Take, for instance, the 28th Golden Horse Awards, when Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day and Ang Lee's Pushing Hands from Taiwan battled it out with Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild and Stanley Kwan's Center Stage from Hong Kong.
此時，港片開始在金馬獎上頻頻獲獎，港台對決了十年，各佔優勢。以二十八屆金馬獎為例，楊德昌的《牯嶺街少年殺人事件》、李安的《推手》，與香港導演王家衛的《阿飛正傳》、關錦鵬的《阮玲玉》大對決，戰況空前。