Jiang Wen, China's renowned actor and director, won the Best Director Award from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society on January 9 for his box office winner movie Let the Bullets Fly.

Jiang, 49, graduated from the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing in 1984. Jiang's representative acting works include A Native of Beijing in New York, During That War, Letter From an Unknown Woman and The Lost Bladesman. His directing works include In the Heat of the Sun, During That War and The Sun Also Rises.