Ang Lee

Ang Lee

Date of Birth: 23 Oct 1954

Country: Taiwan

Biography: Ang Lee made his debut with Pushing Hands, and earned Oscar nominations for his next two films, The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman. Later films include Sense and Sensibility (Best Picture Oscar nomination) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (four Oscars). In 2006, he became the first Asian to win an Oscar for Best Director for Brokeback Mountain. (biography.com)

Total Credits at Criticker: 5 (Actor), 15 (Director), 5 (Writer)

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    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    The disappearance of a magical jade sword spurs a breathtaking quest for the missing treasure. Li is embittered by the loss of his jade sword, and his unrequited pursuit of Yu is further complicated by the mysterious intrusion of an assassin. The identity of the assassin is gradually unveiled as another poignant tale of love begins to ravel with that of Li and Yu against the backdrop of Western China's magnificent landscape. (imdb)
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    Hulk
    Acclaimed Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee turns his masterful eye to adapting the classic Marvel Comics character for the big screen. (Universal Pictures)
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    The Ice Storm
    It's November 1973 in New Canaan, Connecticut. Watergate has caught up with Richard Nixon. The Beatles are recording solo albums. Wife-swapping has come to the suburbs. And, the Hood family is skidding out of control. (Fox Searchlight)
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    Ride with the Devil
    Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Missouri when the Civil War starts. Women and Blacks have few rights. Jack Bull's dad is killed by Union soldiers, so the young men join the Bushwhackers, irregulars loyal to the South. One is a Black man, Daniel Holt, beholden to the man who bought his freedom. They skirmish then spend long hours hiding. Sue Lee, a young widow, brings them food... (imdb)
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    Sense and Sensibility
    Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites. (imdb)
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    Brokeback Mountain
    Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men -- a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy -- who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys, and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. (Focus Features)
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    The Wedding Banquet
    To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand. (imdb)
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    Eat Drink Man Woman
    A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members. (imdb)
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    Chosen
    Chosen (2001) - Short Film
    The Driver is carrying an Asian child who has been chosen for a strange ritual. He must drive him through a dark night in the city to get to a monk's house, while eluding several American cars out to get the child. (imdb)
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    Lust, Caution
    Shanghai, 1942. Japan's World War II occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a phone call, and then sits and waits. She remembers how her story began several years earlier, in China in 1938... (Focus Features)
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    Pushing Hands
    Master Chu, a retired Chinese Tai-Chi master, moves to Westchester, New York to live with his son Alex, his American daughter-in-law Martha, and their son Jeremy. However, Martha's second novel is suffering from severe writers' block brought on by Chu's presence in the house. Alex must struggle to keep his family together as he battles an inner conflict between cultural tradition and his modern American lifestlye. (imdb)
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    Taking Woodstock
    A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969. (imdb)
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    Life of Pi
    The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean. (imdb)
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    Billy Lynn\
    19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
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    Gemini Man
    An over-the-hill hitman faces off against a younger clone of himself.
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