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
Complete Filmography
Lisa Lu Plays Herself
2025
as Self
At 98, Hollywood's barrier-breaking Chinese American icon tells her own story—from James Stewart's leading lady to Golden Horse triumph, revealing how...

The Wedding Banquet
2025
Original Film Writer
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in...

76 Days
2024
Executive Producer
Steven Callahan gives a gripping first-hand account of his NYT bestselling novel "Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea." On the eve of February 4, 1982, in the...

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
as Self
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

Gemini Man
2019
Director
Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he bec...

I Am Heath Ledger
2017
as Self
The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2016
Producer, Director
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - A Retrospective
2016
A three-part feature in which Cultural Critic/Film Journalist Tasha R. Robinson interviews three key members of the filmmaking team. The first feature...

A Touch of Art — Ang Lee on King Hu
2016
as Himself
In this short documentary, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee describes his appreciation for King Hu's Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen, and the inf...

The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
2016
as Self
In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a document...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Past Present
2013
as Self
A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwanese Cinema. Saw Tiong Guan clearly established a ...

Trespassing Bergman
2013
as Self
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm...

Life of Pi: A Filmmaker's Epic Journey
2013
as Self
An enormous four-part making-of documentary chronicling the four-year creation of the film, from the adaptation of the script to the extensive post-pr...

Life of Pi
2012
Director, Producer
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipw...
Silence
2012
as Self
Claire Denis visits Bergman's home, browses his collection, and discusses his impact on her work. Part of Trespassing Bergman.

Taking Woodstock
2009
Director, Producer
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happe...

Heath Ledger: A Tribute
2009
as Self
On January 22, 2008, the entertainment world was rocked by news that one of its brightest young stars had unexpectedly died. This film is a commemorat...

Lust, Caution
2007
Producer, Director
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai.

Lights, Action, Music
2007
as Self
A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, albeit brief, insights from some of the modern grea...

Hollywood Chinese
2007
as Self
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winni...

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006
as Self
A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback M...

Brokeback Mountain
2005
Director
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they ge...
A Forbidden Passion
2004
as Himself
Documentary about the making of Ang Lee's 'The Wedding Banquet.'

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003
as Self
Examines the relationship between sex, women, and the role of female sexuality in popular Hollywood culture, focusing on Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfie...

Hulk
2003
Director
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a ragin...

The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies
2002
as Self
Hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, this in-depth documentary offers viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the martial arts film -- from the gen...

Chosen
2001
Director
The Driver is carrying an Asian child who has been chosen for a strange ritual. He must drive him through a dark night in the city to get to a monk's ...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
Producer, Director
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at...

Ride with the Devil
1999
Director
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us...

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
1998
as Self
An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explor...

The Ice Storm
1997
Director, Producer
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

Sense and Sensibility
1995
Director
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When H...

Siao Yu
1995
Writer, Producer
Siao Yu needs a green card. Mario Moretti needs his debts paid. Getting married could solve their problems, or multiply them.

Eat Drink Man Woman
1994
Director, Screenplay
Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each da...

The Wedding Banquet
1993
as Guest at the Wedding Banquet (uncredited)
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to...

The Wedding Banquet
1993
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to...

Pushing Hands
1991
Director, Writer, Editor
Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustme...

Of East and West
1989
Gao Fei firmly believes that he will become successful if he heads all the way to the West! He flew to New York, hoping to fly high and win big. Will ...

Fine Line
1984
Director
Lee’s award-winning thesis film for NYU parallels a young man running from the Mafia and a young woman hiding from the INS, and its blend of the comic...

Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
1983
Assistant Camera
Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a tra...
I Wish I Was by That Dim Lake
1982
Director
Vic, an unprosperous actor, is torn between his dreams and real life.
Jackie Chan: Down to Earth
N/A
as Self
An in-depth look at the past four decades of work by legendary martial artist, Jackie Chan.
Untitled Bruce Lee Biopic
N/A
Director, Producer
A biopic about the life and career of the iconic martial artist and movie star Bruce Lee.
Old Gold Mountain
N/A
Director
A film sets at the twilight of the American “Gold Rush,” tackling the journey of two orphaned immigrants.