---
name: "William Kong"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bill-kong"
fi1m_id: "bill-kong"
imdb_id: "nm0465067"
tmdb_id: 1351
wikidata_id: "Q8014107"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-05T16:39:40.540831+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# William Kong

## Identity

William Kong

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bill-kong
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bill-kong
- **IMDb ID:** nm0465067
- **TMDB ID:** 1351
- **Wikidata ID:** Q8014107
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kong, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8014107, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0465067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1351

Producer. Born 1 January 1953 in Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953, Foshan, Guangdong Province, China
- **Active:** 2000–present
- **Also known as:** Bill Kong, Kong Chi-keung
- **Frequently works with:** [Ang Lee](https://film.one/person/ang-lee.md), [James Schamus](https://film.one/person/james-schamus.md), [Tony Leung](https://film.one/person/tony-leung-chiu-wai.md), [Wang Hui-ling](https://film.one/person/wang-huiling.md), [Zhang Ziyi](https://film.one/person/zhang-ziyi.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as producer, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 81 (3), 2010s 58 (1), 2020s 74 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 71 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 5, Adventure 3, Drama 3, Fantasy 3, Romance 2, Thriller 2
- **Screen time:** 13 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,254m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kong, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8014107, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0465067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1351

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*](https://film.one/film/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon.md) (90)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Bill Kong, also credited as William Kong or Kong Chi-keung, is a Hong Kong film producer and head of Edko Films. He began in distribution and exhibition before moving into production in the 1990s.

He is best known for his work on international co-productions including *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* (2000), *Hero* (2002), *House of Flying Daggers* (2004), *Fearless* (2006), *Curse of the Golden Flower* (2006) and *Lust, Caution* (2007). More recent credits include *The Flowers of War* (2011), *Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons* (2013), *Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms* (2023) and *The Furious* (2026).

Kong received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture for *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*, which also won a BAFTA for Best Film. He has won multiple Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards for Best Film.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *The Furious* (2026), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-furious.md)
- *Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms* (2023), Fi1m 65, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/creation-of-the-gods-i-kingdom-of-storms.md)
- *Monster Hunt* (2015), Fi1m 58, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/monster-hunt.md)
- *Lust, Caution* (2007), Fi1m 76, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/lust-caution.md)
- *Hero* (2002), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hero.md)
- *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* (2000), Fi1m 90, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Furious* (2026), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-furious.md)
- *Cold War 1994* (2026), Executive Producer, Presenter
- *Night King Director’s Cut* (2026), Executive Producer
- *The Dark Romance* (2026), series, Executive Producer
- *Night King* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Trapped* (2025), Executive Producer
- *New Life* (2025), Presenter
- *Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Cesium Fallout* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Galaxy Writer* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms* (2023), Associate Producer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/creation-of-the-gods-i-kingdom-of-storms.md)
- *A Guilty Conscience* (2023), Producer
- *Table for Six* (2022), Producer
- *Soul Snatcher* (2020), Producer
- *One Second* (2020), Producer
- *Love You Forever* (2020), Executive Producer
- *The Whistleblower* (2019), Co-Producer
- *Over the Sea* (2019), Executive Producer
- *My People, My Country* (2019), Co-Producer
- *The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up* (2018), series, Actor
- *Monster Hunt 2* (2018), Producer
- *Mon Mon Mon Monsters* (2017), Presenter
- *Walking Past the Future* (2017), Presenter
- *Cold War II* (2016), Presenter, Producer
- *The Tenants Downstairs* (2016), Presenter
- *The Bodyguard* (2016), Producer, Executive Producer
- *Office* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Monster Hunt* (2015), Producer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/monster-hunt.md)
- *Rise of the Legend* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Coming Home* (2014), Producer
- *Firestorm* (2013), Producer
- *Tales from the Dark 2* (2013), Producer
- *A Complicated Story* (2013), Presenter
- *Finding Mr. Right* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Cold War* (2012), Executive Producer
- *The Flowers of War* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Love for Life* (2011), Producer
- *Under the Hawthorn Tree* (2010), Executive Producer
- *Ocean Heaven* (2010), Producer
- *True Legend* (2010), Executive Producer, Producer
- *A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop* (2009), Producer
- *The Warrior and the Wolf* (2009), Producer
- *Blood: The Last Vampire* (2009), Producer
- *Lust, Caution* (2007), Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/lust-caution.md)
- *Secret* (2007), Producer
- *Curse of the Golden Flower* (2006), Producer
- *Fearless* (2006), Producer
- *Making of House of Flying Daggers* (2004), Producer
- *House of Flying Daggers* (2004), Producer
- *Windstruck* (2004), Producer
- *Hero* (2002), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/hero.md)
- *Springtime in a Small Town* (2002), Producer
- *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* (2000), Producer — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon.md)
- *Cold War 1995*, Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![William Kong](https://film.one/media/person/93434/gallery-61d36e9bc2af.jpg) William Kong — Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Bill_Kong_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Bill_Kong_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![William Kong](https://film.one/media/person/93434/gallery-183ad3d658fe.jpg) William Kong — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2001: Best Picture (nominated), for *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- Tatler Most Influential Hong Kong 2021: Tatler Most Influential Hong Kong (won)
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film 2000: European Film Award for Best Non-European Film (nominated), for *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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