David M. Richardson

David M. Richardson is a Hong Kong film editor. Known for his frequent collaborations with director Johnnie To and as a co-founder of To's Milkyway Image, Richardson has received 14 Hong Kong Film Award nominations, and won Best Editing twice for the Milkyway-produced Trivisa and Mad Fate (2023) in the 36th and 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards.

Biography Richardson was born in the United Kingdom. His father was also a film editor who began his apprenticeship in London in the 1940s. Richardson described film editing as his "family business" and often visited his father's studio to watch him work when he was a child. Richardson later moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he worked as a film editor in North America. and became the company's chief editor.

Replicant Blackwoods

Heart of America Try Seventeen 2003 House of the Dead

Breaking News Throw Down Yesterday Once More 2005 BloodRayne 2006 Exiled

Eye in the Sky In the Name of the King Triangle

Linger Sparrow Trail of the Panda

Vengeance Accident

Frankie & Alice

Don't Go Breaking My Heart Life Without Principle

Romancing in Thin Air Motorway Drug War

Blind Detective Rigor Mortis

Iceman Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2

SPL II: A Time for Consequences Wild City Office

Trivisa Three Operation Mekong Sky on Fire

2020 Septet: The Story of Hong Kong

Limbo Anita 2022 Detective vs Sleuths 2023 Mad Fate 2026 Cold War 1994 As co-producer Year Title Notes 2009 Push 2004 41st Golden Horse Awards Best Film EditingBreaking News 2005 24th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing 2006 43rd Golden Horse Awards Best Film EditingExiled 2007 26th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing 44th Golden Horse Awards Best Film EditingEye in the Sky 2008 2nd Asian Film Awards Best Editor 2009 28th Hong Kong Film Awards Sparrow 2010 29th Hong Kong Film Awards Accident 2012 31st Hong Kong Film AwardsLife Without Principle 49th Golden Horse Awards Best Film Editing 2013 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing Motorway 50th Golden Horse Awards Best Film EditingDrug War 7th Asian Film AwardsBest Editor 2014 8th Asian Film Awards Rigor Mortis 2015 52nd Golden Horse Awards Best Sound EffectsOffice 201635th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Sound Design Best Editing SPL II: A Time for Consequences 53rd Golden Horse Awards Best Film EditingTrivisa 201736th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest Editing Operation Mekong 2022 40th Hong Kong Film Awards Best EditingLimbo 59th Golden Horse Awards Best Film Editing 2023 41st Hong Kong Film AwardsBest Editing Detective vs Sleuths 2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Mad Fate