Wang Toon

Wang Toon (born Wáng Zhōnghé, April 14, 1942), sometimes credited as Wang Tong, is a Taiwanese filmmaker. He started his career as an art director and production designer and later became a film director and educator. Wang began his career in 1966 working at the Central Motion Picture Corporation in the art and costume design department. He won a Golden Horse Award for Best Art Direction for Forever My Love (Chinese: 楓葉情, 1976), directed by Pai Ching-jui. In 1981, Wang directed his first feature film, If I Were for Real. It won four Golden Horse Awards, including Best Narrative Feature, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 18th Golden Horse Awards that year. Between 1981 and 2015, Wang directed 13 feature films, two animated feature films, and one documentary. For his achievements and decades-long contribution to Taiwanese cinema, he was presented the Golden Horse Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. A devout educator, Wang took a teaching position in the Department of Filmmaking at the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2007. He served as the chair from 2010 to 2013, and then from 2017 to 2019. He retired from the university in 2019 and was awarded the Art Education Contribution Award (藝術教育貢獻獎) by the Ministry of Education in 2022.