Mark Lee Ping-bing


Mark Lee Ping-bing is a Taiwanese cinematographer, photographer and author with over 70 films and 21 international awards to his credit including 2 Glory Of The Country Awards from the Government Information Office of Taiwan and the president of Taiwan's Light Of The Cinema Award. Lee began his film career in 1977 and in 1985 he started his prolific collaboration with Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. Known best for his use of natural lighting utilizing real film and graceful camera movement, Lee received the Grand Technical Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000 for In the Mood for Love. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Lee was honored with nominations by the American Society of Cinematographers for its 2014 First Annual Spotlight Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the 2012 film Renoir and by the French Academy of Cinema Arts for a César Award for Best Cinematography in 2014 also for the film Renoir.
In 2009, Taiwanese director Chiang Hsiu-chiung and Kwan Pun Leung made a documentary about Lee entitled Let The Wind Carry Me.
Also in 2009, a book of Lee's photography entitled A Poet of Light and Shadow was published.
In November 2021, he succeeded director Ang Lee as head of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee. The Chair leads the Committee for a two-year term and may be re-elected once.

Filmography

• 2025: You Are the Best
  • 2021: Looking for a Lady With Fangs and a Moustache
  • 2020: Mo Er Dao Ga
  • 2019: Somewhere Winter
  • 2019: Ye yi ji ye
  • 2018: Us and Them
  • 2017: Seventy-Seven Days
  • 2017: Love Education
  • 2017: Endangered Species
  • 2016: Eternity
  • 2016: Crosscurrent
  • 2015: The Last Women Standing
  • 2015: The Assassin
  • 2015: The Queens
  • 2015: Somewhere Only We Know
  • 2015: Lost and Love
  • 2014: Appeal
  • 2013: The Rooftop
  • 2012: Renoir
  • 2012: Love
  • 2012: Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault
  • 2011: Mural
  • 2010: Once Upon a Time in Tibet
  • 2010: Norwegian Wood
  • 2010: Love in Disguise
  • 2009: Rail Truck
  • 2009: Murderer
  • 2009: Air Doll
  • 2009: Detours to Paradise
  • 2008: Claustrophobia
  • 2008: Afterwards
  • 2007: Secret
  • 2007: Flight of the Red Balloon
  • 2007: The Sun Also Rises
  • 2007: The Matrimony
  • 2006: After This Our Exile
  • 2006: Tripping
  • 2006: Reflections
  • 2005: Dragon Eye Congee: A Dream of Love
  • 2005: Spring Snow
  • 2005: Three Times
  • 2004: Letter from an Unknown Woman
  • 2003: Café Lumière
  • 2003: Inquiétudes
  • 2002: Springtime in a Small Town
  • 2002: Youling renjian II: Gui wei ren jian
  • 2002: Princess D
  • 2002: Time 4 Hope
  • 2001: Millennium Mambo
  • 2001: Forever and Ever
  • 2000: In the Mood for Love
  • 2000: Days of Tomorrow
  • 2000: The Vertical Ray of the Sun
  • 2000: Tempting Heart
  • 1998: Flowers of Shanghai
  • 1998: Chivalrous Legend
  • 1997: Task Force
  • 1997: Eighteen Springs
  • 1996: Fei tian
  • 1996: Buddha Bless America
  • 1996: Goodbye South, Goodbye
  • 1995: Modern Republic
  • 1995: Whatever Will Be, Will Be
  • 1995: Summer Snow
  • 1994: Wing Chun
  • 1994: Heaven and Earth
  • 1993: The Legend II
  • 1993: The Puppetmaster
  • 1992: China Heat
  • 1991: My American Grandson
  • 1990: Whampoa Blues
  • 1990: Tiger Cage 2
  • 1989: The Dull Ice Flower
  • 1989: City Kids 1989
  • 1988: Runaway Blues
  • 1988: Jiang hu jie ban ren
  • 1987: Strawman
  • 1987: Hei pi yu bai ya
  • 1987: Dust in the Wind
  • 1985: Papa's Spring
  • 1985: The Time to Live and the Time to Die
  • 1985: Run Away
  • 1984: Amazing Stories
  • 1982: ''Portrait of a Fanatic''

    Awards and nominations

Awards