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Peter Pau Tak-hei (, born 1952) is a Hong Kong cinematographer and film director.

Life and career

 * Pau was born in Hong Kong in 1952
 * Described by CNN as "a master at the art of visual story telling"
 * He was born into an acting family: his father Bao Fong, his mother Liu Su and elder sister Nina Paw are actors
 * Was sent by his father to study in Guangzhou during the mid-1960s
 * After returning to Hong Kong in 1975, he worked as a banker for the Bank of China for two years; however, he grew increasingly bored with his job, and watched 200 movies to pass the time
 * At age 27, he enrolled in a four-year film program at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1983
 * He worked with director Ronny Yu on The Bride with White Hair (1993); later, Yu asked Pau to work with him on the American slasher film Bride of Chucky (1998)
 * Pau was not Lee's first choice for cinematographer, but got the job by stating that he wanted to use classical Chinese watercolour paintings as a reference for shot composition
 * Pau stated that Lee wanted the camerawork on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to show the choreography at eye level, which differed from other Hong Kong action movies
 * For his work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Pau won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001
 * Pau next worked on The Touch (2002) as both the director and cinematographer
 * The Touch was submitted to the Academy Awards as Hong Kong's entry for the best foreign-language Oscar
 * Pau initially was brought on to be the producer, cinematographer, and head of visual effects for Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal (2015)
 * However, he was so heavily involved with helping Zhao Tianyu direct that executive producer Ann An Xiao-fen  gave him a co-director's credit