Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle 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. Doyle was born in Sydney, Australia in 1952. He left his native country on a Norwegian merchant ship at the age of eighteen, after which he took on a number of odd jobs including as a Kibbutz-nick cowboy in Israel, homeopathic doctor in Thailand, and “green agriculturalist” in India work. In the late seventies, Doyle was “re-birthed” as Du Ke Feng, which means “like the wind.” Following his time as a language student in Taiwan and having found work as a photographer, he was hired as a cinematographer on Edward Yang’s That Day, on the Beach in 1983. Since his “birth in art,” Du Ke Feng has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai, including Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love and 2046 (the latter of which saw Doyle walking off set mid-way through production). He has collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including Temptress Moon, Hero, Happy Together, and Dumplings. As his "alter ego" Christopher Doyle he has made more than twenty in various other languages and film cultures, 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, The Limits of Control. 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.[5] He is currently filming The White Girl, another tribute to his adopted hometown of Hong Kong, with co-director Jenny Suen. On May 26, 2017 Doyle was honored during the 70th Cannes Festival with the “Pierre Angénieux ExcelLens in Cinematography” award, in tribute to his rich and influential career. The ceremony was co-hosted by filmmaker Olivier Assayas and actress Juliette Binoche, among others.

Known For: Camera

Born: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1952-05-02

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	The Land of the Brave	Australian Man (Cameo)	0
2	1981	Idle Dream		0
3	1982	The Sexy Lady Driver	Steven George	0
4	1986	Omega Syndrome	Leonard Waxman	42
5	1988	I Love Mary		0
6	1989	Carry On Yakuza	Fake Arms Dealer	0
7	1990	Family Day	Tourist	70
8	1996	Comrades, Almost a Love Story	Jeremy	78
9	1997	Yesterday You, Yesterday Me	Yeung Seng Bo at 33 (Narrator)	0
10	1998	Andromedia	Sakkaa / Soccer	48
11	2000	Psycho Path	Self - Cinematographer	67
12	2001	Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken	Himself	30
13	2001	Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong	Self	0
14	2003	1:99 Shorts	10)	63
15	2006	Twelve Twenty	Taxi Driver / Captain	55
16	2006	McDull, the Alumni	BBQ Cook	50
17	2006	Reflections of Lady in the Water		35
18	2007	Paranoid Park	Uncle Tommy	65
19	2007	In the Mood for Doyle	Himself	40
20	2008	Making Paranoid Park		0
21	2009	Behind the Blur		40
22	2010	A Moment in Time		0
23	2010	Showtime		0
24	2011	Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema	Self	90
25	2014	Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World		70
26		M on the Bund	Self	0
27	2016	Wind	Himself	0
28	2019	Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks	Self	68
29		Christopher Doyle in Conversation: Days of Being Wild	Himself	0
30	2021	Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain	Self - Guest / Cinematographer (archive footage)	69

Christopher Doyle

Film

Television