Golden Horse Award for Best Cinematography

Golden Horse Award for Best Cinematography
The 2025 recipient: Leung Ming Kai
CountryTaiwan
Presented byTaipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee
First award1962
Currently held byLeung Ming Kai for Mother Bhumi (2025)
Websitegoldenhorse.org.tw

The Golden Horse Award for Best Cinematography (Chinese: 金馬獎最佳攝影) is presented annually at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Awards. From the 1st Golden Horse Awards in 1962 to the 14th edition in 1977, the category was titled Best Color Cinematography. During that period, a separate award for Best Black and White Cinematography was also presented five times.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year Winner and Nominees Film Original Title
1990
(27th)
Poon Hang-Sang Red Dust 滾滾紅塵
1991
(28th)
Poon Hang-Sang Center Stage 阮玲玉
1992
(29th)
Lee Tak-Shing Misty 霧都情仇
1993
(30th)
Mark Lee Ping Bin The Puppetmaster 戲夢人生
1994
(31st)
Christopher Doyle Ashes of Time 東邪西毒
1995
(32nd)
Mark Lee Ping Bin Summer Snow 女人四十
1996
(33rd)
Gu Changwei In the Heat of the Sun 陽光燦爛的日子
1997
(34th)
Christopher Doyle Happy Together 春光乍洩
1998
(35th)
Jingle Ma City of Glass 玻璃之城
1999
(36th)
Arthur Wong Purple Storm 紫雨風暴

2000s

Year Winner and Nominees Film Original Title
2000
(37th)
Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bin In the Mood for Love 花樣年華
2001
(38th)
Mark Lee Ping Bin Millennium Mambo 千禧曼波
2002
(39th)
Christopher Doyle Three: Going Home 三更之回家
2003
(40th)
Liao Pen-jung The Missing 不見
2004
(41st)
Cao Yu Kekexili: Mountain Patrol 可可西里
2005
(42nd)
Anthony Pun Divergence 三岔口
2006
(43rd)
Peter Pau Perhaps Love 如果·愛
2007
(44th)
Mark Lee Ping Bin The Matrimony 心中有鬼
2008
(45th)
Cheng Siu-Keung Sparrow 文雀
2009
(46th)
Cao Yu City of Life and Death 南京!南京!

2010s

Year Winner and Nominees Film Original Title
2010
(47th)
Chang Chan When Love Comes 當愛來的時候
2011
(48th)
Zhao Fei Let the Bullets Fly 讓子彈飛
Yao Hung-i Hometown Boy 金城小子
Chin Ting-chang Seediq Bale 賽德克·巴萊
Shu Chou The Piano in a Factory 鋼的琴
2012
(49th)
Wu Di Beijing Blues 神探亨特張
Lutz Reitemeier White Deer Plain 白鹿原
Cao Dun Love Is Not Blind 失戀33天
Jake Pollock Girlfriend, Boyfriend 女朋友。男朋友
Song Xiaofei Design Of Death 殺生
2013
(50th)
Philippe Le Sourd The Grandmaster 一代宗師
Nagao Nakashima Soul 失魂
Lü Yue Back to 1942 一九四二
Yu Lik-wai A Touch of Sin 天註定
Liao Pen-jung, Lu Ching-hsin and Shong Woon-chong Stray Dogs 郊遊
2014
(51st)
Zeng Jian Blind Massage 推拿
Dong Jingsong Black Coal, Thin Ice 白日焰火
Du Jie No Man's Land 無人區
Mark Lee Ping Bin (Sex) Appeal 寒蟬效應
Zhang Ji North by Northeast 東北偏北
2015
(52nd)
Mark Lee Ping Bin The Assassin 刺客聶隱娘
Hsu Chih-Chun and Chang Chih-Teng Thanatos, Drunk 醉.生夢死
Christopher Doyle Port of Call 踏血尋梅
Lu Songye Tharlo 塔洛
Yu Lik-wai Mountains May Depart 山河故人
2016
(53rd)
Mark Lee Ping Bin Crosscurrent 長江圖
Du Jie Detective Chinatown 唐人街探案
Nagao Nakashima Godspeed 一路順風
Lu Songye The Summer Is Gone 八月
Guo Daming Soul on a String 皮繩上的魂
2017
(54th)
Nagao Nakashima The Great Buddha+ 大佛普拉斯
Wang Weihua Free and Easy 轻松+愉快
Chen Ko-chin Shuttle Life 分貝人生
Matthias Delvaux Old Beast 老獸
Peter Pau and Cao Yu See You Tomorrow 擺渡人

2020s

Year Recipient(s) Film Original title Ref.
2020
(57th)
Yao Hung-i Your Name Engraved Herein 刻在你心底的名字 [1]
Wayne Peng Precious Is the Night 今宵多珍重
Nakashima Nagao Classmates Minus 同學麥娜絲
Liao Ming-yi I WeirDo 怪胎
Chou Yi-hsien My Missing Valentine 消失的情人節
2021
(58th)
Giorgos Valsamis American Girl 美國女孩 [2]
Chung Mong-hong The Falls 瀑布
Kartik Vijay The Soul 緝魂
Chou Yi-hsien Till We Meet Again 月老
Leung Ming Kai Drifting 濁水漂流
2022
(59th)
Cheng Siu-keung Limbo 智齒 [3]
Leung Ming Kai The Sunny Side of the Street 白日青春
Chen Ko-chin Incantation
Yao Hung-i Salute 我心我行
Charlie Sou Wai-kin Kissing the Ground You Walked On 海鷗來過的房間
2023
(60th)
Yu Jing-pin Fish Memories (真)新的一天 [4]
Kartik Vijay Abang Adik 富都青年
Jake Pollock Eye of the Storm 疫起
Hsu Chih-chun Snow in Midsummer 五月雪
Chen Chi-wen Who'll Stop the Rain 青春並不溫柔
2024
(61st)
Wang Weihua Bel Ami 漂亮朋友 [5]
[6]
Imamura Keisuke 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days 青春18×2 通往有你的旅程
Kartik Vijay Yen and Ai-Lee 小雁與吳愛麗
Michaël Capron Mongrel 白衣蒼狗
Aziz Zhambakiyev Shambhala
2025
(62nd)
Leung Ming Kai Mother Bhumi 地母 [7]
[8]
Norm Li Lucky Lu
Chen Ta-pu Deep Quiet Room 深度安靜
Chen Ko-chin, Kao Tzu-hao Left-Handed Girl 左撇子女孩
Jimmy Wong 96 Minutes 96分鐘

Superlatives

Since 1990, the following cinematographers have received two or more Golden Horse Awards for Best Cinematography:

Wins Cinematographer
7 Mark Lee Ping Bin
4 Christopher Doyle
2 Poon Hang-Sang
2 Cao Yu

See also

References

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