[8] In 2015, he was nominated for the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance in Mountains May Depart, a realistic melodrama pic directed by Jia Zhangke.
[9] Dong reunited with director Liu Jie to star in his film, De Lan, a rural tale that revolves around a loan officer who travels to a remote village and strikes up a complicated relationship with a Tibetan woman.
[11] He also had a supporting role in the thriller film Hide and Seek which co-starred Wallace Huo.
[12] In 2017, Dong starred in Young Love Lost, a comedy film by first-time director Xiang Guoqiang.
[17] The same year, Dong made his small-screen debut in the television series Like a Flowing River, based on the novel Da Jiang Dong Qu by Ah Nai and set in the period of Chinese economic reform.