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- Yan Xu, born in Hong Kong in 1961, is a world-renowned director, screenwriter, producer, and songwriter. He is also the first Chinese to be recognized by Hollywood and leave his name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. director. He is the first Asian director to win an Oscar for directing. He broke into Hollywood with Video of Death, and in the 1980s he made a global box office of 150 million. He even pioneered the viral marketing method for movies. Entertainment Weekly selected him as the greatest in Hollywood. One of the directors, he has repeatedly won various top international awards such as the Golden Globe Award, the Golden Bear Award, the British Academy Award, and the Saturn Award. Because he is good at shooting horror films, he is respected as the Master of Horror by horror fans around the world.
??Middle name: Yan Xu
Nickname: xuu yan
Nationality: Hong Kong, China
Nationality: Han
Birthplace: Tsz Wan Shan, Hong Kong
Date of birth: February 3, 1961
Occupation: Director, screenwriter, producer, film company owner
Graduation school: Ciyunshan Dezhiying Middle School
Representative works: Mansion One, Hotel of the Eight Immortals, Looking for the Devil, Video of Death, Deadly ID, Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Horror Wax Museum, Shocking Cannibals, Collection, Freshwater Monster, Extreme Cold, Deep Sea Variation.
Major achievements: 62nd Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Adaptation, Golden Globe Award for Best Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, two Golden Bear Awards for Best Director, two British Film Awards Academy Award for Best Director, Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Director, two-time Golden Horse Award for Best Screenplay, Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director, three-time Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay, Asia-Pacific Film Award for Best Director, two-time Spanish Fantasy Award Best Director at the Film Festival, Best Director at the Belgian Fantasy Film Festival twice, Best Director at the Portuguese Fantasy Film Festival, and Best Screenwriter at the Portuguese Fantasy Film Festival. Two-time Saturn Award for Best Director, Saturn Award for Best Film, and three-time Saturn Award for Best Screenplay.
Table of contents
personal information
Life history
Achievements and honors
personal works
Family status:
Father: Yan Wei
Mother: Guo Chunxia (died in 1978)
Brother: Yan Zhan
Son: Yan Tianjun, born in 1989, actor, (representative works include Warm Bodies, The Cabin in the Woods, The Hunger Games, etc.)
Yan Si, date of birth unknown, graduated from the Film Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is an MV\advertising director.
Yan Tianqi. Born in 1994, student, model
Yan Tianfeng, born in 2001, student
Daughter: Yan Tianqing. Born in 1989, Master of Laws, Columbia University, USA
Yan Tianyu, born in 1998, student
Yan Tianxue, born in 2004, student
Yan Tianyun, born in 2008.
Niece: Yan Yutong. Actor, singer, (representative works: Saw 4, Two Treasures Fighting the Devil, True Love's Kiss, High School Musical, The Express)
?Other introduction:
Primary school: Tsz Wan Shan Shengde Catholic Primary School
Secondary School: Tsz Wan Shan De Chi Ying Secondary School
Favorite color: blue
Constellation: Pisces
Do what you like: Taste delicious food
Favorite music type: rock music
Favorite cartoon character: Doraemon
Relevant persons:
Girlfriend:
Zhou Huimin, a famous Hong Kong actor and queen-level singer. The two have a son, Yan Tianjun, and a daughter, Yan Tianyun.
He Xinqiong, shareholder of Macao Entertainment, chairman of MGM, and CEO of Dragon Pictures. They have a daughter, Yan Tianqing, and a son, Yan Tianfeng.
Guan Zhilin. Internationally famous actor and actress, Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress, the two have a daughter, Yan Tianyu.
Wang Zuxian is a famous Taiwanese actor and travel photographer. The two have a son, Yan Tianqi.
Qiu Shuzhen, an internationally renowned actress, and the two have a daughter, Yan Tianxue.
Scandal girlfriend:
Zhang Min, a famous Hong Kong actor and owner of a slimming company. In 1988, he was photographed with intimate photos of the two of them in their apartment. In 1995, they were photographed having dinner together and staying at his home. In 2010, they were spotted traveling in Japan together. .
Li Jiaxin, a famous Hong Kong actress and the owner of a famous model agency. The two were photographed having dinner together in 1994, and were later photographed traveling together and taking intimate photos.
Weng Meiling, a famous Hong Kong actor and a world-famous fashion designer, has been photographed many times dining in the UK and has already spent Christmas together.
Halle Berry, an internationally famous movie star.
Kate Beckinsale, an internationally famous movie star.
PlumRoot Fox, an internationally famous movie star.
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Growth experience:
Yan Xu was born in an ordinary family in Hong Kong. It can even be said that the family is relatively poor. His father swam from the mainland to Hong Kong in his early years. Like many immigrants across the sea, he grew up in housing estates. Due to the concentration of population, these housing estates are also densely populated. It has become the birthplace of bad boys, and fights are commonplace. If you don't bully others here, others will bully you, so Yan Xu has become one of them since he was a child, and even started his career as a young and Dangerous boy after graduating from middle school. .
In 1984, 24-year-old Yan Xu came into contact with movies for the first time and showed great interest in it. After convincing the movie boss at the time, he took 100,000 yuan to base his case on a popular case in society at that time. , shot his first film The Butcher on a Rainy Night, which set a precedent for documentary detective films. The film was a huge success and earned more than a hundred times the profit. The following films Taxi Judge and Mansion One laid the foundation for his career. He is known as a new and talented director in Hong Kong, and for the first time he won the Academy Award and recognition from the Spanish Fantasy Film Festival.
After that, he opened the Dragon Film Company, and with his discerning eye, he recruited the then-down-and-out Wu Yushen and Chow Yun-fat, as well as Liu Dehua, who was hidden by TVB, Liang Jiahui, who was banned, and children's program host Zhou Xingxing, etc., making the Dragon Film Company famous in Hong Kong. Its status was out of control, and later it established Dragon Cinema, cooperated with the mainland, and entered Hollywood.
At the end of 1988, Death Video was a great success in the United States, with a box office of 1.5 billion. Yan Xu's viral marketing also became a classic case in many academies, and also allowed Yan Xu to gain a firm foothold in Hollywood. The next year, Yan Xu Xu even made the classic thriller movie Fatal ID, which won unanimous praise from critics. It has also become one of the 100 classic films of the century. In the same year, Yan Xu began to adapt The Silence of the Lambs. With this film, he won five Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Drama, and Best Actor and Actor. The award made him truly a top international director.
After The Silence of the Lambs, Yan Xu began to get involved in the genre of monster horror films. Deep Chill achieved a good result of 20 million US dollars in its first week, and the North American box office exceeded 50 million US dollars. The two following two films: Chilling Various horror genre films such as Human Race, Horror Wax Museum, and Horror Cruise have established his status as a horror master. And all achieved good results.
In the mid-1990s, Yan Xu launched another iconic film series in his film career, the Saw series, which excited horror film fans around the world. Each film has a box office of more than 50 million. After the Saw series. He paid homage to the master of horror, William Castle, and launched three hit films: The Haunting of Hill House, Thirteen Days of Haunting, and Ghost Ship, as well as filming the first installment of The Walking Dead.
In the early days, Yan Xu returned to Asia again. First, he filmed Freshwater Monster in Taiwan, which achieved high box office, and then collaborated with mainland China to film the shark movie Deep Sea Variation. He filmed ghost images in Hong Kong and ghost calls in Japan, spreading his terror across East Asia.
In 2003, Yan Xu returned to Hollywood again. Dragon North American Pictures began to intervene in the television industry. Yan Xu teamed up with Dragon's horror film directors to film the TV series Horror Master. Although it only had two seasons, it aroused huge response and popularity. It was also the first step for Dragons to enter the television industry, and Yan Xu later supervised a series of films such as Supernatural, Lost, and Criminal Minds. It has achieved extremely high ratings in the United States and even around the world. It has also collaborated with the creators of Lost to create the sci-fi disaster film Cloverfield. It even swept the box office rankings with The Hunger Games, earning 400 million box office in North America.
So far, Yan Xu is not only a top senior director, but also plays a decisive role in the film and television industry. He has set foot in various industries, including film, television, advertising, drama, real estate, and department stores. It is even rumored that he has occupied up to 100% of Google. With thirty shares, he is also the major shareholder of YouTube, Amazon and Facebook. No one knows how much his property is, but at least the market value of Dragon North America Branch has reached more than one billion US dollars.
Achievements and honors:
1985 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Newcomer "The Butcher on a Rainy Night"
1986 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Screenplay "Mansion One"
1988 Asia-Pacific Film Best Director "Eight Immortals Hotel"
1989 Saturn Award for Best Director Winner "Death Tape"
1990 Oscar Best Director Winner "The Silence of the Lambs"
1990 Oscar winner for Best Adapted Play "The Silence of the Lambs"
1990 British Academy Film Award for Best Director "Silence of the Lambs"
1990 Saturn Award for Best Screenplay Winner "Fatal ID"
1995 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Winner "Terror Cruise"
1995 Best Director at Portugal Fantasy Film Festival "Terror Cruise"
1998 Golden Bear Award for Best Director "Source Code"
1998 Best Director at the Belgian Fantastic Film Festival "Source Code"
1998 British Academy Film Awards for Best Director "Source Code"
1999 Spanish Fantasy Film Festival Best Director "Ghost Ship"
2001 mtv movie awards generation award
2001 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Director "Ghost"
2002 Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Director Award "Freshwater Monster"
2002 Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Screenplay "Freshwater Monster"
2003 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival Best Director "Deep Sea Variant"
2003 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Screenplay "The Deep"
2005 Saturn Award for Best Director "Cloverfield"
2007 Portuguese Fantasy Film Festival Best Director "Death Flight"
2008 Saturn Award for Best Screenplay "The Hunger Games"
2008 Best Screenplay at Portugal Fantasy Film Festival "The Hunger Games"
2008 British Academy Film Awards for Best Screenplay "The Hunger Games"
2009 Saturn Award for Best Screenplay "Dragon Quest"
personal works:
Director¡¯s film works:
1984 The Butcher on a Rainy Night
1985 Taxi Judge, Mansion No. 1
1986 A Chinese Ghost Story, Unstoppable Charm
1987 Beast Meal, Searching for the Devil
1988 Eight Immortals Hotel, Death Video
1989 Fatal ID, Silence of the Lambs
Extremely cold weather in 1990
1991 Shocking Cannibals and Horror Wax Museum
The sequel to 1992's Cannibals
1993 The mountains have eyes and darkness invades
1994 Horror Cruise, Resident Evil
1995 Chainsaw 1, Haunted House
1996 Chainsaw 2, Thirteen Ghosts Clap the Door
1997 source code
1998 Ghost Ship, Evil Crocodile Forbidden Zone
? 1999 Snake-Infected Flights, Death Comes
2000 Eight-legged monsters and ghosts
2001 Freshwater Monster
2002 Deep Sea Variant
2003 Ghost Call, Red Dragon
Cloverfield Files 2004
2006 Death Flight, Night Stalker
2007 The Hunger Games
2008 Double Treasure Dragon Quest and Deus Ex.
? 2009 Night Stalker 2 Collection, Death Comes 5
2011 Warm Corpses
Director¡¯s TV works:
2002 Masters of Horror Season 1 Unit Drama
2003 Masters of Horror Season 2 Unit Drama
musical work:
A letter from home, the girl opposite looks over, a flower, waves, I am your little puppy, red rose
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