I. Awards

This year’s Golden Rooster Award film awards include Best Feature Film, Best Small/Medium Budget Feature Film, Best Children’s Film, Best Documentary/Science Education Film, Best Fine Arts Film, and Best Opera Film,
Best Foreign Language Film.

This year’s Golden Rooster Awards individual awards are for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Art, Best Music, Best Sound Recording, Best Editing, and Best Director’s Debut.

The individual awards are limited to feature films only (including small and medium budget feature films and children’s films, excluding foreign language films).

A children’s film is a feature film featuring children and adolescents or made exclusively for minors under the age of sixteen.

II. Scope of enrolment

• 1. Films that have obtained a license for public exhibition of films from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024 issued by the State Administration of Film. Including films produced by Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan production organizations and films jointly produced by mainland (China) production organizations with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan production organizations and foreign production organizations. Chinese nationality (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) actors and actresses who fulfill the above conditions will participate in the selection of individual awards.
• 2. The Best Foreign Language Film shall be limited to foreign films that have been examined and approved by the State Administration of Film from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024 and have obtained a license for the public exhibition of films, and whose world premiere is not more than two years ago as of June 30, 2024, and which have been imported for the first time, and which will only participate in the selection of the Best Foreign Language Film Award and not in the selection of the individual awards.

III. Enrolment procedures

The Golden Rooster Award for Chinese Films is selected once a year, and this year’s application period is from now until July 26, 2024.

The documents required for each production unit to register for the evaluation can be downloaded from the official website of the China Film Association, by scanning the QR code at the end of the article or the link to the online disk.

Fill out the paperwork and submit it to the Awards Office as notified.

IV. Registration materials

Enrollment materials include the following:

Electronic version of the information:

• 1. China Film Golden Rooster Award participating film declaration form and participating individual declaration form (doc or docx format, without official seal), after filling in the form, please scan the QR code in the lower right corner of the form to register the relevant information;
• 2. High-definition pictures: including scanned copies of the film’s public screening license (photos), 1 or more horizontal and vertical film posters, 3-5 stills, and 1-2 photos (personal stills, work photos, and art photos are all acceptable) of the individual participants in the competition;
• 3. A brief synopsis of the story (300 words or less, in doc or docx format);
• 4. Those who declare their candidacy for the best screenplay are required to provide a literary script for the movie (in doc or docx format, without watermarks, with the file name labeled original or adapted).

Paper:

• 1. Paper registration materials.
  (1) A copy of the Film Public Showing License issued by the State Administration of Film; (2) a letter of commitment from the participating organization and a letter of commitment from the participant; (3) a declaration form of the films and a declaration form of the individual items participating in the Chinese Golden Rooster Awards. The paper application materials (A4 format) shall be bound in a booklet in the order of the copy of the Film Public Showing License, the commitment letter of the participating organization, the commitment letter of the participant, the film declaration form and the individual declaration form, on the basis of the film as a unit. If a project entered for a single award is a collaboration between several people, each person must fill out a one-page entry form and indicate the order of the entries (the names of the creators and their order should be the same as the subtitles of the film).

  Each of the above documents must be stamped with the official seal of the declaring organization, and 1 set of original stamped documents and 20 sets of photocopies must be submitted.

• 2. Those who declare their candidacy for the Best Screenplay are required to provide two copies of the literary screenplay of the movie (without watermarks) and indicate original or adapted in the upper right corner of the first page.

Other information:

• 1. Keyless DCP that meets the standards for commercial theater projection (Dragon logo and no watermark are required, and the hard disk format is NTFS; DCP for foreign language films must be pronounced in the original language with Chinese subtitles; multilingual versions must be submitted with the original voice of the applicant for the Actor’s Single Award);
• 2. Full-length movie (with dragon logo and no watermark, no more than 3GB, stored in MOV or MP4 format on a USB flash drive);

V. Precautions

• 1. The declaring organizations and auditing units are requested to strictly screen and select the declarations on the basis of merit in the spirit of seeking truth from facts.
• 2. Films submitted for the Film Prize must carefully fill in the items listed in the application form for the Film Prize, and the name of the production unit, its order and number should be the same as the public screening license. Entries for all awards shall be based on the cast list before and after the movie.
• 3. For the individual awards in the acting categories (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress), the lines of the roles played must be in the original voice of the participant or dubbed by the participant himself/herself. The number of entries for each individual award in the acting category will be limited to five per movie.
• 4. To participate in the Best Small/Medium Budget Feature Film (feature films with a production cost of less than RMB 10 million), the production cost of the film must be truthfully stated in the film’s application form.
• 5. Only one of the two categories, Best Director and Best Director’s Debut, can be submitted. A director’s debut film should be the first film directed by the director independently that is licensed for public theatrical release.
• 6. The same film may be entered for only one of the film awards, and no multiple entries are permitted.
• 7. Documentary films, science education films, art films, opera films and foreign language films are not eligible for individual awards.
• 8. Participants in a single award must be of Chinese nationality; if the project is co-signed by more than one person, and there are foreign collaborators among them, this single project is not eligible for registration.
• 9. Films that have been previously entered for the Golden Rooster Awards may not be re-entered for any reason or for a different version.
• 10. The final selection will be based on the DCP of the film, which must be produced by a professional production company, and its specifications and quality must meet the standards for commercial theater projection; the DCP must be pronounced in the original language and in good condition. If the DCP cannot be produced, the application will be considered abandoned.
• 11. Entries for the Golden Chicken Awards will be sent by mail, and the entrant is responsible for the production costs of the DCP, shipping costs of the entry materials, and insurance costs. Except for the DCP of the movie, other materials will not be returned by mail, please keep the master source or backup by yourself.

Notice is hereby given that the Chinese Filmmakers Association July 4, 2024

Address: Room 310, China Filmmakers Association, No. 22, Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China

Attn: Golden Rooster Award Jury Office, China Film Association

Postal code: 1000134

Tel: 010-64296094

E-mail: cfapingjiang@163.com (for supplementary material only)