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Christopher Doyle, also known as Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin) or Dou Ho-Fung (Cantonese)[1] (traditional Chinese: 杜可風; simplified Chinese: 杜可风) (born 2 May 1952) is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer. He has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films, being best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai in Chungking Express, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love and 2046. Doyle is also known for other films such as Temptress Moon, Hero, Dumplings, and Psycho. He 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).

Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle in 2005
Born	(1952-05-02) 2 May 1952 (age 70) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality	Australian Hongkonger
Occupation	Cinematographer, actor, photographer, and film director
Years active	1978–present (photographer); 1983–present (cinematographer)
Awards	NYFCC Award of Best Cinematography 2000 In the Mood for Love 2003 Hero 2004 2046 Golden Osella for Best Cinematography 1994 Ashes of Time Technical Grand Prize (Cannes Film Festival) 2000 In the Mood for Love Hong Kong Film Awards – Best Cinematography 1986 Soul 1991 Days of Being Wild 1994 Ashes of Time 1995 Fallen Angels 2002 Hero 2004 2046 Golden Bauhinia Awards – Best Cinematography 1995 Fallen Angels 2000 In the Mood for Love 2002 Hero Golden Horse Awards – Best Cinematography 1994 Ashes of Time 1997 Happy Together 2000 In the Mood for Love 2002 Three
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	杜可風
Simplified Chinese	杜可风
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dù Kěfēng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Dou6 Ho2 Fung1

Early life

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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.[2]

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.[3] In the late seventies, Doyle took an interest in Chinese culture and received the Chinese name Dù Kěfēng, which translates to "like the wind".[4] After language studies in Taiwan, he started working as a photographer. A couple of years later, he became a cinematographer, working with director Edward Yang in the 1983 film That Day, on the Beach.[5]

Doyle has worked on over 50 Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai in Chungking Express, 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.[6] He co-directed The White Girl with Jenny Suen.

Awards

Among Doyle's 60 awards and 30 nominations are the Technical Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for In the Mood for Love,[7] as well as the Osella d’Oro for Best Cinematography for Ashes of Time at the Venice International Film Festival.[8]

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.[9]

Filmography

As cinematographer

Feature films

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1983	That Day, on the Beach	Edward Yang
1986	Soul	Kei Shu
	Noir et blanc	Claire Devers
1987	My Heart Is That Eternal Rose	Patrick Tam
1989	Her Beautiful Life Lies	Tony Au
1991	Days of Being Wild	Wong Kar-wai
1992	The Peach Blossom Land	Stan Lai
	Mary from Beijing (aka "Awakening")	Sylvia Chang
1994	Red Rose White Rose	Stanley Kwan
	Ashes of Time	Wong Kar-wai	Osella d'Oro for Best Cinematography
	The Red Lotus Society	Stan Lai
	Chungking Express	Wong Kar-wai
1995	The Peony Pavilion	Chen Kuo-fu
	Fallen Angels	Wong Kar-wai
1996	4 Faces of Eve	Kwok-Leung Gan Eric Kot Jan Lamb
	Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema	Stanley Kwan
	Temptress Moon	Chen Kaige
1997	First Love: The Litter on the Breeze	Eric Kot
	Motel Cactus	Ki-Yong Park
	Happy Together	Wong Kar-wai
1998	Psycho	Gus Van Sant	Remake of the 1960 film of the same name
1999	Liberty Heights	Barry Levinson
	Away with Words	Himself
2000	In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai	Grand Technical Prize at the Cannes Film Festival New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography Nominated- Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography
2001	Made	Jon Favreau
2002	Hero	Zhang Yimou	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography Nominated- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography
	The Quiet American	Phillip Noyce
	Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003	Green Tea	Zhang Yuan
	Last Life in the Universe	Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
2004	2046	Wong Kar-wai	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography
2005	Perhaps Love	Peter Chan
	The White Countess	James Ivory
2006	McDull, the Alumni	Samson Chiu
	Dumplings	Fruit Chan
	Invisible Waves	Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
	Lady in the Water	M. Night Shyamalan
2007	Paranoid Park	Gus Van Sant
2008	Downloading Nancy	Johan Renck
2009	The Limits of Control	Jim Jarmusch
	Ondine	Neil Jordan
2010	Ocean Heaven	Xue Xiao-Lu
	Passion Play	Mitch Glazer
2011	Love for Life	Gu Changwei
	Tormented	Takashi Shimizu
	Underwater Love – A Pink Musical	Shinji Imaok
2013	Magic Magic	Sebastián Silva
	American Dreams in China	Peter Chan
2014	Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore	Khavn
2015	Fundamentally Happy	Tan Bee Thiam Lei Yuan Bin
	Port of Call	Philip Yung
	Enishi: The Bride of Izumo	Hiroshi Horiuchi
	Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous	Himself
	I Am Belfast	Mark Cousins
2016	Stockholm, My Love
	Endless Poetry	Alejandro Jodorowsky
2017	You Mean The World To Me	Saw Teong Hin
	The White Girl	Himself Jenny Suen
	Human Flow	Ai Weiwei
2018	Love Only	Himself Charine Chan
2019	The Rest	Ai Weiwei
	They Say Nothing Stays the Same	Joe Odagiri
	Tezuka's Barbara	Macoto Tezuka
2020	Love After Love	Ann Hui
2021	Just 1 Day	Erica Li

Short films

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1979	The Boat-Burning Festival	Chang Chao-Tang
1996	wkw/tk/1996@7′55″hk.net	Wong Kar-wai
2002	Six Days
	Goin Home	Peter Chan	Segment of Three
2004	The Hand	Wong Kar-wai	Segment of Eros
	Dumplings	Fruit Chan	Segment of Three... Extremes
2006	The Madness of the Dance	Carol Morley
2007	Meeting Helen	Emily Woof
2011	White Sand	Tsien-Tsien Zhang
2012	Linda Linda
2013	A Good Story	Martin-Christopher Bode
2014	Allergic to Art	Himself Jenny Suen
2016	Wind	Tiong Guan Saw
2018	Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown episode "Hong Kong"	Asia Argento	with Frederic Menou
2018	To Heaven, to Gather	Li-Yue Chang
2019	Cuba	Peter H. Chan
2021	Ouverture of Something that Never Ended	Alessandro Michele Gus Van Sant	7 episodes

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 (2006) – segment "Porte de Choisy"

Videos

• Dumbass on YouTube (2013) – musicvideo with lyrics by Ai Weiwei, 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 Fallen Angels – ISBN 978-4-7952-8069-4
• Backlit by the Moon (1996) – Japanese photography monograph – ISBN 978-4-947648-39-6
• Photographs of Tamaki Ogawa (1996) – Japanese photography monograph – ISBN 978-4-947599-45-2
• Doyle on Doyle (1997) – Japanese photography monograph – ISBN 4-9900557-1-3
• Buenos Aires (1997) – Behind the scenes photo book covering Happy Together – ISBN 978-4-7952-8066-3
• Don't Cry for Me, Argentina (1997) – Photographic journal account of filming Happy Together – ISBN 962-8114-24-7
• A Cloud in Trousers (1998) – Gallery exhibition monograph – ISBN 978-1-889195-33-9
• There Is a Crack in Everything (2003) – Photography monograph
• R34g38b25 (2004) – Behind the scenes photo book covering Hero – ISBN 978-962-86177-0-8
• Talking White - Behind-the-scenes photobook covering The White Girl (co-written with Jenny Suen)

See also

• Cinema of Hong Kong

References

External links

• Official website
• Christopher Doyle at IMDb
• Doyle, Christopher (6 August 2004). "The Legend of Drunken Master". Village Voice (Interview). Interviewed by Dennis Lim.
• Doyle, Christopher (7 January 2005). "'If you call me, you know what you're in for'". The Guardian (Interview). Interviewed by Steve Rose.
• Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, interview with Christopher Doyle in three parts by Andreas Pousette, February 2005.
• Doyle, Christopher (17 July 2005). "'His eyes have seen the glory...'". The Guardian (Interview). Interviewed by Gaby Wood.
• Video: Christopher Doyle talks about Hong Kong for CNN and Nokia’s feature series "The Scene".
• Doyle, Christopher (21 March 2006). "Interview" (Interview). CNN.

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