Derek Yee

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Derek Yee
爾冬陞
Announcing nominating lists of The 40th Hong Kong Film Awards
Born	Yee Tung-sing (1957-12-28) 28 December 1957 (age 66) Kowloon, British Hong Kong
Occupations	Film director screenwriter film producer actor
Years active	1977–present
Spouses	Juihsia Wang ​ ​ (m. 1995; div. 1996)​ Mandy Law ​ ​ (m. 2008; div. 2017)​
Children	1[1]
Relatives	Paul Chun (half-brother) David Chiang (half-brother)
Awards	Hong Kong Film Awards – Best Director 1994 C'est la vie, mon chéri 2005 One Nite in Mongkok Best Screenplay 1994 C'est la vie, mon chéri 2005 One Nite in Mongkok Golden Bauhinia Awards – Best Director 2005 One Nite in Mongkok Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards – Best Director 1995 Full Throttle 2004 One Nite in Mongkok Film of Merit 1995 Full Throttle 2003 Lost in Time 2004 One Nite in Mongkok 2007 Protégé 2009 Shinjuku Incident
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	爾冬陞
Simplified Chinese	尔冬升
Cantonese Yale	ji dūng sīng
Jyutping	ji3 dung1 sing1
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Ěr Dōngshēng Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization ji dūng sīng Jyutping ji3 dung1 sing1
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Derek Yee Tung-sing (traditional Chinese: 爾冬陞; simplified Chinese: 尔冬升; pinyin: Ěr Dōngshēng) is a Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor.

Yee was born Yee Tung-sing in Hong Kong on 28 December 1957,^[2] the son of Yee Kwong (爾光), a film producer from Tientsin (Tianjin), and Hung Wei (紅薇), an actress of half Manchu, half Mongol ethnicity.^[2][3] His elder half-brothers Paul Chun and David Chiang as well as his elder half-sister Yim Wai were also actors.^[2]

In 1977, Yee became an actor for Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong and starred in over 40 movies produced by the studio.

Yee became a screenwriter and film director. He is known for the 2004 film One Nite in Mongkok,^[4] which won multiple awards. His other notable films include C'est la vie, mon chéri, Viva Erotica, The Truth About Jane and Sam and Protégé.

In 2017, Yee became the chairman of Hong Kong Film Awards Association.^[5]

• Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director

• Derek Yee at the Hong Kong Movie Database
• Derek Yee at IMDb
• Hong Kong Film Awards Association
• Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild