Born in Tianjin, China. Composer who contributed one piece ("Paper Emperor," 1:47) to the score of THE LAST EMPEROR (1987), and in one of those occasions where the score gets swept up with the film, the score received an Oscar®. As one somewhat bitter (although understandably so) reviewer commented, "Cong Su now has as many Oscars as Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann for a few minutes of plinking music. Take that a stage further and you realise that it is even worse than that, given that it is one more than Alex North or Ennio Morricone (in other words, more than none)." Su graduated with a master's degree in composition in Beijing and Munich. From 1989 until 1991 Su gave lectures on music theory and music analysis to the opera director class of August Everding and on film music and ballet music at the Munich State Musikhochschule. Since 1991 Su became professor of film and media compostion at a newly founded State Film Academy in the Stuttgart area. From 1989 until 1991 Su worked as a producer for the CD,TV and multimedia company "Elite Music"/"Rock Corporation" . Su has produced his own music, Chinese contemporary music and European classic music with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the German Opera Berlin, to name but a few. Other notable credits include BANGKOK STORY, MOMENTS and MAIHIME (all 1989), JIA DAO GONG LI DE NAN REN / FORBIDDEN IMPERIAL TALES and DREAMS COME TRUE (both 1990), MIN JING GU SHI / ON THE BEAT (1995), IM CHAOS DER GEFÜHLE (2002), LÜ CHA and SHOU JI (both 2003), and MO LI HUA KAI (2004). Su divides his time between residences in Beijing,China, on Lake Constance between Germany, Switzerland and Austria and in Lucca, Italy.  Best Achievement in Music Scoring (Original Score) 1987: THE LAST EMPEROR (w. Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Byrne) 1 nomination, 1 Award