First place, Xie Jin
Xie Jin is the representative of the third generation of directors in China, and is also known as the first film director in contemporary China. In the hundred-year history of China films, Xie Jin and his films have accompanied the audience for half a century.
From "The Red Female Soldier" to "The Garland under the Mountain" to "furong town", too many films by Xie Jin have become classics. Xie Jin and his works are full of China intellectuals' sense of social responsibility and historical mission. In the film history of China, Xie Jin has become a benchmark. He raised the banner of China films and opened the door for China films to go to the world.
Representative works include Women's Basketball Team No.5, Red Female Soldier, stage sisters and Ah! Cradle, the legend of Tian Yun Mountain, the shepherd and the wreath at the foot of the mountain.
Second place, Zhang Yimou.
Zhang Yimou is one of the representatives of China's "fifth generation directors". He is also the general director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. His directorial works have won many international film festival awards, including two Venice Golden Lion Awards and a Berlin Golden Bear Award. He personally won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Director three times and the Golden Horse Award for Best Director once. In 2002, it entered the commercial field and opened the era of mainland blockbusters.
Representative works include Red Sorghum, Alive, Hanging Red Lanterns High, No Less, Hero, flowers of war and so on.
Third place: Jason Wu.
Before 20 15, who would have thought that Jason Wu, who has always played the leading role, would be the key figure of the box office miracle in China? In 20 15, Wolf Warriors, directed and starred by Jason Wu, earned 540 million yuan at the box office. Among the top five films in China, he participated in three films, Wolf Warriors 2 (5.6 billion) and The Wandering Earth (4.6 billion). Together with the battle of Changjin Lake, the total box office of the three films exceeded1500 million. Jason Wu is self-disciplined, sincere, kind and patriotic. There are few scandals in the chaotic entertainment circle. Later, he was invited to star in main melody films such as Our Country, The Battle of Changjin Lake and Sacrifice. The details are personal and the box office is not unusual. What is commendable is that he left a colorful and world-renowned masterpiece for China's films. Jason Wu is a well-deserved individual box office TOP 1!
Jason Wu's representative works are 1. Wolf Warrior and Wolf Warriors 2.
Representative works include The Wandering Earth's Kill the Wolf 2, The Climber, The Master of Taiji, Xiao Li Flying Knife and so on.
Fourth place, Xiaogang Feng.
When it comes to directors in China, maybe your first reaction is only two people, Zhang Yimou and Xiaogang Feng. Indeed, these two men are the most important and successful directors in China. Unlike Zhang Yimou, there are basically no films with bad reputation in Xiaogang Feng except The Banquet. However, his Feng humor has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Feng's style is famous for Beijing-style comedies, and he is good at commercial films, and enjoys the reputation of the father of New Year's films in the industry. He is one of the directors with the most box office appeal in Chinese mainland.
Representative works include: world without thieves, Assembly, Mobile Phone, If You Are the One, Tangshan Earthquake, etc.
Fifth place: Chen Kaige.
Chen Kaige is the representative of the fifth generation directors in China, and he also made great artistic achievements in his early years. Farewell My Concubine, the masterpiece, won the Palme d 'Or Award and Fabisi Award in the main competition unit of the 46th Cannes Film Festival, and became one of the most discussed and highly appraised works in China film history. At the same time, king of the children, Walking and Singing, Romantic Moon, Jing Ke Stabbed the King of Qin and Ten Minutes Passed: The Trumpet directed by him is also a frequent visitor to Cannes Film Festival. At that time, a "Legend of the Demon Cat" was magnificent, which made many fans re-recognize the elegance of the fifth-generation director.
Representative works include Yellow Land, Forced Takeoff, Grand Parade, king of the children, Walking and Singing, Farewell My Concubine, Romantic Moon, Jing Ke Stabbed the King of Qin, Together with You, Dancing with the Butterfly, and Ten Minutes Gone-Deep in the Flowers.
Sixth place: Jiang Wen.
Jiang Wen, formerly known as Jiang Xiaojun, is a famous film actor and director in China and a native of Tangshan, Hebei. 1980 was admitted to the performance department of the Central Academy of Drama. 1984 graduated from China Opera, and entered China Youth Art Theatre in the same year, starring in excellent plays such as Family Affairs and Grey Lanji in Caucasus. Furong town and Peach Blossom won the Best Actor Hundred Flowers Award in two popular movies. Jiang Wen claims to be a talented director in China film circle, and many fanatical fans are chasing him. The debut "Sunny Days" was selected as the main competition unit of Venice Film Festival, which also made Yu Xia the youngest winner in Venice.
Representative works include The Sun Also Rises, Sunny Day, The Devil Comes, Let Bullets Fly, etc.
Seventh place, Jia
Jia is the leader of the sixth generation directors in China. The representative work The Good Man of Three Gorges won the Golden Lion Award in the main competition unit of Venice Film Festival, Destiny won the best screenplay at Cannes Film Festival, Useless won the Horizon documentary award at Venice Film Festival, and Xiaowu won the New Wave Award at Busan International Film Festival. In addition, Ren Xiaoyao, Platform, World, Oriental, A Story of Twenty-four Cities, mountains may depart, Jianghu Children and other works have been recognized by well-known domestic film festivals for many times, and have been shortlisted for international film festivals for many times.
His representative works include The Good Man of Three Gorges, A Tale of Twenty-four Cities, mountains may depart and Jianghu Children.
Eighth place, Xu zhēng
Throughout Xu zhēng's career as a director, his first film was a blockbuster in terms of word of mouth and box office, and the response of subsequent works did not exceed that of the first "Sorry Thailand". But now Xu zhēng should also be the first-line director among domestic directors, because his total box office has ranked among the top five domestic directors, and the data there are more convincing. Moreover, Xu zhēng, together with Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and Ning Hao, often becomes a professional judge of the film organizing committee, which also proves the important position of Xu zhēng in the director circle!
Representative works include Crazy Stone, Man on the Road, Thailand, Hong Kong, No Man's Land, Hypnotist and Heart on the Road.
Ninth place Lu Chuan
From 65438 to 0999, the TV series Black Hole written by Lu Chuan attracted attention. In 2002, he made his mark in China film industry with his first film "Looking for a Gun". In 2004, his film "Hoh Xil" won many awards, such as Golden Rooster Award, Golden Horse Award and China Watch Award, and became famous in one fell swoop. In this film, he shows an extremely capable, cruel and even aesthetic style that has never been seen in domestic films. In 2009, the film Nanjing directed by him brought the audience into the unspeakable fear of war and truly portrayed the complexity and heroism of war.
Representative works include Looking for a Gun, Hoh Xil and Nanjing! Nanjing! 》
Tenth place, Ning Hao.
Ning Hao's public film career began in 2006. This year, he filmed Crazy Stone for 3 million RMB, which won more than 20 million box office and shocked the whole country like a dark horse. The six films he has released so far are all comedies except No Man's Land. Perhaps this is the independent choice of market and capital. It's not that Ning Hao only likes to make comedies or can only make comedies, but his plays are too serious to be shown after four years' review.
Ning Hao's representative works include Crazy Stone, No Man's Land and Love Flowers on the Road.
Summary: These 10 great directors have brought us many excellent film and television works in the rapidly changing market. I hope more young directors can rise!
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