Ang Lee

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

Biography

Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director whose diverse set of films includes Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), and Hulk (2003). He won Best Director at the Academy Awards for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012).

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Chaojhou, Pingtung, Taiwan

About

Directing, Male

Birthday

23 October 1954, 71 years old

Known For

Hulk

The Wedding Banquet

I Am Heath Ledger

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Trespassing Bergman

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

Lisa Lu Plays Herself

Self

2025

Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion

Self

2021

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Self

2019

I Am Heath Ledger

Self

2017

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Retrospective

2016

A Touch of Art — Ang Lee on King Hu

Himself

2016

The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

Self

2016

Past Present

Self

2013

Trespassing Bergman

Self

2013

Life of Pi: A Filmmaker's Epic Journey

Self

2013

Silence

Self

2012

Heath Ledger: A Tribute

Self

2009

Adapting Austen

Self

2009

A Sense of Character

Self

2009

A Very Quiet Man

Self

2009

Lights, Action, Music

Self

2007

Hollywood Chinese

Self

2007

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Self

2006

A Forbidden Passion

Himself

2004

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

Self

2003

Hulk

Hulk (voice) (uncredited)

2003

The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies

Self

2002

The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

Self

2000

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

Self

1998

The Wedding Banquet

Guest at the Wedding Banquet (uncredited)

1993

Of East and West

1989

Jackie Chan: Down to Earth

Self

Unknown