Biography
Zhao Fei (also credited as 赵非) is a Chinese cinematographer. Born in 1961 in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, he graduated from the cinematography department of the Beijing Film Academy in 1982.
He worked as director of photography on films including The Horse Thief (1986), Raise the Red Lantern (1991), The Emperor and the Assassin (1998), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Small Time Crooks (2000), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003), Cell Phone (2003), The Sun Also Rises (2007) and Let the Bullets Fly (2010). He served as Woody Allen's director of photography on three films between 1999 and 2001.
Zhao received awards for best cinematography for Raise the Red Lantern from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (1992) and the National Society of Film Critics (1993), and a Golden Rooster Award for The Emperor and the Assassin (1999).
