61st Golden Horse Awards
The 61st Golden Horse Awards took place on November 23, 2024, at the Taipei Music Center in Taipei, Taiwan, which marked the first time the ceremony was held at a different venue following the closure of the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall for major renovations.
Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best works in the world of Chinese-language cinema in 2023 and 2024. Nominations were announced on October 2, 2024. Hong Kong film veteran Patrick Tam was originally slated to chair the jury, but withdrew due to the recurrence of a prior spinal injury and was subsequently replaced by Taiwanese production designer Huang Mei-ching.
Lou Ye's docufiction An Unfinished Film, set during the pandemic, won Best Narrative Feature alongside Best Director. The celebrated late actress Cheng Pei-pei and cinematographer Lin Wen-chin were honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.An Unfinished Film
| From Island to Island – Lau Kek-huat |
| Side A: A Summer Day – Wan Kin-fai | Colour Ideology Sampling.mov – Chan Cheuk-sze, Kathy Wong |
| Father Figure – Shek Ka-chun | Lou Ye – An Unfinished Film |
| Zhang Zhiyong – Bel Ami | Chung Suet Ying – The Way We Talk |
| Shih Ming-shuai – GATAO: Like Father Like Son | Yang Kuei-mei – Yen and Ai-Lee |
| Chiang Wei-liang, Yin You-qiao – Mongrel | Feifei Cheng – BIG |
| Daughter's Daughter – Huang Xi | Above the Dust – Wang Xiaoshuai |
| Bel Ami – Wang Weihua | Bel Ami – Chen Hoping |
| Stranger Eyes – Thomas Foguenne | "Dead Talents Society" from Dead Talents Society |
| Dead Talents Society – Lore Shih | Dead Talents Society – Wang Chih-cheng, Liang Shuo-lin |
| From Island to Island – Chen Yi-ling, Eddie Huang, Yannick Dauby | Dead Talents Society – Teddy Ray Huang |
| Dead Talents Society – Tomi Kuo, Chiu Chun-yi | - |
Jury
- Huang Mei-ching, Taiwanese production designer – Convener
- Hsieh Ying-xuan, Taiwanese actress
- Giddens Ko, Taiwanese novelist and filmmaker
- Lin Chun-yang, director and cinematographer
- Toe Yuen, animation director and screenwriter
- Lien Yi-chi, director, screenwriter and producer
- Chen Ta-pu, director and cinematographer
- Wong Hin-yan, musician, singer-songwriter and actor
- Soo Mun-thye, editor
- Ho Chao-ti, producer and director
- Nicole Teoh, producer
- Fang-Yi Sheu, Taiwanese-American dancer and choreographer
- Cincin Lee, composer, arranger and music producer
- Singing Chen, Taiwanese film director and screenwriter
- Hsiao Ya-chuan, Taiwanese film director and screenwriter
- Law Chi-leung, Hong Kong film director and screenwriter