Ang Lee

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1954 age 0

   Born

2. 1995 age 41

   CreditSense and Sensibilitydirector

3. 1997 age 43

   CreditThe Ice Stormdirector

4. 2000 age 46

   CreditCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragondirector

   CreditCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragonproducer

5. 2003 age 49

   CreditHulkdirector

6. 2005 age 51

   CreditBrokeback Mountaindirector

7. 2007 age 53

   CreditLust, Cautiondirector

   CreditLust, Cautionscreenwriter

8. 2012 age 58

   CreditLife of Pidirector

   CreditLife of Piproducer

9. 2019 age 65

   CreditGemini Mandirector

• TSTim Squyres7 titles
• JSJames Schamus6 titles
• RPRodrigo Prieto2 titles
• MAMarit Allen2 titles
• MDMychael Danna2 titles
• WHWang Hui-ling2 titles
• WKWilliam Kong2 titles
• FEFrederick Elmes2 titles
• DBDavid Benioff1 title
• KWKate Winslet1 title

• Children

  • MLMason Lee

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• It's the first movie I feel really proud of. But I know it's not a movie for everyone. Some people will embrace it, but some people will hate it, and I'm not really sure how to deal with that. In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

  Ang Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Gradually I got tuned into the world — that happens on every movie. I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

  Ang Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The stern dad stuff doesn't work anymore. You have to be level with the kids, you have to be a nice guy... The authority thing just doesn't work anymore. It's like directing a Chinese film vs. directing an American film. On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

  Ang Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Mainstream films have occupied Hollywood but you can get bored very easily. It can be very repetitive and I think now we want something fresh and something inspiring and different, daring. The mainstream film is very expensive to make and it scares people. It's made for the worldwide audience, you have to please so many people, and the business men start running the movies rather than artists. This is back to the oldest way of Hollywood filmmaking, creating a fantasy, but it has been lost. It seems to take a foreign language film to recoup that ultimate movie viewing experience.

  Ang Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0