Ang LeeFilmography

Born:: October 23, 1954 in Taiwan
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Having garnered international acclaim for his work, Taiwanese director Ang Lee was one of the first Chinese-born directors to find critical and commercial success on both sides of the Pacific. Born in 1954 in Taipei, he graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then went to...Read More

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A Little Game

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Filmmaker Ang Lee and screenwriter/producer James Schamus team for this adaptation of Jean Dell's play about a happily engaged Brooklyn couple who, after hearing rumors that they have broken up, decide to find out how their circle of friends really feels about their coupling. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More

1/1/10
Life of Pi

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Yann Martel's ponderous adventure novel gets the big-screen treatment with this Fox 2000 adaptation helmed by director Ang Lee. The coming-of-age story surrounds the son of a zookeeper who survives a shipwreck by stowing away on a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena, and a Bengal tiger by Read More

1/1/10
Taking Woodstock

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Jonathan Groff, Henry Goodman

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee tells the story of the Greenwich Village interior designer who inadvertently helped to spark a cultural revolution by offering the organizers of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival boarding at his family's Catskills motel. The year is 1969. Change is Read More

8/28/09
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Film

Actors: Turhan Bey, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, Stephen Gong, James Hong

Synopsis: Filmmaker Arthur Dong's documentary Hollywood Chinese pays homage to the first century of the American film industry, as specifically colored and influenced by the Chinese immigrants to whom Hollywood owes an inestimable debt. Dong touches on everyone from actress Anna May Wong, of Limehouse Blues Read More

5/2/08
Lust, Caution

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Wang Lee Hom

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee adapts this Eileen Chang story set in World War II-era Shanghai that details the political intrigue surrounding a powerful political figure named Mr. Yee (Tony Leung) in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Spanning the late '30s and early '40s, the movie introduces Read More

9/28/07
Lights! Action! Music!

Synopsis: The documentary Lights! Action! Music! consists primarily of interviews with composers, directors, and actors who explain the many challenges involved in writing original music for motion pictures. Among the many famous names who appear on camera or whose work is used during the film are Francis Read More

2007
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Actors: Todd Haynes, Ang Lee, Jennie Livingston, Heather Matarazzo, John Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: Gay, lesbian, and transgender filmmakers, actors, and critics explore the history of queer cinema in this made-for-cable documentary. Eschewing any overarching narration, co-directors Lesli Klainberg and Lisa Ades illustrate archival footage and film clips with dozens of interviews. They also Read More

2006
Brokeback Mountain

Crew: Director

Actors: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Linda Cardellini

Synopsis: Ang Lee's adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's story Brokeback Mountain stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as young cowboys named Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar. Each of them is hired to corral sheep on the title location and they soon bond very closely. Their platonic relationship explodes into a Read More

12/9/05
One Last Ride

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Patrick Cupo, Chazz Palminteri, Robert Davi, Anita Barone, Jack Carter

Synopsis: One man's life begins to crack under the weight of his compulsions in this drama. Michael (Patrick Cupo) works as a salesman for a garment firm in Los Angeles. Michael has a job, a wife named Gina (Anita Barone), and a baby on the way; however, he also has a gambling problem that is threatening to Read More

2004
Hulk

Crew: Director

Actors: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, Nick Nolte

Synopsis: Ang Lee directs the live-action feature film The Hulk, based on the Marvel comic book created by Stan Lee and illustrated by Jack Kirby. Emotionally stunted Dr. Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) is part of a research team at the University of California at Berkeley. Corporate hustler Glenn Talbot (Josh Lucas Read More

6/20/03
The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies

Actors: Bruce Lee, Jet Li, David Carradine, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, John Woo, Ang Lee

Synopsis: The Art of Action is a compilation film, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, that offers clips from various action films that featured martial arts action sequences. Among the films excepted for this collection are Rush Hour 2 with Jackie Chan, Charlie's Angels, and the multiple-Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Read More

2002
Tortilla Soup

Crew: From Screenplay by

Actors: Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors, Elizabeth Peña, Tamara Mello, Nikolai Kinski, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: A remake of Ang Lee's family comedy Eat Drink Man Woman, Maria Ripoli's Hispanic-American ensemble feature set in Southern California about a veteran chef named Martin Naranjo (Hector Elizondo), who is slowly losing his sense of taste. He has three daughters, all of whom have chosen different Read More

8/24/01
Chosen

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The second of the five films in the BMW promotional series, Chosen was directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee and stars his son Mason Lee, who plays a Tibetan child targeted by kidnappers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

2001
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Sihung Lung, Cheng Pei-Pei

Synopsis: Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee took a break from making Western period dramas to fashion this wild and woolly martial arts spectacular featuring special effects and action sequences courtesy of the choreographer of The Matrix (1999), Yuen Woo Ping. In the early 19th century, martial arts master Li Mu Read More

12/8/00
Ride With the Devil

Crew: Director

Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, Jewel, Jeffrey Wright, Simon Baker, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, James Caviezel

Synopsis: A complex tale of uneasy alliances along the Kansas/Missouri border during the Civil War, Ride with the Devil concerns Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich), a proud son of the South ready to fight for the Confederate cause after his father is killed by Union troops. Chiles's best friend, Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire Read More

11/24/99
The Ice Storm

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood

Synopsis: Set on Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, The Ice Storm looks into the lives of a wealthy Connecticut family who are calm and civil on the outside, but whose lives are quietly falling into chaos. Sixteen-year-old Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) is home for the holidays from prep school; he'd just as soon Read More

1997
Siao Yu

Crew: Associate Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This Taiwanese comedy is set in Lower Manhattan and chronicles the travails of two Taiwanese illegal aliens as they try to get a green card. The woman, Siao-yu, works as a sweatshop seamstress while her lover, Jiang Wei, is a student who works in a fish market. They meet an Italian-American Read More

1995
Sense and Sensibility

Crew: Director

Actors: Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise

Synopsis: The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier Read More

1995
Eat Drink Man Woman

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sihung Lung, Yang Kuei-Mei, Wu Chien-lien, Wang Yu-Wen, Ah-Leh Gua

Synopsis: Director Ang Lee's follow-up to his surprise box-office hit The Wedding Banquet is another look at ethnic and sexual conflicts in a Chinese family, with meals as a centerpiece of the film. Master chef Chu (Sihung Lung) is a long-time widower who lovingly cooks large Sunday dinners for his three Read More

1994
The Wedding Banquet

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Sihung Lung, Ah-Leh Gua

Synopsis: A gay New Yorker stages a marriage of convenience with a young woman to satisfy his traditional Taiwanese family, but the wedding becomes a major inconvenience when his parents fly in for the ceremony. Director Ang Lee came to international prominence with this warm-hearted comedy, which centers Read More

1993
Pushing Hands

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sihung Lung

Synopsis: Acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee made his directorial debut with this drama, leavened with gentle comedy, about a household turned upside down by a man who could not be much more out of place. Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung) is an elderly gentleman who has devoted much of his life to studying and Read More

1992
East To West

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Synopsis: In 1982 Wang Yaping from the Chinese Writers' Association in Beijing toured 20 U.S. states with a camera, asking Studs Terkel, the Chinese American architect I.M. Pei, former heavyweight champion Muhammed Ali, and other Americans questions about what he saw. Since this was his first visit to the Read More

1984