Awards 2025 The 27th Taipei Film Awards Best Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound Design 2024 The 61st Golden Horse Awards Best New Director 2024 Cannes Film Festival - Caméra d'Or Special Mention 2024 Tokyo FILMeX - Special Mention 2024 Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) - Best Asian Feature Film 2024 Ourense International Film Festival (OUFF) - Best Screenplay, Special Mention (Cinematography) 2024 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) - Best Cinematography Nominations 2025 The 27th Taipei Film Awards Best Feature, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Art Design, Best Makeup & Costume Design, and Best Sound Design 2024 The 61st Golden Horse Awards Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Sound Effects 2024 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival (HKAFF) - Asian New Talent Award 2024 World Film Festival of Bangkok - Best Film

Award 2022 Golden Harvest Awards -The Special Jury Prize Nomination 2022 The 59th Golden Horse Awards " The Abandoned " 2022 25th Brussels Short Film Festival - International Competition 2022 62nd Krakow Film Festival - International Short Film Competition

Nominations 2020 The 14th Asian Film Awards - Best New Actor

2017 Busan International Film Festival-A Window On Asian Cinema

2017 Competition of the Venice International Film Festival

2016 Golden Horse Awards-Best Supporting Actress Nomination
2016 Hawaii International Film Festival Halekulani Golden Orchid Awar-Best Narrative Feature Nomination
2016 Kaohsiung Film Festival-Opening Film

Festivals 2016 Fukuoka International Film Festival 2015 Taipei Film Festival 2015 The Closing Film of Taoyuan Film Festival 2015 Kaohsiung Film Festival 2015 Chinese Young Generation Film Forum

2016 Taipei Film Festival-Best Narrative Feature Nomination, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor
2015 Taipei Film Festival-Opening Film

2013 International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg International Competition
2013 Women Make Waves Film Festival Exhibition Film
2013 South Taiwan Film Festival Opening Film

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

Awards 2013 Best New Talent and Media Recommendation Award of Taipei Film Awards Selection 2012 New Currents of the Busan International Film Festival

Awards 2010 Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor of the 10th Chinese Film Media Awards 2009 Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Design, and Audience Choice Award of the 11th Taipei Film Awards Nominations 2009 Best Supporting Actress of the 46th Golden Horse Awards 2009 FIPRESCI Prize of the 33rd Kong International Film Festival Selections 2009 The 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival – Taiwan's New Generation Festivals 2009 The 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival 2009 Chicago International Film Festival 2009 Stockholm International Film Festival

2009 Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)
2009 Melbourne Queer Film Festival
2009 London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
2009 Hong Kong International FF
2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival

2009 Competition of the Cannes Film Festival 2010 Best Costume Designer and Best Production Designer of Asian Film Awards (winners)

2008 The 58th Berlin International Film Festival
2008 Hong Kong International Film Festival
2008 Asia Film Festival of Rome

Awards 2005 Silver Berlin Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, Alfred Bauer Award, and FIPRESCI Prize of the 55th Berlin International Film Festival 2005 Award of the City of Nantes (for the director Tsai Ming-Liang) and Special Mention (for the leading actor Lee Kang-Sheng) of Festival des trois continents, Nantes 2005 Best Actor and José Luis Guarner Critic's Award of Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival

2003 The 40th Golden Horse Awards Best Picture Nominated 2003 Belgrade International Film Festival 2003 The 8th Pusan International Film Festival, Best Film Award, New Currents Competition Section 2003 Mostra BR de cinema 2003 The 16th Tokyo International Film Festival 2003 Nantes Three Continents Festival, Surprise Screening Section 2004 The 33rd International Film Festival Rotterdam Tiger Award, KNF Award, NETPAC Award 2004 The 17th Singapore International Film Festival 2004 The 28th Hong Kong International Film Festival, Firebird Awards For Young Cinema Section 2004 The 27th Goteborg Film Festival, Asian Hots Section 2004 The 23nd Vancouver International Film Festival, Dragons and Tigers Section

2002 The 21st Vancouver International Film Festival 2002 Wide Angle of the 7th Busan International Film Festival 2002 Best Short Film (nominee) of the 39th Golden Horse Awards 2003 Masters' Short Films of the Taipei Film Festival 2003 The 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam 2003 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2003 The 5th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2003 Competition of the 46th San Francisco International Film Festival 2003 The 16th Singapore International Film Festival 2003 The 39th Chicago International Film Festival 2003 The 27th Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2003 London Film Festival 2003 The 17th Fribourg International Film Festival 2003 Vienna International Film Festival

2001 Best Technical Award (winner: Duu-Chih Tu) and in Competition of the 54th Cannes International Film Festival 2001 A Window on Asian Cinema of the 6th Busan International Film Festival 2001 The 39th New York Film Festival 2001 Best Film Award (winner), Best Director Award (winner), and Best Supporting Actress Award (winner: Yi-Ching Lu) of the 46th Asia Pacific Film Festival 2001 Best Director Award (winner) of the 4th Bangkok Film Festival 2001 The 20th Vancouver International Film Festival 2001 Special Jury Award, Best Director Award, and Special Jury Cinematography Award (winners) of the 37th Chicago International Film Festival 2001 Special Jury Award and Special Jury Award for Filmmaker (winners) of the 38th Golden Horse Awards 2001 Critics’ Choice Award (winner) of the Kaohsiung Film Festival 2001 NETPAC Award(winner) of the Brisbane International Film Festival 2001 Contemporary World Cinema of the 26th Toronto International Film Festival 2001 The 14th Tokyo International Film Festival 2001 Jakarta International Film Festival 2001 International Film Festival Karlovy Vary 2008 Moscow International Film Festival

1997 Silver Berlin Bear and FIPRESCI Prize of Berlin International Film Festival 1997 Critics’ Award - Honorable Mention of São Paulo International Film Festival 1997 Silver Screen Award for Best Actor (Tien Miao) and Special Jury Prize of Singapore International Film Festival 1997 Silver Hugo of Chicago International Film Festival 2008 Moscow International Film Festival

1993 Tokyo International Film Festival-New Director Bronze Award
1993 Festival des 3 Continents-Best Debut Feature Film
1993 Torino Film Festival-Best Picture