The 2021 34th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards ceremony was officially held in Xiamen, Fujian. This year’s Golden Rooster Awards set up a total of 20 awards including Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Film, etc. Among them, Zhang Yi won the Best Actor Award for the role of Zhang Xianchen in “Above the Cliff”, and Zhang Xiaofei with “You Well, Li Huanying in “Li Huanying” won the best actress award.
Winners of the 34th Golden Rooster Awards in 2021
Best Feature Film: “The Island Watcher”
Best Director: Zhang Yimou “Above the Cliff”
Best Screenplay: “1921” (Original) by Yu Xi, Huang Xin, Zhao Ningyu
Best Actor: Zhang Yi (“On the Cliff” as Zhang Xianchen)
Best Actress: Zhang Xiaofei (“Hello, Li Huanying” as Li Huanying)
Best Supporting Actor: Fan Wei (“One Second” as a Fan movie)
Best Supporting Actress: Zhu Yuanyuan (“My Sister” as Aunt (An Rongrong))
Best directorial debut: Dan Zhenwangjia “Floating with the Wind”
Best Medium and Small Cost Feature Film: “Fish Under Ice”
Best Documentary/Science and Educational Film: “Post-Nine Zeros”
Best Art Film: “White Snake 2: The Tribulation of the Green Snake”
Best Children’s Film: “Goodbye! juvenile”
Best Chinese Opera Film: “Nan Yue Gong Ci”
Best Foreign Language Film: “Father Trapped in Time”
Best Photography: Zhao Xiaoding “Above the Cliff”
Best Music: “Chinese Doctor” by Chen Guangrong and Chen Yongjian
Best Art: Huo Tingxiao “Revolutionary”
Best Editing: Zhong Weizhao “The Hurt Disposer 2”
Best recording: Tao Jing “One Second”
Special Jury Award: “My Hometown and Me”
Honorary Commendation of Lifetime Achievement Film Artist of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles: Lu Qiming, Zhang Xinyan, Li Qiankuan
Nominations for the 34th Golden Rooster Awards in 2021
Best feature film: “Chinese Doctor”, “Island Guardian”, “My Hometown and Me”, “My Sister”, “Revolutionary”, “Above the Cliff”
Best Medium and Small Cost Feature Film: “Babusha”, “Meet Nara Again”, “Fish Under the Ice”, “Harif”, “Floating with the Wind”
Best Children’s Film: “Pipiru and Luxissi: The Canned Man” “Goodbye!” “Juvenile” “Red Tip”
Best Foreign Language Film: “Pinocchio”, “Father Trapped in Time”, “Persian Language Class”, “Wolfwalker”, “Just Love and Break away”
Best Chinese Opera Film: “Three Drops of Blood”, “Shiro’s Visit to His Mother”, “Bao Gong’s Three Exploration of Butterfly Dreams”, “Nan Yue Gong Ci”, “New Tie Gong Yuan”
Best Documentary/Science Educational Film: “Walk Together”, “Post-Nine Zeros”, “University”, “Light Whisperer”, and “Wonderful!” juvenile”
Best Art Film: “White Snake 2: The Tribulation of Green Snake”, “Beginning of Autumn”, “Wishing Dragon”, “Jigong’s Falling Dragon”, “The Loveliest Man”
Best Screenplay: Yu Xi, Huang Xin, Zhao Ningyu “1921” (original); Zhang Li, “Fish under the Ice” (original); Chen Li, Ding Han, Zhao Zheen, “Island Guardian” (original); Gao Mantang, Li Wei “My Father Jiao Yulu” (adapted); “Floating with the Wind” by Mei Duo, Dembadaji and Ze Rangsa (adapted); “Revolutionary” (original) by Guan Hu, Wu Bing, Zhang Ke, and Jing Yu
Best Director: Yin Li “There is No Year That I Can’t Live”; Zhang Yimou “Above the Cliff”; Huang Jianxin and Zheng Dasheng “1921”; Han Yan “Send You A Little Red Flower”; Lu Yang “Assassinate Novelist”
Best directorial debut: Yu Fei, “Pipilu and Luxisi: The Canned Man”; Dan Zhenwangjia, “Drifting in the Wind”; Baoyin Gesige “Harif”; Jia Ling “Hello, Li Huanying”
Best Actor: Yu Hewei (“Above the Cliff” as Zhou Yi); Liu Ye (“The Island Watcher” as Wang Jicai); Zhang Yi (“Above the Cliff” as Zhang Xianchen); “Red Flower” as Wei Yihang); Guo Xiaodong (“My Father Jiao Yulu” as Jiao Yulu)
Best Actress: Liu Haocun (“Give You A Little Red Flower” as Ma Xiaoyuan); Liu Mintao (“Goodbye! Boy” as Zhou Lan); Zhang Xiaofei (“Hello, Li Huanying” as Li Huanying); Zhang Zifeng (“My Sister” as Sister (An Ran))
Best Supporting Actor: Zhu Yawen (“Chinese Doctor” as Tao Jun); Liu Peiqing (“Ba Bu Sha” as Gao Lingxian); Xiao Yang (“My Sister” as Uncle (Wu Dongfeng)); Fan Wei (“One Second “Played as Fan Movie); Nicholas Tse (“Furious Case” as Qiu Gangao)
Best Supporting Actress: Ding Liuyuan (“My Father Jiao Yulu” as Xu Junya); Zhu Yuanyuan (“My Sister” as Aunt (An Rongrong)); Liu Jia (“Hello, Li Huanying” as Li Huanying (middle-aged)) ; Zhou Ye (“1921” as Yang Kaihui); Suolang Wangmu (“Floating with the Wind” as Sang Dan)
Best Photography: Zhao Xiaoding, “Above the Cliff”; Zhao Xiaoshi, “There Is No Year You Can’t Live”; Zhong Rui “Send You A Little Red Flower”; Cao Yu “1921”; Han Qiming “Assassinate Novelist”
Best recording: Wang Gang, Liu Xiaosha, Xiong Yi “Assassination of Novelists”; Yang Jiang and Zhao Nan “Above the Cliff”; Yang Jingyi “1921”; Zhou Lei and Wu Lei “My Sister”; Tao Jing “One Seconds
Best Art: Li Miao, “Assassinated Novelist”; Li Peng, “Fish Under the Ice”; Woods “On the Cliff”; Lin Chaoxiang “One Second”; Huo Tingxiao “Revolutionary”
Best music: Yu Fei “Assassinated Novelist”; Yang Yibo “My Father Jiao Yulu”; Chen Guangrong and Chen Yongjian “Chinese Doctor”; Gao Xiaoyang “My Sister”; Dou Peng “Revolutionary”
Best Editing: Yu Boyang “1921”; Zhu Liyun and Zhu Lin “Assassinated Novelist”; Yang Hongyu “Revolutionary”; Zhou Yuan “Get Home at One Point”; Zhong Weizhao “The Bomb Disposal Expert 2”