Stanley Kwan

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|name = Stanley Kwan

|image = Stanley Kwan01.jpg

|alt = Stanley Kwan

|caption = Kwan in 2008

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|10|9|df=y}}

|birth_place = Hong Kong

|native_name = {{zh|t=關錦鵬}}

|awards = {{awards|award=Hong Kong Film Awards|name=Best Director|year=1988|title=Rouge}} {{awards|award=Golden Horse Awards|name=Best Director|year=2001|title=Lan Yu}}

| module = {{Infobox Chinese|child=yes

| t = 關錦鵬

| s = 关锦鹏

| p = Guān Jǐnpéng

| j = Gwaan1 Gam2paang4

| hk = Kwan Kam Pang

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Stanley Kwan (traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏); born 9 October 1957{{cite book|title=501 Movie Directors|editor-first=Steven Jay|editor-last=Schneider|publisher=Cassell Illustrated|location=London|year=2007|page=580|isbn=9781844035731|oclc=1347156402}}) is a Hong Kong film director and producer. He first landed a job at TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College. His first film, Women (1985) which starred Chow Yun-fat, was a big box-office success.

Kwan's films often deal sympathetically with the plight of women and their struggles with romantic affairs of the heart. Rouge (1987), Full Moon in New York (1989), Center Stage (1991), a biopic on silent film star Ruan Lingyu and Everlasting Regret (2005), are all such typical Kwan films. Red Rose White Rose (1994) is an adaptation of a novella of the same name by Eileen Chang. The film was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1995/02_programm_1995/02_Programm_1995.html |title=Berlinale: 1995 Programme |access-date=2011-12-31 |work=berlinale.de}} His 1998 film Hold You Tight won the Alfred Bauer Prize and Teddy Award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1998/03_preistr_ger_1998/03_Preistraeger_1998.html |title=Berlinale: 1998 Prize Winners |access-date=2012-01-23 |work=berlinale.de |archive-date=2013-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012072825/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1998/03_preistr_ger_1998/03_Preistraeger_1998.html |url-status=dead }}

In 1996, Kwan came out as a gay man in Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema, his documentary looking at the history of Chinese-language film through the prism of gender roles and sexuality. He is one of the few openly gay directors in Asia and one of the very few to have worked on these themes.{{citation |periodical=The Gully |url=http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/020727_lan_yu_stanley_kwan.html |date=July 2002 |title=Stanley Kwan: Between Chinas |access-date=2007-10-31}} His Lan Yu (2001) adapts a gay love story originally published on the Internet.

Kwan is also an occasional lecturer at the City University of Hong Kong, where he teaches directing and writing to students.{{cite web|url=https://www.cityu.edu.hk/zh-hk/media/news/2003/10/11/goth-shoestring-suspense-thriller-premiers-campus|title=並肩投入師生製作參展電影|author=嚴依諾|date=2003-10-11|access-date=2022-01-05}}{{cite web|url=https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%E5%A8%9B%E6%A8%82/article/20200705/s00016/1593885544200/%E5%B0%87%E5%BD%B1%E6%A5%AD%E6%B2%AE%E5%96%AA%E6%B0%A3%E6%B0%9B%E5%8C%96%E7%82%BA%E5%8B%95%E5%8A%9B-%E9%97%9C%E9%8C%A6%E9%B5%AC%E8%A8%88%E5%8A%83%E6%98%8E%E5%B9%B4%E9%96%8B%E6%96%B0%E6%88%B2|title=將影業沮喪氣氛化為動力關錦鵬計劃明年開新戲|website=明報|date=2020-07-05|access-date=2022-01-05}}