The 17th Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin:第17屆金馬獎) took place on November 3, 1980 at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.

Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Good Morning, Taipei The Legend of the Six Dynasty (runner-up) The Pioneers (runner-up - mention) The Heroes (runner-up - mention) Free or Die (runner-up - mention) Those Days in the Heaven (runner-up - mention) The Battle of Guningtou (runner-up - mention) Magnificent 72 (runner-up) The Secret (runner-up) The Orientation (runner-up) Story of a Repentant Juvenile (runner-up) The Giant of Casino (runner-up - mention) Ancient House - Chinese Traditional Architecture Guo Ju Yi Shu (runner-up) Zuo Gu Lian Ti Nan Ying Fen Ge Shou Shu (runner-up) Shi Da Jian She Zhi Yi Di Gao Su Gong Lu Gong Cheng (runner-up - mention) War of the Century (runner-up - mention) Departure Herald and Return Clearing (runner-up - mention) Traditional Town - Meinong (runner-up - mention) Wu Tai Chun Xiao (runner-up - mention) Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 Ding Ding Meng You Ji 丁丁夢遊記Wang Chu-chin — The Legend of the Six Dynasty Ann Hui — The Secret Ting Shan-hsi — Magnificent 72Wang Kuan-hsiung — Free or Die Wang Dao — The Pioneers Ti Lung — The HeroesHsu Feng — The Pioneers Brigitte Lin — Magnificent 72 Sylvia Chang — Free or DieHeung Wan-pang — The Orientation Li Hsiao-fei — Gunshot At 6 in the Morning Chiang Ming — Good Morning, TaipeiShao Pei-ling — Free or Die Chen Chiu-yen — Lover on the Wave Yang Jo-lan — To You with LoveLin Hsiao-lao — The Orientation Huang Ying-hsun — The Beloved Grass Chen Jun-jie — Good Morning, TaipeiSung Hsiang-ju — To You with Love Wang Chu-chin and Kuan Yun-loong — The Legend of the Six Dynasty Joyce Chan — The SecretLiu Cheng-chien — The Giant of Casino Hou Hsiao-hsien — Good Morning, Taipei Chang Yung-hsiang and Chang Yi — The PioneersDavid Chung — The Secret Wang Chu-chin — Those Days in the Heaven Lin Wen-chin — The PioneersHamilton Yu — The Secret Peter Cheung — The Young Master Yu Siu-fung and Chiang Hsing-lung — The Kung Fu InstructorChang Chi-ping — The Pioneers Yuan Kuang-ming — Those Days in the Heaven Chang Pei-shing — The OrientationYang Ping-chung — Magnificent 72 Wong Mau-san — The Legend of the Six Dynasty Wang Chu-chin — Those Days in the Heaven"Good Morning, Taipei" — Good Morning, Taipei Composer: Weng Ching-hsi Lyrics: Sun Yi "Big Rooster" — The Orientation Composer: Wen Lung-chun Lyrics: Chang Pei-shing "Blood-Stained Flowers" — Magnificent 72 Composer: Yang Ping-chung Lyrics: Ting Shan-hsiHsin Chiang-sheng — The Battle of Guningtou Lin Kun-chi — The Legend of the Six Dynasty Wang Yung-fang — Magnificent 72Chang Chao-Tang - Ancient House - Chinese Traditional Architecture Lai Yung-hsin — Guo Ju Yi Shu Chang Chao-Tang — Traditional Town - MeinongLee Shu-chin — Guo Ju Yi Shu Teng Wei-hsing — War of the Century Hung Lao-tien — Traditional Town - MeinongTsai Ming-chin — Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 Huang Mu-tsun — Ding Ding Meng You Ji 丁丁夢遊記The Battle of Guningtou

References