Zhang Yimou is one of the best-known directors of the Chinese Fifth Generation and one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers working today. Zhang was born in 1950, in the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province, to a future in Communist China that seemed unpromising; his father was an officer in Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang Army and one of his brothers was accused of being a ...more
- 2004
- National Society of Film Critics
- Best Director
- Hero
- win
- 2004
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association
- Best Foreign Language Film
- House of Flying Daggers
- win
- 2004
- Boston Society of Film Critics
- Best Director
- House of Flying Daggers
- win
- 2004
- National Society of Film Critics
- Best Director
- House of Flying Daggers
- win
- 2003
- Berlin International Film Festival
- Alfred Bauer Prize
- Hero
- win
- 2007
- To Each His Own Cinema
- Director
- 2006
- Curse of the Golden Flower
- Director
- 2006
- Curse of the Golden Flower
- Screenwriter
- 2006
- The First Emperor
- Stage Director
- 2006
- The First Emperor
- Producer














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