Wong bags Golden Horse for best actor

Veteran Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong Chau-sang took top honors at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards.

Dubbed the Chinese-language Oscars, the Golden Horse awards took place on Saturday.

Wong, 61, won the award for best actor - his first prize - for playing a Hong Kong taxi driver in The Sunny Side of the Street.

"I think new directors bring me luck and I should only work with new directors," Wong joked at the ceremony.

He was referring to Malaysia's Lau Kok-rui, who won the best new director and best original screenplay awards.

Veteran Taiwanese director-actor Sylvia Chang Ai-chia won best actress for her role in a social drama A Light Never Goes Out"

Hong Kong crime thriller Limbo led the pack with 14 nominations, but walked away with four technical awards.