Vice Ganda Bags Taiwan’s Most Prestigious Film Award

11/06/2014 – Manila | Jose Marie Borja Vicera aka Vice Ganda is planning to have a celebration of a lifetime after the actor won the biggest award of his acting life. During the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards held yesterday in Taipei, Vice Ganda grabbed the award for the Best Asian Male Actor, and is presented with Golden Horse Trophy – the film festival’s official token.

“Being the first Filipino actor that won this kind of award is really inspiring”, Vice Ganda told reporters upon his arrival at the best airport in the world.

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards is the only film festival in the world that gives an award to non-natives without classifying the film as foreign film. The Academy Award on the other hand gives only award for foreign films in foreign language film category.

Because his movie Petrang Kabayo dominated the Chinese movie market upon its late release earlier this year in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the board of judges decided to give the highest award for the first time in festival’s history to a non-Chinese actor.

Petrang Kabayo is a 2010 comedy-drama film starring Vice Ganda. The film grossed more than 300 million Pesos and one of the highest grossing Philippine films of all time. The foreign rights was acquired by a Chinese film company earlier this year and it hits Chinese box office grossing over $50 million dollars in mainland China alone.

Vice Ganda’s camp is scheduled to have a parade with his award this coming Monday. His confidant gave a hint that he is going to ride  a horse inside Manila City to show his award to his hard core fans.

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 /Lulu Ang/ Assisted Press Manila

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