John Woo

John Woo, SBS (English: John Woo Yu-Sen, September 22, 1946 -) is a Hong Kong male director and screenwriter. His ancestral home is Wuzhou, Guangxi. He was born in Guangzhou and grew up in Hong Kong. He was awarded the Best Director by the annual American film and television awards (Saturn Award) organized by the American Science Fiction, Fantasy and Film Academy, and successfully created his own unique film style. He graduated from Union Primary School in Kowloon, attended Mother Delia Memorial School (Matthew Ricci) and graduated from the Lutheran Union Secondary School in Tai Hang Tung. In 1973, John Woo directed a film independently for the first time. In 1986, "A Better Tomorrow", which he wrote and directed, won the Best Picture and Best Actor awards at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards. In the 23rd Golden Horse Awards, John Woo was named Best Director. Since this film, John Woo has created his own unique film style, holding high the banner of violent aesthetics in the Eastern Hemisphere, echoing Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino in the Western Hemisphere. In the "100 Years of Chinese Film" event organized by the Hong Kong film industry in 2005, John Woo was selected by Hong Kong as the favorite director of this century. In 2010, he won the Honorary Golden Lion Award at the 67th Venice Film Festival. In 2014, he received the "Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award" of the "2013 Hong Kong Arts Development Awards" from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In 2015, he won the "Samurai Award" at the Tokyo International Film Festival.