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Ang Lee Filmography (1991-present)
Ang Lee has been involved in filmmaking in various capacities, though the highlight of his career is his directorial work.
Over the past 33 years, Ang Lee has directed 14 features:
Best Films: 5
The Wedding Banquet, 1993 (age 39)
Sense and Sensibility, 1995
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000
Brokeback Mountain, 2005
Life of Pi, 2012
Mediocre Films: 4
Pushing Hands, 1991
Eat Drink Man Woman, 1994
The Ice Storm, 1997
Worst Films: 6
Ride with the Devil, 1997
Hulk, 2003
Lust, Caution, 2007
Taking Woodstock, 2009
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, 2016
Gemini Man, 2019
Filmography
1991: Pushing Hands
1993: The Wedding Banquet
1994: Eat Drink Man Woman
1995: Sense and Sensibility
1997: The Ice Storm
1999: Ride with the Devil
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2003: Hulk
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2007: Lust, Caution
2009: Taking Woodstock
2012: Life of Pi
2016: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
2019: Gemini Man
Lee also directed the commercial “Chosen” (2001).
Acting credits
1993 The Wedding Banquet, Wedding guest Cameo
1998 The Candidate Hsu Giu Jing’s childhood friend
2007 Hollywood Chinese, Himself Documentary
In 2003, Lee was ranked 27th in The Guardian’s 40 best directors.
In August 2007, Lee was named the 41st greatest director of all time in a poll by Total Film magazine.
In 2020 he received a BAFTA Fellowship for his Outstanding Contributions to British Cinema.
Oscar Nominations: 9
Lee has been nominated for 9 Oscars, of which he has won 3: Best Foreign Language Film for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Best Director for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi, becoming the first non-white director to win the latter prize.
Venice and Berlin Fests: Winner
For The Wedding Banquet and Sense and Sensibility, Lee won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival; for Brokeback Mountain and Lust Caution, he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Lee is one of 4 directors to win the Golden Lion twice and the sole filmmaker to have been awarded the Golden Bear twice.
Lee has also been awarded Directors Guild of America Awards, and British Academy Film Awards.
On November 30, 2021, Lee received the Presidential Culture Award in the arts and culture category from Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen.
Recurring collaborators
Ang Lee has had a career-long collaboration with producer and screenwriter James Schamus, and editor Tim Squyres.
He has also worked several times with music composer Mychael Danna and a few times with Danny Elfman.
