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郭子健（Derek Kwok Chi-kin），1976年10月17日在英屬香港出生，喺新界屯門安定邨長大，先後就讀順德聯誼總會梁銶琚中學同香港理工大學（前身香港理工學院），取得設計文憑。佢早年做過電影美術，亦做過編劇同副導演，係少數由技術崗位逐步轉到導演嘅香港電影人。1998年入行後，佢曾與葉偉信多次合作，編寫《神偷次世代》（2000）、《2002》、《五個嚇鬼的少年》（2002）、《乾柴烈火》（2002）同《大城小事》（2004）等劇本，並喺《乾柴烈火》、《大城小事》及《龍虎門》（2006）出任副導演。2006年，佢獲曾志偉同泰迪羅賓提攜，開拍首部長片《野·良犬》，2007年上映，由陳奕迅、林苑主演，寫黑社會同父子關係，入圍多個國際影展，並提名第二十七屆香港電影金像獎新晉導演。2008年嘅《青苔》由余文樂主演，延續佢對深水埗一帶邊緣人物嘅關注，為佢贏得第二十八屆香港電影金像獎新晉導演同香港電影導演會年度新晉導演。2010年，佢同鄭思傑聯合編導《打擂台》，由泰迪羅賓、梁小龍、陳觀泰主演，以懷舊武館為題，奪得第三十屆香港電影金像獎最佳電影同第十七屆香港電影評論學會最佳電影，成為佢事業嘅一大突破。2013年，佢同周星馳聯合執導《西遊·降魔篇》，票房大收，該片提名第三十三屆香港電影金像獎最佳電影。其後佢執導以消防員救援為題嘅《救火英雄》（2014），並憑該片提名最佳導演；同由鄭伊健、何超儀主演、以羽毛球為題嘅《全力扣殺》（2015），再夥拍彭于晏、倪妮拍《悟空傳》（2017），改編自網絡小說，展現佢對視覺特效嘅掌握。2021年，佢執導改編自馬伯庸小說嘅《古董局中局》，由雷佳音、李現主演。郭子健鏡頭下嘅角色多係倔強嘅小人物，作品類型橫跨靈異、體育同奇幻，係香港新一代導演嘅代表人物之一。
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Derek Kwok Chi-kin was born in British Hong Kong on 17 October 1976, grew up in On Ting Estate in Tuen Mun, and studied at S.T.F.A. Leung Kau Kui College before taking a design diploma at what is now Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He entered the industry in 1998 after working in film art, and later as a screenwriter and assistant director, one of the few Hong Kong filmmakers to move from technical roles into directing. He wrote scripts for several Wilson Yip productions, including Gen-Y Cops (2000), 2002, The Irresistible Piggies (2002), Dry Wood Fierce Fire (2002) and Leaving Me, Loving You (2004), and worked as an assistant director on Dry Wood Fierce Fire, Leaving Me, Loving You and Dragon Tiger Gate (2006). In 2006 he was backed by Eric Tsang and Teddy Robin to make his feature debut, The Pye-Dog, released in 2007 with Eason Chan and Lin Yuan in the leads, a story of triads and father-son ties that played at several international festivals and brought him a Best New Director nomination at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards. The Moss (2008), led by Shawn Yue, continued his interest in the marginal lives around Sham Shui Po and won him Best New Director at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards and a newcomer award from the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild. In 2010 he co-wrote and co-directed Gallants with Clement Cheng, a nostalgic martial-arts drama starring Teddy Robin, Bruce Leung and Chan Koon-tai that took Best Film at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Film from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society, his breakthrough. He co-directed Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons with Stephen Chow in 2013, a box-office hit nominated for Best Film at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards. He then directed the firefighter drama As the Light Goes Out (2014), for which he was nominated for Best Director, the badminton comedy Full Strike (2015), and Wu Kong (2017), adapted from an online novel and showing his command of visual effects. In 2021 he directed Schemes in Antiques, adapted from Ma Boyong's novel and starring Lei Jiayin and Li Xian. Kwok's characters are often stubborn small people, and his work ranges across the supernatural, sports and fantasy.
