Run Run Shaw

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Shaw.

Run Run Shaw
Traditional Chinese:		邵逸夫
Mandarin
Mandarin	Hanyu Pinyin:	Shào Yìfū
Cantonese
Cantonese	IPA:	[sɪʊ₂₂ jɐt₂₂ fu₅₅]
	Jyutping:	siu6 yat6 fu1
	Yale:	siuh yaht fū

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Sir Run Run Shaw

Sir Run Run Shaw CBE (Chinese name: 邵逸夫, originally named 邵仁楞; born October 4, 1907) is a Hong Kong media mogul.

1 Overview
2 Awards
- 2.1 The Shaw Prize
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Overview

Sir Run Run Shaw was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China and raised in mainland China, but received his education in American-run schools.

At age 19, during his summer vacation, he followed his third elder brother Run Me Shaw to Singapore to start a film market there. Following that, he developed a deep interest in the movie business. He and his brother founded the South Seas Film studio in 1930, which later became Shaw Studios. In 1972, he launched TVB (Television Broadcasts Ltd.) in Hong Kong, growing it into a multi-billion dollar TV empire ranking today as one of the top 5 television producers in the world.

His wife died at age 85 in 1987. Shaw Studios stopped filming in the same year. He remarried in Las Vegas in 1997 to Mona Shaw.

In 2000, through his company, Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited, he sold his unique library of 760 classic titles to Celestial Pictures Limited. His name is credited even in western movies which he has backed such as in Blade Runner under the The Ladd Company logo.

Continuing to show perseverence, Shaw Studios entered a new era with Run Run Shaw's majority investment (through his various holding companies) in the US$180 million Hong Kong Movie City project, a 1.1 million square feet studio and production facility. The facility features one of the largest, fully air-conditioned and sound and vibration-insulated soundstages in Asia, a full-service color lab and digital imaging facility, over 20 sound and editing suites, a 400-seat dubbing and screening theatre, executive and production office space, banqueting facilities, and visual effects and animation capabilities. This facility serves as the center-piece of Shaw Studios and indeed the whole Chinese film industry as a whole moving forward.

Sir Run Run Shaw holds significant other business interests around the world. His construction of the 23-storey Shaw Tower at Cathedral Place located in Vancouver, BC, Canada is just one example of his real estate interests.

Over the years, he has donated billions of dollars to charity, schools and hospitals. His name is on many buildings in Hong Kong due to his generous donations. The fourth constituent college of the collegiate Chinese University of Hong Kong is also named after Sir Run Run, whose patronage made the establishment of the college possible.

[edit] Awards

In 1974, he was awarded the CBE. He received his knighthood in 1977. He received a medal from the Hong Kong government in 1998.

[edit] The Shaw Prize

He recently established an international award, the Shaw Prize, for scientists in three areas of research, namely astronomy, mathematics, and life and medical science. The award is up to US$1 million. The press called it the "Nobel Prize of the East". The first prize was awarded in 2004.