Fantasy film wins 4th Golden Elm Flower Awards

The movie “Creation of the Gods Part 1” won the Best Picture award at the recent 4th Golden Elm Flower Awards for its narrative adaptation, photography, special effects, costumes and acting performances, which can be considered the pinnacle of the country’s old costume fantasy movies.

The 4th Golden Elm Flower Awards were recently announced, organized by the Macau Aollywood Film Critics Association.

In the Chinese film section, Cao Baoping won Best Director for “Across the Furious Sea,” which impressed the panel with its continuation of the large-scale and dark style of “The Dead End Series,” while still expressing the director’s profound thoughts on modern-day youth, human nature and family affection.

Actor Huang Zihua won Best Actor for his role in the film “A Guilty Conscience,” and Kara Wai won Best Actress for “I Love You!”

Additionally, the top ten foreign language films of 2023 were also selected, including “Oppenheimer,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “658km, Yoko no Tabi,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” and “Barbie.”

Domestic and international movies of 2023 were selected by a panel headed by Suo Yabin, with Chen Gang, Li Xingwen, Han Dongjun, Hu Jianli, and other renowned film scholars, media figures and critics as members.

The Golden Elm Flower Awards was founded Aug. 25, 2020, with the endorsement of the SAR Government.

The Aollywood Film Critics Association aims to leverage Macau’s ‘One country, two systems’ framework and benefit from the central government’s supportive policies to bolster the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

As cited in a statement, the association is “dedicated to advocating for the global recognition of Chinese films by establishing their voice, aesthetic standards and evaluation system.” Staff Reporter