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Chinese starlet Zhang Ziyi has been elected as one of the 100 most
outstanding film actors at the centennial anniversary of the Chinese
movie.
The result was announced by the China Film
Performance Art Institute on Saturday morning during the ongoing 14th
China Golden Rooster and Full Blossom Film Festival held in China's
southernmost coastal city of Sanya. Zhang, who failed to show up in the
film festival, is the youngest star in the list at the age of 26. As the
most influential
film
festival in China, Golden Rooster and Full Blossom refused Zhang's earlier
request to appear on videotape instead of being present.
The 100 movie stars also include Bruce Lee, Jackie
Chan, Chow Yun-Fat, Maggie Cheung, Jet Li, Gong Li, as well as some late
performing artists such as Ruan Lingyu, 1930s Chinese tragedienne
, Butterfly Wu, Ruan's rival
and friend, who starred in the first Chinese talking picture, and Chou
Hsuan, Shanghai film and singing star of the 1930s-1940s.
They were elected by 100 judges consisting of prestigious Chinese film
directors, critics and scholars such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, the
organizer said.
The Golden Rooster and Full Blossom Film Festival will close on
Saturday night after granting the 25th Golden Rooster awards, dubbed as
China's Oscar.
The Chinese film is 100 years old this year, since Dingjun Mountain,
showing a Peking opera routine, was shot in Beijing in 1905.
(CRI) |
Updated: 2005-11-14 08:51
