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Chen Kaige, born in Beijing on August 1952, is a film director and graduated from Beijing Film Academy.

1984 directed the film Yellow Land and won the Yin Bao Prize in the 38th Locarno International Film Festival; 1993 Farewell My Concubine won the Palme d 'Or Award at the first Cannes International Film Festival in China, and successively won a series of international awards such as the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in the United States and the British Film Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His representative works include: Yellow Land, king of the children, Farewell My Concubine, Fengyue, Jing Ke Stabbed the King of Qin and so on. [ 1]

Chen Kaige is not only a film director, but also a vice chairman of the Chinese Film Association and a member of the 12th CPPCC.

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Chinese name

Chen Kaige

Foreign name

Kaige Chen

Another name

Chen aige

nation

China

nation

Han (ha)

birthplace

Beijing Xicheng district

date of birth

1952 August

occupation

be in charge of/supervisor

graduated institutions

Beijing Film Academy

Brokerage company

Beijing Film Studio

representative works

Huang Tudi, Farewell My Concubine, Jing Ke Thorn, Wuji, Mei Lanfang, orphan of Zhao.

Major achievements

Best Director of Asia-Pacific Film Festival

Best director of Chinese film Golden Rooster Award

China Film Watch Award for Best Director

Best Director of San Sebastian International Film Festival

Tokyo International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award

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catalogue

1 early experience

2 acting experience

3 personal life

4 main works

Director works

Film and television works

featurette

Books and works

Five people won the prize

6 social evaluation

1 Early Experience Editing

Chen Kaige, a native of Changle City, Fujian Province, Han nationality, a native of Xicheng District, Beijing, was born in August 1952. Chen Kaige experienced the Cultural Revolution and jumped the queue. This experience can be found in the book Song of Youth.

Chen Kaige Middle School studies in Beijing No.4 Middle School. 1970 enlisted, 1974 demobilized, 1976 worked in Beijing Film Printing Factory. From 65438 to 0978, Chen Kaige was admitted to the director department of Beijing Film Academy.

2 performance experience editing

1April, 982, Chen Kaige was assigned to the newly established Beijing Children's Film Studio.

1984 Chen Kaige was seconded to Guangxi Film Studio. 1984 in late July, the yellow land was sent to the Ministry of Culture for review. The film industry was controversial for about a year, and it was not until the end of 1985 and the beginning of 0986 that it was fully affirmed. Yellow land makes Chen Kaige a blockbuster.

1July, 986, king of the children, which was invested by An Film Studio and directed by Wu, was released.

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Chen Kaige visited the United States on 1988 at the invitation of the Asian Cultural Exchange Foundation of the United States and new york University. In the same year, he won the sixth place among the 20 "Directors Going to the Future" selected by Rotterdam International Film Festival. Returning to China three years later to direct Walking and Singing was questioned by many people.

1970, Chen Kaige joined the army.

1974 Demobilization.

1976 works in Beijing Film Printing Factory.

From 65438 to 0978, Chen Kaige was admitted to the director department of Beijing Film Academy.

1982 graduated from the director department of Beijing Film Academy.

Since 1984, he has directed Yellow Land, Grand Parade, king of the children, Walking and Singing, Farewell My Concubine, Romantic Moon and other works.

The Yellow Land only takes the story as the shell, and expresses the author's love for the land and people through the development of time and space. The film has also made great progress in photography, color, modeling and composition, but there is no hidden meaning. "Yellow Land" shows the simple, desolate and profound folk customs of Shaanxi Plateau with the unity of land, folk culture and characters, narrative factors, metaphorical factors, lyricism and philosophy, and expresses the creator.

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Reflections on national characteristics and the fate of farmers. The film won the 1985 Golden Rooster Award for Best Photography; He won six international awards, including 1985 Yin Bao Prize in the 38th Locarno International Film Festival.

In the 1990s, Chen Kaige filmed Farewell My Concubine, which was very different from the previous style. With the help of the tortuous life and fate of several Peking Opera actors, the film explores and interprets the eternal contradiction between human survival ideal and reality in philosophy. The film won eight international awards, including the Palme d 'Or Award at the 46th Cannes International Film Festival, for its skillful artistic skills and rich oriental humanistic themes.

In 2005, Chen Kaige assembled three famous stars from China, Japan and South Korea to create the costume film "The Promise", which gained almost no reputation and had a great influence on Chen's career.

In 2008, Chen Kaige re-focused on the art of Peking Opera and directed a biographical film reflecting the Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang. Whether this highly hyped film can bring him a new round of glory is unknown. [3]

Chen Kaige's achievement first lies in his lofty humanistic spirit and his concern for human noumenon and human existence. He is good at analyzing the restriction and influence of the heavy burden of history and tradition on people's spirit, showing people's complexity, and criticizing unreasonable and inhuman human weaknesses. His films are full of concern and yearning for a more harmonious and intelligent human existence. With its profound cultural background and solid artistic foundation, it expresses strong humanistic consciousness and aesthetic pursuit, mobilizes various film means, and forms its own unique thick, sharp, peaceful and intense film style. [4]

20 10 the orphan of Zhao directed by Chen Kaige was released.

20 12 The film Search directed by Chen Kaige will represent Chinese mainland in the 20 13 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. This is also the fourth film "Olympic Run" directed by Chen Kaige.

20 13 10 17, the 26th Tokyo International Film Festival opened for nine days. As the chairman of the jury, Chen Kaige was invited to attend this film festival.

3 personal life editors

Chen Kaige and Chen Hong are "sweet lovers" envied by insiders. After ten years of marriage, their marriage is extremely happy and complementary in their careers. In Chen Hong's new book Looking at the Promise, the whole shooting process of the film The Promise is recorded. At the same time, Chen Hong described the process of meeting, knowing and falling in love with Chen Kaige, and her happy life as a mother. I don't like to use the word "maintenance" to describe marriage. If the word "support" is used in marriage, the foundation of this marriage will no longer exist. I have always understood this sentence of Kaige. Before marriage, two people each owned a garden. After marriage, it was not the garden that became smaller, but the garden became bigger, so it came to this day. In this way, our marriage is getting stronger and better.

Chen Kaige's latest masterpiece, Orphan Zhao, which was released on February 4th, 20 12, recently held the world premiere ceremony of Night in the Tibetan Mountains. When Chen Kaige talks about his wife Chen Hong (who is also the producer of this film), Chen Kaige seems quite romantic: "In public, we usually don't say much about each other's good. But today I want to put off a sentence:' hold my son's hand and grow old with him'. I want to hold her hand and spend the rest of my life with her.

4 major works editing

Director works

age

name

1984

Yellow land

Forced takeoff

1986

Grand parade

1987

King of children.

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Life on a String

1993

Farewell My Concubine

1996

Wind and moon

1999

The emperor and the assassin

2002

With you

The end of the butterfly dance world

Ten minutes of age-the depths of flowers

Kill me gently

2005

promise

2007

A movie for everyone.

2008

Mei Lanfang

20 10

Orphan Zhao

20 12

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Film and television works

age

name

Character; function

1987

The Last Emperor

Captain of the Royal Guard

1996

Boys and Girls: Gender in China's Films

1999

The emperor and the assassin

lv buwei

200 1

the mansion

government official

2002

With you

2009

The Founding of A Republic

Feng Yuxiang

featurette

age

name

2002

Ten minutes of old age-the depths of a hundred flowers

2007

Everyone has his own movie-Zhu Xinzhuang.

Books and works

Young people's song of victory

The days we have all experienced.

Award-winning editor

Yellow land

The 5th China Golden Rooster Award for Best Photography.

Best Photography Award of the 7th Nantes Three Continents Film Festival in France

Chen Kaige and Chen Hong are at the film festival.

Yin Bao Prize of the 38th Locarno International Film Festival.

Best director of the 29th London International Film Festival.

Satran Cup Director Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival

The film award of the East-West Cultural and Technical Exchange Center and the Kodak Best Photography Award at the 5th Hawaii International Film Festival.

2 1 Tokyo International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (Akira Kurosawa Award)

Grand parade

The 1 1 Special Award for the Judges of the Montreal International Film Festival

Grand Prize of Turin International Film Festival, Italy

King of children.

The 8th China Golden Rooster Award Director Special Award.

Special Award of UNESCO International Film and Television Committee

Discovery Film Award of Belgian Film Discovery Award.

The 4th1Cannes International Film Festival Education Contribution Award

Life on a String

Cannes International Film Festival Competition Film

Representative work "Wind and Moon"

Farewell My Concubine

Best film in the Palme d 'Or at the 46th Cannes International Film Festival.

Nomination for Best Actor in the 46th Cannes International Film Festival

International Federation of Film Critics Award (Fabbrizio Prize)

Best Director of the 38th Asia-Pacific Film Festival

Best Editing of the 38th Asia-Pacific Film Festival

New York Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film and Best Supporting Actress

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film

American Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film

The 5th1American Journalists Association Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Nomination for Best Photography at the 66th Academy Awards

Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards

British Film Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Japan Film Critics Association Best Actor in Foreign Language Film

Tokyo Film Critics Award (Japan's film award to commemorate the 0/00th anniversary of the birth of the world film/KLOC-) for best film, best director and best actor.

Wind and moon

Cannes International Film Festival Competition Film

Nomination for Best Actor and Actress in the 33rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards

Chen Kaige

The emperor and the assassin

Cannes International Film Festival Competition Film and Technology Award

With you

Best Director Award, Best Supporting Actor Award and Best Editing in the 22nd China Golden Rooster Awards.

Best Director and Best Actor of the 50th San Sebastian International Film Festival

Mei Lanfang

16 Best Film and Best Newcomer of Beijing University Student Film Festival

The 27th China Golden Rooster Award for Best Feature Film

Nomination for Best Asian Film at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards

The main competition unit film of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival

13 China film huabiao award for outstanding feature films, outstanding directors, outstanding actresses and outstanding new actors.

Zhao orphan

14 China film huabiao award for outstanding feature films.

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20 12 Annual Commendation Conference of China Film Directors Association "Best Screenplay of the Year" [6]

6 social evaluation editor

Chen Kaige took good movies to a new height. His films are full of speculative colors, adding symbols or metaphors to the traditional story level. Such as Yellow Land, king of the children, Walking and Singing, all show the continuation and transformation of history in a specific period, which is of great significance to the survival of the nation.

2009 "Mei Lanfang" Stills (20)

The way of thinking has always been to understand society and life in a broader cultural background, which makes his works leap into a higher philosophical level when examining reality. "From this perspective, Chen Kaige is more like a film philosopher. His films are excellent works of art with both beauty and sublimity.

Chen Kaige's films are not so much art films as cultural films. Chen Yizhi's reflection on China culture in movies. His reflection on China culture is comprehensive, more critical and sharp.

Kerwin Chen, a fifth-generation director, is full of expectation and curiosity about the development of film language. It can be seen from his first work "Yellow Land". The Yellow Land has a strong sense of space modeling and is also extreme. The most typical composition is loess, which occupies more than three quarters of a picture, while people are placed on the edge of the picture, which is extremely small.