Christopher Doyle

74, from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Artwork for Paranoid ParkImage of Christopher Doyle

Biography

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.

Timeline

2026Aged 74

  • Poster for Morte Cucina

    Director of Photography

2025Aged 73

  • Poster for In the Mood for Love 2001

    Director of Photography

2024Aged 72

  • Poster for M on the Bund

    Self

2022Aged 70

  • Poster for Just 1 Day

    Cinematography

2021Aged 69

  • Poster for Love After Love

    Director of Photography

2020Aged 68

  • Poster for Tezuka's Barbara

    Director of Photography

2019Aged 67

  • Poster for Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

    Self

  • Poster for Cuba

    Cinematography

  • Poster for The Boat Burning Festival+

    Cinematography

  • Poster for They Say Nothing Stays the Same

    Director of Photography

2018Aged 66

2017Aged 65

  • Poster for You Mean The World To Me

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Human Flow

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The White Girl

    Director of Photography

2016Aged 64

  • Poster for Wind

    Himself

  • Poster for Enishi: The Bride of Izumo

    Cinematography

  • Poster for Endless Poetry

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for I Am Belfast

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Stockholm, My Love

    Director of Photography

2015Aged 63

  • Poster for Beijing, New York

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Fundamentally Happy

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Port of Call

    Director of Photography

2014Aged 62

2013Aged 61

  • Poster for A Good Story

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for American Dreams in China

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Magic Magic

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Bends

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Blue Sky Bones

    Cinematography

2011Aged 59

  • Poster for Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema

    Self

  • Poster for Passion Play

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Underwater Love

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Love for Life

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Rabbit Horror

    Director of Photography

2010Aged 58

  • Poster for A Moment in Time

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Showtime

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Ondine

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Ocean Heaven

    Director of Photography

2009Aged 57

  • Poster for Behind the Blur

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Limits of Control

    Director of Photography

2008Aged 56

  • Poster for Making Paranoid Park

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Downloading Nancy

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Warsaw Dark

    Director

2007Aged 55

  • Poster for Paranoid Park

    Uncle Tommy

  • Poster for In the Mood for Doyle

    Himself

2006Aged 54

  • Poster for Twelve Twenty

    Taxi Driver / Captain

  • Poster for McDull, the Alumni

    BBQ Cook

  • Poster for Reflections of Lady in the Water

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Invisible Waves

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Paris Je T'aime

    Writer

  • Poster for Lady in the Water

    Director of Photography

2005Aged 53

  • Poster for The White Countess

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Perhaps Love

    Director of Photography

2004Aged 52

  • Poster for Dumplings

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Three... Extremes

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Blue

    Writer

  • Poster for 2046

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Eros

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Hand

    Director of Photography

2003Aged 51

  • Poster for 1:99 Shorts

    (segment "Spring, 2003")

  • Poster for Last Life in the Universe

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Green Tea

    Director of Photography

2002Aged 50

  • Poster for Rabbit-Proof Fence

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Three: Going Home

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Three

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Quiet American

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Hero

    Director of Photography

2001Aged 49

2000Aged 48

  • Poster for In the Mood for Love

    Director of Photography

1999Aged 47

  • Poster for Psycho Path

    Self - Cinematographer

  • Poster for Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Away with Words

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Liberty Heights

    Director of Photography

1998Aged 46

  • Poster for Andromedia

    Sakkaa / Soccer

  • Poster for Motorola

    Cinematography

  • Poster for Typhoon Shelter

    Director

  • Poster for Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Psycho

    Director of Photography

1997Aged 45

  • Poster for Yesterday You, Yesterday Me

    Yeung Seng Bo at 33 (Narrator)

  • Poster for Happy Together

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Motel Cactus

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Chinese Box

    Second Unit Director of Photography

  • Poster for First Love: The Litter on the Breeze

    Director of Photography

1996Aged 44

  • Poster for Comrades, Almost a Love Story

    Jeremy

  • Poster for Tri-Star

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Temptress Moon

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Irma Vep

    Thanks

  • Poster for 4 Faces of Eve

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net

    Director of Photography

1995Aged 43

  • Poster for Fallen Angels

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Peony Pavilion

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Out of the Blue

    Cinematography

1994Aged 42

  • Poster for Chungking Express

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Red Lotus Society

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Ashes of Time

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Red Rose White Rose

    Director of Photography

1993Aged 41

  • Poster for Beijing Bastards

    Producer

1992Aged 40

  • Poster for Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Mary from Beijing

    Director of Photography

1991Aged 39

  • Poster for My Nostalgia, My Songs

    Director

1990Aged 38

  • Poster for Family Day

    Tourist

  • Poster for Return Engagement

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Days of Being Wild

    Director of Photography

1989Aged 37

  • Poster for Carry On Yakuza

    Fake Arms Dealer

  • Poster for My Heart Is That Eternal Rose

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for I Am Sorry

    Director of Photography

1988Aged 36

  • Poster for I Love Mary

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Burning Snow

    Director of Photography

1986Aged 34

  • Poster for Omega Syndrome

    Leonard Waxman

  • Poster for Noir et blanc

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Soul

    Director of Photography

1984Aged 32

  • Poster for 逆旅與幻象

    self

  • Poster for Ah Fu

    Director of Photography

1983Aged 31

  • Poster for That Day, on the Beach

    Director of Photography

1982Aged 30

  • Poster for The Sexy Lady Driver

    Steven George

1981Aged 29

  • Poster for The Land of the Brave

    Australian Man (Cameo)

  • Idle Dream

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for 家庭／電影

    self

  • Poster for Journey through Images

    Director

1980Aged 28

  • Poster for Christine (Film of Her)

    Director

1979Aged 27

  • Poster for Archive / Preserving Taiwan’s Historic Architecture

    Cinematography

  • Poster for The Boat-Burning Festival

    Cinematography

Year unknown

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