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WU Nien-Jen
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| Type： | Director , Scriptwriter , Actors/Actress |
| Biography： |
Wu Nien-Jen was born in a coal miner\'s family in 1952. He started writing short stories for newspapers in 1975, when he was still an accounting majored college student. After writing his first screenplay in 1978, Wu entered Central Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC) as a creative supervisor and worked with several pioneering directors such as HOU Hsiao-Hsien and Edward YANG. Wu has since written more than 75 screenplays that were made into films, and became one of the driving forces for the New Taiwanese Cinema Movement in the early 1980\'s. His works for the Taiwan New Cinema include “The Sandwich Man,”(1983兒子的大玩偶) “That Day on the Beach,”(1983海灘的一天) “Woman of Wrath,”(1984殺夫) “Dust in the Wind,”(1986戀戀風塵) “City of Sadness.”(1989) “Dust in the Wind ”is an semi-autobiographic work of WU. Wu set the record of winning the most Golden Horse Awards to date, among those includes the collaboration with the internationally acclaimed Hong Kong director Anne HUI(許\鞍華) on her film“Song of Exile,”(1990客途秋恨). His novels and screenplays also made him one of the best-selling authors in Taiwan as well. In 1989WU left CMPC to become a freelance scriptwriter. WU Nien-Jen made his directorial debut “A Borrowed Life,(多桑) in 1994. The award winning film commemorates Wu\'s Japanese-educated, hard-working father. The film won the Grand Prize at Torino Film Festival in Italy, and Best Actor and International Critics Awards in Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece. In 1996, Wu wrote and directed his second film “Buddha Bless America,”(太平天國) a political satire set in the 1960s. Besides his directing and writing career, Wu cameo in films from time to time. But it was not until he acted in a series of beer and food products commercials that his acting talent was discovered. He was cast as the leading actor in Edward YANG’s latest film “A One And A Two,” which was critically acclaimed and won several international awards. WU runs his own production company Wu\'s Productions now, and actively writes, directs, produces and performs in both commercials and television programs. |
Awards |
| Year | Title | Festivals and Awards |
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| 2023 | Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang | Nomination 2023 The 60th Golden Horse Awards Best Documentary Feature |
| 2016 | Mole of Life | |
| 2016 | My Egg Boy | 2016 Busan International Film Festival-A Window on Asian Cinema |
| 2014 | The Boar King | |
| 2013 | Zone Pro Site | 2014 Selected into Culinary Cinema of Berlin International Film Festival (European premiere) 2014 Best Narrative Feature of Taipei Film Awards (nominee) 2014 CinemAsia Film Festival in Amsterdam 2014 Washington D.C. International Film Festival 2014 Food Film Festival in Amsterdam (Audience Award) 2014 Asian Film Festival (Italy) (Best Film Award) 2014 FEAST: Food & Film Festival (Victoria Film Festival) 2014 Art Film Fest (Slovakia) 2014 New York Asian Film Festival (Audience Award) 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival 2014 Kolkata International Film Festival 2014 Devour! The Food Film Fest (Canada) (Golden Tine Award for Best Feature Drama) 2014 Jakarta International Film Festival 2014 Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival 2014 Bengaluru International Film Festival 2013 Selected into Open Cinema of Busan International Film Festival (international premiere) 2013 Hawaii International Film Festival 2013 Tokyo International Film Festival 2013 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2013 Taiwan Film Days in San Francisco 2013 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2013 San Diego Asian Film Festival 2013 Taiwanese Student Association, Oregon State University (public screening) 2013 Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year (for YEH Ju-Feng) (winner) and Best Original Film Song (nominee) of Golden Horse Awards |
| 2013 | The Sandwich Man (Digital Restoration) | |
| 2013 | Dust In The Wind (Digital Restoration) | 1987 Festival des 3 Continents-Best Cinematography, Best Score |
| 2011 | Ten Plus Ten | 2011 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Opening Film 2012 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin Panorama Platinum Remi Award for Art Direction in the category of Film & Video Production at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival in 2013 (winner) |
| 2006 | Island Etude | 2007 Taipei Film Festival, Media recommendation and Judges Awards |
| 2000 | A ONE AND A TWO | 2000 The 53rd Cannes International Film Festival, Best Director Award |
| 2000 | Pure Accidents | 2000 37th Golden Horse Awards Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress Nominated |
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| 1997 | HHH PORTRAIT OF HOU HSIAO－HSIEN | |
| 1996 | MAHJONG | |
| 1996 | Buddha Bless America | |
| 1995 | Super Citizen Ko | 1998 Fajr International Film Festival-Best Script Award |
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| 1994 | A Borrowed Life | |
| 1994 | THE GOD,THE TAOIST,THE GOBLIN | |
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| 1993 | THE PUPPETMASTER | |
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| 1992 | Hill of No Return | 1992 Golden Horse Award – Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay |
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| 1989 | A City of Sadness | |
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| 1988 | AUTUMN TEMPEST | |
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| 1987 | Daughter of the Nile | 2016 Berlin International Film Festival-Retrospective - Berlinale Classics |
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| 1987 | Be My Lovely Child Again | 1988 Asia Pacific Film Festiva - Best Supporting Actress 1987 Golden Horse Award - Best Supporting Actress |
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| 1987 | Osmanthus Alley | |
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| 1986 | Dust in The Wind | 1987 Nantes Fest. Of Three Continents, Best cinematography, Best score. |
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| 1985 | Taipei Story | |
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| 1985 | Woman of Wrath | |
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| 1985 | My Favorite Season | |
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| 1984 | A Lily in the Valley | |
| 1984 | Old Mo's Second Spring | |
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| 1984 | Nature is Quiet Beautiful | |
| 1983 | All The King’s Men | |
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| 1983 | The Sandwich Man | |
| 1983 | Papa? Can You Hear Me Sing? | |
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| 1983 | THAT DAY ON THE BEACH | |
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