Past Lives has been named the 2024 Gold List’s Best Picture by Gold House and CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment).
Gold House and CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) launched the fourth “Gold List” to highlight top Asian Pacific film achievements over the past year.
According to Gold House’s research, 22% of films grossing over $100 million at the post-pandemic domestic box office featured an Asian Pacific director, screenwriter, or lead actor. Last year’s Gold List winner Everything Everything All At Once broke records during the 2023 awards season and became the most-awarded film of all time. 2023 Gold List winners Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and “Naatu Naatu” also picked up historic Academy Awards wins.
This year, Past Lives was crowned the Gold List Best Picture as well as winning Best Director, Celine Song, and Best Performance in a Leading Role, Greta Lee. Song also won Best Original Screenplay.
Past Lives tells the tale of Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two deeply connected childhood friends who are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Other Gold List winners include Hayao Miyazaki’s final film The Boy and The Heron, which won Best Animated Short. To Kill A Tiger won Best Documentary Feature whilst Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Can’t Catch Me Now’, featured in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, won Best Original Song.
The Gold List spans 14 categories, voted on by prominent leaders from the Gold Open Advisory Council, Gold House Members, CAPE Board Members and Advisors, and entertainment industry heavyweights.
The full list of Gold List selections are as follows:
Best Picture
Past Lives
Honorable Mentions: Monster and Perfect Days
Best Director
Celine Song (Past Lives)
Honorable Mentions: Hayao Miyazaki (The Boy and the Heron) and Tran Anh Hung (The Taste of Things)
Best Performance in a Leading Role
Greta Lee (Past Lives)
Honorable Mentions: Ashley Park (Joy Ride), Keanu Reeves (John Wick: Chapter 4), Koji Yakusho (Perfect Days), Sakura Ando (Monster), and Teo Yoo (Past Lives)
Best Performance in a Supporting Role
Charles Melton (May December)
Honorable Mentions: Riz Ahmed (Fingernails), Sabrina Wu (Joy Ride), Sherry Cola (Joy Ride), Simu Liu (Barbie), and Stephanie Hsu (Joy Ride)
Best Original Screenplay
Celine Song (Past Lives)
Honorable Mentions: Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao (Joy Ride) and Hayao Miyazaki (The Boy and The Heron)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Dave Callaham, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller (Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse)
Honorable Mentions: Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings) and Taika Waititi and Iain Morris (Next Goal Wins)
Best Animated Feature
The Boy and The Heron
Honorable Mentions: Elemental, Nimona, and Suzume
Best Documentary Feature
To Kill A Tiger
Honorable Mentions: a.k.a. Mr Chow and Liquor Store Dreams
Best Original Song
“Can’t Catch Me Now” – Olivia Rodrigo (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)
Honorable Mentions: “I AM” by Stan Walker (Origin) and “All Love Is Love” by Bowen Yang, Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp, Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally (Dicks: The Musical)
Best Animated Short
WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Honorable Mentions: Our Uniform and The Old Young Crow
Best Documentary Short
Between Earth and Sky
Honorable Mentions: Island in Between and Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
Best Live Action Short
Yellow
Honorable Mentions: Closing Dynasty, Eid Mubarak, and Take Me Home
Breakout Performance
Lindsay Watson (The Wind & The Reckoning)
Breakout Independent Film
Polite Society
