Hou Hsiao-hsien | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Hou in February 2016 at a screening of The Assassin at the Cinémathèque Française. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 April 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter Producer Actor | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Tsao Pao-feng | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Awards | Golden Lion : 1989 A City of Sadness Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival) : 1993 The Puppetmaster Leopard of Honour : 2007 Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival) : 2015 The Assassin Golden Horse Awards – Best Feature Film 2015 The Assassin Best Adapted Screenplay 1983 Growing Up 1984 Ah Fei Best Original Screenplay 1985 The Time to Live and the Time to Die Best Director 1989 A City of Sadness 1995 Good Men, Good Women 2015 The Assassin Best Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year 2005 Three Times 2015 The Assassin Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 侯孝賢 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 侯孝贤 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hou Hsiao-hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.[1] He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015).[2] Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993)[3] and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).[4][5]
Hou was voted "Director of the Decade" for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics by The Village Voice and Film Comment.[6] In a 1998 New York Film Festival worldwide critics' poll, Hou was named "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema."[7] A City of Sadness ranked 117th in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made.[8] In 2017, Metacritic ranked Hsiao-hsien 16th on its list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century.[9]
- ^ Macnab, Geoffrey (16 June 2005). "The go-between". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ Cannes Film Festival, Awards - Best Director - 2015, http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/theDailyArticle/62023.html Archived 2016-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Votes for HSIMENG JENSHENG (1993)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 7, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ^ "Votes for HAISHANG HUA (1998)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 7, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ^ "Hou Hsiao-hsien's Acclaimed Films". They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?. Archived from the original on August 6, 2016. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ^ Film Comment's Best of the Nineties Poll: Part Two, Film Comment, http://www.filmcomment.com/article/film-comments-best-of-the-90s-poll-part-two/ Archived 2016-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Rotten Tomatoes, Hou Hsiao-hsien, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/hou_hsaiohsien/ Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kevin B. Lee, Degenerate Films, Two “Greatest Films” Polls Yield Different Results for Best Chinese Films, http://dgeneratefilms.com/critical-essays/two-greatest-films-polls-yield-different-results-for-best-chinese-films Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "25 Best Film Directors of the 21st Century (So Far)". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017.