Hou Hsiao-hsien, born on 8 April 1947, is a retired 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 A City of Sadness, which is listed here as a work, and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin. He was voted Director of the Decade for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics.
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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).
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