Mr Raman Hui Shing-ngai, BBS 許誠毅先生

Year of Award

2015

Biography

Mr Raman Hui Shing-ngai is a Hong Kong animator and film director whose work is known to audiences all around the world. Mr Hui worked on a number of well-known, award-winning animation films, including Shrek (2001) for which he designed the characters and supervised the animation. Shrek won at least 37 awards, including one Academy Award – or Oscar – for Best Animated Feature, and two awards from the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA). In 2008, the American Film Institute ranked Shrek number eight among the ten greatest animation movies ever made. He received with Shrek The Third co-director Chris Miller the ShoWest Animation Director of the Year award in Las Vegas in 2007. Mr Hui was conferred the World’s Outstanding Chinese Designer Award by the Hong Kong Design Centre and was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2008 and 2009 respectively.