The Big Picture: Ang Lee Career & Biographical Notes: Diehard NHL fan with his team being the Calgary Flames Passed on Terminator 3 in order to direct The Hulk. Oops. One of the first directors chosen to do BMW's The Hire commercial series starring Clive Owen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, his masterpiece, currently holds the record for largest domestic gross for a foreign language film with $128 million Has been happily married for almost 25 years, so you can save the Brokeback Mountain jokes.

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Ang Lee Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• Brokeback Mountain
• Life of Pi
• Sense and Sensibility
• That's Not My Movie (Directors Edition)

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Taking Woodstock	8/26/09	N/A
Lust, Caution	9/28/07	N/A
Brokeback Mountain	12/9/05	R	5	0.55	82.86	Info
The Hulk	6/20/03	PG-13	3660	62.13	132.12	Info

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Awards:

2007
Lust, Caution

• Runner-Up: Best Director, Golden Satellites

2005
Brokeback Mountain

• Win: Best Director, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Director, Directors' Guild
• Win: Best Director, San Francisco Film Critics Circle
• Win: Best Director, Golden Satellites
• Win: Best Director, National Board of Review
• Win: Best Director, Southeastern Film Critics Association
• Win: Best Director, Spirit Awards
• Win: Best Director, Florida Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, Dallas Fort Worth Critics
• Win: Best Director, Las Vegas Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, Boston Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, Los Angeles Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Win: Best Director, New York Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Washington (DC) Area Film Critics Association

2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

• Runner-Up: Best Director, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Win: Best Director, Golden Globes
• Win: Best Director, Directors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Toronto Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Online Film Critics Association

1997
The Ice Storm

• Runner-Up: Best Director, Toronto Film Critics

1995
Sense and Sensibility

• Win: Best Director, Boston Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, New York Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Directors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Golden Globes

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