Jack Ng Explained

Native Name:吳煒倫
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Name:Ng Wai Lun
Birth Date:1976
Yearsactive:2001–present

Jack Ng Wai Lun (; 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.

Biography

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. After completing his studies, he entered the film industry as a script supervisor, which included working on Dante Lam's 2000 crime comedy film . Ng befriended Lam and went on to collaborate as a screenwriter in his subsequent projects and Runaway in 2001.[3] 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 .[4] In 2008, Ng once again collaborated with Lam, writing the screenplay for the action thriller film Beast Stalker,[5] which garnered him a nomination for Best Screenplay in the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards.[6] 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.[7]

Ng continued to collaborate with Lam as a screenwriter in several films.[8] In 2012, he worked on Lam's action film The Viral Factor and the 2013 sports film Unbeatable.[9] His screenplay for The Viral Factor earned him a nomination for Best Screenplay at the 19th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award,[10] 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.[11] [12] In 2015, Ng wrote the screenplay for the action thriller film That Demon Within, for which Ng was nominated for Best Screenplay in the 21st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award.[13] In 2017, he collaborated with directors and on the action thriller film Cold War 2,[14] earning another nomination for Best Screenplay in the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards.[15] He then co-wrote Monster Hunt 2 with his fellow APA classmate Sunny Chan in 2018,[16] and contributed as a screenwriter for the biographical film Anita in 2021.[17]

In 2023, Ng made his directorial debut with the film A Guilty Conscience.[18] 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.[19] [20] 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.[21] [22]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleWriterDirectorNotes
2001
Runaway
2003The Twins Effect[23]
2004
2005
2008Beast Stalker
2009The Sniper[24]
2010The Stool Pigeon
Fire of Conscience
2012The Viral Factor
2013Unbeatable
2014That Demon Within
2016Cold War 2
2018Monster Hunt 2
2021Anita
2023A Guilty Conscience

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult Ref.
200928th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ScreenplayBeast Stalker
201130th Hong Kong Film AwardsThe Stool Pigeon
201319th Hong Kong Film Critics Society AwardBest ScreenplayThe Viral Factor
201420th Hong Kong Film Critics Society AwardUnbeatable
33rd Hong Kong Film AwardsBest Screenplay
201521st Hong Kong Film Critics Society AwardBest ScreenplayThat Demon Within
201736th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ScreenplayCold War 2
202336th Golden Rooster AwardsBest Directorial DebutA Guilty Conscience
Best Writing
202442nd Hong Kong Film AwardsBest Director
Best Screenplay
Best New Director

Notes and References

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