18th Golden Horse Awards

The 18th Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin:第18屆金馬獎) took place on October 30, 1981 at the Kaohsiung Cultural Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.^[1][2]

18th Golden Horse Awards
Date	October 30, 1981
Site	Kaohsiung Cultural Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Hosted by	Li Tao and Josephine Siao
Organized by	Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee
Highlights
Best Feature Film	If I Were for Real
Best Director	Tsui Hark All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution
Best Actor	Alan Tam If I Were for Real
Best Actress	Sylvia Chang My Grandfather
Most awards	All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution (3) If I Were for Real (3)
Most nominations	All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution (6)
Television in Taiwan
Channel	CTS
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Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Feature Film If I Were for Real Fellow Students My Grandfather All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution The Coldest Winter in Peking A Man of Immortality	Best Documentary Hai Yang Mu Chang Zhi Kai Fa 海洋牧場之開發 Kua Hai Hong Qiao 跨海長虹
Best Animation Old Master Q	Best Director Tsui Hark — All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution Lin Ching-chieh — Fellow Students Patrick Tam — Love Massacre
Best Leading Actor Alan Tam — If I Were for Real Tony Liu — A Man of Immortality Heung Wan-pang — Fellow Students	Best Leading Actress Sylvia Chang — My Grandfather Sibelle Hu — The Coldest Winter in Peking Ying Tsai-ling— The Unsinkable Miss Calabash
Best Supporting Actor George Wang — The Coldest Winter in Peking Liu Yan-fang — The Coldest Winter in Peking Mu Si-cheng — A Sword Named Revenge	Best Supporting Actress Wang Lai — The Unsinkable Miss Calabash Wu Su-chu — Sailing for Tomorrow Gua Ah-leh — The Story of Daniel
Best Child Star Cheng Chuan-wen — My Native Land Zhang Xiang — A Man of Immortality Wan Wan — Once Again with Love	Best Original Screenplay Wu Nien-jen — Fellow Students Raymond Wong and Szeto Cheuk-hon — All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution Lin Ching-chieh — Student Days
Best Adapted Screenplay Chang Yung-hsiang — If I Were for Real Li Han-hsiang — The Tiger and the Widow	Best Cinematography Bill Wong — All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution Lin Hung-chung — If I Were for Real Brian Lai — Love Massacre
Best Film Editing Tony Chow — All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution Wang Chin-chen — The Coldest Winter in Peking Peter Cheung — The Big Brawl	Best Art Direction Chen Ching-shen — The Tiger and the Widow William Chang — All the Wrong Clues for the Right Solution Wang Toon — If I Were for Real
Best Costume Design Lee Yen-ping — The Tiger and the Widow Lee Fu-hsiung — A Man of Immortality Lu Chien-ming — A Sword Named Revenge	Best Original Film Score Li Tai-hsiang — A Sword Named Revenge Li Tai-hsiang — The Unsinkable Miss Calabash Weng Ching-hsi — My Native Land
Best Original Film Song Weng Ching-hsi — My Native Land Li Tai-hsiang — Sailing for Tomorrow Shi Dongrong — A Sword Named Revenge	Best Sound Recording Kwong Hu — Love Massacre Lin Kun-chi — Sailing for Tomorrow Wang Yung-fang — My Native Land
Special Era Significance Award The Coldest Winter in Peking	Special Award Wang Yin