Brief introduction of Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou, 1950 was born in Xi, Shaanxi Province on April 2, 1950. He is a China film director, one of the representatives of the "fifth generation directors" and an honorary doctor of Boston University and Yale University in the United States.

1978 entered the photography department of Beijing Film Academy. 1982 was assigned to Guangxi Film Studio after graduation. 1984 worked as a photographer for the first time in the film One and Eight, and won the China Film Excellent Photographer Award. 1986 starred in the first film "Old Well" and won three best actors. The first film "Red Sorghum" directed by 1987 won the Golden Bear Award at the first China International Film Festival.

From then on, I began to realize my own trilogy of film creation, from photographer to actor, and finally to director career. From 1987 to 1999, his films, such as Red Sorghum, Chrysanthemum, Hanging the Red Lantern, The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum, Living, No Child Left Behind and My Father and Mother, won numerous film awards at home and abroad, and he won three Oscars.

After 2002, the commercial films "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers", "Golden Flower in the City" and "flowers of war" directed by the transformation set new box office records in China twice and won the annual Chinese box office champion four times.

He is the chairman of the jury of 18 Tokyo International Film Festival and the jury of the 64th Venice International Film Festival. In 2008, he served as the general director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games, won the award of "Influencing Chinese around the world" and "Touching the Top Ten People in China" sponsored by CCTV in 2008, and was nominated as the person of the year by Time magazine.

20 13 directed the film "Return". 20 15 planning of Hollywood film "the great wall" 20 16 general director of cultural performances at G20 summit in Hangzhou, China. 20 17 directed the action film Shadow, and won the best director award in the 55th Golden Horse Award. 20191kloc-0/,as the general director of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.

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From 1957 to 1962, Zhang Yimou attended Fang Tongji Primary School in Xi 'an. 1962 to 1966, studying in Xi 'an No.30 Middle School. 1968 to 197 1 year, worked in rural areas of Ganxian county, Shaanxi province after graduating from junior high school. 197 1 zhuan 1978, a worker of the eighth cotton mill in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. 1September, 978, after the college entrance examination resumed, he entered the photography department of Beijing Film Academy. 1982 After graduating in July, he worked as a photographer in Guangxi Film Studio, and his household registration was also transferred to Nanning, Guangxi.

Zhang Yimou's name was given by his father. It was originally Zhang Yimou. I hope his children will achieve something in the future. Zhang Yimou's ancestral home is Lintong, Shaanxi, and his family is a big family in Shi Tian Town, Lintong City in the late Qing Dynasty. In the early years of the Republic of China, my grandfather served as the county magistrate of Zhashui County in Shaanxi Province after graduating from yenching university.

Zhang Yimou's father, Zhang Bingjun, worked as a Kuomintang quartermaster and worked in Shaanxi Agriculture and Forestry Bureau after liberation. 1949 On the eve of the liberation of Xi 'an, 29-year-old Zhang Bingjun married 19-year-old female student Zhang Xiaoyou who was studying in Xi 'an missionary school. Zhang Yimou's mother is a doctor in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi Jiaotong University. Zhang Yimou was born in 1950. Zhang Yimou has two younger brothers, Zhang Mou Wei and Zhang Qimou.