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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ang_LeeAng Lee - Wikipedia

    He was a classmate of Spike Lee and worked on the crew of his thesis film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. During graduate school, Lee finished a 16mm short film, Shades of the Lake (1982), which won the Best Drama Award in Short Film in Taiwan.

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  3. collider.com › ang-lee-best-movies-rotten-tomatoes10 Best Ang Lee Movies, Ranked According to Rotten Tomatoes

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    • ‘Pushing Hands’ (1992) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 100% Pushing Hands follows Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung), an elderly Chinese tai chi master who moves to the United States to live with his adult son, Alex (Bo Z. Wang), and his American wife, Martha (Deb Snyder).
    • ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ (2000) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 98% Set in 19th-century Qing Dynasty China, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s central focus revolves around the character of Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), a skilled warrior who is entrusted with safeguarding the Green Destiny Sword.
    • ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (1995) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 97% Based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility is set in early 19th-century England and follows the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (Emma Thompson) and Marianne (Kate Winslet) as they are left in reduced circumstances and at the mercy of their half-brother and his wife.
    • ‘The Wedding Banquet’ (1993) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 97% The Wedding Banquet centers around a gay Taiwanese-American man named Wai-Tung Gao (Winston Chao) who lives in New York City with his partner, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein).

  4. www.tasteofcinema.com › 2017 › all-13-ang-lee-moviesAll 13 Ang Lee Movies Ranked From Worst To Best

    • The Wedding Banquet (1993) The film was Lee’s first big international success, winning the Golden Bear at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival, and it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at both the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards.
    • Ride with the Devil (1999) Based on the book “Woe to Live On” by Daniel Woodrell, the film was Lee’s first try at a western.
    • Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. In order to adapt the homonymous novel by Ben Fountain, Lee used an unprecedented shooting and projection frame rate of 120 frames per second in 3D at 4K HD resolution.
    • Pushing Hands (1992) This film was Ang Lee’s feature debut, and together with “The Wedding Banquet” and “Eat Drink Man Woman” forms his “Father Knows Best” trilogy, which deals with the conflicts of the traditional and the modern family.

  5. www.bfi.org.uk › features › where-begin-with-ang-leeWhere to begin with Ang Lee - BFI

    Oct 23, 2024 · Lee’s work is full of reserved, solitary types who fit awkwardly in their time and place, but none of the director’s characters are as inarticulate, lonely and repressed as his protagonist in Brokeback Mountain.

  6. www.britannica.com › biography › Ang-LeeAng Lee | Biography, Movies, Oscars, & Facts | Britannica

    Oct 19, 2024 · Ang Lee (b. 1954) is a Taiwan-born film director who transitioned from directing Chinese films to major English-language productions. Among his most notable films are Yinshi nan nu (Eat Drink Man Woman), Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Brokeback Mountain, and Life of Pi.

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  7. www.bafta.org › film › featuresAng Lee: A Life In Pictures - BAFTA

    Dec 2, 2012 · Internationally acclaimed Taiwanese director Ang Lee shone a light on his diverse directing career in his A Life In Pictures interview sponsored by Deutsche Bank and conducted by Francine Stock.

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  9. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000487Ang Lee - Biography - IMDb

    Ang Lee. Director: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers.