Ching-Sung Liao (1950-) is a senior producer and editor. He has completed a film technician training course at Central Motion Picture Corporation. He has collaborated with directors such as Edward Yang and Chang Yi and co-founded the Taiwan Film Culture Association with Hou Hsiao-Hsien to cultivate talents. His works have been repeatedly shortlisted for Best Film Editing at the Golden Horse Awards. He has served as a member of the executive committee of the 38th Golden Horse Awards and won Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year at the 39th Golden Horse Awards. His works include "Café Lumière", "Little Big Women", “The Sleep Goddess", etc.
Honors 2018 Special Contribution Award at the 55th Golden Horse Awards 2002 Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year at the 39th Golden Horse Awards
Award 2023 Best Film Editing at the 60th Golden Horse Awards for "Stonewalling" Nominations 2023 Best Editing at the 25th Taipei Film Awards for "The Abandoned" 2018 Best Film Editing at the 55th Golden Horse Awards for "Us and Them" 2017 Best Film Editing at the 54th Golden Horse Awards for "The Foolish Bird" 2015 Best Film Editing at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards for "The Assassin" 2005 Best Film Editing at the 42nd Golden Horse Awards for "Three Times" 2002 Best Film Editing at the 39th Golden Horse Awards for "The Best of Times" 2001 Best Film Editing at the 38th Golden Horse Awards for "Beijing Bicycle" 1995 Best Film Editing at the 32nd Golden Horse Awards for "Good Men, Good Women" 1995 Best Original Screenplay at the 32nd Golden Horse Awards for "Super Citizen Ko" 1989 Best Film Editing at the 26th Golden Horse Awards for "A City of Sadness" 1985 Best Film Editing at the 22nd Golden Horse Awards for "His Matrimony" 1984 Best Film Editing at the 21st Golden Horse Awards for "The Boys from Fengkuei" 1979 Best Cinematography at the 16th Golden Horse Awards for "春寒" 1978 Best Film Editing at the 15th Golden Horse Awards for "He Never Gives Up"
Awards
2024 The 61st Golden Horse Awards Best Original Screenplay
Nominations
2024 The 61st Golden Horse Awards Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Film Song and Best Makeup & Costume Design
Nominations
2024 Best Actor and Best Visual Effects of the 26th Taipei Film Awards
Selections
2023 43rd Hawaii International Film Festival, “Spotlight on Taiwan” unit
2023 20th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, “Cineaste Delights” unit
Awards
2023 Best Soundtrack and Best Makeup & Costume Design at the 25th Taipei Film Awards
Nominations
2023 Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Art Design, Best Sound Design, Best Visual Effects at the 25th Taipei Film Awards
2022 Best New Director, Best Art Direction, Best Makeup & Costume Design, Best Action Choreography, and Best Sound Effects at the 59th Golden Horse Awards
Nominations
2024 Best Supporting Actor, Best New Talent and Best Makeup & Costume Design of the 26th Taipei Film Awards
2023 Best New Performer and Best Sound Effects of the 60th Golden Horse Awards
Selection
2023 Busan International Film Festival, the section of A Window on Asian Cinema
Selection
2023 Busan International Film Festival, the section of A Window on Asian Cinema
Nominations
Best New Performer and FIPRESCI Award at the 58th Golden Film Awards
International Competition at the 23rd Jeonju International Film Festival
Competition at the 16th FIRST International Film Festival Xining
Festival
Competition at the 12th Guam International Film Festival
Award
2022 Best Action Choreography at the 59th Golden Horse Awards
Nominations
2023 Best Director, Best Art Design, Best Cinematography, and Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution( Action Choreography) at the 25th Taipei Film Awards
2022 Best Cinematography and Best Original Film Score at the 59th Golden Horse Awards
2020 Busan International Film Festival - A Window on Asian Cinema
2020 Tokyo International Film Festival - World Focus
Awards
2020 Golden Horse Awards - Best Leading Actress
Nominations
2021 Asian Film Awards - Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress
2020 Golden Horse Awards - Best Supporting Actress, Best New Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Film Score, Best Original Film Song
2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Official Selection
2018 The 18th Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival - Competition
2018 The 25th Titanic Budapest International Film Festival - Asian Winds
2018 Taipei Film Festival - Opening Film
1984 Nantes Fest. Of Three Continents: grand prize
1984 Cannes Intl. Film Fest.
1984 Hawaii Film Fest.
1984 Nantes Fest. Of Three Continents
1984 London Film Fest.
1984 Asian Pacific Film Fest.
1985 Rotterdam Film Fest.
1985 San Francisco Film Fest.
1985 PIA Film Fesitval, Japan
1987 Amiens Marche Intl du Film
1988 Pesaro Film Fest.
1988 La Rochelle Interntioanl Film Festival, France
1988 Vancouver Intl. Film Fest.
1989 Boston Film Fest.
1991 Toronto Intl. Film Fest.
2017 Golden Horse Awards Best New Performer(Winning),Best New Director(Nomination),Best Original Film Score(Nomination)
2017 Shanghai International Film Festival-Asian New Talent Award: Best Actress (nominated)
2017 Taipei Film Awards-Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Suppporting Actor, Best New Talent
2017 Xining First International Film Festival-Nominated for Best Film and Best Director
2017 Busan International Film Festival-A Window On Asian Cinema
2017 Sao Paulo International Film Festival–New Filmmakers Competition
2017 Berlinale Talent Campus 2016 Busan International Film Festival-Wide Angle 2016 Singapore International Film Festival - Best Audience Choice Award 2015 Busan International Film Festival-Asian Cinema Fund,Asian Networkof Documentary, Taskovski Award 2015 New Taipei City Documentary Fund, Taiwan
2016 Asian Television Awards-Best Single Drama or Telemovie Programme Nomination 2016 Davis International Film Festival - Chinese Feature Fiction Nomination 2016 Taipei Film Festival - Best Narrative Feature Nomination
2015 Busan International Film Festival -Gala Presentation 2015 Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival - Opening Film 2015 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director, Cannes Soundtrack Award
1988 Voted by Taiwan’s Film Critics Association as No. 1 film of the Top Ten Films of the 1980s
1988 Silver Leopard at Locarno Film Festival (winner)
1987 Sutherland Trophy of British Film Institute Awards (winner)
1987 Best Screenplay of Asia-Pacific Film Festival (winner)
1987 Best Director Award of Pesaro International Film Festival (winner)
1986 Best Feature Film of the 23rd Golden Horse Awards (winner)
1986 Best Original Screenplay (Yuan Li, Edward Yang) and Best Leading Actress (Cora Miao) of the 23rd Golden Horse Awards (nominee)
1987 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Best Non-American/ Non-European Film 1986 Berlin International Film Festival-FIPRESCI Prize 1985 Golden Horse Awards-Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress
1987 Festival des 3 Continents-Best Cinematography, Best Score 1987 Troia International Film Festival-Best Director 1987 Tokyo International Film Festival
2012 Taipei Film Award – Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Press Award 2012 Golden Horse Award Best Actress, Audience Choice Award 2012 Asia Pacific FilmFestival–BestActress
2011 Taipei Film Awards Best Supporting Actor, Media’s Choice Award, Audience’s Choice Award 2011 Busan International Film Festival 2011 Hong Kong Asia Film Festival 2011 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2011 Taipei Film Festival Closing Film 2011 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival 48th Golden Horse Awards nominee Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Song, Best Original Screenplay
2011 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Opening Film
2012 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin Panorama
Platinum Remi Award for Art Direction in the category of Film & Video Production at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival in 2013 (winner)
2011 Golden Horse Fantastic Film Festival-open screening 2011 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival-Vision Express 2011 TIFF TOKYO Film Panorama of Asia-Middle East Nominated for Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film Award 2012 Asian Film Festival Nominated for Best Asian Feature Film Award
2010 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival–Opening Film 2010 Pusan International Film Festival 2010 Tokyo International Film Festival 2010 Dubai International Film Festival
2009 14th Pusan International Film Festival 2009 10th Tokyo Filmex International Film Festival 2009 6th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival. 2009 11th Taipei Film Festival-Closing film 2009 7th Yilan International Film Festival- Opening Film
2007 Cannes Film Festival 2007 Locarno Film Festival, Hou Hsiao-Hsien won Golden Leopard Award 2007 Chicago International Film Festival 2008 International Film Festival Rotterdam
45th Golden Horse Awards, Best Supporting Actress, nominee Best Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay 2008 Taipei Film Awards Best Feature Film Director, Best Feature Film Best Art Director, Special Mentions Actress(MEI Fang) 2008 Hong Kong International Film Festival 2008 Busan International Film Festival 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival 2008 Hawaii International Film Festival
2007 64th Venice Film Festival, Critic's Week Award 2007 Tokyo Film Festival, Winds of Asia,winds of asia 2007 Pusan International Film Festival, window of Asia 2008 Asia Film Festival of Rome,Best Director 2008 Durban International Film Festival
2006 International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, New Discovery 2006 South Taiwan Film Festival 2006 Singapore Asia New Director Film Festival, Best Actor 2007 Fukuoka Film Festival 2007 Fukuoka Asian Film Festival
2005 18th Tokyo International Film Festival, Winds of Asia 2006 Holland 2nd Asia Film Festival 2006 6th Kaohsiung Film Festival, Asia Teenaged Director 2006 8th Taipei Film Festival, Taipei Film Award: Genre 2006 Hong Kong Asia Film Festival 2006 London Taiwan Film Festival Opening Film 2006 9th Featival Icaro Film Festival 2006 Paraguay Internation Film Festival 2006 51th Asia-Pacific Film Festival 2007 Latin American Film Festival
Nominations
Competition of International Film Festival of India
Competition of Seattle International Film Festival
International Competition of the Tokyo International Film Festival
Awards
Special Jury Prize (for director Yee Chih-Yen) of Bratislava International Film Festival
2001 The 6th Pusan International Film Festival, A Window on Asian Cinema Section, A Window on Asian Cinema Award 2001 The 21st Hawaii International Film Festival, Golden Maile Awards Competition Section 2001 The 20th Vancouver International Film Festival 2001 The 37th Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Hugo Award 2001 The 28th Gent International Film Festival, Best Director Award 2001 The 54th Cannes International Film Festival, Best Technical Award 2001 The 38th Golden Horse Awards Best Cinematography, Best Original Score. Best Sound Effects 2002 The 31st International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002 The 4th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema2001 The 45th San Francisco International Film Festival 2002 Karlovy Vary International Film 2002 The 16th Fribourg International Film Festival
Awards
2001 Best Director Award (Cheng-Sheng Lin) and Best New Actress Award (Sinje Lee) of the 51st Berlin International Film Festival
2001 The 2nd Jeonju International Film Festival
2001 The 20th Vancouver International Film Festival
2001 Chinese Language Film Collection of the 11th Fukuoka Asian Film Festival
2001 Silver Screen Award (nominee: Lin Cheng-Sheng) of the 14th Singapore International Film Festival
2001 The 21st Hawaii International Film Festival
2002 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Asia Pacific Film Festival ---won "Jury Special Prize " Pusan International Film Festival .Korea __won :Jury Special Recommendation Prize Selected for Toronto Film Festival ,Canada Nominated for competion in mannheim Film Festival . Germany Nominated for competion in Nante Film Festival ,France Tesalonika Film Festival ,Greece ---won"Best Director " Golden Horse Film Festival ,Taiwan ---won :Best Supporting Actress " Chiu-Hai Film Festival ,China ---won :Best Potography ", "Best Jury Grand Prize "
1997
Nominated for competition in Rotterdam Film Festival ,Holland Selected for world Film section in india Film Festival Nominated for competition in Gunterberg Film Festival .SwedenSelected for Belgrade Film Festival Selected for San Francisco Asia-America Film Festival Selected for "New Film ,New Director "section in New York Film Festival Paticipate in Frieberg Film Festival ,Switzerland Selected for "International Film "section in Hong Kong Film Festival Selected for "representing Asia "section in fukuoka International Film Festival .Japan
2016 Berlin International Film Festival-Retrospective - Berlinale Classics 1987 Golden Horse Awards: Best Score 1987 Italy Turin Intl. Fest.: Special Jury Award 1988 Hong Kong Intl. Film Fest. 1988 Cannes Intl. Film Fest. 1988 Pesaro Film Fest. 1988 Jerusalem Film Fest. 1988 La Rochelle International Film Festival 1988 Gijon Intl. Film Fest. for Children & Young People 1988 Edinburgh Film Fest. 1988 Locarno Intl. Film Fest. 1988 The New York Film Fest. 1988 Toronto Intl. Film Fest. 1988 Vancouver Intl. Film Fest. 1988 Mostra Intl.de Cinema 1988 Chicago Intl. Film Fest. 1988 London Film Fest. 1989 Boston Film Fest.?Seattle Intl. Film Fest. 1990 Orleans Cinema Festival, France 1991 Montreal World Film Fest.
1987 Nantes Fest. Of Three Continents, Best cinematography, Best score. 1987 Hong Kong Intl. Film Fest. 1987 Sydney Flm Fest. 1987 Jerusalem Film Fest. 1987 Troia Intl. Film Fest. 1987 London Film Fest. 1987 Hawaii Film Fest. 1987 Edinburgh Film Fest. 1987 Tokyo Intl. Film Fest. 1987 Toronto Intl. Film Fest. 1987 Mostra Intl.de Cinema 1987 Vancouver Intl. Film Fest. 1987 Montrel International World Film Festival 1987 Asian Pacific Film Fest. 1988 Fest. Intl. de Films Fribourg 1988 Pesaro Film Fest. 1988 La Rochelle Interntioanl Film Festival, France 1990 Chicago Intl. Film Fest. 1990 Asian American Internatinal Film Fesitval 1990 Toronto Intl. Film Fest.: Hou Hsiao-hsian Retrospective
1984 Nantes Fest. Of Three Continents: grand prize 1984 Cannes Intl. Film Fest. 1984 Hawaii Film Fest. 1984 Nantes Fest. Of Three Continents 1984 London Film Fest. 1984 Asian Pacific Film Fest. 1985 Rotterdam Film Fest. 1985 San Francisco Film Fest. 1985 PIA Film Fesitval, Japan 1987 Amiens Marche Intl du Film 1988 Pesaro Film Fest. 1988 La Rochelle Interntioanl Film Festival, France 1988 Vancouver Intl. Film Fest. 1989 Boston Film Fest. 1991 Toronto Intl. Film Fest.
1978 Lover on the Wave 1979 He Never Gives Up 1979 A Title Rewon 1980 Hometown of West Wind 1980 Cute Girls 1980 Mission over the Eagle Castle 1980 My Native Land 1981 The Marine and I 1982 Six Is Company 1982 Green，Green Grass of Home 1982 In Our Time 1983 Black and White Pearls 1983 That Day on The Beach 1983 The Sandwich Man 1983 Ah-Fei 1983 The Boys from Fengkuei 1983 The Night Ever So Long 1983 Now Taiwan Young Men 1984 The Gift of A Fu 1984 The Bike and I 1984 I Love Mary 1984 Nature is Quiet Beautiful 1984 A Summer at Grandpas 1984 Out of The Blue 1985 Taipei Story 1985 Super Citizen 1985 Growing Up 1985 Tong Chee Yi Li Nan 1985 His Matrimony 1986 Drifters 1986 The Outsiders 1986 The Scalper 1986 A Time to Live, A Time to Die 1986 Dust in The Wind 1987 The Terrorizers 1987 The Farewell Coast 1987 Be My Lovely Child Again 1988 Osmanthus Alley 1988 Chou Tan Qi Ge Ban 1988 Daughter of The Nile 1989 The 3-D Army 1989 A City of Sadness 1990 Spring and Autumn Tea House 1990 Ming Ghost 1990 Fatal Recall 1991 My American Grandson 1992 Dust of Angels 1992 The Story of TaipeiWomen 1993 The Puppetmaster 1994 A Borrowed Life 1994 Super Citizen Ko 1995 Good Men，Good Women 1996 Goodbye South Goodbye 1996 Ah Chung 1998 Flowers of Shanghai 2001 The Best of Times 2001 Millennium Mambo 2001 Beijing Bicycle 2001 Betelnut Beauty 2002 Love at 7-11 2002 Somewhere Over The Dreamland 2002 Blue Gate Crossing 2003 Cafe Lumiere 2003 Drifters 2004 Love of May 2005 Three Times 2005 Reflections 2006 Courthouse on Horseback 2006 The Road in the Air 2006 Karmic Mahjong 2006 Rain Dogs 2006 The Postmodern Life of My Aunt 2007 The Go Master 2007 God Man Dog 2008 Orz Boyz! 2009 Hear Me 2009 Empire of Silver 2010 One Day 2010 Juliets 2010 Me, 19 2010 In Case of Love 2010 Deep in the Clouds 2011 Jump Ashin! 2011 Make Up 2011 10+10 2011 War Game 229 2011 Return Ticket 2012 The Ghost Tales 2012 Joyful Reunion 2012 Girlfriend, Boyfriend 2012 Together 2013 Young Style 2013 Including Her Out 2014 The Rice Bomber 2015 Port of Call 2015 The Assassin 2017 Twenty Two 2017 The Donor 2017 Knife in the Clear Water
