Wayne Wang
Wayne Wang (Chinese王颖, Pinyin Wáng Yǐng; born January 12, 1949 in Hong Kong ) is an American film director of Chinese descent.
Life
Wang's family originally came from the Chinese mainland and fled to Hong Kong in 1947, where Wayne Wang was born in 1949. Wayne Wang received his first name because of the reverence for his father John Wayne. After graduating from high school in Hong Kong Wah Yan he emigrated at age 18 in the United States.
He studied film at the California College of the Arts and Crafts in Oakland. His graduation film A Man, a Woman, and a Killer was born in 1975 in the U.S. theaters. He then returned to Hong Kong and worked for the TV station RTH ( Radio and Television Hong Kong), where he has directed several episodes of the popular soap opera "Below the Lion Rock ". With its experimental style but he made himself unpopular with the public and at the television. His recordings with the hand-held camera did not correspond to the viewing habits of the audience. The audience went back and Wang was dismissed. In the following years he moved to San Francisco and supervised Asian immigrants.
In 1982, he was shooting for $ 27,000 the film Chan is Missing ( engl: Chan has disappeared ). Filmed in black and white film in 16 mm format was promoted at many festivals of the cult movie. In the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, he won the prize in the category Independent / Experimental Film and Video Award. 1984 his critically acclaimed film Dim Sum was - Something for the heart shown at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1987 his first commercial strip Slamdance with the Hollywood stars Tom Hulce, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Virginia Madsen, which was nominated for the Critics' Prize at the Deauville Festival. 1989 Movies A cup of Tea, which arose from a novel by Luis Chu, and the small independent comedy Life is Cheap arrived in theaters. A cup for love turned Wang with his wife Cora Miao ( former Miss Hong Kong) in the lead role. In 1993 he filmed the bestseller The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. For the Writer Team Amy Tan and Ronald Bass was nominated for the BAFTA and the Writers Guild of America.
1994 turned Wayne Wang on an original screenplay by the writer Paul Auster movie Smoke, who also became a cult film. Wayne Wang and Harvey Keitel won a Silver Bear Special Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 1995 and the film received a nomination at the Cesar Awards in 1996 in the Foreign Language Film category. The success of the film, in which, among others, also played along William Hurt and Forest Whitaker was so great that Wang and Auster 1995 brought a sequel titled Blue in the Face with Jim Jarmusch, Madonna and Michael J. Fox in the movie theaters.
In the following years made films like Chinese Box (1997) with Gong Li and Jeremy Irons, Anywhere But Here (1999) starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman and power of desire (2001) with Peter Sarsgaard and Maid in Manhattan (2002 ) with Jennifer Lopez. In 2006, Last Holiday with Queen Latifah in the German cinemas. 2007 Mr. Shi and the singing of the cicadas at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia- San Sebastián has been awarded the Golden Seashell.