Chow Sing Chi

See also

• Cinema of Hong Kong
• Cinema of China

Awards

Awards won
Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival 2005: Silver Scream Award forKung Fu Hustle
Asia Pacific Film Festival 1999: Best Actor forJustice, My Foot
Blue Ribbon Awards 2003: Best Foreign Language Film forShaolin Soccer
Golden Bauhinia Awards 2002: Best Director forShaolin Soccer
Golden Horse Awards 2005: Best Picture, Best Director forKung Fu Hustle
Hong Kong Film Awards 2002: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director forShaolin Soccer,2003: Best Picture forKung Fu Hustle
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards 1995: Best Actor forA Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box
Golden Globes Award 2006: nomination: Best Foreign Language Film forKung Fu Hustle

Influence

Chow often casts relatively new young actresses to play opposite him, especially as romantic leads, and many of these actresses have gone on to have successful film or music careers of their own. These actresses are collectively called the " Sing girls ", and include Karen Mok , Vicki Zhao , Sharla Cheung , Athena Chu , Michelle Reis , Christy Chung , Gigi Leung , Cecilia Cheung , Huang Shengyi , and Zhang Yuqi .

Professional career

Stephen Chow began as a temporary actor for TVB .He entered TVB in early 1980s, and was trained there, although he had few opportunities to appear in films.Chow graduated from TVB's acting classes in 1982.Chow began to find some success with the children programme430 Space Shuttle,which he co-hosted with Tony Leung Chiu-Wai .

In 1987, Chow entered into the movie industry through the filmFinal Justice, which won him the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.

While Chow became quite well known on TVB for his comedies (especially 1989'sThe Final Combat), he shot to stardom in 1990'sAll for the Winner. This film made him and his older sidekick Ng Man-Tat two of the most sought-after stars in the Hong Kong film industry.Chow would collaborate with Ng on many of his more successful comedies, includingShaolin Soccer. Chow became Hong Kong's undisputed No. 1 comedian, taking over the mantle of Michael Hui . Unlike Hui, Chow's comedies are of the mo lei tau genre. With his expert comic timing and "rubber-faced mannerisms" ,Chow ranked alongside Andy Lau , Chow Yun-fat and Jackie Chan as the major box office draws of the 1990s.

In 1994 Chow began directing films, starting withFrom Beijing with Love, which he co-directed with Lee Lik-Chi . In the later half of the 1990s, mainland China began to warm to Stephen Chow movies. His film duologyA Chinese Odyssey(1994) became (and remains) a cult classic in mainland China, baffling many Hong Kong observers, as the duology did only moderately well in Hong Kong. Nonetheless, on the mainland Chow rapidly became one of Hong Kong's most iconic film stars.

In 2001 his filmShaolin Soccergrossed over 60 million HK dollars.The film won Best picture, and Chow won Best Actor and Best Director at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards , receiving a total of seven wins from 2001–2003, including the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Picture and Best Director.It was his first international hit and established his reputation in the West. In 2004 he directed the filmKung Fu Hustlewinning 18 awards including BAFTA Best Film not in the English Language, five Golden Horse Awards and six Hong Kong Film Awards.

Chow's filmCJ7began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo .In August 2007 the film was given the titleCJ7(長江七號Chang Jiang qi hao), a play on China's successful Shenzhou manned space missions— Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6 .This film introduced newcomer Kitty Zhang as his romantic lead. In 2011, news was released that Chow had started work on a new Chinese Odyssey project. He is to star as well as co-direct, produce and screenwrite. He is to co-direct with Derek Kwok . Other names have included for the project are Anthony Wong , Show Luo and Shu Qi The film is to be more CGI based than the original version. .

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Better Tomorrow, AA Better Tomorrow	Taiwanese Triad
1988	Final Justice	Ah Wai
1988	Faithfully Yours	Puddin Lai
1988	My Father's Son		Television Series
1988	He Who Chases After the Wind
1988	Last Conflict, TheThe Last Conflict	Lau Ting Kin
1989	The Justice of Life	Ho Kam Shui	Television series
1989	Dragon Fight	Yau
1989	Tragic Heroes
1989	Thunder Cops II
1989	Final Combat		Television series
1990	Love Is Love
1990	My Hero
1990	Lung Fung Restaurant	Rubbish Pool	supporting roles
1990	Unmatchable Match, TheThe Unmatchable Match
1990	Curry and Pepper
1990	Sleazy Dizzy
1990	Look Out, Officer!
1990	All for the Winner	Sing
1990	When Fortune Smiles
1990	Triad Story
1990	Legend of the Dragon	Lung
1991	God of Gamblers II	Sing
1991	Top Bet, TheThe Top Bet		cameo
1991	Fist of Fury 1991	Lau Jing
1991	Fight Back to School	Star Chow
1991	God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai	Sing
1991	Magnificent Scoundrels, TheThe Magnificent Scoundrels
1991	Banquet, TheThe Banquet
1991	Crazy Safari	Narrator
1991	Tricky Brains	Koo Jing/Che Man Jing
1992	Fist of Fury 1991 II	Lau Jing
1992	Thief of Time, TheThe Thief of Time
1992	All's Well, Ends Well	Foon
1992	Fight Back to School II	Star Chow
1992	Justice, My Foot!	Sung Sai Kit
1992	Royal Tramp	Wei Siu Bo
1992	Royal Tramp II	Wei Siu Bo
1992	King of Beggars	So Chan
1993	Fight Back to School III	Star Chow
1993	My Hero 2		cameo
1993	Flirting Scholar	Tong Pak Fu
1993	Mad Monk, TheThe Mad Monk
1994	Love on Delivery	Ho Kam An
1994	Hail the Judge	Bao Sing
1994	From Beijing with Love	Ling Ling Tsat	also writer and director
1994	Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box, AA Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box	Joker/Sun Wukong
1994	Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella, AA Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella	Joker/Sun Wukong
1995	Out of the Dark
1995	Sixty Million Dollar Man	Lee Chak Sing
1996	Forbidden City Cop	Ling Ling Fat	also writer and director
1996	God of Cookery, TheThe God of Cookery	Stephen Chow	also writer and director
1997	All's Well, Ends Well 1997	Lo Kung
1997	Lawyer Lawyer
1998	Lucky Guy, TheThe Lucky Guy
1999	King of Comedy	Wan Tin-Sau	also writer and director
1999	Gorgeous	Cop	cameo
1999	Tricky Master, TheThe Tricky Master
2001	Shaolin Soccer	Sing	also writer and director
2004	Kung Fu Hustle	Sing	also writer and director
2008	CJ7	Chow Ti	also writer and director
2008	Shaolin Girl		Producer
2009	Dragonball Evolution		Producer
2009	Jump		Producer; story
2010	CJ7: The Cartoon		Produce; presenter; screenwriter
2012	New Chinese Odyssey	(Role currently unknown)
2012	Casper trip to hong kong	Chow Len

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