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Wu Tianming was born on 5 December, 1939 in Sanyuan County, Shaanxi, is a Chinese film director and producer. Discover Wu Tianming's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Occupation Film director Film producer
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 5 December, 1939
Birthday 5 December
Birthplace Sanyuan County, Shaanxi
Date of death 2014
Died Place Beijing, China
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1939

Wu Tianming (December 5, 1939 – March 4, 2014) was a Chinese film director and producer who was considered one of the leading "Fourth Generation" directors.

Wu was born in Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province, China on December 5, 1939.

1960

In 1960, aged twenty, he was accepted into a training class for film acting run by the Xi’an Film Studio.

There were sixteen state-run studios in China at that time, and this was the closest to his home in Sanyuan, Shaanxi Province.

He was put on the studio's payroll and had some bit-parts in the studio's productions of the early 1960s.

1966

In 1966, Mao's Cultural Revolution stopped productions in the studios.

1974

In 1974–1976, the last three years of the Cultural Revolution, Wu studied at the partly re-opened Beijing Film Academy, majoring in Film Directing.

1982

In 1982, Wu co-directed two features at Xi’an with his friend Teng Wenji.

1983

Afterwards Wu made his debut as a solo director with River Without Buoys, whose commercial success led to Wu Tianming's appointment as head of the Xi'an Film Studio in 1983.

1984

Wu was the youngest studio head in the PRC at 45 years old In 1984, Wu directed his movie Life (1984), attacking what he defined as the three main problems in Chinese society: having to accept assigned posts rather than choose one's own employment, the practices of nepotism and favoritism, and “unhealthy tendencies in the Party.” With his film "Life", Wu began a policy of producing movies with deep roots in the regions around Xi’an.

Wu insisted on producing a number of experimental films, called "tansuo pian" to raise aesthetic and conceptual standards in China without regard to their commercial performance.

1986

Among these films were Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Horse Thief (Daoma Zei, 1986), shot in Tibet and Gansu, and Chen Kaige's King of the Children (Haizi Wang, 1987), shot in Yunnan.

By employing what became known as “Fifth Generation” directors like Tian and Chen and allowing them to make non-commercial films, Wu found himself in conflict with Wu Yigong at the Shanghai Film Studio, who regularly spoke out against “elitist” films which the mass audience couldn't understand or relate to.

Wu Tianming prevailed due to his commercial success and the international acclaim the tansuo pian films garnered at international film festivals.

1987

In 1987, Wu made a deal with the cinematographer of his film, Zhang Yimou.

Wu would give Zhang his directorial debut with Red Sorghum in return for starring Zhang starring in Wu's film Old Well and supervising the cinematography.

Both movies were highly successful in the China market and achieved considerable international success.

When the head of Shaanxi Propaganda Bureau criticized Wu Tianming's policies, he fought back by publicly denouncing him as “a bureaucrat who doesn’t understand films but wants to control filmmaking.” At Xi'an Studio he nurtured prominent "Fifth Generation" directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

1989

Wu came to the United States in 1989 as a visiting scholar at NYU and decided not to return to China in the wake of the events at Tiananmen Square.

1994

After several years of operating a video rental store in California, Wu returned to China in 1994 to direct the Shaw Brothers produced film The King of Masks in 1995, which was internationally acclaimed.

1998

Wu's film An Unusual Love Story (Feichang Aiqing, 1998) was made in 1998.

2012

In 2012, Wu returned to his origins as an actor when he starred in the 2012 film Full Circle.

2014

Wu Tianming died on March 4, 2014, from a heart attack, at the age of 74.

2016

Wu's final film, The Song of the Phoenix was completed in 2013, but was not released in China until May 6, 2016, more than two years after his death.