1st: Yang Hansheng
Famous writer and screenwriter
On November 7, 1902, Yang Hansheng was born in Luochang, Gao County, Sichuan Province, in a family of silk tea merchants. In 1915, Yang Hansheng studied in the No. 1 Higher Primary School in Chengguan, Gaoxian County, and in 1918, he wrote his first ** "Bamboo Village Martyr" in the Syrian Mansion Union. In 1924, Yang Hansheng was admitted to the Department of Sociology of Shanghai University. In 1933, Yang Hansheng wrote the film script "Iron Plate Red Tears" for Shanghai Star Film Company, which was the first film script created by Yang Hansheng, and in 1947, Zhang Leping's serial comic "Sanmao" was adapted into the film script "Sanmao Wandering". On June 7, 1993, Yang Hansheng passed away in Beijing at the age of 91.
The most important feature of Yang Hansheng's works, and the biggest difference from other left-wing progressive literary and artistic creations, especially film creation, lies in the uniqueness of his early revolutionary experience, creative starting point and creative concept, which is a kind of creative process in which he consciously takes revolutionary artistic creation as his own responsibility, takes the creation of art forms that meet the needs of real struggles, truly expresses and reflects the reality of real society and struggles as the goal of exploration, and at the same time realizes his own emotional will to express his ideals with art. His films, plays, and some literary works all embody a strong temperament of revolutionary realism.
2nd 3rd Session:Cai Chusheng
He is a famous film artist, a pioneer of Chinese progressive films, and the founder of Chinese realistic films
On January 12, 1906, Cai Chusheng was born in Shanghai. In 1912, when Cai Chusheng was 6 years old, he returned to Guangdong with his parents and settled in Xincuo, Shenxian Li, Chaoyang County, Guangdong Province. In 1913, at the age of 7, he began to study in a private school, receiving enlightenment education, laying the foundation of traditional Chinese culture. Cai Chusheng has loved painting since he was a child, which laid the foundation for his later work as a film director. In 1929, Cai Chusheng came to Shanghai and worked as an extra, dramatist, artist, publicity, scene reporter, location, assistant director, screenwriter, etc. in several film companies, and learned various knowledge of film art; In the same year, he entered the Star Film Company.
In 1932, Cai Chusheng independently directed his first film "Spring in the South". In 1934, he wrote and directed the feature film "Fisherman's Song". The film was approved by the famous filmmaker Li Linqi and recommended to participate in the Moscow International Film Festival, won the ninth place, and was hailed as China's first film to win international honors. Director Cai Chusheng's film has distinctive artistic characteristics, the story is twists and turns, there is a beginning and an end, the characters are delicate and nuanced, and the connotation is rich, showing the traditional ethics and morality of the Chinese nation from many aspects. On July 15, 1968, 62-year-old Cai Chusheng died. On December 27, 1995, Cai Chusheng won the Chinese Film Century Award in an event to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of world cinema and the 90th anniversary of the birth of Chinese cinema.
4th and 5th:Xia Yan
He is a well-known Chinese writer, film and drama writer and social activist
Xia Yan, a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, participated in the May Fourth Movement in his early years and edited the progressive publication "Zhejiang New Tide". After graduating from Zhejiang Provincial A Industrial School, he studied in Japan at public expense. In 1929, Xia Yan and Lu Xun prepared to establish the Chinese Left-wing Writers' Union. After the establishment of the "Left Alliance", he served as an executive member, and later initiated the organization of the Chinese Left-wing Dramatists Union. In October 1994, Xia Yan was awarded the title of "National Film Artist with Outstanding Contributions". On February 6, 1995, Xia Yan passed away in Beijing Hospital at the age of 95.
Xia Yan has written the film scripts "Wild Current" and "Spring Silkworm", the dramas "The Legend of Qiu Jin", "Sai Jinhua", "Fascist Bacteria", "Under the Eaves of Shanghai" and the reportage "The Body Worker". He has adapted and created film scripts such as "Eternal Life in the Fire", "Revolutionary Family", "Blessing" and "Lin Family Shop", and has written theoretical monographs such as "Several Problems in Writing Film Scripts". He has written a lot of books, including "Selected Plays of Xia Yan", "Selected Works of Xia Yan", "Collection of Plays of Xia Yan", "Collection of Scripts of Xia Yan", "Collection of Essays of Xia Yan", "Collection of Essays of Xia Yan", "Lazy Search for Old Dreams" and so on.
6th:Xie Tieli
Famous director and screenwriter
In 1938, Xie Tieli began to participate in anti-Japanese literary and artistic activities, and in 1940, he joined the army and became a literary and artistic soldier after joining the New Fourth Army, and entered the Huaihai Navy Political Cadre School in the same year. In 1959, Xie Tieli independently directed his first film "Nameless Island", and in 1970, he directed the opera film "Outwitting Tiger Mountain". In 1975, Xie Tieli served as the screenwriter of the feature film "Haixia". In 1980, he directed the war movie "Starry Tonight", for which he was shortlisted for the Best Director Award at the 1st China Film Golden Rooster Awards. In 1988, Xie Tieli won the Best Director Award at the 10th China Film Golden Rooster Awards for the costume drama "Dream of Red Mansions", in 2005 Xie Tieli won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th China Film Golden Rooster Awards, and in 2011, he won the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2nd China Film Directors Association, and at 10:40 on June 19, 2015, Xie Tieli died at the age of 90 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Among the film directors of his time, Xie Tieli is a director with a broad vision, rich knowledge and diverse techniques, who can not only reproduce the drastic social changes and show the vast major historical changes, but also approach the characters, reveal the profound changes in the inner world of the characters, and make accurate and exquisite depictions of the human situation. The richness of his artistic accomplishment enabled him to understand and adapt to a variety of genres. At the same time, he is a realist, and he strives to make the characters, plots, environments, and even details of his works conform to life as it is. The pursuit of style unity, can not only focus on style, his basic opinion is to start from the character of the character, pay attention to the logic of the character and the logic of the development of objective things to organize the plot.
7th:Wu Yigong
Famous director and screenwriter
In 1957, Wu Yigong directed his first film "The Great Carpenter". In 1977, he began to serve as the assistant director and director of Shanghai Film Studio. In 1980, he directed the feature film "Bashan Night Rain", which won the Best Feature Film Award at the 1st China Film Golden Rooster Awards, and in 1983, he won the Best Director Award at the 3rd China Film Golden Rooster Awards for the feature film "Old Things in the South of the City". In 1993, he led the establishment of the Shanghai International Film Festival, the only international A-category film festival in China. In 1995, he served as the producer of the drama film "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge" was released. In 1999, he served as the art director of the mythological animated film "Baolian Lantern", and in 2012, Wu Yigong won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Film at the 15th Shanghai Film Festival. At 7:32 on September 14, 2019, Wu Yigong passed away at Shanghai Ruijin Hospital at the age of 80.
Wu Yigong's films achieve an open cultural attitude, and the film texts reflect a wide range of classical aesthetic experiences, using a freehand principle, a classical poetic conception and the reference and application of traditional Chinese landscape painting and opera art, as well as the principle of swimming, the aesthetic principle of yin and yang, and the principle of taking one as ten. Moreover, on the whole, it shows the national spiritual heritage and national style, that is, the sense of responsibility of Chinese intellectuals to "take the world as their own responsibility", the philosophical understanding of the "golden mean", and the attachment and pursuit of the spirit of traditional culture. At the same time, the absorption and borrowing of foreign art, the rational use of documentary aesthetics, the limited use of image aesthetics, and the efforts of genre films have established a sense of modernity and a certain degree of avant-garde tendency.
8th:Li Qiankuan
Famous director
In 1964, after graduating from the Fine Arts Department of Beijing Film Academy, Li Qiankuan was assigned to Changchun Film Studio. In 1989, Li Qiankuan and Xiao Guiyun co-directed the historical film "The Founding Ceremony", which won the Best Feature Film Award at the 10th China Film Golden Rooster Awards and the Best Feature Film Award at the 13th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards. In 1993, in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth, Li Qiankuan and Xiao Guiyun co-directed the historical film "Chongqing Negotiations", which won the "Huabiao Cup" ** Outstanding Film Award and the 17th Hundred Flowers Award Outstanding Film Award. In 2000, he directed the war drama "Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea". In 2006, he served as the director of the costume drama "Legendary Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang". At 8:29 a.m. on August 12, 2021, Li Qiankuan passed away in Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, at the age of 80. On December 30, he won the 34th China Film Golden Rooster Award and the Lifetime Achievement Film Artist Commendation of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Li Qiankuan is a director who is good at shooting major themes, and he has shot a few films that reflect the lives of ordinary people, and he also shows extraordinary courage and courage, that is, he has the courage to reveal social contradictions and dare to give ugly phenomena**. In his film creation, he is no longer satisfied with being able to tell a story from beginning to end, in his creation, when telling the story, he also wants to make it more beautiful and poetic, and at the same time, he also tries to let the audience get some philosophical thinking when watching it. Therefore, the selection of his scenes, in the scheduling of the scenes and the composition of the pictures, are carefully designed.
9th:Li Xuejian
Famous actor
Li Xuejian was born into a peasant family. In 1965, 11-year-old Li Xuejian went to the third-line branch of Guizhou with his father, and at the age of 16, he entered the factory to work, and was an amateur literary and artistic propaganda team actor in middle school, factory, and army. In 1973, 19-year-old Li Xuejian joined the army, transferred to the drama team of the Second Artillery Art Troupe of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1976, was admitted to the Air Politics Art Troupe in 1977, and entered the ** Experimental Drama Theater in 1987. In 1990, Li Xuejian played the good guy Song Dacheng in the TV series "Desire", won the Feitian Award for Best Supporting Actor and the 9th Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor, and starred in the movie "Jiao Yulu" won the Best Actor Award at the 11th China Film Golden Rooster Award and the Best Actor Award at the 14th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards. In 1998, he starred in the TV series "Water Margin" as Song Jiang. In 2000, Li Xuejian was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer and recuperated for 2 years. In 2016, with the title of "Hey, Old Man! and "The Young Marshal" won the Best Performing Arts Award at the 28th Golden Eagle Awards. In 2023, he will win the Best Supporting Actor at the 36th China Film Golden Rooster Awards for "Fengshen Part 1: Chao Song Fengyun".
Li Xuejian is an outstanding performing artist who grew up in the reform and opening up, engaged in drama, film and television performance for more than 40 years, advocating virtue and art, persistent pursuit, forming a "subtle, sincere, honest, simple" performance style, creating many vivid and vivid artistic images, showing the changes of the times since the reform and opening up. starred or participated in dozens of films, television and drama works such as "Jiao Yulu", "Li Dazhao", "Zhao Shuli", "Yang Shanzhou", "Born Out of Thin Air", "Desire", etc., which are deeply loved by the audience; The excellent images of Jiao Yulu and Yang Shanzhou have become typical examples of carrying forward the main theme, eulogizing heroes and models, highlighting the national spirit and the spirit of the era of reform and opening up, and have played an important role in value leadership.
10th 11th:Chen Daoming
Famous actor
Chen Daoming, born in Tianjin on April 26, 1955, in 1971, Tianjin People's Art Theater went to the 12th middle school where Chen Daoming studied to enroll, and his friends escorted Chen Daoming to the propaganda team where the exam was located. He didn't want to interview but was selected by the judges and entered the Tianjin People's Art Theater to study stage performance. In 1978, he entered the acting advanced class of ** Drama Academy to study performance theory, and after graduation, he was assigned to the China TV Drama Production Center as an actor. In 1989, he won the Best Actor Award at the 7th China TV Golden Eagle Award and the Outstanding Actor Award at the 9th China TV Drama Feitian Award for the TV series "The Last Emperor", and in 1990, he won the 3rd Society Award of the China Film Performing Arts Society with "The Siege", the Best Actor Award for the 2nd Excellent TV Drama Selection of National Studios, and the Best Actor Award at the 11th "Feitian Award". In 2001, he won the Silver Award of the "Meiling Cup" Audience's Favorite Actor Selection and the second Sunshine Health TV Star with his acting skills in "Kangxi Dynasty", and was nominated for Best Actor at the 20th China TV Golden Eagle Awards. In December 2017, he was confirmed to star in the costume conspiracy drama "Celebrating More Than Years", and was shortlisted for the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 26th Shanghai TV Festival - Magnolia Awards.
Chen Daoming is a traditional and conservative actor, both in terms of character and artistic ethics, Chen Daoming is very good. People rarely see Chen Daoming in various variety shows, he is always very low-key, he doesn't like to "show off", and he doesn't have much to do with people in the circle, it's not that he is arrogant, but he is a peaceful and natural way of life, he loves his family very much, loves his wife and daughter deeply, maybe it's for this reason that he always adheres to this kind of light and distant living habits, in order to avoid being conventional, he never watches TV except for reading some books and magazines he likes. Chen Daoming is always sincere and frank in dealing with people, as long as he has dealt with him, you know that he never bluffs and speaks harshly, nor is he self-righteous, his mind is quiet and tolerant.