Christopher Doyle

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Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle


Christopher Doyle (born May 2, 1952 in Sydney, Australia; Chinese name: 杜可風) is an Australian-born cinematographer and member of the HKSC.

Doyle has worked with Chinese directors like Wong Kar-wai (for which he has done the cinematography of all his movies but the first one), Zhang Yimou, Edward Yang, and Zhang Yuan. He directed a feature film, Away with Words (aka Kujaku, aka San tiao ren) set in Hong Kong and Okinawa, starring Tadanobu Asano.

Doyle often uses extreme angles and vanguard color grading. He is considered as one of the best living cinematographers. He is an established photographer and is known for his drinking habits and dry wit.[citation needed] While his Australian accent is still discernible when he speaks English, he does so with unusual intonations and stops, the result of speaking Cantonese and Mandarin, in which he is fluent, for most of his adult life.

In the late 1970s, he went to Taiwan from Hong Kong and then settled in Taipei. He now lives in Hong Kong. He has worked as an oil driller in India, a cow herder in Israel, and a doctor of Chinese medicine in Thailand.

In 1978, he worked as a photographer for the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Zuni Icosahedron. In 1981, he worked as a cinematographer on That Day, On the Beach directed by Edward Yang. For that film, Doyle won the Best Cinematography Award in the 1983 Asia-Pacific Film Festival.

Notable music video credits include "Six Days" for DJ Shadow (directed by Wong Kar-wai), The Strokes' "Juicebox" (directed by Michael Palmieri) and "Getaway" by the Scottish group Texas (directed by Tim Royes).

Doyle won the Best Cinematography award for the film, Three:Going Home at the 2002 Golden Horse Film Festival.

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