A Study On Huabiao Award-winning Documentary Film (1994-2011)

China Huabiao Film Awards best documentary selection is also coincided with thebeginning of90’s country when a significant change occurs. A number of outstandingdocumentary films have won this highest Government Honor and achieved a highreputation in the country, in recent20years from1994to2011. As in2010, thegovernment issued the opinions on<accelerating the development of documentary filmindustry>, this file is considered as a new beginning of a deep change in Chinadocumentary industry. This topic study on the Huabiao award-winning documentaryfilms and summarize the features of these films, analysis the types and features,narrative strategies and audio-visual performance. Then，discussing about the futuredevelopment path of documentary films.The first chapter of article outlines the research back ground, the relevant research,and the research ideas and methods. The second chapter makes a simple review of thehistory of China Huabiao Film Award, and makes a brief introduce of theaward-winning documentary films. on this basis, those films are broadly divided intofour types according to the different content which are news record film, documentrecord movies, story-style record films and cultural record films, and then analyze itscontent features of each. Among them, news record movie record and witness historydevelopment; document record movies represent the major historical events, showgreat man’s glamour; story-style record movies reflect common person spirit qualityand integrated into many feature elements; cultural record movie shows profoundhumanism and historic. The fourth chapter of article outlines the artistic characteristicsof the40award-winning films from narrative and images. At last, the article analysesthe problems of Huabiao awards-winning documentary films and try to find effectivesolutions.This article objectively presents the value of Huabiao award-winning documentaryfilms through the comprehensive research. It may be provide some reference forrelated researches in the future. In the meanwhile, this article will be have certainguiding function for documentary creation in today’s times.