China Film Director's Guild Awards Explained

China Film Director's Guild Awards (中国导演协会年度表彰大会) are presented by China Film Director's Guild annually to honor excellence in cinema of China.

Major award winners

Year	Best Film	Best Director	Best Actor	Best Actress	Best Screenwriter	Best Hong Kong / Taiwan Director	Best Young Director^[1]
2005 1st^[2]		Tian Zhuangzhuang for Delamu	Li Xuejian for South of the Clouds	Zhou Xun for Baober in Love			Lu Chuan for
2011 2nd^[3]	Aftershock	Wang Xiaoshuai for Chongqing Blues	Wang Xueqi for Chongqing Blues	Xu Fan for Aftershock	Xue Xiaolu for Ocean Heaven	Dante Lam for The Stool Pigeon	Xu Jinglei for Go Lala Go!
2012 3rd^[4]	Let the Bullets Fly	Jiang Wen for Let the Bullets Fly	Ge You for Let the Bullets Fly	Zhang Ziyi for Love for Life	Zhang Meng for The Piano in a Factory	Johnnie To for Life Without Principle	Du Jiayi for One Mile Above
2013 4th^[5]	Back to 1942	Feng Xiaogang for Back to 1942	Huang Bo for Design of Death	Yan Bingyan for Feng Shui	Chen Kaige & Tang Danian for Caught in the Web	Wei Te-sheng for Seediq Bale	Song Fang for Memories Look at Me
2014 5th^[6]			Xu Zheng for No Man's Land	Tang Wei for Finding Mr. Right	Xue Xiaolu for Finding Mr. Right	Peter Chan for American Dreams in China	Li Ruijun for Fly with the Crane
2015 6th	Black Coal, Thin Ice	Lou Ye for Blind Massage	Liao Fan for Black Coal, Thin Ice	Gong Li for Coming Home	Diao Yinan for Black Coal, Thin Ice	Ann Hui for The Golden Era	Lü Yang for Brotherhood of Blades
2016 7th	Mr. Six	Guan Hu for Mr. Six	Feng Xiaogang for Mr. Six	Bai Baihe for Go Away Mr. Tumor	Ah Cheng for The Assassin	Hou Hsiao-hsien for The Assassin	Gan Bi for Kaili Blues
2017 8th	I Am Not Madame Bovary	Er Cheng for The Wasted Times	Zhang Yi for Cock and Bull	Fan Bingbing for I Am Not Madame Bovary	Liu Zhenyun for I Am Not Madame Bovary	Derek Tsang for Soul Mate	Zhang Dalei for The Summer Is Gone
2018 9th^[7]	Youth	Vivian Qu for Angels Wear White	Tu Men for Old Beast	Zhou Dongyu for This Is Not What I Expected	Sylvia Chang & You Xiaoying for Love Education	Sylvia Chang for Love Education	Zhou Ziyang for Old Beast
2019 10th	Dying to Survive	Jia Zhangke for Ash Is Purest White	Eric Wang for Dying to Survive	Ma Yili for Lost, Found	Song Tairu, Zhaxi Dawa for Ala Changso	Felix Chong for Project Gutenberg	Wen Muye for Dying to Survive
2020 11th^[8] 。	The Wandering Earth	Wang Xiaoshuai for So Long, My Son	Wang Jingchun for So Long, My Son	Zhou Dongyu for Better Days	Diao Yinan for The Wild Goose Lake	Derek Tsang for Better Days	Huo Meng for Crossing The Border-ZhaoGuan
2021 12th^[9]	The Eight Hundred	Pema Tseden for Balloon	Jinpa for Balloon	Gong Li for Leap	Zhang Ji for Leap	Peter Chan for Leap	Gu Xiaogang for Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
2022 13th	Hi, Mom	Lu Yang for A Writer's Odyssey	Chen Jianbin for The Eleventh Chapter	Zhou Xun for The Eleventh Chapter	Shao Yihui for Myth of Love	Leste Chen for Upcoming Summer	Shao Yihui for Myth of Love
2023 14th	Home Coming		Zhu Yilong for Lighting Up the Stars	Wu Yanshu & Xi Meijuan for Song of Spring	Liu Bing & Geng Jun for Manchurian Tiger	Tsui Hark for The Battle at Lake Changjin II	Li Gen for Before Next Spring
2024 15th		Cao Baoping for Across the Furious Sea	Yang Haoyu for Journey to the West	Zhou Xun for Across the Furious Sea	Hongni Xiaohuolu for Chang'an	Philip Yung for Where the Wind Blows	Kong Dashan for Journey to the West

Other awards

Box Office Director of the Year

Year	Winner	Film
2005 1st		House of Flying Daggers

Lifetime Achievement award

Year	Winner
2005 1st	Wu Tianming
2011 2nd	Xie Tieli
2012 3rd	Wu Yigong

Special Jury award

Year	Winner !	Work
2013 4th
2014 5th
2015 6th	Dearest
2016 7th		Paths of the Soul
2017 8th	Wang Xuebo	Knife in the Clear Water
	Wang Yichun	What's In The Darkness
2018 9th	Zheng Dasheng	Bangzi Melody
2019 10th		Have a Nice Day
2020 11th		Ne Zha My People, My Country
2021 12th
2022 13th		I Am What I Am
2023 14th		Yanagawa Moon Man
2024 15th		One and Four

Special Contribution award

Year	Winner
2013 4th

Outstanding Contribution for Director

Year	Winner
2014 5th	Teng Wenji
2015 6th	Zheng Dongtian
2016 7th
2017 8th	Yan Jizhou
2018 9th
2019 10th	Huang Jianxin
2020 11th	Li Shaohong
2021/2022/2023/2024 12th/13th/14th/15th	Zhang Yimou

Outstanding Directorial Debut

Year	Winner
2015 6th	The Coffin in the Mountain

External links

• China Film Director's Guild Awards on Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Director's Guild Award sees more young faces - Culture . Chinadaily.com.cn . 2022-05-26.
2. 首届中国电影导演协会年度奖
3. 2010年中国电影导演协会年度表彰大会
4. 中国电影导演协会2011年度表彰大会
5. 中国电影导演协会2012年度表彰大会
6. 中国电影导演协会2013年度表彰大会
7. Web site: http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2018-04-22/doc-ifznefkh4788182.shtml. zh:导演协会年度表彰《嘉年华》《芳华》 周冬雨影后. April 22, 2018. zh. Sina.
8. News: 中国电影导演协会年度表彰大会：周冬雨凭《少年的你》获年度女演员. 2020-09-19. 腾讯. 2023-06-25.
9. Web site: 导协2020-2023年年度荣誉名单公开！张艺谋获杰出贡献导演. The Directors Association's 2020-2023 annual honor list is released! Zhang Yimou won the Outstanding Contribution Director Award . 1 June 2024. Sohu. zh. 2 June 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240602004525/https://www.sohu.com/a/783114057_114941. live.