Feng Xiaogang

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Early experience

Feng Xiaogang was born in an ordinary family in Beijing. When he was young, he lived near Chegongzhuang, Xicheng District, Beijing. Since his parents divorced, he has lived with his mother and sister since childhood. After graduating from high school, Feng Xiaogang began his military life. Through his personal efforts, he officially entered the cultural unit of Beijing Military Region. Later, he was promoted as a civilian of the army, and participated in the preparation of many military galas. After the formal transfer of the army, Feng Xiaogang joined the trade union of Beijing urban construction and Development Corporation and began to engage in cultural propaganda.

Acting experience

In 1984, Feng Xiaogang worked as an art assistant in the drama tree of life and death directed by Zheng Huili, thus officially entering the film circle. In 1985, he worked as an artist in Beijing TV Art Center. In addition to his art work, he also took part in the shooting of films and TV plays. These practical experiences also laid the foundation for his film career. In 1987, he worked as an art designer in the criminal investigation drama plain clothes police. In 1989, he worked as an art designer in the love drama good man and good woman.

In 1991, Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Xiaolong co authored the feature film "encountering passion" and won the nomination for the best screenplay award of the 11th Golden Rooster Award for Chinese film. In the same year, Feng Xiaogang, Wang Shuo and Ma Weidu co authored the first Chinese TV series comedy "the story of the part". He drew on Wang Shuo's script style when writing the play. In addition to writing the script, he also wrote for the play The theme song "a small world is a family" and the episode "I like my dream" created lyrics.

In 1992, he created the sketch "we meet tonight"; later, he created the crosstalk "face and crown"; in the same year, he cooperated with Zheng Xiaolong to write the script of the love movie "Dashaba", which won the nomination of the best screenwriter award of the 13th China Golden Rooster Film Award. In 1993, he and Zheng Xiaolong co directed the family ethics drama "Beijingers in New York", which was Feng Xiaogang's first TV play, and won five first project awards, the 12th Golden Eagle Award of China TV for best long series, the 14th National excellent TV series flying sky Award for second prize of long series and other awards; in the same year, he and Li Xiaoming co created the sketch "visiting".

In 1994, he was the director and screenwriter of the love movie "lost my love forever", which became the first film directed by Feng Xiaogang. In 1995, he directed the love drama "love sorrow"; in the same year, he served as the director of the feature film "chicken feather in one place" and integrated his personal life experience into the creation of the film.

In 1996, he created the sketch "robot anecdote"; in the same year, he directed the comedy "enemy father and son" with Wang Shuo, and acted as the hero and art designer of the film; after the film was released, he won the best picture award of the Swiss Locarno Film Festival.

In 1997, he directed the romantic drama "the back of the moon"; in the same year, he was the director of the comedy "Party A and Party B", and adopted the film structure of series of sketches in the creation of the film; as the first new year film in the history of mainland China, the film created the mode of commercial film in mainland China; after the film was released, it became the leading film in mainland China with a box office score of 36 million yuan Box office champion, and won the best picture award of the 21st popular film Hundred Flowers Award.

In 1998, he was the director and screenwriter of the romantic comedy "never see you, never see me apart" and learned from the three techniques of crosstalk in film language. The film established the position of director of Feng Xiaogang's commercial film and won the annual box office ranking in mainland China with a box office score of 43 million yuan. In addition, the film also won the best viewing effect of the 6th Beijing University Students Film Festival The most popular film award for college students.

In 1999, he made the new year comedy "endless" and used exaggeration to reflect the life of ordinary people in the film. After its release in the mainland of China, the final box office of the film reached 33 million yuan, ranking second in the box office list of the mainland of China in 2000. On September 20, 2000, the director's love film "a sigh" was released in the mainland of China. With a box office performance of 30 million yuan, the film ranked third in the annual box office ranking of the mainland of China, and won the pyramid Gold Award at the 24th Cairo International Film Festival.

In 2001, he was the director and screenwriter of the comedy big shot, which maintained the comic style of Feng Xiaogang's films. As of January 7, 2002, the box office of the film exceeded 11 million yuan in Beijing, breaking the box office record of Chinese films in Beijing. The final box office of the film exceeded 42 million yuan, ranking second in the annual box office list of mainland China. In addition, the film also won the 25th big shot Best picture at the Hundred Flowers Award.

In 2003, he and writer Liu Zhenyun jointly planned and directed the new year's comedy "mobile phone"; the final box office of the film exceeded 50 million yuan, becoming the annual box office champion of mainland China's films; the film won the 27th popular film Hundred Flowers Award, the 4th Chinese Film Media Award, the most popular film in mainland China and other awards the following year.

After Feng Gang turned to Hollywood as the director, he began to change the type of action in his first Chinese feature film "no thief" in 2004 .

In 2006, he directed the ancient costume action movie "the banquet", which has a final box office of 130 million yuan in mainland China. This film is Feng Xiaogang's transformation work, and he used the creative program of genre film when shooting the film. After the film was released, it won the nomination for best foreign language film at the 79th Academy Award and the future digital film award at the 63rd Venice Film Festival.

In 2007, he was the director of the war film "assembly" and used the documentary technique to express the realistic style in the film. The final box office of the film in the mainland of China reached 260 million yuan, and successively won the best feature film award of the 29th popular film Hundred Flowers Award, the outstanding feature film award of the 13th China Film Huabiao award, and the best Asian Film Award of the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards Feng Xiaogang won the best director award of the 29th popular film Hundred Flowers Award, the best director award of the 27th China Golden Rooster Award, and the outstanding director award of the 13th China Huabiao award.

In 2008, he made the romantic comedy "if you are the one" and added new year's elements to the film. After the film was released, the final box office of the film reached 325 million yuan, breaking the box office record of Chinese movies in mainland China. With this film, Feng Xiaogang successively won the best director nomination of the 3rd Asian Film Awards and the best director award of the 30th popular film Hundred Flowers Award.

In 2010, he served as the director of the disaster film "Tangshan earthquake". After the release of the film, he broke nine box office records of Chinese films, including the zero point box office, the first day box office of Chinese films, and the single day box office of Chinese films, and won the second place in the annual box office list of mainland China with the final box office of 665 million yuan. On December 22, he directed the love comedy "if you are the one 2" in mainland China The box office of the film exceeded 420 million yuan in 20 days.

In January 2011, he won the most valuable commercial director award of the 23rd Harbin Ice and snow film festival for his feature film "Tangshan earthquake"; in March, he won the "top director award of ticket room in 2010" for his cumulative box office of more than 1 billion yuan at the "golden list night - China Film rankings" award ceremony; in June, he won the outstanding contribution award of Chinese films at the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival.

On November 29, 2012, director's feature film "1942" was released in the mainland of China, which won the best cross-strait Chinese film at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards and the best film at the 3rd Beijing International Film Festival, while Feng Xiaogang won the outstanding director award at the 15th China Film Awards for his film.

On November 1, 2013, he went to the United States to hold a personal film exhibition and left his fingerprints at TCL China Grand Theater in Los Angeles. On December 19, his comedy "private customization" was released in mainland China. On the first day of its release, the film broke the box office record of Chinese 2D films with a box office score of 84 million yuan. The box office of the film exceeded 700 million yuan in nearly a month, becoming the box office champion of new year's festival in mainland China. In 2014, he served as the chief director of CCTV Spring Festival Gala and made a documentary "what is the Spring Festival Gala?".

In 2015, he starred in the drama "Lao paoer", in which he played the nosy and aggrieved Lao Pao Liu Ye, and won the best actor award of the 52nd Golden Horse Award of Taiwan film; in April, he won the Knight Medal of French art and literature; on October 20, he served as the vice president of the sixth directing Association; in November, he made the realistic film "my name is Li Xuelian".

In April 2016, he won the actor of the year award for his drama "Lao paoer" at the 2015 annual commendation conference of China Film Directors Association; in May, he won the best actor award of the 23rd Beijing University Film Festival for his drama "Lao paoer"; in August, he signed a contract with CAA, an American innovative artist agency; in September, his comedy film "I'm not Pan Jinlian" won the 64th St In November, he won the best director award of the 53rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award for his comedy I'm not Pan Jinlian.

On May 26, 2017, with "I'm not Pan Jinlian"

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