Christopher Doyle, also known as Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin) or Dou Ho-Fung (Cantonese) () (born 2 May 1952) is an Australian-Hong Kong

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...

. He has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films, being best known for his collaborations with

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in '' Chungking Express'', '' Happy Together,

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'' and '' 2046''. Doyle is also known for other films such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Psycho''. He has won awards at the

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and

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, as well as the

AFI Award The Australian Film Institute (AFI) was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry. It is responsi ...

for cinematography, the

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award (four times), and the

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(six times).

Early life

Doyle was born in

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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

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. 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 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 director

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in the 1983 film ''

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.'' Doyle has worked on over 50 Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with

in '' Chungking Express'', ''

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'', '' Happy Together'', ''

'' and '' 2046''. He has collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including ''

'', ''

'' and ''

''. 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'', ''

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'', ''

Last Life in the Universe ''Last Life in the Universe'' (Thai title: เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล, ''Ruang rak noi nid mahasan'') is a 2003 Thai romantic crime film directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. The film is notable for being t ...

'', ''

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'', '' Paranoid Park'', and ''

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'', among others. He also wrote, shot, and directed ''Warsaw Dark'', '' Away with Words'' starring

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, and '' Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous'', an experimental portrait of three generations of Hong Kong people. He co-directed ''The White Girl'' with

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Awards

Among Doyle's 60 awards and 30 nominations are the Technical Grand Prize at the

for ''

'', as well as the Osella d’Oro for Best Cinematography for ''

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'' at the

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. On 26 May 2017, Doyle was honoured during the 70th Cannes Festival with the “

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ExcelLens in Cinematography” award, in tribute to his successful and influential career.Ali Naderzad
"CANNES FESTIVAL, Christopher Doyle gets Excellence in Cinematography award"
''Screen Comment'', 25 May 2017.

Filmography

As cinematographer

Feature films

Short films

As director

Feature films

* '' Away with Words'' (1999) * ''Izolator'' aka "Warsaw Dark" (2008) * '' Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous'' (2015) * ''The White Girl'' (2017), co-directed with Jenny Suen

Short films

* ''Home / Movie'' (1981) * ''

Paris, je t'aime ''Paris, je t'aime'' (; ''Paris, I love you'') is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements (districts). The 22 director ...

'' (2006) – segment "Porte de Choisy"

Videos

* (2013) – musicvideo with lyrics by

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, music by Zuoxiao Zuzhou

As actor

* He had a cameo appearance in the 1996 film Comrades: Almost a Love Story in which he plays an English teacher who can speak Mandarin.

Bibliography

* ''Angel Talk'' (1996) – Behind the scenes photo book covering

– * ''Backlit by the Moon'' (1996) – Japanese photography monograph – * ''Photographs of Tamaki Ogawa'' (1996) – Japanese photography monograph – * ''Doyle on Doyle'' (1997) – Japanese photography monograph – * ''Buenos Aires'' (1997) – Behind the scenes photo book covering Happy Together – * ''Don't Cry for Me, Argentina'' (1997) – Photographic journal account of filming Happy Together – * ''A Cloud in Trousers'' (1998) – Gallery exhibition monograph – * ''There Is a Crack in Everything'' (2003) – Photography monograph * ''R34g38b25'' (2004) – Behind the scenes photo book covering

– *''Talking White -'' Behind-the-scenes photobook covering The White Girl (co-written with Jenny Suen)

References

External links

Official website
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interview with Christopher Doyle in three parts by Andreas Pousette, February 2005. *
Video: Christopher Doyle talks about Hong Kong for CNN and Nokia’s feature series "The Scene".
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Early life

Career

Awards

Filmography

As cinematographer

Feature films

Short films

As director

Feature films

Short films

Videos

As actor

Bibliography

See also

References

External links