David Richardson (editor)

David Richardson
Born
David M. Richardson

United Kingdom
OccupationFilm editor
Years active2000–present

David M. Richardson[1][2] is a Hong Kong film editor. Known for his frequent collaborations with director Johnnie To and as a co-founder of To's Milkyway Image, Richardson has received 14 Hong Kong Film Award nominations, and won Best Editing twice for the Milkyway-produced Trivisa (2016) and Mad Fate (2023) in the 36th and 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards.

Biography

Richardson was born in the United Kingdom.[3] His father was also a film editor who began his apprenticeship in London in the 1940s.[4] Richardson described film editing as his "family business" and often visited his father's studio to watch him work when he was a child.[5] Richardson later moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he worked as a film editor in North America.[3] He sent a demo reel to Hong Kong director Ringo Lam's production team for the film Replicant.[3] Richardson said that he "wasn't that great a fan of Hong Kong cinema" and chose to join the project mainly because the film was being shot in Vancouver.[3] Lam subsequently brought him on board, marking the beginning of Richardson's film-editing career in Hong Kong cinema.[3]

Richardson worked with Johnnie To on the 2001 film Fulltime Killer.[6] During production, To and his partner Wai Ka-fai were simultaneously shooting Love on a Diet, and because Richardson completed the editing without requiring To's intervention, To was "happy" with his work, beginning a long-term collaboration between the two.[3][4] Richardson later co-founded Milkyway Image with To and Wai,[7] and became the company's chief editor.[5] He collaborated with To on films including Breaking News,[8] Throw Down,[9] Yesterday Once More,[10] Exiled,[11] Linger,[12] and Sparrow[13] and also worked on the Milkyway productions Eye in the Sky and Triangle.[14][15] He won the Golden Horse Award for Best Film Editing for Breaking News and the Asian Film Award for Best Editor for Eye in the Sky.[16][3] He later worked on the Disney-produced film Trail of the Panda, about pandas in Sichuan.[17] The production was affected by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and Richardson was brought on board to provide "a different way to edit".[17] He also served as a co-producer on Paul McGuigan's American film Push, which was shot in Hong Kong.[3]

Richardson continued collaborating with To on Vengeance,[18] Don't Go Breaking My Heart,[19] Life Without Principle,[20] Romancing in Thin Air,[21] Drug War,[22] and Blind Detective,[23] as well as on the Milkyway productions Accident and Motorway.[24][25] In 2013, he worked on Juno Mak's horror film Rigor Mortis,[26] followed by editing and sound design work on To's 2015 film Office,[27] for which he received nominations for the Golden Horse Award for Best Sound Effects and the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Sound Design.[28][29] He later won both the Golden Horse Award and the Hong Kong Film Award for the Milkyway-produced film Trivisa.[30][31] He continued to work on Milkyway productions including Three,[32] Septet: The Story of Hong Kong,[33] Limbo,[34] and Mad Fate,[35] winning another Hong Kong Film Award for Best Editing for Mad Fate.[36]

Filmography

As editor

Year Title Notes
2000 Sanctimony [37]
2001 Replicant [3]
Fulltime Killer [6]
Blackwoods [38]
2002 Heart of America [39]
Try Seventeen [40]
2003 House of the Dead [41]
2004 Breaking News [8]
Throw Down [9]
Yesterday Once More [10]
2005 BloodRayne [42]
2006 Exiled [11]
2007 Eye in the Sky [14]
In the Name of the King [43]
Triangle [15]
2008 Linger [12]
Sparrow [13]
Trail of the Panda [17]
2009 Vengeance [18]
Accident [24]
2010 Frankie & Alice [44]
Battle of the Bulbs [45]
2011 Don't Go Breaking My Heart [19]
Life Without Principle [20]
2012 Romancing in Thin Air [21]
Motorway [25]
Drug War [22]
2013 Blind Detective [23]
Rigor Mortis [26]
2014 Iceman [46]
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 [47]
2015 SPL II: A Time for Consequences [48]
Wild City [49]
Office [27]
2016 Trivisa [50]
Three [32]
Operation Mekong [51]
Sky on Fire [52]
2019 Little Q [53]
Wings Over Everest [54]
2020 Septet: The Story of Hong Kong [33]
2021 Limbo [34]
Anita [55]
2022 Detective vs Sleuths [56]
2023 Mad Fate [35]
2026 Cold War 1994 [57]

As co-producer

Year Title Notes
2009 Push [3]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2002 21st Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing Fulltime Killer Nominated [58]
2004 41st Golden Horse Awards Best Film Editing Breaking News Won [16]
2005 24th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing Nominated [59]
2006 43rd Golden Horse Awards Best Film Editing Exiled Nominated [60]
2007 26th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing Nominated [61]
44th Golden Horse Awards Best Film Editing Eye in the Sky Nominated [62]
2008 2nd Asian Film Awards Best Editor Won [3]
27th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing Nominated [63]
2009 28th Hong Kong Film Awards Sparrow Nominated [64]
2010 29th Hong Kong Film Awards Accident Nominated [65]
2012 31st Hong Kong Film Awards Life Without Principle Nominated [66]
49th Golden Horse Awards Best Film Editing Nominated [67]
2013 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing Motorway Nominated [68]
50th Golden Horse Awards Best Film Editing Drug War Nominated [69]
7th Asian Film Awards Best Editor Nominated [70]
2014 8th Asian Film Awards Rigor Mortis Nominated [71]
2015 52nd Golden Horse Awards Best Sound Effects Office Nominated [28]
2016 35th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Sound Design Nominated [29]
Best Editing SPL II: A Time for Consequences Nominated
53rd Golden Horse Awards Best Film Editing Trivisa Won [30]
2017 36th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing Won [31]
Operation Mekong Nominated [72]
2022 40th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing Limbo Nominated [73]
59th Golden Horse Awards Best Film Editing Nominated [74]
2023 41st Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing Detective vs Sleuths Nominated [75]
2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Mad Fate Won [36]

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