Ang Lee is a Taiwanese filmmaker. He is most known for his films, Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Ice Storm (1997), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Hulk (2003), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Lust, Caution (2007), and Life of Pi (2012).
Three of Lee's films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) winning. The other two nominations were The Wedding banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994). His films Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. He has also received ten British Academy Film Award nominations winning four awards for Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Brokeback Mountain. In 2020 he received the BAFTA Fellowship for Outstanding Contributions to British Cinema. He has also received eight nominations for Golden Globe Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, and Critics' Choice Movie Awards. He has been honored by the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America. His films have also premiered and competed at the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and Berlin Film Festival.
Lee has received various honors including the Knight of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2012 from the French Government. In 2021, he became a Knight of the French highest honour Legion of Honor.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result2001Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonBest Picture Best Director2006 Brokeback Mountain 2013Life of Pi Best Picture
British Academy Film Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1995 Best FilmSense and Sensibility Best Director 2000 Best FilmCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Best Director Best Film Not in the English Language 2005 Best Director Brokeback Mountain 2012 Best FilmLife of Pi Best Director 2020 BAFTA Fellowship
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1993Best Foreign Language FilmThe Wedding Banquet 1994Eat Drink Man Woman 1995Best Director Sense and Sensibility 2000Best Foreign Language FilmCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Best Director 2005 Brokeback Mountain 2012 Life of Pi
Independent Spirit Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1994Best Feature The Wedding Banquet 2001 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 1994Best Director The Wedding Banquet 1995 Eat Drink Man Woman 2001 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2006 Brokeback Mountain 1994Best Screenplay The Wedding Banquet 1995 Eat Drink Man Woman
Critics' Choice Award Year Category Nominated work Result1995Best Picture Sense and Sensibility 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2006 Brokeback Mountain 2012 Life of Pi 2006Best Director Brokeback Mountain 2012 Life of Pi 2000Best Foreign Language Film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2007 Lust Caution
Festival awards Cannes Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result 1997Palme d'Or The Ice Storm 2009 Taking Woodstock
Berlin International Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result 1993Golden Bear The Wedding Banquet 1996 Sense and Sensibility
Venice Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result 2005Golden Lion Brokeback Mountain 2007 Lust, Caution
Guild awards Producers Guild of America Award Year Category Nominated work Result2001PGA Award – Motion Pictures Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2012 Life of Pi
Directors Guild of America Award Year Category Nominated work Result 1996DGA Award – Motion Pictures Sense and Sensibility 2001 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2006 Brokeback Mountain 2012 Life of Pi
Miscellaneous awards Year Award Category Nominated work ResultNBR AwardBest Director 1995 Sense and Sensibility 2005 Brokeback Mountain Best Foreign Language Film1994 Eat Drink Man Woman 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Best film1995Sense and Sensibility Saturn AwardBest Direction 2001 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2012 Life of Pi Best Action or Adventure Film 2001 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Best Science Fiction Film 2003 Hulk Best Fantasy Film 2012 Life of Pi Golden Horse Film Festival and AwardsBest Feature Film 1993 The Wedding Banquet 1994 Eat Drink Man Woman 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2007 Lust, Caution Best Director 1991 Pushing Hands 1993 The Wedding Banquet 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2007 Lust, Caution Hugo AwardBest Dramatic Presentation2001Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonAACTA AwardsBest Foreign Film 1998 The Ice Storm 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Best Direction – International 2012 Life of Pi
Critics awards Year Award Category Nominated work ResultNew York Film Critics Circle AwardsBest Director 1995 Sense and Sensibility 2005Brokeback Mountain Best Film 2005 London Film Critics' Circle Best Film 2005 Best Director 2005 2012 Life of Pi Los Angeles Film Critics AssociationBest Film 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2005 Brokeback Mountain Best Director 2005 Boston Society of Film CriticsBest Director 1995 Sense and Sensibility 2005 Brokeback Mountain Best Film 1995 Sense and Sensibility 2005 Brokeback Mountain Best Foreign language film 2000Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Toronto Film Critics AssociationBest Film 2000 Chicago Film Critics AssociationBest Director 1997 The Ice Storm 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2005 Brokeback Mountain Best Film 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2005 Brokeback Mountain Best Foreign Language Film2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Florida Film Critics CircleBest Foreign Language Film Best Director2005Brokeback Mountain Best Film Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics AssociationBest Film Best Director Best Foreign Language Film 2000Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Online Film Critics SocietyBest Director 2000 2005 Brokeback Mountain Best Picture 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2005 Brokeback Mountain Best Foreign Language Film 2000Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Vancouver Film Critics CircleBest Film 2000 2005 Brokeback Mountain Best Director 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2005 Brokeback Mountain 2012 Life of Pi San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics CircleBest Film 2005Brokeback Mountain Best Director Satellite AwardsBest Director 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2005 Brokeback Mountain 2007 Lust, Caution Best Film 2005 Brokeback Mountain 2012 Life of Pi César AwardsBest Foreign Film 2007 Brokeback Mountain Bodil AwardsBest American Film 1999 The Ice Storm 2006 Brokeback Mountain Best Non-American Film 2001 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon David di DonatelloBest Foreign Film 2006 Brokeback Mountain 2013 Life of Pi
Government orders and decorations Knight of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2012). Knight of the French highest honour Legion of Honor (2021)
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