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Born in Sydney, Doyle fled the banality of the suburbs to spend much of his early life on the road. At various points in his life he was a well digger in India, a Norwegian merchant marine, a cow herder on an Israeli kibbutz, and a doctor of Chinese medicine in Thailand.
Moving to Taiwan in the late 1970s, Doyle met such future members of the cultural elite as Hou Hsiao Hsien and Stan Lai. He was one of the founding members of the Lanling Theatre Workshop, the first modern theatre company in Taiwan; he also created the landmark television series, ‘Travelling Images’.
Doyle's first breakthrough took place in 1981, when Edward Yang asked him to shoot his feature debut ‘That Day on the Beach’. For this film, Chris Doyle picked up the Best Cinematography award at the Asia Pacific Film Festival. He returned to the road to shoot Claire Devers' ‘Noir et Blanc’ (1986) in France, only to discover that his heart still belonged to Asia. Soon after, he headed to Hong Kong to shoot Shu Kei's second feature, ‘Soul’ (1987), a pastiche of John Cassavete's ‘Gloria’ (1980) starring noted Taiwanese directors Hou Hsiao Hsien and Ke Yizhong.
Doyle's artistic and commercial breakthrough occurred with his first collaboration with Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai in ‘Days of Being Wild’ (1991). Doyle's loose, ambient style seemed to match perfectly with Wong's poetic and largely improvised script; the two quickly formed a lasting professional relationship that would prove to be mutually beneficial. Chris Doyle has collaborated with such important Hong Kong directors as Sylvia Chang in ‘Mary From Beijing’ (1992) and Stanley Kwan in ‘Red Rose White Rose’ (1994). He is a four-time Best Cinematography award winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards for ‘Soul’ (1987), ‘Days of Being Wild’ (1991), ‘Ashes of Time’ (1994) and ‘Fallen Angels’ (1995). He gained international attention with his groundbreaking cinematography in Wong Kar Wai's ‘Ashes of Time’ (1994) for which he won the Special Jury Prize for Technical Achievement at the Venice Film Festival as well as Best Cinematography at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. After shooting the cult hit ‘Chungking Express’ (1994) and it’s quasi-sequel ‘Fallen Angels’ (1995), Doyle adopted a more restrained look for fifth-generation filmmaker Chen Kaige in ‘Temptress Moon’ (1996). Teaming up with Wong Kar-Wai again for ‘Happy Together’ (1997), Doyle was again awarded Taiwan’s Golden Horse Award for best Cinematography, as well as Best Cinematography in a Foreign Film by the Italian Association of photographers, the Hong Kong Artist of the Year Award and the Hong Kong Critics Award. In 2000, Doyle was awarded the prestigious Technical Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his work on Wong Kar Wai’s ‘In the Mood for Love’ (2000).
Outside Asia, Chris Doyle was Director of Photography on Gus Van Sant's remake of Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ (1998), and has also shot Oscar&Mac226;-winning director Barry Levinson's ‘Liberty Heights’ (1999). In the same year, he made his directing debut with ‘Away With Words’ (1999), co-scripted by film critic Tony Rayns and starring Japanese indie star Tadanobu Asano. Chris Doyle’s future projects include Phillip Noyce’s ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ and ‘The Quiet American’, Peter Chan’s ‘Three’ and Wong Kar Wai’s ‘2046’. |
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