Cai Shangjun

Chinese film director and screenwriter

In this Chinese name, the family name is  Cai.

Cai Shangjun

Born| 1967
Occupation(s)| Director, screenwriter
Awards| FIPRESCI Prize (Pusan)
2007 The Red Awn
Golden Alexander
2007 The Red Awn
Cai Shangjun

Chinese| 蔡尚君
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Cài Shàngjūn
Wade–Giles| Ts'ai Shangchün
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization| Tsai4 Shang4 jyun1
Jyutping| Coi3 Soeng6 gwan1

Cai Shangjun[1] (Chinese: 蔡尚君; pinyin: Cài Shàngjūn) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Cai graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1992. Since then, his major work has been that of a professional screenwriter. Cai was part of the team, along with Zhang Yang, Diao Yi'nan, and Liu Fendou, that co-wrote the screenplays for two of Zhang's films: Spicy Love Soup (1997) and Shower (1999). Cai also cowrote a script for Zhang's Sunflower (2005).

In 2007, Cai directed his first film, The Red Awn, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2007 Pusan International Film Festival.[2]

In 2011, Cai won the Silver Lion for the Best Director at the 68th Venice International Film Festival with the film People Mountain People Sea.[3]

## Filmography

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### As screenwriter

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Year  | English Title  | Chinese Title  | Director

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1997  | Spicy Love Soup | 爱情麻辣烫  | Zhang Yang
1999  | Shower | 洗澡  | Zhang Yang
2005  | Sunflower | 向日葵  | Zhang Yang
2007  | The Red Awn | 红色康拜因  | Cai Shangjun
2011  | People Mountain People Sea | 人山人海  | Cai Shangjun

### As director

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Year  | English Title  | Chinese Title  | Notes

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2007  | The Red Awn | 红色康拜因  | Won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2007 Pusan International Film Festival
2011  | People Mountain People Sea | 人山人海  | Won the Best Director prize at the 68th Venice International Film Festival
2017  | The Conformist |  |

## References

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1. ^ Several websites use an incorrect pinyin romanization of Cai's given name: "Xiangjun."
2. ^ Elley, Derek (12 October 2007). "Art films win at Pusan Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved 3 December 2007.
3. ^ "Russian film "Faust" takes top prize in Venice". Reuters. 10 September 2011. Archived from the original on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2011.

## External links

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* Cai Shangjun at IMDb
* Cai Shangjun at the Chinese Movie Database

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Silver Lion for Best Director

1990s|

* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Emir Kusturica (1998)
* Zhang Yuan (1999)

2000s|

* Buddhadeb Dasgupta (2000)
* Babak Payami (2001)
* Lee Chang-dong (2002)
* Takeshi Kitano (2003)
* Kim Ki-duk (2004)
* Philippe Garrel (2005)
* Alain Resnais (2006)
* Brian De Palma (2007)
* Aleksei Alekseivich German (2008)
* Shirin Neshat (2009)

2010s|

* Álex de la Iglesia (2010)
* Cai Shangjun (2011)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2012)
* Alexandros Avranas (2013)
* Andrei Konchalovsky (2014)
* Pablo Trapero (2015)
* Amat Escalante / Andrei Konchalovsky (2016)
* Xavier Legrand (2017)
* Jacques Audiard (2018)
* Roy Andersson (2019)

2020s|

* Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Luca Guadagnino (2022)
* Matteo Garrone (2023)
* Brady Corbet (2024)

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* France
* BnF data
* Israel

Other|

* IdRef

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