# Jack Ng

Jack Ng Wai-lun (Chinese: 吳煒倫; born 1976) is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter. Starting his career as a screenwriter, Ng is best known for collaborating with Dante Lam in action thriller films. He received four nominations for Best Screenplay in the 28th, 30th, 33rd, and 36th Hong Kong Film Awards for his contributions to Beast Stalker (2008), The Stool Pigeon (2010), Unbeatable (2013), and Cold War 2 (2016) respectively.
Ng made his directorial debut with the crime comedy film A Guilty Conscience (2023). The film earned him nominations for Best Director in the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Directorial Debut in the 36th Golden Rooster Awards, and made him the first director to produce a Hong Kong domestic film with over HK$100 million of box office.

## Early life and education

Ng was born in 1976. He attended St Joseph's College, and graduated from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television, majoring in directing.

## Career

After completing his studies, he entered the film industry as a script supervisor, which included working on Dante Lam's 2000 crime comedy film Jiang hu: The Triad Zone. Ng befriended Lam and went on to collaborate as a screenwriter in his subsequent projects Hit Team [zh] and Runaway in 2001. Ng continued to write for Lam in the 2003 comedy horror film The Twins Effect and served as the writer for the 2005 action thriller film SPL: Sha Po Lang. In 2008, Ng once again collaborated with Lam, writing the screenplay for the action thriller film Beast Stalker, which garnered him a nomination for Best Screenplay in the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards. He earned another nomination for Best Screenplay in the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards for the 2010 action thriller film The Stool Pigeon, also directed by Lam.
Ng continued to collaborate with Lam as a screenwriter in several films. In 2012, he worked on Lam's action film The Viral Factor and the 2013 sports film Unbeatable. His screenplay for The Viral Factor earned him a nomination for Best Screenplay at the 19th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award, while he received nominations for Best Screenplay in both the 20th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award and the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards for his work on Unbeatable. In 2015, Ng wrote the screenplay for the action thriller film That Demon Within, for which Ng was nominated for Best Screenplay in the 21st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award. In 2017, he collaborated with directors Longman Leung [zh] and Sunny Luk [zh] on the action thriller film Cold War 2, earning another nomination for Best Screenplay in the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards. He then co-wrote Monster Hunt 2 with his fellow APA classmate Sunny Chan in 2018, and contributed as a screenwriter for the biographical film Anita in 2021.
In 2023, Ng made his directorial debut with the film A Guilty Conscience. The film received critical acclaim and became the highest-grossing domestic film in Hong Kong, making Ng the first director to achieve a box office record of over HK$100 million for a local film. His directorial debut also earned him a nomination for Best Director in the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Directorial Debut in the 36th Golden Rooster Awards.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Writer | Director |
| 2001 | Hit Team [zh] | Yes | No |
| 2001 | Runaway | Yes | No |
| 2003 | The Twins Effect | Yes | No |
| 2004 | Love Battlefield [zh] | Yes | No |
| 2005 | SPL: Sha Po Lang | Yes | No |
| 2008 | Beast Stalker | Yes | No |
| 2009 | The Sniper | Yes | No |
| 2010 | The Stool Pigeon | Yes | No |
| 2010 | Fire of Conscience | Yes | No |
| 2012 | The Viral Factor | Yes | No |
| 2013 | Unbeatable | Yes | No |
| 2014 | That Demon Within | Yes | No |
| 2016 | Cold War 2 | Yes | No |
| 2018 | Monster Hunt 2 | Yes | No |
| 2021 | Anita | Yes | No |
| 2023 | A Guilty Conscience | Yes | Yes |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
| 2009 | 28th Hong Kong Film Awards | Best Screenplay | Beast Stalker | Nominated |
| 2011 | 30th Hong Kong Film Awards | Best Screenplay | The Stool Pigeon | Nominated |
| 2013 | 19th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award | Best Screenplay | The Viral Factor | Nominated |
| 2014 | 20th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award | Best Screenplay | Unbeatable | Nominated |
| 2014 | 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards | Best Screenplay | Unbeatable | Nominated |
| 2015 | 21st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award | Best Screenplay | That Demon Within | Nominated |
| 2017 | 36th Hong Kong Film Awards | Best Screenplay | Cold War 2 | Nominated |
| 2023 | 36th Golden Rooster Awards | Best Directorial Debut | A Guilty Conscience | Nominated |
| 2023 | 36th Golden Rooster Awards | Best Writing | A Guilty Conscience | Nominated |
| 2024 | 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards | Best Director | A Guilty Conscience | Nominated |
| 2024 | 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards | Best Screenplay | A Guilty Conscience | Nominated |
| 2024 | 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards | Best New Director | A Guilty Conscience | Nominated |