The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and at the 2005 Golden Horse Film Festival , the film won Best Actress ( Shu Qi ) , Best Taiwanese Film of the Year and Best Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year awards , while being nominated for Best Feature Film , Best Director , Best Leading Actor ( Chang Chen ) , Best Original Screenplay ( Chu T’ien - wen and Hou Hsiao-hsien ) , Best Cinematography ( Ping Bin Lee ) , Best Art Direction ( Wen-Ying Huang ) , Best Makeup & Costume Design ( Wen-Ying Huang , Shu-Chen Liao and Gin Oy ) , and Best Film Editing ( Ching-Song Liao and Ju-kuan Hsiao ) awards . The film also won the Grand Prix / Golden Apricot award for Best Film at the 2006 Yerevan International Film Festival , a Jury Prize from the 2005 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival , where it was also nominated for the Grand Prize . Finally , the film was also nominated for a Best Asian Film award from the 2006 Hong Kong Film Awards and a Best Foreign Language Film award from the 2006 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards . In an Indiewire Critics ' Poll taken in 2006 for Best Film of the Year , the film was ranked in 6th place
Yerevan International Film Festival
Yerevan International Film Festival
Hou Hsiao-hsien