Golden Horse Awards 2009 – Winners

Screenwriter-director Leon Dai’s Taiwanese black-and-white social-cum-family drama No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (above), Taiwan’s submission for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Award, was the top winner at the 2009 Golden Horse Awards ceremony held Saturday evening in Taipei.
The real-life inspired tale of a poor single father who fights Taiwanese bureaucracy so as to retain custody of his daughter, No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti bagged trophies for best picture, best director, best original screenplay (Dai and best actor nominee Chen Wen-pin), and outstanding Taiwanese film of the year. (Curiously, the Taiwanese filmmaker of the year wasn’t Dai, but veteran lighting designer Lee Lung-Yue.)
"I especially want to thank this piece of land, Taiwan," Dai [...]