Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle (born 2 May 1952), also known as Dou Ho-fung , is an Australian cinematographer, known for his work in arthouse cinema, mainly Hong Kong films, as well as films directed by Wong Kar-wai.

Doyle has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, as well as the AFI Award for cinematography, the Golden Horse award (four times), and the Hong Kong Film Award (six times).

Early life

Doyle was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1952. He left his native country on a Norwegian merchant ship at the age of eighteen. Doyle arrived in Taiwan for the first time in the 1970s, while his ship was docked in Keelung Harbor. Doyle met Stan Lai and Ding Nai-chu at Idea House, a restaurant in Taipei.

Career

While living in other countries, he took on several odd jobs, such as being an oil driller in India, a cow herder in Israel, and a doctor of Chinese medicine in Thailand. In the late seventies, Doyle took an interest in Chinese culture and received the Chinese name Dù Kěfēng, which translates to "like the wind". After language studies in Taiwan, he started working as a photographer. A couple of years later, he became a cinematographer, working with Taiwanese director Edward Yang on the 1983 film That Day, on the Beach.

Doyle has worked on over 50 Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai in Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love and 2046. He has collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including Temptress Moon, Hero, and Dumplings. He has also made more than 20 films in various other languages, working as director of photography on Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, Liberty Heights, Last Life in the Universe, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Paranoid Park, and The Limits of Control, among others.

He also wrote, shot, and directed Warsaw Dark, Away with Words starring Asano Tadanobu, and Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, an experimental portrait of three generations of Hong Kong people. He co-directed The White Girl with Jenny Suen.

Filmography Cinematographer Film

Short film Year Title Director Notes 1996 wkw/tk/1996@7′55″hk.netWong Kar-wai 1998 Motorola 2002 Goin Home Peter Chan Segment of Three2004 The Hand Wong Kar-wai Segment of Eros Dumplings Fruit Chan Segment of Three... Extremes 2006 The Madness of the Dance Carol MorleyWith Rain Li 2007 Meeting Helen Emily Woof 2012 Linda Linda Tsien-Tsien Zhang

Television Year Title Director Notes 2018 Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Asia Argento Episode "Hong Kong";With Frederic Menou 2020 Ouverture of Something that Never Ended Alessandro MicheleGus Van Sant 7 episodes

Documentary works Film Year Title Director2015 I Am Belfast Mark Cousins Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous Himself 2017 Human FlowAi Weiwei 2019 The Rest

Television Year Title Director Notes 1996 Century of Cinema Stanley Kwan Segment Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

Director Year Title Director Writer Notes 1998 Typhoon Shelter TV movie, co-directed with Shuji Tsukamoto 1999 Away with Words 2006 Paris, je t'aime Segment "Porte de Choisy" 2008 Izolator aka "Warsaw Dark" 2014 Beautiful 2014 Segment "HK 2014 - Education for All" 2015 Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous Documentary film 2017 The White Girl Co-directed with Jenny Suen 2018 Love Only Creative and visual director

Awards and nominations Year Title Award/Nomination 1994 Ashes of Time Osella d'Oro for Best Cinematography 2000 In the Mood for Love Grand Technical Prize at the Cannes Film Festival New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best CinematographerNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best CinematographyNominated- Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography 2002 Hero New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best CinematographerChicago Film Critics Association Award for Best CinematographyNominated- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography 2004 2046 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best CinematographerNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography

On 26 May 2017, Doyle was honoured during the 70th Cannes Festival with the “Pierre Angénieux ExcelLens in Cinematography" award, in tribute to his successful and influential career.