15th Golden Horse Awards

15th Golden Horse Awards
Date	October 31, 1978
Site	Zhongshan Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
Hosted by	Wang Hao Ivy Ling
Organized by	Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee
Highlights
Best Feature Film	He Never Gives Up
Best Director	Li Hsing He Never Gives Up
Best Actor	Chin Han He Never Gives Up
Best Actress	Tien Niu The Diary of Di-Di
Most awards	He Never Gives Up (5)
Most nominations	He Never Gives Up (11)

The 15th Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin:第15屆金馬獎) took place on October 31, 1978, at Zhongshan Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

Best Feature Film He Never Gives Up Brothers (runner-up) The Operations of Spring Wind (runner-up - mention) The Sentimental Swordsman (runner-up - mention) The Murder of Murders (runner-up - mention) Everlasting Love (runner-up - mention) Sunset in Beijing City (runner-up - mention) The Contract (runner-up) The Glory of the Sunset (runner-up) The Diary of Di-Di (runner-up) Lantern Festival Adventure (runner-up) The Smiling Face (runner-up - mention)	Best Documentary Zhong Hua Min Guo Di Liu Ren Zong Tong Fu Zong Tong Xuan Shi Jiu Zhi Dian Li Tian Yuan Zu Qu (runner-up) Sha Rang Li De Bai Yu (runner-up) Wu Ling Yu Ci Hu (runner-up) Guo Jia Zhong Yao Gong Cheng Jian She Yu Rong Min Gong Cheng Shi Ye (runner-up) Yi Dai Wei Ren (runner-up - mention) Zhong Hua Min Guo Liu Shi Liu Nian Tai Wan Qu Yun Dong Hui (runner-up - mention) Fei Xiang Bai Ri Qing Tian (runner-up - mention) Hai Shang Gong Yuan ─ Jin Men (runner-up - mention) Kang Zhuang Da Dao (runner-up - mention)
Best Director Li Hsing — He Never Gives Up Chen Yao-chi — The Diary of Di-Di Michael Hui — The Contract	Best Leading Actor Chin Han — He Never Gives Up Bai Ying — The Operations of Spring Wind Jimmy Wang — Brothers
Best Leading Actress Tien Niu — The Diary of Di-Di Joan Lin — He Never Gives Up Chen Chen — The Glory of the Sunset	Best Supporting Actor Ku Ming-lun — Sunset in Beijing City Wei Su — Everlasting Love Ting Kwok-sing — He Never Gives Up
Best Supporting Actress Gua Ah-leh — The Diary of Di-Di Lisa Lu — Everlasting Love Chin Chi-min — Love of the White Snake	Best Child Star Huang Yi-lung — Lantern Festival Adventure Huang Ying-hsun — Sunset in Beijing City Chen Jun-jie — He Never Gives Up
Best Screenplay Chang Yung-hsiang — He Never Gives Up Liu Chia-chang — Sunset in Beijing City Sima Zhongyuan — Lantern Festival Adventure	Best Cinematography Chen Kun-hou — He Never Gives Up Lin Chao — The Dream of the Red Chamber Lin Wen-chin — The Diary of Di-Di
Best Film Editing Peter Cheung — The Contract Liao Ching-song — He Never Gives Up Wang Chi-yang — The Operations of Spring Wind	Best Art Direction Chen Ching-shen — The Dream of the Red Chamber Li Ji — Lantern Festival Adventure Wang Toon — The Glory of the Sunset
Best Music Huang Mao-shan — Lantern Festival Adventure Weng Ching-hsi — He Never Gives Up Wu Ta-chiang — The Dream of the Red Chamber	Best Sound Recording Lin Kun-chi — The Glory of the Sunset Lin Ting-kuei — The Operations of Spring Wind Hsin Chiang-sheng — He Never Gives Up
Best Cinematography for Documentary Chen Yu-po - Zhong Hua Min Guo Di Liu Ren Zong Tong Fu Zong Tong Xuan Shi Jiu Zhi Dian Li Liao Hung-ya — Tian Yuan Zu Qu Yu Ju-chi — Kang Zhuang Da Dao	Best Planning for Documentary Tuan Mu-hsuan — Tian Yuan Zu Qu Liang Kai-ming — Sha Rang Li De Bai Yu Hsu I-kung — Wu Ling Yu Ci Hu
Special Award - Outstanding Performance Chen Jun-jie - He Never Gives Up	Special Award - Outstanding Cinematography The Sentimental Swordsman
Special Award - News Values Award Fei Xiang Bai Ri Qing Tian