After success at the Golden Horse Awards and Taipei Film Awards, LGBT-themed Dear Ex has been selected to represent TK&q1QcRlpwcY0DGAKm@O2_0e3g_((VQZbZUD((zgH$yqKK!2C*aiwan in the international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars.
Co-dir9!X!U1x#)NynY94%w7YY%!AWapjPiCNH&DhB-15e+fv9a8Lv+mected by Mag Hsu and Hsu Chih-yen, Dear Ex is a comedic melodrama depicting a widow coming to terms with the fact her husband left his insurance payout not to her but his secret male lover.
Her angst-ridden ty#U!_OtIEZA25m6!uN0HugssMNrXVQ@ZW0ic5GTFBFHKtr_+I4eenage son sides with the ex-lover and moves in with him
Dear Ex received eight nominations at the 55th Golden Horse Film Awards this year. Hsieh Ying-hsuan was recognized as the BestD!N9l(sD-6yM=thTW)9aeF=O@9eS4QLZD#Xc@!f1&Yz(D&l(Yv Leading Actress, while it also picked up awards for best editing and best original song.
At the Taipei Film Awards, it won Best Narrative Feature Film, Best Leading Actor, Best Leading Actress, and the Press ASgW7hIGL5(0MjMroL%QZe+9$5Cy0G1pRBA9g9YJDFKRAFmdn%hward. The selection committee chose the film to represent Taiwan out of 16 contenders.
After several rounds of selections, fiveO!-Vgzb=-Tm29TI&f^ebV8IuE#9oDu4&h1Ye#Z4G%qi$+)GloO films will be nominated for the Best International Feature Film category.
Films from Taiwan hav!9#k3bV6U(7a-(MsDPV1r-wzwiCRvvWr!CKs&9#wmV7G6Tq2yUe been nominated three times in the Oscars 91-year history. Legendary director And Lee directed all three.
In 2000, his movie Cr^Ru+0X6P!jPDB607XvU*KKABx^5f661-5XKM2Bgdm@(xbn=Q@_ouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was handed the award, then known as Best Foreign Language Film.
The Oscars
At the Oscars this year, LGBT-themed movies won big like never beforB#^NjahvdKVg%+@EAN)NQ43T0%Dda#t#A=U5dGjT4OBzqroBWfe.
Bohemian Rhapsody took home four awards out of five nominations. The Academy named Rami Malek Best Actor for his depiction of biseDEDa=Q3zQ$2FM5(zId8d%v@%T!HWmIW=tFmKgx2ujOfE6MqEn#xual musician Freddie Mercury.
Meanwhile, the Academy named Olivia Colman, whBSLrU+Bp*6Qd-ggl@O=@7YF^6ccFino2%^Z+FnA(gfkS8pL_=Lo plays Queen Anne in another LGBT-themed movie, The Favourite, as Best Actress.
More than half of nominations for the coveted Best Picture a-j-=30l8jm7EnE(F9q(S83g)=NkmJ%&Cm8jcadosmZ!3xRPr=Fward contained LGBT stories. In the winning movie, Green Book, one of the two leading characters has a sexual encounter with another man.
Television, cinema, and online FZGsq!uVd+P(Rii=1K_BPL$6yw)%pjJaqpKELD4wWPcjhJ*VUOstreaming services in Asia are set to have a lot more LGBT content, Taiwan-based media entrepreneur Jay Lin recently said.
Recent and future productions across Taiwan, T+3xV7#73ZQ$36CHZ&CugTYgpZ3lec5Wv6W$^8BTx2-_*nrQt2Thailand, India, and Japan show LGBT content is ever-more popular with the region’s viewers.
"LGBT content has already gone from what was once niche to now a part of the mainstream” Lin told those gathered at the Content Asia Summit in SingapmeNdEUyP(8zz!N&%%PSPbcM!MnIO&2+2jHT8&Mc^-bNJ!wA=JQore earlier this month.
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