Ang Lee

WriterProducerActorDirectorEditor Oct 23 (age 71) Chaojhou, Pingtung, Taiwan 1962–2025 (63 year career)

6.9 avg rating

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).

Known For

Film

Life of Pi

Director

Film

Brokeback Mountain

Director

Film

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Director

Film

Sense and Sensibility

Director

Film

Gemini Man

Director

Film

Hulk

Hulk (voice) (uncredited)

Film

Lust, Caution

Director

Film

Eat Drink Man Woman

Director

Filmography

Acting (36)

Movies (27)

Lisa Lu Plays Herself

2025

as Self

Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion

2021

as Self

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

as Self

I Am Heath Ledger

as Self

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Retrospective

2016

The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

2016

as Self

A Touch of Art — Ang Lee on King Hu

2016

as Himself

Life of Pi: A Filmmaker's Epic Journey

2013

as Self

Trespassing Bergman

as Self

Past Present

as Self

Silence

as Self

Heath Ledger: A Tribute

2009

as Self

10.0

A Very Quiet Man

2009

as Self

Adapting Austen

2009

as Self

A Sense of Character

2009

as Self

Hollywood Chinese

2007

as Self

Lights, Action, Music

2007

as Self

7.0

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

2006

as Self

5.4

A Forbidden Passion

2004

as Himself

Hulk

2003

as Hulk (voice) (uncredited)

5.6

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

2003

as Self

5.0

The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies

2002

as Self

5.7

The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

2000

as Self

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

1998

as Self

4.9

The Wedding Banquet

1993

as Guest at the Wedding Banquet (uncredited)

7.2

Of East and West

1989

Jackie Chan: Down to Earth

as Self

Television (9)

Thirteen Talks

鲁豫有约一日行

Grade One

Be My Guest

The Colbert Report

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

as Self

8.1

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Golden Horse Awards

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

Crew (43)

Movies (42)

The Wedding Banquet

2025

Original Film Writer

6.9

76 Days Adrift

2025

Executive Producer

Gemini Man

2019

Director

6.3

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

2016

Director

6.0

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Producer

Life of Pi

Director

Life of Pi

Producer

Taking Woodstock

Director

Taking Woodstock

Producer

Lust, Caution

Director

Lust, Caution

Producer

Brokeback Mountain

Director

Hulk

Director

Chosen

Director

Tortilla Soup

Original Film Writer

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2000

Director

7.4

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Producer

Ride with the Devil

Director

The Ice Storm

Director

The Ice Storm

Producer

Sense and Sensibility

Director

Siao Yu

Producer

Siao Yu

Writer

Eat Drink Man Woman

Director

Eat Drink Man Woman

Screenplay

The Wedding Banquet

Director

The Wedding Banquet

Producer

The Wedding Banquet

Screenplay

The Wedding Banquet

Writer

Pushing Hands

Director

Pushing Hands

Editor

Pushing Hands

Executive Producer

Pushing Hands

Writer

Fine Line

Director

Fine Line

1984

Editor

Fine Line

1984

Writer

Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

1983

Assistant Camera

5.8

I Wish I Was by That Dim Lake

1982

Director

Gold Mountain

Director

Untitled Bruce Lee Biopic

Director

Untitled Bruce Lee Biopic

Producer

The Hire

Director

Television (1)

The Hire

2001

Director

7.6