What is Golden Rooster Awards?
{{Infobox award | current_awards = | name = Golden Rooster Awards<br>金鸡奖 | image = | imagesize = 250x250px | caption = The Golden Rooster Award | awarded_for = Excellence in [[movie]]s | presenter = China Film Association | country = [[China]] | year = 1981 | website = }} The '''Golden Rooster Awards''' ({{lang-zh|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 [[Chinese Zodiac|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 director|movie makers]], movie experts, and [[movie historian]]s. 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-01/31/content_127377.htm|title=China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival|publisher=ChinaCulture.org|accessdate=2013-11-03|archive-date=2008-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012100007/http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-01/31/content_127377.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Now the Golden Rooster is awarded on odd years and the Hundred Flowers is awarded on even years. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Golden_Rooster_Awards/awards_summary IMDB Summary for the Golden Rooster Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216081800/http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Golden_Rooster_Awards/awards_summary |date=2009-02-16 }} * [http://us.yesasia.com/en/specials/FilmAwards/EventFilmAward.aspx/aeid-1002/ List of winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929231619/http://us.yesasia.com/en/specials/FilmAwards/EventFilmAward.aspx/aeid-1002/ |date=2007-09