Music、Position(配樂Music)
Born in 1968, Chris Hou specializes in composing film score and commercial music as well as music production. He used to be the keyboard player of the male band Oriental Express and had released a solo album. Later, his passion in creation drove him to work behind the scenes. Since 1995, he has been engaged in film and commercial music composition. His representative film soundtracks include "Blue Gate Crossing," "You're the Apple Of My Eye," and "Our Times." He also served as the judge of the Golden Horse Awards, the Golden Bell Awards and the Golden Melody Awards, playing an important role in the domestic music industry.
Chris Hou co-created the theme song for Taipei Exchanges (2010), which won Best Original Film Song of Golden Horse Awards. Eight years later, he won Best Music of Taipei Film Awards and Best Original Film Score of the 55th Golden Horse Awards for his composition for Father to Son. He further won Best Original Film Song of Golden Horse Awards for his composition for Your Name Engraved Herein and Best Instrumental Album of Golden Melody Awards for his composition for Increasing Echo.
Awards
2023 The 60th Golden Horse Awards Best Original Film Score "Old Fox"
2018 The 20th Taipei Film Awards Best Music "Father to Son"
2010 The 12th Taipei Film Awards Best Music "Taipei Exchanges"
Nominations
2024 The 26th Taipei Film Awards Best Music "Old Fox"
2021 The 58th Golden Horse Awards Best Original Film Score "Till We Meet Again"
2020 The 57th Golden Horse Awards Best Original Film Score "Your Name Engraved Herein"
2018 The 55th Golden Horse Awards Best Original Film Score "Father to Son"
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| 2024 | Breaking and Re-entering |
| 2023 | Miss Shampoo |
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Nominations
2024 Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best New Talent, Best Editing, Best Makeup & Costume Design and Best Sound Design of the 26th Taipei Film Awards
2023 Best New Performer, Best Art Direction, Best Makeup & Costume Design, and Best Action Choreography at the 60th Golden Horse Awards
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| 2023 | KIDS |
| 2023 | Old Fox |
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Awards
2024 Best Feature, Best Director, Best Makeup & Costume Design, and Best Cinematography of the 26th Taipei Film Awards
2023 Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Makeup & Costume Design and Best Original Film Score of the 60th Golden Horse Awards
Nominations
2024 Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music, Best Art Design and Best Makeup & Costume Design of the 26th Taipei Film Awards
2023 Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Makeup & Costume Design, Best Original Film Score and Best Original Film Song of the 60th Golden Horse Awards
Selections
2023 Tokyo Film World Focus section-Taiwan Cinema Renaissance 2023
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| 2022 | My Best Friend’s Breakfast |
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Award
2022 Best Original Film Song at the 59th Golden Horse Awards
Nominations
2022 Best New Performer and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 59th Golden Horse Awards
2022 Best New Talent at the 24th Taipei Film Awards
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| 2022 | Fantasy·World |
| 2022 | YOU ARE ON MY MIND |
| 2022 | Nature of Mother |
| 2021 | A Trip With Your Wife |
| 2021 | Increasing Echo |
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Awards
2022 Best Leading Actress of the 24th Taipei Film Awards
Nominations
2022 Best Director and Best Leading Actor of the 24th Taipei Film Awards
2021 Best Leading Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay of the 58th Golden Horse Awards
Selection
2021 A Window on Asian Cinema of the 26th Busan International Film Festival
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| 2021 | Till We Meet Again |
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Selections
Taipei Film Festival Opening film 2021
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) Opening film 2021
Fantastic Fest 2021
Awards
2022 Best Director、Best Leading Actor、Best Visual Effects and Best Trailer of the 24th Taipei Film Awards
2021 Best Visual Effects、Best Makeup & Costume Design and Best Sound Effects of the 58th Golden Horse Awards
Nominations
2022 Best Narrative Feature、Best Screenplay、Best Supporting Actor、Best Soundtrack、Best Art Design、Best Makeup & Costume Design、Best Sound Design、 and Outstanding Technology-Special Effects Makeup of the 24th Taipei Film Awards
2021 Best Narrative Feature、Best Supporting Actor、Best Adapted Screenplay、Best Cinematography、Best Art Direction、Best Action Choreography、Best Original Film Score and Best Original Film Song of the 58th Golden Horse Awards
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| 2020 | Your Name Engraved Herein |
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2020 Osaka Asian Film Festival winner - Best Supporting Actor
2020 Golden Horse Awards winner - Best Cinematography, Best Original Film Song
2020 Golden Horse Awards nominations - Best Supporting Actor, Best New Performer, Best Original Film Score
2020 Taipei Film Awards nominations - Best Supporting Actor, Best New Performer
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| 2019 | Love The Way You Are |
| 2019 | Han Dan |
| 2018 | Father to Son |
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2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Official Selection
2018 The 18th Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival - Competition
2018 The 25th Titanic Budapest International Film Festival - Asian Winds
2018 Taipei Film Festival - Opening Film
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| 2018 | Back to the good times |
| 2018 | Mirror Image (Digital Restoration) |
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2000 Taipei Film Festival Best Feature
2001 The South Taiwan Film & Video Festival
2001 The 25th Hong Kong International Film Festival
2001 The 20th Vancouver International Film Festival, Dragons and Tigers Section, Best New Director Award
2001 The 54th Cannes International Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight Section
2001 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Best Director Award, Best Artistic Achievement Award
2002 The 25th Goteborg Film Festival
2002 The 4th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
2002 The 3rd Jeonju International Film Festival
2002 Aurora Asia Film Festival
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| 2017 | Leehom Wang's Open Fire 3D Concert Film |
| 2017 | Mon Mon Mon Monsters |
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Awards
2018 Silver Raven of the 36th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
2017 Best Sound Effects of the 54th Golden Horse Awards
2017 Audience Award of Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
Nominations
2017 Best Visual Effects of the 54th Golden Horse Awards
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| 2017 | Didi's Dreams |
| 2016 | Rookie Chef |
| 2016 | The Tenants Downstairs |
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2016 Audience Choice Award of the 9th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
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| 2015 | Our Times |
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2015 Busan International Film Festival-Open Cinema
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| 2014 | Meeting Dr. Sun |
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2015
14th New York Asian Film Festival – Official Selection 41st Seattle International Film Festival – Official Selection 17th Udine Far East Film – Official Selection 10th Osaka Asian Film Festival – Grand Prix(Best Picture Award) – Audience Award 5th London Chinese Visual Festival – Closing Film 23rd Art Film Fest International Film Festival – Official Selection 9th Fünf Seen Film Festival – Official Selection 25th Focus on Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka – Taiwan Film Festival section 11th Atlanta Asian Film Festival – Official Selection Bogota International Film Festival – Official Selection 25th Tama Cinema Forum – Official Selection 13th World Film Festival of Bangkok – Official Selection 2014 Golden Horse Awards- Best Original Screenplay Award Taipei Film Awards- Best Script Award Taipei Film Festival – Official Selection Hawaii International Film Festival – Official Selection Hong Kong Asian Film Festival- Official Selection San Diego Asian Film Festival- Official Selection Singapore International Film Festival- Official Selection |
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| 2014 | Cafe.Waiting.Love |
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2015 Udine Far East Film Festival
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| 2013 | Machi Action |
| 2012 | Bear It |
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Osaka Asian Film Festival in competition
Italy Asian Film Festival - Best Original Film Taipei Film Festival in competition |
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| 2011 | You're the Apple of My Eye |
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2012 Best Chinese Language Film from the Two Coasts of Hong Kong Film Awards
2012 Best New Director (Giddens Ko), Best New Performer (Kai Ko), Audience Award for Favorite Film, and Audience Award for Favorite Performance (Michelle Chen) of the 12th Chinese Film Media Awards
2012 Rising Star Award (Michelle Chen) of New York Asian Film Festival
2011 Best New Performer of the 48th Golden Horse Awards
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| 2011 | Ten Plus Ten |
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2011 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Opening Film
2012 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin Panorama
Platinum Remi Award for Art Direction in the category of Film & Video Production at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival in 2013 (winner)
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| 2010 | Taipei Exchanges |
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2010 Taipei Film Festival-Best Music, Audience´s Choice Award
2010 47th Golden Horse Awards-Best Original Film Song |
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| 2010 | Juliets |
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2010 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival–Opening Film
2010 Pusan International Film Festival 2010 Tokyo International Film Festival 2010 Dubai International Film Festival |
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| 2002 | Blue Gate Crossing |
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Nominations
Competition of International Film Festival of India
Competition of Seattle International Film Festival
International Competition of the Tokyo International Film Festival
Awards
Special Jury Prize (for director Yee Chih-Yen) of Bratislava International Film Festival
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| 2000 | Mirror Image |
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2000 Taipei Film Festival Best Feature
2001 The South Taiwan Film & Video Festival 2001 The 25th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2001 The 20th Vancouver International Film Festival, Dragons and Tigers Section, Best New Director Award 2001 The 54th Cannes International Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight Section 2001 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Best Director Award, Best Artistic Achievement Award 2002 The 25th Goteborg Film Festival 2002 The 4th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2002 The 3rd Jeonju International Film Festival 2002 Aurora Asia Film Festival |
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| 2000 | Pure Accidents |
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2000 37th Golden Horse Awards Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress Nominated
2000 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2000 Taipei Film Festival 2000 The 45th Asia Pacific Film Festival 2001 The 2nd Jeonju International Film Festival |
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| 1999 | Cop Abula |
Film score
2005 "About Love"
