Christopher Doyle (traditional Chinese: 杜可風; simplified Chinese: 杜可风; pinyin: Dù Kě Fēng; born 2 May 1952) is a highly acclaimed, AFI Award-winning cinematographer, known for his use of extreme angles and vanguard color grading. He has won, amongst other accolades, the Cannes Technical Grand Prize, Golden Osella, the Golden Horse awards (four times), and Hong Kong Film Award (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematog...
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Christopher Doyle (traditional Chinese: 杜可風; simplified Chinese: 杜可风; pinyin: Dù Kě Fēng; born 2 May 1952) is a highly acclaimed, AFI Award-winning cinematographer, known for his use of extreme angles and vanguard color grading. He has won, amongst other accolades, the Cannes Technical Grand Prize, Golden Osella, the Golden Horse awards (four times), and Hong Kong Film Award (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers.
Doyle was born in Sydney, Australia. Having worked with Chinese directors like Wong Kar-wai (for which he contributed at least partially to the cinematography of all his movies from Days of Being Wild through to 2046), Zhang Yimou, Edward Yang, and Zhang Yuan, Doyle is considered one of the best working cinematographers.
He himself has directed a feature film, Away with Words (aka Kujaku, aka San tiao ren) set in Hong Kong and Okinawa, starring Tadanobu Asano and Mavis Hee, as well as a segment (Porte de Choisy) in the feature film...
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