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Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle

Known For Camera
Birthday May 02, 1952 (73)
Birthplace Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Popularity 1 (history)
Updated Oct 02, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 i ... s 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

Filmography

Paranoid Park

Paranoid Park

2007

as Uncle Tommy

Omega Syndrome

Omega Syndrome

1986

as Leonard Waxman

Cuba

Cuba

2019

Cinematography

Human Flow

Human Flow

2017

Director of Photography

I Am Belfast

I Am Belfast

2016

Director of Photography

Stockholm, My Love

Stockholm, My Love

2016

Director of Photography

Beijing, New York

Beijing, New York

2015

Director of Photography

Fundamentally Happy

Fundamentally Happy

2015

Director of Photography

Magic Magic

Magic Magic

2013

Director of Photography

Passion Play

Passion Play

2011

Director of Photography

Ondine

Ondine

2010

Director of Photography

The Limits of Control

The Limits of Control

2009

Director of Photography

Downloading Nancy

Downloading Nancy

2008

Director of Photography

Paranoid Park

Paranoid Park

2007

Director of Photography

Lady in the Water

Lady in the Water

2006

Director of Photography

Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her

Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her

2006

Director of Photography

The White Countess

The White Countess

2005

Director of Photography

Eros

Eros

2004

Director of Photography

2046

2046

2004

Director of Photography

The Quiet American

The Quiet American

2002

Director of Photography

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Rabbit-Proof Fence

2002

Director of Photography

Hero

Hero

2002

Director of Photography

Made

Made

2001

Director of Photography

In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love

2000

Director of Photography

Liberty Heights

Liberty Heights

1999

Director of Photography

Away with Words

Away with Words

1999

Writer, Director of Photography

Psycho

Psycho

1998

Director of Photography

Chinese Box

Chinese Box

1997

Second Unit Director of Photography

Chungking Express

Chungking Express

1994

Director of Photography

Ashes of Time

Ashes of Time

1994

Director of Photography

Days of Being Wild

Days of Being Wild

1990

Director of Photography

Red Surf

Red Surf

1989

Stunts

Away with Words

Away with Words

1999

Director

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Television Credits

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The Culture Show

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 11, 2004

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