Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle in 2005
Background information
Chinese name	杜可風 (traditional)
Chinese name	杜可风 (simplified)
Pinyin	Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Dou6 Ho2 Fung1 (Cantonese)
Born	(1952-05-02) 2 May 1952 (age 64) Sydney
Nationality	Australia
Occupation	cinematographer, actor, photographer, and film director
Years active	1978–present (photographer); 1983–present (cinematographer)
Awards 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 Other 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

Christopher Doyle, also known as Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin) or Dou Ho-Fung (Cantonese) (traditional Chinese: 杜可風; simplified Chinese: 杜可风), born 2 May 1952, is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer who often works on Chinese language films. He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, as well as AFI Award for cinematography, the Golden Horse awards (four times), and Hong Kong Film Award (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers.

Christopher Doyle is an award-winning cinematographer. Among his sixty awards and thirty nominations at film festivals around the world are the Technical Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for In the Mood for Love, as well as the Osella d’Oro for Best Cinematography for Ashes of Time at the Venice International Film Festival.

He left his native Sydney beach culture on a Norwegian merchant ship at the age of eighteen, and his subsequent experience as a Kibbutz-nick cowboy in Israel, quack doctor in Thailand, and “green agriculturalist” in India, inform but don’t really explain his work. In the late seventies, Doyle was “re-birthed” as Du Ke Feng, which means “like the wind.”

Since his “birth in art,” Du Ke Feng has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films (including Chungking Express, Temptress Moon, Hero, Happy Together, Dumplings, 2046, etc.), and his "alter ego" Christopher Doyle has made more than twenty in various other languages and film cultures (Psycho, Liberty Heights, Last Life in the Universe, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Paranoid Park, The Limits of Control, etc.). He also wrote, shot, and directed Warsaw Dark, Away with Words, starring Asano Tadanobu, and Hong Kong Trilogy, an experimental portrait of three generations of Hong Kong people. He is currently filming The White Girl, another tribute to his adopted hometown of Hong Kong, with co-director Jenny Suen.