With the rise of the domestic film and television industry in recent years, a large number of film and television works enter the audience's sight every year, but careful viewers will find that most of these works are directed by male directors.
Yes, directing is a complicated and hurtful job, many men are tired of coping, it is even more difficult for women, so the number of female directors in the entire entertainment market is rare. Today we will take stock of domestic female directors.
<h1>01 Xu Anhua</h1>
Age: 73 years old
Speaking of Xu Anhua, everyone is certainly not unfamiliar, she has won the "Best Director" award of the Golden Statue 6 times and the "Best Director" award of the Golden Horse 3 times, such achievements have been found in the Hong Kong film industry and even the entire Chinese film industry. His representative works are all familiar to everyone, including "Woman, Forty", "Day and Night in Tin Shui Wai", "Half Life", "Sister Peach", "Golden Age" and so on.
At first hearing the name, many people misunderstand that she is a male director, but they do not know that she is a talented woman who does not recognize her eyebrows and can play with ethics films, martial arts films, romance films, etc.
<h1>02 Li Shaohong</h1>
Age: 65 years old
Li Shaohong is a controversial director, who has made high-quality works such as "Daming Palace Words" with a score of 9.1 and "Orange Red" with a score of 7.9, but the 2010 remake of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has suffered a lot of criticism.
In addition to being a director, Li Shaohong is also one of the bosses of Rongxinda Film and Television Company, and has become popular with new generation actors such as Li Qin, Yang Yang, and Yu Xiaotong.
<h1>03 Hu Mei</h1>
Age: 62 years old
Hu Mei is a national first-class director, but also a well-recognized female director in the industry, Chen Baoguo starred in "Han Wu Emperor", Tang Guoqiang starred in "Yongzheng Dynasty", Chen Jianbin starred in "Qiao Family Courtyard", etc. are all directed by Hu Mei, the first two have received 9.2 points on Douban, and have been talked about for nearly two decades.
When watching these domineering man scenes, you can't imagine that it was actually a female director. Her play man is always the protagonist, the woman is the green leaf, and these green leaves are also carefully crafted by her, which impresses the audience. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer historical dramas, and epic levels such as "Yongzheng Dynasty" and "Han Wu Emperor" are even rarer.
Hu Mei is good at making TV dramas, and in the film industry, she is a bit unsatisfied, such as "Confucius" and "Entering Beijing", etc. either box office or word of mouth is not good.
<h1>04 Xu Jinglei</h1>
Age: 46 years old
Unlike the above directors who came from the class, Xu Jinglei is a cross-border in the later stage. In 1994, the 20-year-old Xu Jinglei starred in the TV series "You at the Same Table" and entered the film and television circle, and after playing for ten years and winning many awards, she transformed into a director. Representative works: "My Father and Me", "Letter from a Strange Woman", "Dulala Promotion", etc.
Xu Jinglei is a talented woman whose acting skills are highly recognized when she is an actress, and the first film she directed and starred in, "My Father and Me", won the Golden Rooster Award for "Director's Debut", in addition, she also wrote a beautiful calligraphy.
<h1>05 Li Fangfang</h1>
Age: 44 years old
Li Fangfang is not only a director but also a screenwriter, writer, and producer, and Li Chen and Hao Lei's famous work "Seventeen Years Old Don't Cry" is based on her collection of essays of the same name, in which she personally served as a screenwriter.
In 2009, she directed her first work "After 80", and in 2018, she was the director and screenwriter of "No Questions Asked" starring Zhang Ziyi and Huang Xiaoming.
"No Questions Asked" has a box office of 750 million and a Douban score of 7.6 points, which is a popular and popular movie.
<h1>06 Zhang Aijia</h1>
Age: 67 years old
Zhang Aijia is also a successful model of acting and excellent directing, and has won two Golden Film Queens, two Golden Horse Movie Queens, and one Golden Horse Best Supporting Actress during her time as an actor. Later, he released records and worked as a director of a film and television company.
In 1986, Zhang Aijia's self-written, self-directed and self-acting film "The Favourite" won nine nominations at the Golden Horse Awards, and finally she won the Golden Horse and the Golden Statue with this film. Since then, he has directed many films such as "Yellow Story", "Waking Up", "Heartbeat" and so on.
Zhang Aijia was very beautiful when she was young, and her temperament was still outstanding when she was old, probably the most beautiful one in the directing industry.
<h1>07 Li Yu</h1>
Li Yu is a host by birth, and later became the documentary director of "Oriental Time and Space" and officially stepped into the directing world.
Her works are louder than her name: "Apple", "Guanyin Mountain", "Secondary Exposure", "Everything Grows", etc., and has cooperated with Fan Bingbing many times.
Li Yu's specialty is literary and art films, and after decades of studying in the field of literary and art films, he suddenly reached out to comedy crime films, and the "Sunshine Robber" directed by him is expected to be released in 2021.
<h1>08 Xue Xiaolu</h1>
Age: 40 years old
Xue Xiaolu is a female writer, screenwriter and director in Mainland China, and is also an associate professor and master tutor of Nortel.
In the early years, Xue Xiaolu entered the industry as a screenwriter, and she was one of the two screenwriters in the popular "Don't Talk to Strangers" throughout the country, and the screenwriter of "With You" directed by Chen Kaige also had her.
In 2010, Xue Xiaolu's self-written and self-directed first film "Ocean Paradise" won the "Best Newcomer Director" at the Movie Channel Media Award.
Later, he directed "Beijing Meets Seattle", "Beijing Meets Seattle Love Letter", "My Motherland and Me" ("Return" chapter), "Whistleblower" and other films.
<h1>09 Jin Yimeng</h1>
Jin Yimeng is the first female director of a Chinese film to exceed 100 million at the box office, and is also known as the most commercially competent female director. His production is not high, so far there are only two films, "Very Perfect" and "One Night Surprise".
Jin Yimeng has been named "Asia's New Generation" by The Hollywood Reporter magazine in the United States, which is the only female director in Chinese mainland to receive this award.
<h1>10 Dong Dong</h1>
The above female directors are basically born before 79 years, and the female directors in this stage after the 80s and 90s are almost broken, and there are only two or three who can be called names, and Dong Dong is one of them. His debut film is "Runaway, Woman" starring Fan Wenfang and Li Sidani in 2013, which is known as the originator of travel vlogs.
In 2016, she gathered 86 versions of "Journey to the West" six children, Ma Dehua, Liu Dagang, Wang Yue master and apprentice, and filmed a movie "Money Fan" (also known as "My Rich Daddy"), which caused the whole network to complain after it was launched on February 16, 2020 this year, and the Douban score was only 2.6 points.
It is said that the last authorized film shooting rights of Mr. Chen Zhongzhong, the original author of "White Deer Plain", are now in the hands of the director, and the audience is terrified.
<h1>11 sheets at the end</h1>
Age: 37 years old
Zhang Mo graduated from the New York University Film School majoring in screenwriting and directing, she is a veritable second generation star, and her father is the famous director Zhang Yimou.
Before taking the helm independently, she followed her father in the "Three Guns Shooting Surprise", "Jinling Thirteen Chao", "Return" and other crews for a long time, and directed her debut film "28-year-old underage" in 2016.
The small romance film eventually grossed 129 million at the box office, and Zhang Mo won the "Best Young Director Debut Award" at the Changchun Film Festival for this film.
<h1>12 Sands</h1>
Age: 36 years old
Jinsha graduated from the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy, entered the industry in 2011, and earlier made some small-budget youth films, and the cast list looked at a glance at the kind that no one knew. Since 2015, he has filmed TV series such as "Snow Sea", "One Thousand and One Nights", "Dream Building", and the reputation is not very good.
On October 29, 2020, the backlog of three years of "Thunder Warrior" was broadcast, because it was widely concerned by netizens because of the banner of "Bright Sword 3", but also because Tai Lei was scolded on the hot search, and later it was criticized by the People's Daily, and finally stopped broadcasting.
The golden sands car turned over a little fiercely, and it probably took a long time to recuperate before it could re-emerge from the jianghu.
Originally, there were not many female directors, and the new generation of female directors was even more faulty, but in 2020, two of them have successively overturned.
However, there are also many actresses who cross-border as directors now, Zhao Wei is relatively successful, and the post-80s actress Zhang Xinyi has also tried to be a director herself, directing a "Miss Puff", unfortunately, word of mouth box office double flutter.
It seems that it is difficult to be a good director, and it is even more difficult to be a good female director!