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The Golden Horse Film Awards (金馬獎) are modelled after the Academy Awards and major Film Festival s worldwide. The awards, contested by submitted Taiwan, Hong Kong, PRC films and from elsewhere, are generally held to be the most prestigious for Chinese-language films outside the People's Republic Of China .

Winners are selected by a jury of judges during the week before the ceremony is held. Winners are awarded with a golden horse statuette, with a Citation , during a broadcast ceremony.


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The Golden Horse awards ceremony is held after a month-long festival showcasing some of the nominated feature films for the awards.

Under current regulations, every film made primarily in a '' in 2004.

The name 金馬 comes from the islands of Quemoy (門) and Matsu ('''馬'''祖), to commemorate the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis .

Recent winners can be found at the official site of the Golden Horse Film Awards: http://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/gh_main/