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The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taipei, Republic of China. Fashioned after the Academy Awards, the Golden Horse Awards are generally held to be the most prestigious film awards for Chinese-language films outside the People's Republic of China. Unlike the Academy Awards however, whereby winners are chosen through public vote by fellow colleagues in an Academy of film arts and sciences, Golden Horse Awards winners are selected by a panel of critics during the week before the ceremony is held. Winners are awarded with a statuette modelled after a golden horse.
The Golden Horse Film Awards ceremony is usually held after a month of festival showcasing some of the film features nominated for the awards. Under current regulations, every film made primarily in a Chinese language, produced outside the People's Republic of China, is eligible for the Awards. An artiste from the People's Republic of China, however, can be eligible, as in Best Actor Xia Yu 夏雨 (1996) and Best Actress Qin Hailu 秦海璐 (2001), so long as the film they made meet the earlier requirement.
The current (2003) recipients of Best Actor and Best Actress are Tony Leung Chiu Wai for his role as an undercover cop in Internal Affairs 3, and Wu Junru as a prostitute in Golden Chicken. The best Chinese film for 2003 is adjudged to be Internal Affairs 3.
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