After the challenge of Cloud Gate, he found the routine there unfulfilling, but he stuck with it and in 1984 and 1985 won two successive "golden statue" awards as Chinese opera's best actor in sheng roles.
而且他想通了：「依賴環境不如靠自己！」民國七十三、七十四年，吳興國連得兩屆國劇金像獎最佳生角獎。