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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