Sound Designer , Production Sound Mixer、Position(現場錄音師Production Sound Mixer/混音師Re-recording Mixer)
Born in 1966 in Taipei, Kuo Li-chi is a production sound mixer. He learned location recording from American recording engineer Tom Paul when he joined the recording training class in 1994. He started his film career with Ang Lee's "Eat Drink Man Woman." He later worked in Foley artist Tu Duu-chih's 3H Sound Studio Ltd. as a location sound engineer, sound mixer and sound designer. He has done location recording for over 70 films and sound mixing for more than 150 works in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. After he left 3H Sound Studio Ltd. in 2015, Kuo continues to work in the same industry and hopes to pass down his own experience to cultivate young talents.
Honor
2006 The 43th Golden Horse Awards Formosa Filmmaker Award
Awards
2020 The 57th Golden Horse Awards Best Sound Effects "The Silent Forest"
2013 The 50th Golden Horse Awards Best Sound Effects "Soul"
2013 The 56th Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Sound Effects "Stray Dogs"
2008 The 27th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Sound Effects "The Drummer"
2007 The 44th Golden Horse Awards Best Sound Effects "The Most Distance"
2006 The 43th Golden Horse Awards Best Sound Effects "Amour - Legende"
Nominations
2018 The 55th Golden Horse Awards Best Sound Effects "Father to Son"
2015 The 52th Golden Horse Awards Best Sound Effects "The Laundryman"
2013 The 50th Golden Horse Awards Best Sound Effects "Stray Dogs"
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2023 | On the Way Home |
| 2022 | Little Blue |
|
Festivals
2022 Busan International Film Festival
2022 “Trans-Border Taiwan” section at Kaohsiung Film Festival
Nominations
2023 Best Actress at the 25th Taipei Film Awards
2022 International New Talent Competition
|
|
| 2021 | Reclaim |
| 2020 | The Silent Forest |
|
Awards
2020 The 57th Golden Horse Awards - Best New Performer (for Yan-Fei CHEN) and Best Sound Effects (for Li-Chi KUO, Dong-Hwan LEE)
2020 51st International Film Festival of India
Silver Peacock Award for Best Director
Silver Peacock Award for Best Actor – Male
Nominations
2020 The 57th Golden Horse Awards - Best New Director (for Chen-Nien KO), Best Supporting Actor (for Hyunbin KIM), (for Chen-Nien KO, Pin-Jun LIN), Best Art Direction (for Tien-Chueh LEE, Yi-Ru LIU), Best Original Film Score (for Luming LU) and Best Film Editing (for Milk SU, Chun-Hung CHEN)
2020 Tokyo Filmex-Competition films
|
|
| 2018 | Father to Son |
|
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
|
|
| 2018 | High Flash |
|
2018 Taipei Film Festival - Closing Film
|
|
| 2018 | Omotenashi |
|
2018 Hong Kong International Film Festival -Opening Movie
2018 Hawaii International Film Festival Showcase
|
|
| 2017 | The Last Painting |
|
2017 Rotterdam Film Festival Voices section
2017 Rotterdam VPRO Big Screen Award Competition Nomination
|
|
| 2017 | Turn Around |
| 2016 | Love in Vain |
|
2015 Taipei Film Festival-Gala Premieres
|
|
| 2016 | Godspeed |
|
Nominations
2016 Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup & Costume Design, and Best Original Film Score of the 53rd Golden Horse Awards
2016 Best Leading Actor and Best Original Score of the 11st Asian Film Awards
Awards
2016 Best Art Direction of the 53rd Golden Horse Awards
2016 The 36th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film from Mainland and Taiwan
|
|
| 2015 | The Map of Dna |
| 2015 | The Laundryman |
|
8th Festival del film Locarno – Piazza Grande section
52nd Golden Horse Award – Best New Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Film Song, and Best Sound Effects Nominations 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Midnight Screenings 31st Warsaw Film Festival – Free Spirit Competition 51st Chicago International Film Festival – After Dark section 28th Helsinki International Film Festival – Genre Benders section 19th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival – Bucheon Choice: Feature Competition 17th Taipei Film Festival – Official Selection 15th New York Asian Film Festival – Taiwan Cinema Now! 36th Hawaii International Film Festival – Fantastic Asia 10th Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival – Official Selection 18th Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI) – Avant-Garde & Genre Competition 34th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival – Official Selection 26th Singapore International Film Festival – Special Presentation 12th Eurasia International Film Festival – Panorama 12th Atlanta Asian Film Festival – Official Selection 1st London East Asia Film Festival – Competition The Wave Film Festival (Santa Barbara International Film Festival) – Official Selection |
|
| 2015 | Elena |
|
2015 Taipei Film Festival - Best Narrative Feature Nomination
|
|
| 2014 | Meeting Dr. Sun |
|
2015
14th New York Asian Film Festival – Official Selection 41st Seattle International Film Festival – Official Selection 17th Udine Far East Film – Official Selection 10th Osaka Asian Film Festival – Grand Prix(Best Picture Award) – Audience Award 5th London Chinese Visual Festival – Closing Film 23rd Art Film Fest International Film Festival – Official Selection 9th Fünf Seen Film Festival – Official Selection 25th Focus on Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka – Taiwan Film Festival section 11th Atlanta Asian Film Festival – Official Selection Bogota International Film Festival – Official Selection 25th Tama Cinema Forum – Official Selection 13th World Film Festival of Bangkok – Official Selection 2014 Golden Horse Awards- Best Original Screenplay Award Taipei Film Awards- Best Script Award Taipei Film Festival – Official Selection Hawaii International Film Festival – Official Selection Hong Kong Asian Film Festival- Official Selection San Diego Asian Film Festival- Official Selection Singapore International Film Festival- Official Selection |
|
| 2014 | My Geeky Nerdy Buddies |
| 2014 | Paradise in Service |
|
2015 Berlin International Film Festival-Panorama
2014 Golden Horse Awards-Best Supporting Actor,Best Supporting Actress 2014 Busan International Film Festival-Opening Film |
|
| 2014 | Hometown Boy |
| 2013 | Anywhere Somewhere Nowhere |
| 2013 | Step Back to Glory |
| 2013 | 27℃-Loaf Rocks |
| 2013 | Good Luck! Boy |
| 2013 | Soul |
| 2013 | Bridge Over Troubled Water |
|
Nominee of Best Documentary / 50th Taipei Golden
Horse Film Festival / Taiwan / 2013 Closing Film / 2013 Taipei Film Festival / Taiwan |
|
| 2013 | Stray Dogs |
|
Awards
2014 Best Film Still Awaiting American Distribution of National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
2014 Best Leading Actor of Taipei Film Awards
2013 Grand Special Jury Prize of Venice International Film Festival
2013 Special Jury Prize of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
2013 Best Director of Seville European Film Festival
2013 Best Director of Dubai International Film Festival
2013 Best Actor (Kang-Sheng Lee) and Best Sound (Duu-Chih Tu, Li Chi Kuo) of Asia-Pacific Film Festival
2013 Best Leading Actor and Best Director of the 50th Golden Horse Awards
|
|
| 2012 | The Soul of Bread |
| 2012 | GF‧BF |
|
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 | You're the Apple of My Eye |
|
2012 Best Chinese Language Film from the Two Coasts of Hong Kong Film Awards
2012 Best New Director (Giddens Ko), Best New Performer (Kai Ko), Audience Award for Favorite Film, and Audience Award for Favorite Performance (Michelle Chen) of the 12th Chinese Film Media Awards
2012 Rising Star Award (Michelle Chen) of New York Asian Film Festival
2011 Best New Performer of the 48th Golden Horse Awards
|
|
| 2010 | Taipei Exchanges |
|
2010 Taipei Film Festival-Best Music, Audience´s Choice Award
2010 47th Golden Horse Awards-Best Original Film Song |
|
| 2010 | Pinoy Sunday |
|
2008 Pusan International Film Festival
2009 Cinéfondation project |
|
| 2010 | 7 Days in Heaven |
|
2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival Focus on Asia of Fukuoka International Film Festival of Japan
Dragons & Tigers Section of Vancouver International Film Festival |
|
| 2010 | Let the Wind Carry Me |
|
2009 Golden Horse Film Awards-Nominated for Best Documentary & Outstanding Taiwanese Film of The Year
2010 Taipei Film Festival TAIPEI AWARDS-Grand Prize 2010 Taipei Film Festival TAIPEI AWARDS-Best Documentary 2010 Taipei Film Festival TAIPEI AWARDS-Best Editing |
|
| 2009 | Prince of Tears |
| 2009 | Hear Me |
|
• Nominated for The Asia-Pacific Film Festival, Best Film
• Nominated for The Golden Horse Film Festival, Best New Comer |
|
| 2009 | Sumimasen, Love |
| 2009 | Somewhere I Have Never Travelled |
|
2009 33th Hong Kong International Film Festival, Taiwan New Generation
|
|
| 2008 | Parking |
|
2008 Golden Horse Award, Best Art Direction
2008 Golden Horse Award, FIPRESCI Prize 2008 Festival de Cannes 2008 Pusan International Film Festival,window of asia 2009 Adelaida Film Festival, World Cinema |
|
| 2008 | Good Will Evil |
| 2008 | Cape No.7 |
|
2008 Taipei Film Festival, Opening Film
2008 Taipei Film Festival, Million Award 2008 Asian Marine Film Festival in Makuhari, Best Film 2008 Hawaii Film Festival, Best Film 2008 Pusan International Film Festival,window of asia 2008 Golden Horse Awards, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Music, Best Original Film Song, Best Film of Year 2009 Festival international du film asiatique de Vesoul, International Competition 2009 32nd Annual Portland International Film Festival, Oscar Submissions 2009 33th Hong Kong International Film Festival, The Edward Yang New Talent Award |
|
| 2008 | Drifting Flowers |
|
2008 The 58th Berlin International Film Festival
2008 Hong Kong International Film Festival 2008 Asia Film Festival of Rome |
|
| 2008 | Beyond the Arctic |
|
2008 Taipei International Golden Horse Film Festival，Closing Film
|
|
| 2008 | Help Me Eros |
|
2007 International Venice Film Festival
2007 Toronto International Film Festival,Canada 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival 2007 Pusan International Film Festival,window of asia 2008 Hong Kong International Film Festival,Best Cinematography 2008 Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival,Argentina 2008 Asia Film Festival of Rome 2008 Moscow International Film Festival |
|
| 2008 | What On Earth Have I Done Wrong?! |
|
2007 44th Golden Horse Awards
2007 Golden Horse Awards, FIPRESCI Prize 2008 International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008 Moscow International Film Festival 2008 Durban International Film Festival |
|
| 2007 | I Wish |
| 2007 | The Drummer |
|
2008 Los Angeles Visual Communication Film Festival
|
|
| 2007 | Spider Lilies |
|
2007 Berlin Film Festival, Teddy Bear Awardr(Panorama)
2007 Bangkok International Film Festival, Best International Film 2007 Asian Film Festival in Roma, Best Film |
|
| 2007 | I Saw A Beast |
| 2007 | The Secret in the Wind |
|
2007 Vladivostok International Film Festival
2007 Pusan International Film Festival, Wide Angle 2007 Munich International Student Film Festival 2008 Tel-Aviv Student Film Festival, Best Director |
|
| 2007 | Secret |
|
2008 San Francisco International Film Festival
2008 Asia Film Festival of Rome
|
|
| 2007 | The Song of Chatain Mountain |
| 2007 | Most Distant Course |
|
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 | Do Over |
|
Awards
2006 Formosa Filmmaker Award, Best Editing, and Best Original Film Score of the 43rd Golden Horse Awards
2003 Grand Prize of Excellent Screenplay Award
2006 Grand Prize and Audience Choice Awards of Taipei Film Awards
2007 Best Film and Best Director of the 1ST Taiwan New Movie Awards
2007 The 1st Taiwan New Movie Awards (of the Directors Guild of Taiwan)
Festivals
2007 Los Angeles Asia Pacific Film Festival
2006 Venice International Film Critics' Week
2006 Competition of the Athens International Film Festival
2006 Dragons and Tigers of the Vancouver Film Festival
2006 A Window on Asian Cinema of the Busan International Film Festival
2006 Winds of Asia of the Tokyo International Film Festival
|
|
| 2006 | Island Etude |
|
2007 Taipei Film Festival, Media recommendation and Judges Awards
2007 Japan Ocean Film Festival, Judges Award 2007 Vancouver Film Festival 2007 Asian Ocean Film Festival IN Opening 2007 Academy Awards 2008 Seattle International Film Festival 2009 Deauville Asian Film Festival |
|
| 2005 | Fall in Love |
| 2002 | THE TRIGGER |
