Yong Mei wins the best actress for So Long, My Son.

Dying to Survive, a box-office hit that aroused widely social concerns about medicine prices, won the 1985-born director Wen Muye the best directorial debut award.

Shanghai actress Wu Yufang was honored as best supporting actress for her incarnation of a somewhat unqualified mother in the film Send Me to the Clouds.

Red Flowers and Green Leaves, about a newly married couple who both struggle with their own "secrets", took home the middle-and small-budget film award.

The Wind Guardians, a fantastic tale following a young man's adventures to seek his missing mother, took home the best animated film prize.

The best documentary award went to Striving for Dream.

Find My Way Home – a heartwarming tale about a girl and a puppy – was named the best children's film.

Actors Yang Zaibao, Wang Tiecheng and Xu Huanshan, all 1930s-born artists, co-won the lifetime achievement award as a tribute to their decades-long devotion to Chinese cinema.

Previously, the Hundred Flowers Awards – which are selected by the audience – alternated with the Golden Roosters Awards, picked by film experts. The Golden Roosters now will be awarded every year.