Huang Xi

Huang Xi (; born 1976) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. She made her directorial debut with Missing Johnny, for which she won Best Screenplay in the 19th Taipei Film Awards. In 2024, she won Best Original Screenplay in the 61st Golden Horse Awards for her second feature Daughter's Daughter.

Early life Huang was born in 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan, and she grew up in that city. Huang's father was a high school classmate of filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien and was involved in the funding of Hou's 1985 film Taipei Story. Since childhood, she has been fascinated by Hong Kong films and cites the works of Wong Kar-wai, Raymond Wong, and John Woo as major influences on her aesthetics. By high school in Vancouver, she took a filmmaking course and produced several short films, further deepening her interest in pursuing filmmaking.

Career Huang interned as a production assistant on Hou Hsiao-hsien's production crew for his 1996 film Goodbye South, Goodbye. She then left the film industry due to her family's financial struggles and pursued a career in digital marketing. She then returned to Hou's crew and worked as an assistant director on the 2015 film The Assassin. Richard Kuipers of Variety praised Huang's "richly layered screenplay" and "meticulous direction", calling the film "an elegantly composed mood piece"; while of Mirror Media remarked that her screenplay was "expansive but challenging to wrap up effectively". Huang won Best Screenplay in the 19th Taipei Film Awards and received a nomination for Best New Director in the 54th Golden Horse Awards. She later returned to Taiwan to work with Hou Hsiao-hsien on another project, the HBO Asia fantasy series , where she served as director and Hou as producer once again. Chien Ying-jou, writing for United Daily News, praised the genre-bending narrative and called it "an experiment on the future of Taiwanese drama". Hou received nominations for both Best Directing and Best Writing in the 57th Golden Bell Awards, and Twisted Strings won Best Miniseries. Josh Slater-Williams of IndieWire commended Huang's "patient storytelling" and "riskier writing tricks", which delivered a "deeply moving" story; while Wendy Ide of Screen Daily called the film "elegant and affecting". Huang won Best Original Screenplay in the 61st Golden Horse Awards with the film. 19th Taipei Film Awards Best Screenplay

Best Directing for a Miniseries or Television Film

Best Writing for a Miniseries or Television Film 2024 61st Golden Horse Awards Best Original Screenplay Daughter's Daughter