Derek Tsang
Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung (曾國祥; born 8 November 1979) is a Hong Kong film director and actor. The son of actor Eric Tsang, Tsang got his start in the Hong Kong film industry working for director Peter Chan Ho-Sun after graduating from University of Toronto Scarborough in 2001. He made his acting debut in Men Suddenly in Black (2003) and directorial debut with Lover's Discourse (2010), sharing the directing credit with Jimmy Wan Chi-man. The duo was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best New Director at the 47th Golden Horse Awards.
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Tsang at the 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival | |||||||||||
| Born | 8 November 1979 | ||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director | ||||||||||
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Venus Wong (m. 2019) | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 曾國祥 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 曾国祥 | ||||||||||
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His solo directorial debut Soul Mate (2016) was critically praised, receiving 12 nominations at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards and 7 nominations at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards. His next film, Better Days (2019), was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, becoming Hong Kong’s first Oscar submission directed by a Hong Kong native to be nominated.