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Hark Tsui Biography

Birth Name:Tsui Man-Kong

Birth Place:Saigon, Vietnam

Profession Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Editor, Production designer, Costume designer, Special effects, Production manager, Art department

Fast Facts

  • Received the Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival
  • Worked on a 1976 documentary in New York City after graduating college, also working as an editor for a Chinese newspaper and developing a theatre group and Chinese cable TV station
  • At the age of 13, Tsui and his family immigrated to Hong Kong where he later graduated, moved to America to study film, attending Southern Methodist University and University of Texas Austin, and then moved to New York City
  • Quote: "Wuxia culture is like another dimension that provides us with strong emotion, strong passion․ I have always been a fan of Wuxia movies․ They give us a refreshed view of what we had before, of the values and of the way we looked at life․"
  • After returning to Hong Kong in 1977, his first feature film, "The Butterfly Murders," elevated his status as an unknown director to a harbinger of the Chinese New Wave movement in Chinese film
  • For his 1983 fantasy film "Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain," hired Hollywood technicians to help with the special effects, which were unprecedented in Chinese film at the time
  • Jury member at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004, becoming the fourth Chinese director in the festival's history to sit on the board of judges
  • In 1984, formed the production company Film Workshop with his wife and co-producer

Awards

  • 1981Golden Horse Award-Best Director: winner
  • 1985Hong Kong Film Award-Best Picture: nominated
  • 1985Hong Kong Film Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 1985Golden Montgolfiere-: nominated
  • 1985Special Jury Award-: winner
  • 1987Hong Kong Film Award-Best Action Choreography: nominated
  • 1987Hong Kong Film Award-Best Picture: winner
  • 1988Special Jury Award-: winner
  • 1988Hong Kong Film Award-Best Picture: nominated
  • 1988Hong Kong Film Award-Best Supporting Actor: nominated
  • 1990Hong Kong Film Award-Best Picture: nominated
  • 1992Golden Horse Award-Best Adapted Screenplay: nominated
  • 1992Hong Kong Film Award-Best Director: winner
  • 1993Hong Kong Film Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 1997Golden Horse Award-Best Adapted Screenplay: nominated
  • 2000Future Film Festival Digital Award-: winner
  • 2001Top 10 Film Award-Best Film: nominated
  • 2002China Film Media Award-Best Director - Hong Kong/Taiwan: nominated
  • 2005Golden Horse Award-Best Adapted Screenplay: nominated
  • 2005Best Film-: nominated
  • 2006China Film Media Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2006Hong Kong Film Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2008Orient Express Section Grand Prize-Best Film: winner
  • 2010Golden Lion-: nominated
  • 2011China Film Directors' Guild Award-Best Director From Hong Kong or Taiwan: nominated
  • 2011Golden Angel Award-Outstanding Films: winner
  • 2011Hong Kong Film Award-Best Director: winner
  • 2012Asian Film Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2012NETPAC Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2012Golden Raven-: nominated
  • 2012Golden Angel Award-Outstanding Films: winner
  • 2012China Film Media Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2012Hong Kong Film Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2012HKFCS Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2012Hundred Flowers Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2014Audience Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2014Huading Award-Best Directing for a Motion Picture: nominated
  • 2015Golden Angel Award-Outstanding Film: winner
  • 2015CCF Award-Outstanding Film: winner
  • 2015Jury Award-Best Film: nominated
  • 2015Golden Horse Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2015Golden Rooster-Best Director: winner
  • 2015Golden Rooster-Best Adapted Screenplay: nominated
  • 2015Huading Award-Best Directing for a Motion Picture: nominated
  • 2016Golden Deer-Best Director: nominated
  • 2016Hong Kong Directors' Guild Award-Best Director: winner
  • 2016Hong Kong Film Award-Best Director: winner
  • 2016HKFCS Award-Best Screenplay: nominated
  • 2016HKFCS Award-Best Director: winner
  • 2016Huabiao Film Award-Outstanding Director: winner
  • 2016Hundred Flowers Award-Outstanding Film: winner
  • 2017Students' Choice Award-Favorite Director: winner
  • 2018Golden Lotus Awards-Best Director: nominated
  • 2019Hong Kong Film Award-Best Film Editing: nominated
  • 2020Audience Award-Special Screening: winner
  • 2021Golden Deer-Best Director: nominated
  • 2021China Film Critics Award-Director of the Year: nominated
  • 2021Golden Lotus Awards-Best Director: nominated
  • 2022Jury Prize-Best Film: winner
  • 2022Jury Award-Best Director: winner
  • 2022China Film Critics Award-Director of the Year: nominated
  • 2022China Film Critics Award-Film of the Year: nominated
  • 2022China Movie Channel Award-Most Popular Director: nominated
  • 2022Golden Rooster-Best Director: winner
  • 2022Students' Choice Award-Favorite Director: nominated
  • 2022Hong Kong Film Award-Best Visual Effects: nominated
  • 2022Huabiao Film Award-Outstanding Director: winner
  • 2022Jin Li hua Award-Best Director for a Motion Picture: nominated
  • 2022Huading Award-Best Directing for a Motion Picture: nominated
  • 2022Hundred Flowers Award-Best Director: nominated
  • 2022Golden Lotus Awards-Best Director: nominated
  • 2022Golden Silk Road Award-Best Film: nominated
  • 2023China Film Directors' Guild Award-Best Director From Hong Kong or Taiwan: winner
  • 2023Hong Kong Film Award-Best Visual Effects: nominated
  • 2023Huading Award-Best Directing for a Motion Picture: nominated
  • 2023Film of Merit-Top Ten Films: nominated
  • 2025Golden Crane Award-Best Film: nominated