17th Golden Horse Awards

The 17th Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin:第17屆金馬獎) took place on November 3, 1980 at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.

17th Golden Horse Awards
Date	November 3, 1980
Site	Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
Hosted by	Chiang Kuang-chao and Sylvia Chang
Organized by	Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee
Highlights
Best Feature Film	Good Morning, Taipei
Best Director	Wang Chu-chin The Legend of the Six Dynasty
Best Actor	Wang Kuan-hsiung Free or Die
Best Actress	Hsu Feng The Pioneers
Most awards	The Orientation (3) The Secret (3)
Most nominations	Magnificent 72 (6) The Pioneers (6)

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Feature Film Good Morning, Taipei The Legend of the Six Dynasty (runner-up) The Pioneers (runner-up - mention) The Heroes (runner-up - mention) Free or Die (runner-up - mention) Those Days in the Heaven (runner-up - mention) The Battle of Guningtou (runner-up - mention) Magnificent 72 (runner-up) The Secret (runner-up) The Orientation (runner-up) Story of a Repentant Juvenile (runner-up) The Giant of Casino (runner-up - mention)	Best Documentary Ancient House - Chinese Traditional Architecture Guo Ju Yi Shu (runner-up) Zuo Gu Lian Ti Nan Ying Fen Ge Shou Shu (runner-up) Shi Da Jian She Zhi Yi Di Gao Su Gong Lu Gong Cheng (runner-up - mention) War of the Century (runner-up - mention) Departure Herald and Return Clearing (runner-up - mention) Traditional Town - Meinong (runner-up - mention) Wu Tai Chun Xiao (runner-up - mention)
Best Animation (runner-up) Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 Ding Ding Meng You Ji 丁丁夢遊記	Best Director Wang Chu-chin — The Legend of the Six Dynasty Ann Hui — The Secret Ting Shan-hsi — Magnificent 72
Best Leading Actor Wang Kuan-hsiung — Free or Die Wang Dao — The Pioneers Ti Lung — The Heroes	Best Leading Actress Hsu Feng — The Pioneers Brigitte Lin — Magnificent 72 Sylvia Chang — Free or Die
Best Supporting Actor Heung Wan-pang — The Orientation Li Hsiao-fei — Gunshot At 6 in the Morning Chiang Ming — Good Morning, Taipei	Best Supporting Actress Shao Pei-ling — Free or Die Chen Chiu-yen — Lover on the Wave Yang Jo-lan — To You with Love
Best Child Star Lin Hsiao-lao — The Orientation Huang Ying-hsun — The Beloved Grass Chen Jun-jie — Good Morning, Taipei	Best Original Screenplay Sung Hsiang-ju — To You with Love Wang Chu-chin and Kuan Yun-loong — The Legend of the Six Dynasty Joyce Chan — The Secret
Best Adapted Screenplay Liu Cheng-chien — The Giant of Casino Hou Hsiao-hsien — Good Morning, Taipei Chang Yung-hsiang and Chang Yi — The Pioneers	Best Cinematography David Chung — The Secret Wang Chu-chin — Those Days in the Heaven Lin Wen-chin — The Pioneers
Best Film Editing Hamilton Yu — The Secret Peter Cheung — The Young Master Yu Siu-fung and Chiang Hsing-lung — The Kung Fu Instructor	Best Art Direction Chang Chi-ping — The Pioneers Yuan Kuang-ming — Those Days in the Heaven Chang Pei-shing — The Orientation
Best Original Film Score (no winner) Yang Ping-chung — Magnificent 72 Wong Mau-san — The Legend of the Six Dynasty Wang Chu-chin — Those Days in the Heaven	Best Original Film Song (no winner) "Good Morning, Taipei" — Good Morning, Taipei Composer： Weng Ching-hsi Lyrics: Sun Yi "Big Rooster" — The Orientation Composer： Wen Lung-chun Lyrics: Chang Pei-shing "Blood-Stained Flowers" — Magnificent 72 Composer： Yang Ping-chung Lyrics: Ting Shan-hsi
Best Sound Recording Hsin Chiang-sheng — The Battle of Guningtou Lin Kun-chi — The Legend of the Six Dynasty Wang Yung-fang — Magnificent 72	Best Cinematography for Documentary Chang Chao-tang - Ancient House - Chinese Traditional Architecture Lai Yung-hsin — Guo Ju Yi Shu Chang Chao-tang — Traditional Town - Meinong
Best Planning for Documentary Lee Shu-chin — Guo Ju Yi Shu Teng Wei-hsing — War of the Century Hung Lao-tien — Traditional Town - Meinong	Best Director for Animated Film (no winner) Tsai Ming-chin — Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 Huang Mu-tsun — Ding Ding Meng You Ji 丁丁夢遊記
Merit Award for Planning The Battle of Guningtou