27th Golden Rooster Awards


The 27th Golden Rooster Awards was an award ceremony honoring the best Chinese language films of 2008–09. The award ceremony was held in Jiangxi, Nanjing.

Winners and nominees

Best FilmBest Director

  • Feng Xiaogang － Assembly
  • *Cao Baoping － The Equation of Love and Death
  • *Chen Kaige － Forever Enthralled
  • *Gordon Chan － Painted Skin
  • *Ning Hao － Crazy Racer
    • Best ActorBest Actress
  • Wu Gang － Iron Man
  • *Fan Wei － Lucky Dog
  • *Ma Guowei － Old Fish
  • *Sun Min － Deng Pingshou
  • *Zhang Hanyu － Assembly
  • Zhou Xun － The Equation of Love and Death
  • Jiang Wenli － And the Spring Comes
  • *Zhao Wei － Painted Skin
  • *Helen Yao － Blossom
  • *Zhang Ziyi － Forever Enthralled
    • Best WritingBest Directorial Debut
  • Jiang Haiyang/Gu Bai/Zong Fuxian － Turning Point 1977
  • *Cheng Xiaoling － The Clear Water
  • *Li Qiang － And the Spring Comes
  • *Liu Heng － Assembly
  • *Shu Ping － A Tale of Two Donkeys
  • *Su Xiaowei － Six Sisters
  • Li Dawei － A Tale of Two Donkeys
  • *Xierzhati Yahepu － 2008 of Maimaiti
  • *Huang He － Deng Pingshou
  • *Peng Jiahuang/Peng Chen － Walk to School
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • Wang Xueqi － Forever Enthralled
  • *Deng Chao － Assembly
  • *Huang Bo － Iron Man
  • *Jiao Gang － And the Spring Comes
  • *Sun Honglei － Forever Enthralled
  • *Yang Xinmin － Her Promise
  • Yue Hong － A Tale of Two Donkeys
  • *Cao Cuifen － Six Sisters in the War
  • *Dong Xuan － And the Spring Comes
  • *Jiang Hongbo － Looking for Jackie
  • *Sun Li － Painted Skin
    • Best CinematographyBest Art Direction
  • Assembly － Lü Yue
  • *Red Cliff － Lü Yue & Zhang Li
  • *Iron Man － Zhao Fei
  • *Wheat－ Zhao Xiaoshi
  • *Painted Skin － Arthur Wong
  • *Empire of Silver － Anthony Pun
  • Iron Man － Lu Yue-lin, Yu Maiduo
    • Best MusicBest Sound Recording
  • Assembly － Wang Liguang
  • Axis of War: The First of August － Wang Lewen, Li Anlei, An Shaofeng
    • Best DocumentaryBest Science Film
  • Fights A Decisive Battle The Orphan City
  • The Moon
    • Best Children FeatureBest Chinese Opera Film
  • Walking to School
  • Inspector and Prince
    • Best AnimationBest Short Film
  • The Magic Aster
  • Zou Si Fang

    • Special awards

    ; Lifetime Achievement Award
    ; Special Jury Award
    • Film: Axis of War: The First of August
    • Screenwriter: Cheng Xiaoling