Film, TV & Theatre

Annual awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoring excellence in film; first presented in 1929 and known as the Oscars.

Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998) whose samurai epics and humanist dramas, including Rashomon and Seven Samurai, reshaped world cinema.

English-born film director (1899–1980) known as the "Master of Suspense," whose thrillers shaped modern cinema, from British silent films to Hollywood classics.

Ballet is a theatrical dance tradition with a codified technique, an international repertory, and classical, neoclassical, and contemporary forms.

An annual international film festival in Berlin combining public screenings, competitive awards, film-industry markets, and filmmaker development programmes.

Chinese opera encompasses regional musical theatre traditions combining singing, speech, stylized movement, and martial performance.

Comedy is a dramatic genre and artistic mode that creates amusement through humorous situations, language, characters, and performance.

Dance is the expressive organization of bodily movement, practised as an art, social activity, ritual, and form of cultural transmission.

David Ellison is an American film producer and media executive who founded Skydance Media and became chairman and chief executive of Paramount Skydance in 2025.

Dead to Rights is a 2025 Chinese historical drama about civilians sheltering in a photographic studio during the Nanjing Massacre and attempting to preserve evidence of atrocities.

Chinese actress and dancer (born 1980) known for films such as Happy Times and 2046 and for television dramas including The Story of a Noble Family.

Dune: Part Three is Denis Villeneuve’s third Dune film, adapting Dune Messiah and following Paul Atreides’s reign as emperor.

Film is a medium of moving images, made by recording or generating sequences of images, that serves as an art form, an industry, and a mass medium.

China's state-run awards for excellence in television drama, first held in 1981 and held biennially since 2005, with a trophy modelled on the Apsaras of Dunhuang.

American fantasy television drama adapting George R. R. Martin’s novels, broadcast by HBO from 2011 to 2019.

Huagudeng is a Han Chinese folk performing art from the Huai River basin in Anhui, combining dance, singing, percussion and short plays.

American actor, producer, and author known for intense screen performances, independent filmmaking, and helping weaken the Hollywood blacklist.

Shakespeare’s tragedy of a Scottish warrior whose pursuit of kingship leads to tyranny, guilt, and destruction.

A shared fictional universe and media franchise connecting Marvel Studios superhero films, television series, and related storytelling.

A match cut links successive shots through similarities in visual composition, movement, or sound, creating continuity or a meaningful connection across a transition.

Peking opera is the dominant form of Chinese opera, combining singing, mime, martial arts and acrobatics, developed in Beijing in the Qing era.

A genre combining romantic relationships with comic conflict, developed across theatre, literature, film, and television.

A radio and television comedy genre built around recurring characters, familiar settings, and continuing comic situations.

The Spring Festival Gala is a live televised variety show broadcast on Lunar New Year's Eve in China since 1983, and one of the world's most-watched programmes.

Live solo comedy in which one performer speaks directly to an audience, usually with only a microphone.

American film director, producer and screenwriter (born 1946), co-founder of Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures, and a central figure in modern blockbuster and historical cinema.

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1988 crime novel by Thomas Harris and its acclaimed 1991 film adaptation, centered on FBI trainee Clarice Starling and imprisoned killer Hannibal Lecter.

Theatre is a collaborative performing art in which performers present actions, characters, or experiences to an audience through speech, movement, and other expressive means.

Tragedy is a dramatic and literary genre that explores suffering, consequential conflict, and the limits of human agency.

American animator, film producer, and entrepreneur who helped transform animation, television entertainment, and theme parks.

Chinese filmmaker and stage director associated with Fifth Generation cinema, international festival success, and Olympic ceremonies.

Chinese comedian, actor, and director known for televised sketches, northeastern folk performance, and rural television comedies.