Zheng Dongtian

Zheng Dongtian

Zheng Dongtian, born in 1944 in Chongqing, was born in Luoshan County, Henan Province. He graduated from the director department of Beijing Film Academy and is a director in mainland China.

In 1978, he and Xie Fei co directed his first film "fire baby", which started his directing career. In 1981, he directed the plot film "neighbor", which won him the best director award of the 2nd Golden Rooster Award. In 1987, directed by the family drama "paging mother" won the third prize of the Chinese TV drama Feitian Award for short children's drama. In 1989, he directed the TV series destiny, which won the third prize of China Film Factory TV series. In 1992, with children's film "the beginning of man", he won the director award of the 5th China children's ox award jury. In 1994, he was the artistic director of the plot film "my family has women". In 1998, director of the plot film "hometown autumn" won the Huabiao award outstanding feature film award. In 2004, Zheng Peimin, a biographical film, was selected as the best director of the 7th China Changchun Film Festival. In 2005, Zheng Dongtian was awarded the title of "national film artist with outstanding contribution". In 2014, he was shortlisted for the outstanding director award at the commendation meeting of China Film Directors Association; in December, Zheng Dongtian won the lifelong achievement award of the 2nd London International Chinese Film Festival. In 2015, he won the Director Award for contribution at the commendation meeting of China Film Directors Association.

Character experience

In 1961, Zheng Dongtian was admitted to the director department of Beijing Film Academy. He graduated from the director department of Beijing Film Academy in 1966. In 1973, Zheng Dongtian was assigned to Shanghai Film Studio, where he successively worked as a literary director and assistant director. In 1976, Zheng Dongtian returned to Beijing Film Academy to teach, engaged in film creation, criticism and theoretical research.

In 1978, he and Xie Fei co directed his first film "fire baby", which started his directing career. In 1979, Wang Xinyu and Xie Fei co directed the plot film guide, which was co starred by Albright, xiukrati and tuigung. The film won the excellent film award of the Ministry of culture of China.

In 1981, he co directed the plot film "neighbor" with Xu Guming, which won the excellent film award of the Ministry of culture of China and the best film award of the 2nd China Golden Rooster film award. He was shortlisted for the best director award of the 2nd China Golden Rooster Film Award for this film. In 1984, he directed the TV play "teacher", which won the third prize of China's TV drama Feitian award.

In 1986, my father directed the chameleon. In 1987, he directed the drama "yuanyanglou", CO starred by Ji Ling and Tian Shaojun; in the same year, he directed the family drama "paging mother", which won the third prize of the Chinese TV drama "Feitian Award" for short children's drama; in addition, he directed the TV drama "teacher worship", which won the first prize of the Star Award for short film. In 1988, his action movie "the Golden Triangle" was released.

In 1989, he directed the TV series destiny, which won the third prize of China Film Factory TV series. In 1992, he was the director of Beijing Youth Film Studio, and directed the children's film "the beginning of man", which was co starred by Gelin and Zhang Liwei. The film won the best film award of the 5th China Film children's ox award and the silver award of the 1st Changchun Film Festival. With this film, he won the director award of the 5th China Film children's ox award jury.

In 1994, he was the artistic director of the plot film "my family has women". In 1998, he directed the plot film autumn in hometown, CO starred by Wang Hucheng, LV Zhong and Zhang Mingjian, which won the excellent feature film award of Huabiao award. In 2000, he directed the biographical film Liu Tianhua, CO starred by Chen Jun and Yan Danchen, which tells the story of the hero Liu Tianhua's life; in the same year, he directed the TV series human feelings.

In 2004, he directed the biographical film "Zheng Peimin", CO starred by Huang Meiying, Xiu Zongdi and Yao Anlian. He was shortlisted for the best director award of the 7th China Changchun Film Festival for this film. In the same year, he directed the plot film "Taiwan past", CO starred by Jiang Wenli, Feng Hanyuan and Cui Lin, which won the excellent feature film award of the 10th China Film Huabiao award In the same year, Zheng Dongtian was named as the first "top 10 film artists in Beijing".

In 2005, Zheng Dongtian was awarded the title of "national film artist with outstanding contribution". In 2014, Zheng Dongtian was shortlisted for the outstanding director award at the commendation meeting of China Film Directors Association; in December, Zheng Dongtian won the lifelong achievement award of the 2nd London International Chinese Film Festival. In 2015, Zheng Dongtian won the Director Award for contribution at the commendation meeting of China Film Directors Association.

Main works

Director's work

Photographic works

Art direction

literary works

Award winning record

Character evaluation

As a representative of the fourth generation of directors, Zheng Dongtian confirmed the group characteristics of the fourth generation of directors in his works. He put his deep concern into every little action of the role, and even every little prop arrangement was integrated with the director's strict rational thinking and deep emotional expression. Under the influence of traditional culture, his films always express the unique concern for the country and the people of intellectuals, revealing the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. His works have the characteristics of both western realism aesthetics and Oriental freehand aesthetics. His works are always full of rational thinking, which analyzes the basic qualities of a film director in simple terms. He integrates his understanding of art into the lines. As a filmmaker, he shows deep concern and consideration for the current situation and future of Chinese films (comments by Yu Xiaoxue of Nanjing Normal University).

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