The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Macao
This page contains a list of the greatest Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, NaN of which were born in Macao. This makes Macao the birth place of the 0th most number of Film Directors.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Soi Cheang (b. 1972)
With an HPI of 47.67, Soi Cheang is the most famous Film Director. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Soi Cheang (born 11 July 1972), also known as Bob Cheng or by his birth name Cheang Pou-soi, is a Macau-born Hong Kong filmmaker. Known for his contribution to action crime films, his works Motorway (2012), Limbo (2021), Mad Fate (2023), and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) earned him four Best Director nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards, which he won for the latter two. Cheang's films have regularly appeared at international film festivals; Accident (2009) was selected to be in Competition section of Venice Film Festival, Limbo (2021) and Mad Fate (2023) were selected to be in the Berlinale Special section of Berlin International Film Festival, and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) was selected to be in the Official Selection (Midnight Screening) of the Cannes Film Festival. In addition to directing action crime films, Cheang was also directed The Monkey King trilogy, in which he produced the latter. His other works, included Paradox (2017) and I'm Livin' It (2019), earned him two Best Film nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards, as well as The Sunny Side of the Street (2022), earned him the Golden Horse Award for Best Narrative Feature nomination, respectively.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as film directors born between 1972 and 1972. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living film directors include Soi Cheang. As of April 2024, 1 new film directors have been added to Pantheon including Soi Cheang.
