Zhang Yimour receives special award

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Art directors tap Zhang for special award

Zhang Yimou, director of Sony Pictures Classics' "House of Flying Daggers," will receive the Art Directors Guild's outstanding contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award. Zhang is the first foreign director to receive the award, an honor determined this year by the ADG executive board, overseen by ADG council president Thomas A. Walsh and awards chairs Dina Lipton and Robert Strohmaier. The director of such visually arresting films as 2004's "Hero" and 1991's "Raise the Red Lantern," Zhang is a former cinematographer and graduate of the Beijing Film Academy. (Sheigh Crabtree)