40th Golden Horse Awards

The 40th Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin:第40屆金馬獎) took place on December 13, 2003 at the Tainan Municipal Cultural Center in Tainan, Taiwan.^[1]

40th Golden Horse Awards
Promotional poster
Date	December 13, 2003
Site	Tainan Municipal Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan
Hosted by	Kevin Tsai and Carol Cheng
Preshow hosts	Dennis Nieh and Chia Yeong-chieh
Organized by	Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee
Highlights
Best Feature Film	Infernal Affairs
Best Director	Andrew Lau and Alan Mak Infernal Affairs
Best Actor	Tony Leung Chiu-wai Infernal Affairs
Best Actress	Sandra Ng Golden Chicken
Most awards	Infernal Affairs (5)
Most nominations	Infernal Affairs (12)
Television in Taiwan
Channel	TVBS-G
Ratings	1.73% (average)
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Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[2]

Best Feature Film Infernal Affairs The Missing Goodbye, Dragon Inn PTU Blind Shaft	Best Short Film Badu's Homework In Light Papa Blue
Best Documentary Viva Tonal - The Dance Age Burning Dreams Traces of a Dragon Nail	Best Animation Feature -
Best Director Andrew Lau and Alan Mak — Infernal Affairs Johnnie To — PTU Pang Ho-cheung — Men Suddenly in Black Tsai Ming-liang — Goodbye, Dragon Inn	Best Leading Actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai — Infernal Affairs Andy Lau — Infernal Affairs Daniel Wu — Night Corridor Simon Yam — PTU
Best Leading Actress Sandra Ng — Golden Chicken Ariel Lin — Love Me, If You Can Chen Shiang-chyi — Goodbye, Dragon Inn Lu Yi-ching — The Missing	Best Supporting Actor Anthony Wong — Infernal Affairs Chapman To — Men Suddenly in Black Lam Suet — PTU Chen Mu-yi — Black Dog Is Coming
Best Supporting Actress Lin Mei-hsiu — Black Dog Is Coming Candy Lo — Truth or Dare: 6th Floor Rear Flat Kara Wai — Night Corridor Terri Kwan — Turn Left, Turn Right	Best New Performer Wang Baoqiang — Blind Shaft Megan Zheng — Homerun Chang Chieh — The Missing
Audience Choice Award Infernal Affairs	Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year Liao Pen-jung	Lifetime Achievement Award Yuan Tsung-mei