Gu Changwei

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Early experience

Gu Changwei was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. He loved painting since he was a child. Because his parents were both teachers, he was under strict control. Gu Changwei spent his middle school career in Xi'an Tieyi middle school, during which he often followed his teacher to sketch from life. In 1976, after graduating from high school and waiting for work for two years, he volunteered in the workers' Club of the Railway Bureau. His main duty was to check tickets for people who watched movies. This life gave him the idea of working in the film industry. In 1978, he was admitted to the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy and became a classmate of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

Acting experience

In 1981, Gu Changwei and students of grade 1978 of Beijing Film Academy jointly made the film "our fields". In 1982, Gu Changwei graduated from the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy and was assigned to Xi'an Film Studio as a photography assistant. In 1983, he worked as a photographer for the love movie marriage. In 1984, he worked as a photographer for the plot film the beach, directed by Teng Wenji, which tells the story of fishermen on the beach. In 1986, Zhang Zien directed the ancient costume martial arts movie "whip". In 1987, Zhang Jingchen directed the plot film "children king"; in the same year, Gu Changwei worked as a photographer in the plot film "Red Sorghum" directed by Zhang Yimou. In 1988, he won the best Photography Award of the 8th Golden Rooster Award for Chinese film for his films "child king" and "Red Sorghum". Gu Changwei worked as a photographer in the movie code named leopard, directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, which was released on November 21, 1989. In 1990, he worked as a photographer for the plot film Ju Dou, which was adapted from Liu Heng's novel Fu Xi Fu Xi. He won the Kodak Photography Award at the 8th Hawaii International Film Festival. On January 1, 1993, the love movie farewell my concubine, starring Zhang Guorong, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi, was released. Gu Changwei worked as a photographer in the film, and he was nominated for best photography in the 66th Academy Award for this film. In the same year, Zhang Jingwen and Zhou Xiaowen directed the plot movie hero in narrow road. On September 1, 1995, the plot film sunny days, directed by Jiang Wen and starring Xia Yu, Jing Jing, Tao Hong and Geng Le, was released. Gu Changwei worked as a photographer in the film, and he won the best Photography Award of the 33rd Taiwan Golden Horse Film Award for the film. In 1996, he was the director and camera director of the series "knowledge changes destiny". On August 7, 1997, his movie Lanling king was released, and he won the best Photography Award at the 15th Hawaii International Film Festival. On January 23, 1998, his hand mirror thriller "color lost layout" premiered. In 1999, he took part in the documentary Crazy English directed by Zhang Yuan and starred by Li Yang. On May 12, 2000, the war movie "the devil is coming", starring Jiang Wen, Jiang Hongbo and Xiangchuan Zhaozhi, was released, in which Gu Changwei worked as a photographer; on August 11, the plot movie "autumn in New York" was released. On February 18, 2005, peacock, his first film, starring Zhang Jingchu, LV Yulai and Feng Li, was released. The film won the jury award of the 55th Berlin Film Festival, while he won the best director award of the 6th Chinese Film Media Award and was shortlisted for the best new director award. on April 11, 2008, the plot film "spring" directed by Gu Changwei and co starred by Jiang Wenli, Zhang Yao and Li Guanghui was released. In 2010, he was the judge of the 82nd Academy Awards. On May 10, 2011, his film "favorite" premiered. It was adapted from Yan Lianke's novel "Ding zhuangmeng", starring Zhang Ziyi, Guo Fucheng, Tao zeru and Pu Cunxin. He won the best director award of the 20th Shanghai film critic award and the best director award of the 19th Beijing University Students Film Festival. On December 12, he won the Mr. fashion of the year Awards. In 2012, he directed his first micro film "dragon head", starring Yan Lianke, Yang Weiwei, Wang Jiajia and Ren Sihong, which shows the theme of life and death from different angles by documentary technique. He won the best director award of kinkoala International Chinese Film Festival. In November, he signed a contract with Huayi company and officially entered Huayi. In April 2013, Gu Changwei was the judge of the 3rd Beijing International Film Festival. on December 24, 2014, directed by Gu Changwei and co starred by Chen he, angelababy and Tu Yanni, the urban love movie "micro love is getting better" was released. The box office of the film reached 35 million yuan on the first day and ended with 284 million yuan. On December 18, 2015, he attended the 15th film channel Lily award presentation ceremony. in 2017, he directed and acted as the screenwriter of the romantic comedy "nice to meet you" (formerly known as "flying Firestar"), which was released on March 29, 2018, starring Bai Ke, LAN Yingying, Cao Jun and Jiang Yi. This is also his first work after he joined the premiere Era in Beijing.

Personal life

Gu Changwei's father is his primary school teacher and his mother is his middle school teacher. Gu Changwei's cousin is Gu Changning, a Chinese film recorder. Gu Changwei and actress Jiang Wenli met at a party in 1989. In 1993, they got married, had a son and adopted a daughter.

Main works

Photographic works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Take part in the film

social activities

On January 9, 2005, Gu Changwei and Jiang Wenli attended the donation activity for disaster relief in Southeast Asia. On February 3, 2008, Gu Changwei, the creator of the film "spring", donated 180000 yuan to the Red Cross Society of China for the southern snow disaster relief; in May, he and Jiang Wenli donated 100000 yuan to the Wenchuan earthquake stricken area; later, he and Jiang Wenli participated in the disaster relief party held in Anhui and donated 200000 yuan to the Wenchuan earthquake stricken area. In 2011, Gu Changwei and Jackie Chan attended the "star shining anti AIDS charity fundraising dinner" held in Macao. In 2012, Gu Changwei, a member of the China Association for the promotion of democracy, became a member of the 13th Central Committee of the China Association for the promotion of democracy. On November 22, 2015, Gu Changwei's photography work "Shijie -- Gu Changwei's Contemporary Art Exhibition" based on 100 yuan rose red was opened in the round hall of China Art Museum. He donated 50 pieces of his 100 yuan photography works and 5 pieces of sculpture works to the state for collection by China Art Museum.

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Gu Changwei is easy-going, low-key, and very friendly. In the interview, although he didn't speak much, he spoke in a soft tone. He answered every question thoroughly. He put everything in his heart, precipitated into the years, can not see but can feel his strong. Gu Changwei is not very good at expressing himself. He is not used to sensational words. Even if he expresses the most primitive emotions, he can only achieve the inner heat wave and the surface is still calm. Gu Changwei's talent has been brought into full play. His "beach", "children king", "Red Sorghum" and other photographic works are rich in connotation and beautiful in style, which capture the sense of life of nature. He creatively uses the means of photographic modeling to show the visual image with shocking force and deep artistic conception. (comments on Beijing News and Sanqin Metropolis Daily). Gu Changwei is a talented man with hard work. He seems to give people the impression that he is not good at talking and his proverbs are silent. In fact, when he is interested, he will talk and maneuver. One idea after another can be called a creative master. Many of his fantastic ideas will be refreshing. It is precisely because he is very good at observing the details of life, has the courage to think, is diligent in reading, and has accumulated rich literary and artistic qualities that he can often burst out his most creative ideas in his seemingly ordinary speech. The charm of Gu Changwei's 100 yuan photography lies not only in exploring the amplification of micro formal beauty, but also in bringing people's vision from the familiar image of 100 yuan into a strange aesthetic vision. The deeper significance lies in the fact that the art works are full of positive energy of truth, goodness and beauty, and contain profound connotation (review of China culture daily). Gu Changwei graduated from the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy. His strong point is the expression of lens language. Gu Changwei uses high-tech means to show his unique artistic creation style with film and television shooting skills and montage shooting techniques. Through the special way of showing multi angle and emotion, he leads the audience into his art world (Beijing Evening News Review).

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