (Dead Tide) |
| Leading actress | Angela Yuen (Afterpiece); Jennifer Yu (Double Happiness); Liang Cuishan (Big Little Things); Chung Suet-ying (We Are Born Good); Yeo Yann-yann (We Are All Strangers) |
| Supporting actor | Anson Kong Ip-sang (We’re Nothing at All); Berant Zhu (Kung Fu); Tin Kai-man (Double Happiness); Akira Huang (Arrested Memory); Andi Lim (We Are All Strangers) |
| Supporting actress | Audrey Lin (Girl); Mhia Firdaus (Sayang); Sun Jialing (Big Little Things); Judy Ongg (Sunshine Women’s Choir); Kearen Pang (We Are Born Good) |
| New performer | Bai Xiao-ying (Girl); Ong Xuan-jing (Ah Girl); Nandagopall Mohan (Sayang); Ho Man-xi (Sunshine Women’s Choir); Jaden Wang (Will You Still Be My Friend) |
By our count, Double Happiness and We Are Born Good have three acting nominees each, both leads among them: Double Happiness adds a supporting actor, We Are Born Good a supporting actress. Big Little Things has two acting nominees, Liang Cuishan and Sun Jialing, and its director, Michelle Zhou, is up for best new director and for adapted screenplay.
Documentaries, animation and new directors
The documentary feature nominees are The Dance of a Soloist by Lee Li-shao, The Whisper of Sunlight by Wong Siu-pong, Scenes from Departure by Ray Chan Kam-hei, Almost Home by Jiang Wenjie and Etude by Lin Yu-en. Three films compete for best animated feature: Magic Atlas by Sun Xun, Welcome to Dolly’s House by Seven YCH, Rady Fu and Liu Yu-shu, and The Violinist by Ervin Han and Raúl García. Among the documentary shorts is Night Journey by Tsai Ming-liang.
Best new director brings together Shu Qi for Girl, Priscilla Ang Geck-geck for Ah Girl, Shieh Meng-ju for Mudborn, Michelle Zhou for Big Little Things and Yeung Leung-chuen for We Are Born Good. Ah Girl also has nominations for Ong Xuan-jing as new performer and for Priscilla Ang Geck-geck’s adapted screenplay.
The jury and the honorary awards
Sylvia Chang presides over this year’s jury, the festival announced on October 28. In our translation of its Chinese release, she returns as jury president after 15 years; the festival counts 21 Golden Horse nominations for her across categories from directing and screenwriting to acting and film songs, and three wins as best leading actress. The committee says the juries work in three rounds, and that the final winners are decided on the day of the ceremony.
Two honors are already settled. Yu Kan-ping receives the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Moya Chou is the Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year. The festival’s October 1 release describes Chou as a colorist with close to 30 years in post-production, from film to digital (our translation).
How to watch the ceremony
In Taiwan, the festival says TTV carries the ceremony live on television, Taiwan Mobile’s MyVideo has the exclusive online stream and LINE TODAY also carries it. StarHub shows it live in Singapore and Astro in Malaysia. Elsewhere, the festival says viewers can follow it live on the Golden Horse YouTube channel, and its English ceremony page lists TTV’s YouTube channel as well for viewers outside Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. By our conversion, the live show falls early on Sunday morning in the United States.
All the nominated films screen in Taipei at the Golden Horse Film Festival, which opened on November 6 and runs until the day of the ceremony, according to the organizers.
Nominees, dates and broadcast details are as the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee’s nominee list and English ceremony page, read on November 14, 2026, and its Chinese-language announcements of October 1 and October 28, 2026; details from those two are our translation. Counts marked as ours, and the time conversion, are our own.
Sources
- Nominees & Winners: 63rd (2026) Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, November 14, 2026
- The 63rd Golden Horse Awards Ceremony: Info Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, November 14, 2026
- Nominees of the 63rd Golden Horse Awards Announced Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, October 1, 2026
- Sylvia Chang Presides Over the Jury of the 63rd Golden Horse Awards Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, October 28, 2026
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