Jack Ng

Jack Ng
吳煒倫
Ng in February 2023
Born
Ng Wai Lun

1976
Education
Occupations
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
Years active2001–present

Jack Ng Wai Lun (Chinese: 吳煒倫; born 1976) is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter. Starting his career as a screenwriter, Ng is best known for collaborating with Dante Lam in action thriller films. He received four nominations for Best Screenplay in the 28th, 30th, 33rd, and 36th Hong Kong Film Awards for his contributions to Beast Stalker (2008), The Stool Pigeon (2010), Unbeatable (2013), and Cold War 2 (2016) respectively.

Ng made his directorial debut with the crime comedy film A Guilty Conscience (2023). The film earned him nominations for Best Director in the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Directorial Debut in the 36th Golden Rooster Awards, and made him the first director to produce a Hong Kong domestic film with over HK$100 million of box office.

Early life and education

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Ng was born in 1976.[1] He attended St Joseph's College,[2] and graduated from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television, majoring in directing.[3]

Career

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After completing his studies, he entered the film industry as a script supervisor, which included working on Dante Lam's 2000 crime comedy film Jiang hu: The Triad Zone.[1] Ng befriended Lam and went on to collaborate as a screenwriter in his subsequent projects Hit Team [zh] and Runaway in 2001.[1][4] Ng continued to write for Lam in the 2003 comedy horror film The Twins Effect and served as the writer for the 2005 action thriller film SPL: Sha Po Lang.[5][6] In 2008, Ng once again collaborated with Lam, writing the screenplay for the action thriller film Beast Stalker,[7] which garnered him a nomination for Best Screenplay in the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards.[8] He earned another nomination for Best Screenplay in the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards for the 2010 action thriller film The Stool Pigeon, also directed by Lam.[9]

Ng continued to collaborate with Lam as a screenwriter in several films.[10] In 2012, he worked on Lam's action film The Viral Factor and the 2013 sports film Unbeatable.[5][3] His screenplay for The Viral Factor earned him a nomination for Best Screenplay at the 19th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award,[11] while he received nominations for Best Screenplay in both the 20th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award and the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards for his work on Unbeatable.[12][13] In 2015, Ng wrote the screenplay for the action thriller film That Demon Within,[5] for which Ng was nominated for Best Screenplay in the 21st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award.[14] In 2017, he collaborated with directors Longman Leung [zh] and Sunny Luk [zh] on the action thriller film Cold War 2,[15] earning another nomination for Best Screenplay in the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards.[16] He then co-wrote Monster Hunt 2 with his fellow APA classmate Sunny Chan in 2018,[17] and contributed as a screenwriter for the biographical film Anita in 2021.[18]

In 2023, Ng made his directorial debut with the film A Guilty Conscience.[19] The film received critical acclaim and became the highest-grossing domestic film in Hong Kong, making Ng the first director to achieve a box office record of over HK$100 million for a local film.[20][21] His directorial debut also earned him a nomination for Best Director in the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Directorial Debut in the 36th Golden Rooster Awards.[22][23]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Writer Director Notes
2001 Hit Team [zh] Yes No [1]
Runaway Yes No [4]
2003 The Twins Effect Yes No [5]
2004 Love Battlefield [zh] Yes No [5]
2005 SPL: Sha Po Lang Yes No [6]
2008 Beast Stalker Yes No [7]
2009 The Sniper Yes No [24]
2010 The Stool Pigeon Yes No [9]
Fire of Conscience Yes No [5]
2012 The Viral Factor Yes No [5]
2013 Unbeatable Yes No [3]
2014 That Demon Within Yes No [5]
2016 Cold War 2 Yes No [15]
2018 Monster Hunt 2 Yes No [17]
2021 Anita Yes No [18]
2023 A Guilty Conscience Yes Yes [19]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2009 28th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Screenplay Beast Stalker Nominated [8]
2011 30th Hong Kong Film Awards The Stool Pigeon Nominated [9]
2013 19th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award Best Screenplay The Viral Factor Nominated [11]
2014 20th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award Unbeatable Nominated [13]
33rd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Screenplay Nominated [12]
2015 21st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award Best Screenplay That Demon Within Nominated [14]
2017 36th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Screenplay Cold War 2 Nominated [16]
2023 36th Golden Rooster Awards Best Directorial Debut A Guilty Conscience Nominated [23]
Best Writing Nominated
2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Director Nominated [22]
Best Screenplay Nominated
Best New Director Nominated

References

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  12. ^ a b "第33屆香港電影金像獎提名名單". Liberty Times (in Chinese). 5 February 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
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  20. ^ Wong, Sylvia (23 February 2023). "'A Guilty Conscience' first Hong Kong film to top HK$100m at local box office". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  21. ^ 丁健峰 (7 April 2023). "《毒舌》主角本來係劉青雲、鄭少秋！？ 導演吳煒倫場外「Encore」到天黑│電影大道". Ming Pao (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  22. ^ a b Wong, Sylvia (6 February 2024). "Hong Kong Film Awards nominations led by newsroom drama 'In Broad Daylight'". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 13 February 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
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