The Shanghai International Film Festival (赌博app) Organizing Committee has announced that Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, on account of the acclaim Leviathan has received, will serve as Jury President for the 18th 赌博app’s main competition, the “Golden Goblet Award”. This year’s festival is to be held from June 13th-21st.
The Shanghai International Film Festival (赌博app), as China’s only A-category international film festival, has seen rapid development in recent years, and has attracted a number of international talented filmmakers who are eager to act as its international judges. Past jury presidents have included the likes of Gong Li, Tom Hooper, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Barry Levinson, John Woo, Danny Boyle, Wong Kar-wai, and Luc Besson. That all of these prestigious and extraordinarily influential filmmakers from around the world have headed the 赌博app’s jury panel clearly proves its authority and influence in the film industry both in China and abroad.
Born in 1964, Andrey Zvyagintsev is currently one of Russia’s most representative and most talented art directors. He made a splash with his feature debut The Return at the Venice Film Festival in 2003, in one swoop winning both the highest prize--the Golden Lion--as well as the Lion of the Future for the best director’s debut.
His film The Banishment premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival where Konstantin Lavronenko won the Best Actor Award, the first ever for a Russian actor. Elena also did well at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, receiving the Special Jury Prize of the Un Certain Regard section. In 2014, he released a new work, Leviathan, the story of which is set in a small town on the Barents Sea coast. It focuses on the unprecedented predicaments the people face in their lives there, and how strong dramatic conflicts erupt from this kind of insecurity.
This film has won numerous international film industry awards: It has successively won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the 2015 Golden Globe for the Best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015. This film will also be screened during the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Jury Panel President Profiles:
Andrey Zvyagintsev:
Until 1990, Andrey Zvyagintsev was trained as an actor in The Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow. He then worked on a number of independent theatre projects and acted in TV series and films. In 2003, he directed his first feature film The Return, which was shortlisted for--and ended up winning--the Venice Film Festival’s highest award--the Golden Lion.
This film also received the Lion of the Future for the best director’s debut, and was judged as “a film that characterizes love, loss, and growing up particularly carefully”. Later, his film The Banishment premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, where Konstantin Lavronenko won the Best Actor Award, the first ever for a Russian actor.
At the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s 3rd feature film Elena also did well, receiving the Special Jury Prize of the Un Certain Regard section. His 4th movie, Leviathan, won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the 2015 Golden Globe for the Best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015.