Golden Rooster Awards

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Golden Rooster Awards
金鸡奖
Awarded forExcellence in movies
CountryChina
Presented byChina Film Association
First awarded1981

The Golden Rooster Awards (Chinese: 金雞獎/金鸡奖; pinyin: Jīn Jī Jiăng) are movie awards given in mainland China. They are similar to the Academy Awards. It is called the Golden Rooster Awards because it was the Year of the Rooster in 1981.

The people who get the award receive a statuette in the shape of a golden Rooster. They are picked by a group of movie makers, movie experts, and movie historians. The awards are given by the China Film Association.

At first the movie festival had two events - the Golden Rooster festival and the Hundred Flowers Awards. The two festivals were combined in 1992.[1] Now the Golden Rooster is awarded on odd years and the Hundred Flowers is awarded on even years.

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  1. "China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival". ChinaCulture.org. Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2013-11-03.

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