Christopher Doyle

CrewCinematographerActorProducerDirector May 2 (age 73) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1979–2025 (46 year career)

6.2 avg rating

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 is 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 h…

Known For

Film

In the Mood for Love

Director of Photography

Film

Chungking Express

Director of Photography

Film

Hero

Director of Photography

Film

Fallen Angels

Director of Photography

Film

Happy Together

Director of Photography

Film

2046

Director of Photography

Film

Days of Being Wild

Director of Photography

Film

Paris Je T'aime

Director

Filmography

Acting (35)

Movies (33)

M on the Bund

2024

as Self

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

2019

as Self

6.7

Wind

2016

as Himself

Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World

2014

7.0

Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema

as Self

A Moment in Time

Showtime

Behind the Blur

Making Paranoid Park

Paranoid Park

as Uncle Tommy

In the Mood for Doyle

2007

as Himself

4.0

Twelve Twenty

2006

as Taxi Driver / Captain

5.5

Reflections of Lady in the Water

McDull, the Alumni

as BBQ Cook

1:99 Shorts

as (segment "Spring, 2003")

6.3

Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken

2001

as Himself

2.7

Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong

2001

as Self

Psycho Path

2000

as Self - Cinematographer

6.7

Andromedia

1998

as Sakkaa / Soccer

4.8

Yesterday You, Yesterday Me

1997

as Yeung Seng Bo at 33 (Narrator)

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

as Jeremy

Family Day

as Tourist

Carry On Yakuza

as Fake Arms Dealer

I Love Mary

Omega Syndrome

as Leonard Waxman

逆旅與幻象

as self

The Sexy Lady Driver

1982

as Steven George

The Land of the Brave

1981

as Australian Man (Cameo)

Idle Dream

1981

家庭／電影

1981

as self

Moving Pictures: Chungking Express

Christopher Doyle in Conversation: Days of Being Wild

as Himself

Christopher Doyle: Chungking Express

Television (2)

China on Film

as self

The Culture Show

as Self

Crew (118)

Movies (118)

Morte Cucina

2025

Cinematography

In the Mood for Love 2001

2025

Director of Photography

7.1

Human Flowers

2024

Director of Photography

M on the Bund

2024

Executive Producer

Just 1 Day

2022

Cinematography

3.7

Love After Love

2021

Director of Photography

5.4

Tezuka's Barbara

2020

Director of Photography

5.5

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

2019

Director of Photography

6.8

Cuba

2019

Cinematography

6.0

The Boat Burning Festival+

2019

Cinematography

To Heaven, to Gather

2018

Cinematography

Love Only

2018

Cinematography

Love Only

2018

Director

The White Girl

2017

Director

4.7

The White Girl

2017

Director of Photography

The White Girl

Writer

Human Flow

Director of Photography

6.9

You Mean The World To Me

2017

Director of Photography

Wind

2016

Director of Photography

Endless Poetry

2016

Director of Photography

7.5

I Am Belfast

2016

Director of Photography

6.7

Enishi: The Bride of Izumo

2016

Cinematography

6.5

Stockholm, My Love

2016

Director of Photography

6.7

Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous

2015

Director

6.0

Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous

2015

Director of Photography

6.0

Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous

2015

Writer

6.0

Beijing, New York

2015

Director of Photography

3.5

Port of Call

2015

Director of Photography

6.5

Fundamentally Happy

2015

Director of Photography

7.0

Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World

2014

Director

7.0

Beautiful 2014

2014

Director

Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore

2014

Director of Photography

6.1

Bends

2013

Director of Photography

5.1

American Dreams in China

2013

Director of Photography

6.8

Magic Magic

2013

Director of Photography

5.1

A Good Story

2013

Director of Photography

Blue Sky Bones

Cinematography

Passion Play

Director of Photography

4.8

Rabbit Horror

2011

Director of Photography

5.1

Underwater Love

2011

Director of Photography

5.1

Love for Life

2011

Director of Photography

6.9

Ondine

2010

Director of Photography

6.4

Showtime

2010

Director of Photography

Ocean Heaven

2010

Director of Photography

7.6

The Limits of Control

2009

Director of Photography

6.0

Downloading Nancy

2008

Director of Photography

Warsaw Dark

Director

Paranoid Park

Director of Photography

Paris Je T'aime

Director

Paris Je T'aime

Writer

Twelve Twenty

Cinematography

Lady in the Water

Director of Photography

5.5

Invisible Waves

2006

Director of Photography

5.7

Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her

2006

Director of Photography

6.5

Perhaps Love

2005

Director of Photography

6.7

The White Countess

2005

Director of Photography

6.2

2046

2004

Director of Photography

7.2

Dumplings

2004

Director of Photography

6.7

Eros

2004

Director of Photography

5.7

Three... Extremes

2004

Director of Photography

6.8

The Hand

2004

Director of Photography

7.1

Green Tea

2003

Director of Photography

7.0

Last Life in the Universe

2003

Director of Photography

7.1

Hero

2002

Director of Photography

7.5

Three

2002

Director of Photography

5.9

The Quiet American

2002

Director of Photography

6.5

Rabbit-Proof Fence

2002

Director of Photography

7.0

Three: Going Home

2002

Director of Photography

9.0

Made

2001

Director of Photography

5.8

In the Mood for Love

2000

Director of Photography

8.1

Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'

1999

Director of Photography

Away with Words

Director

Away with Words

Director of Photography

Away with Words

Writer

Liberty Heights

Director of Photography

6.6

Psycho

1998

Director of Photography

5.1

Motorola

1998

Cinematography

5.3

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

1998

Director of Photography

4.9

Typhoon Shelter

1998

Director

Happy Together

1997

Director of Photography

7.6

Chinese Box

1997

Second Unit Director of Photography

5.8

First Love: The Litter on the Breeze

1997

Director of Photography

6.2

Motel Cactus

1997

Director of Photography

5.8

Temptress Moon

1996

Director of Photography

Irma Vep

Thanks

4 Faces of Eve

Director of Photography

7.8

wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net

1996

Director of Photography

6.3

Tri-Star

1996

Director of Photography

5.2

Fallen Angels

1995

Director of Photography

7.7

Out of the Blue

1995

Cinematography

The Peony Pavilion

1995

Director of Photography

9.5

Red Lotus Society

1994

Director of Photography

7.0

Chungking Express

1994

Director of Photography

8.0

Ashes of Time

1994

Director of Photography

7.1

Red Rose White Rose

1994

Director of Photography

Beijing Bastards

Producer

Mary from Beijing

Director of Photography

5.8

Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

1992

Director of Photography

7.6

Return Engagement

1990

Director of Photography

6.6

Days of Being Wild

1990

Director of Photography

7.3

My Heart Is That Eternal Rose

1989

Director of Photography

7.1

I Am Sorry

1989

Director of Photography

5.8

Burning Snow

1988

Director of Photography

4.1

Soul

1986

Director of Photography

5.0

Noir et blanc

1986

Director of Photography

3.9

Ah Fu

1984

Director of Photography

逆旅與幻象

1984

Cinematography

That Day, on the Beach

1983

Director of Photography

7.5

家庭／電影

1981

Cinematography

家庭／電影

1981

Director

Journey through Images

1981

Cinematography

Journey through Images

1981

Director

Journey through Images

1981

Editor

Christine (Film of Her)

1980

Director

The Boat-Burning Festival

1979

Cinematography

Late in Summer

Director of Photography

The Star

Director of Photography

Hunters in the Dark

Director of Photography