Hou Hsiao-hsien

| birth_place = Meixian County, Guangdong, Republic of China | occupation = 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''
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Hou Hsiao-hsien (; 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. 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). Other highly regarded works of his include ''The Puppetmaster'' (1993) and ''Flowers of Shanghai'' (1998).

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''. 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." ''A City of Sadness'' ranked 117th in the British Film Institute's 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. In 2017, Metacritic ranked Hsiao-hsien 16th on its list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century. Provided by Wikipedia