| Film award/festival | Award | Nominee | Result | |||||
| 23rd Golden Horse Awards 1986 Taiwain. | Best Film Award | Won | ||||||
| Best Actress Award | Cora MIAO | Nominated | ||||||
| Best Original Screenplay | Xiaoye | Nominated | ||||||
| Edward YANG | Nominated | |||||||
| 39th Cannes Film Festival 1987 Cannes, France. Un Certain Regard | ||||||||
| 12nd Pusan International Film Festival 2007 Pusan, Korea. Edward Yang: The Memory of Taipei | Edward YANG | |||||||
| 20th Tokyo International Film Festival 2007 Tokyo, Japan. Winds of Asia In Memory of Edward Yang: Retrospective | Edward YANG | |||||||
| 32nd Hong Kong International Film Festival 2008 Hong Kong. The One and Only Edward Yang | ||||||||
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