"A Love Letter to Grandma" won two awards at the conclusion of the 2026 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival

The 39th China Golden Rooster Awards Ceremony and the Closing Ceremony of the 2026 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival were held at the Xiamen Straits Grand Theater on the evening of the 10th. The movie "A Love Letter to Grandma" won two awards, the Special Jury Award and the Screenplay Award at the 39th China Golden Rooster Awards.

Tony Leung Ka Fai won the Best Actor Award for his outstanding performance in "Chasing the Wind"; Gao Ye won the Best Actress Award for his precise portrayal of the character Lin Yuxiu in "Nanjing Photo Studio".

Tony Leung Ka Fai, who has previously won the Academy Awards and Golden Horse Awards, won the Grand Prize after being nominated for the Golden Rooster Awards for the first time. In his acceptance speech, he said that winning the award did not mean that he could stop working but that he could "start working". He said he would "perform well".

The jury commented on Gao Ye's performance in "Nanjing Photo Studio" as "full of tension, accurately grasping the character's transformation trajectory from fantasy to awakening, controlling the huge gap in the character's state of mind, and revealing his increasingly mature character control ability and artistic perception." Gao Ye choked up in his acceptance speech and said that after twenty years of working in the industry, he was sincerely grateful to be born in this peaceful land and grow up in this great river and mountains, which gave him the confidence to pursue his dreams. "Nanjing Photo Studio" also won the award for Best Feature Film.

The film "A Love Letter to Grandma" won two awards: the Special Jury Award and the Screenplay Award. The jury believes that the film continues the implicit lyrical tradition of Chinese literature and art, and in its quiet and restrained narrative, it engraves the life scenes and spiritual history of generations of overseas Chinese separated across the sea and longing for their homeland. The work adheres to a sincere and simple creative background, uses restrained and calm images, and supports long and profound humanistic connotations. It dissolves the hot and melancholy nostalgia of home and country into daily fireworks, providing a calm and powerful aesthetic model.

Director Zheng Dasheng won the Best Director Award for "Secret Files". The jury believed that it used a small-cut perspective to deal with major red historical facts and made a new exploration of the red spy genre.

Ushour Selai, who played Turdi Ahong in the movie "The Book of Ten Thousand Tongs", and Lan Xiya, who played Zhang Xiaorui in "Deafening", won the Best Supporting Actor and Actor awards respectively; Wan Li, the director of "Deafening", won the Best New Director Award; "Meat and Vegetable Wontons", a film about the elderly, won the Best Small and Medium-Cost Feature Film Award.

The Best Sound Recording, Best Editing, Best Art, Best Music, and Best Photography were won by "The Wind Rises in the Desert," "The Aviator," "De Leisure", "Wantong Book" and "Wild Times" respectively; the best animated film, best documentary/scientific and educational film, best children's film, best opera film, and best foreign language film were won by "Little Monsters of Langlang Mountain", "Blue Star Outside the Window", "The Sound of Malan Flowers Blooming", "Gu Yanwu" and "Emotional Value" respectively.

The 2026 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival opened on the 6th of this month, during which more than 60 activities were held, including the Golden Rooster Chinese Film Festival, the Golden Rooster International Film Festival, the Golden Rooster Film Forum, the Golden Rooster Cross-Strait and Hong Kong and Macao Youth Short Film Season, and a special promotion meeting for Taiwanese films. (over)