Awards & Winners

Wu Hsing-kuo

Date of Birth 12-April-1953
Place of Birth Taiwan
(Asia, Taiwan, Eurasia)
Nationality Taiwan
Also know as Hing Kwok
Profession Actor, Screenwriter, Film director
Wu Hsing-kuo is a Taiwanese actor of the silver screen and theater, known for both his performance of complex movie roles as much as for his innovative adaptations of Western classics into traditional Peking Opera. Wu was trained in classical Peking Opera since the age of 11 in Taiwan's state-run Fu-Hsing Chinese Opera School, specializing in wu sheng roles. He was admitted with honors into the Theatre Department of Chinese Culture University in Taipei, trained under master Chou Cheng-jung and became leading dancer of Lin Hwai-min's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. In 1986, he and a group of enthusiastic friends founded the Contemporary Legend Theatre in Taipei, seeking to revitalize traditional Chinese theatre by adapting Western classical plays to the style and techniques of Peking Opera. He was the leading actor and director of four Shakespeare adaptations, including the critically acclaimed Kingdom of Desire, an adaptation of Macbeth, and King Lear, in which Wu plays all the parts. In 1992, Wu was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in New York with Richard Schechner. That year, he also won the Hong Kong Film Award for best new actor.

Awards by Wu Hsing-kuo

Check all the awards nominated and won by Wu Hsing-kuo.

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording Tan Dun: The First Emperor

1994


Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer
Honored for : Temptation of a Monk

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor Temptation of a Monk
Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer Temptation of a Monk