Tsai Ming-liang
Awards & Honours
11
Awards Won
4
Honours
5
Rankings
4
Covers
3
Records
Tsai Ming-liang is one of only a handful of directors to have won top prizes at all three major European festivals: the Golden Lion at Venice, the Grand Jury Prize at Berlin (twice), and the Grand Prize of the Jury at Berlin. His body of work has been honored with lifetime achievement awards from Rotterdam and Locarno. In 2023, TIME named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, the first Taiwanese filmmaker to receive that recognition. His films regularly appear on Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time lists, and his influence on slow cinema is widely acknowledged as foundational.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
Order of the Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon
Awarded for contributions to cinema.
Honorary Doctorate
Recognizing his lifetime achievements in film.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Awarded for his body of work.
Honorary Leopard
For his contribution to cinema.
Rankings & Lists
Greatest Films of All Time
100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films
Greatest Films of All Time
Greatest Films of All Time
100 Most Influential People in the World
Magazine Covers
Film Comment
2001-09
What Time Is It There? cover story
Cinema Scope
2013
Stray Dogs cover
Sight & Sound
2020-03
Days cover story
TIME
2023-05-22
TIME 100 portrait
Records & Feats
First Taiwanese filmmaker to win Golden Lion at Venice
Tsai's Vive L'Amour won the Golden Lion in 1994, the first such win for a Taiwanese director.
Only director to win Grand Jury Prize at Berlin twice
He won the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1997 for The River and again in 2001 for What Time Is It There?.
Most consistent collaboration between a director and actor
Lee Kang-sheng has appeared in every Tsai Ming-liang feature film since 1992, spanning over 30 years.