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Ang Lee (1954-) is an Oscar® winning is a Taiwanese filmmaker. Lee has been nominated for nine Oscar®, winning three times. He has won two Best Director Oscars®. His IMDb page shows over 35 producing, directing and writing credits since 1982. This page will rank Ang Lee movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles and movies that were not released in North American and a handful of his movies that we could not find box office on, were not included in the rankings.
Ang Lee Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Ang Lee Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Best IMDb Trivia on Ang Lee
- Ang Lee was born in a Waishengren family, in a military dependents’ village of the Republic of China Armed Forces, located at Chaochou, Pingtung, Taiwan.
- While attending NYU, Ang Lee worked on Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), Spike Lee’s well-renowned student film.
- Ang Lee was a stay at home parent for six years when his film career stalled and his wife was the sole earner in the family. Had planned on changing to a career in Computer Science when his film career stalled, but his wife encouraged him to stick with it.
- Ang Lee has directed 4 films that have been Oscar® nominated for Best Picture: Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and Life of Pi (2012).
- Check out Ang Lee’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
I have seen just two of Ang’s movies: Crouching Tiger and Hulk. The titles of some of the others listed in the above charts suggest that the subjects concerned [such as AL KASHA’s The Ice Storm] might be varied and interesting. Certainly it would be hard to think of more diverse movie topics than Hulk and the controversial Brokeback Mountain.
Indeed from my viewpoint Ang’s output is a refreshing change from those seemingly endless Rambo/Rocky/Star Wars/X Men franchises. Ang has a reported net worth of $32 million and IMDB credits him with what is magnificent haul over just 16 movies: 103 acting awards and 96 noms. For artistic achievement he certainly more than deserves this new page so “Voted Up!”
NOTE: It has been announced that Ang will next make The Thrilla in Manila and I will certainly see that one because I was a great Ali fan – ” The Thrilla in Manila was the third and final boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. It was contested in 1975 for the heavyweight championship of the world in the Philippines.” [IMDB]
Hey Bob. Good information on Ang Lee and his movies. Tally count. Me 8, Steve 5 and you 2. I agree his movies are over a wide range of subjects. The Ice Storm was interesting….but not one I would rewatch…but it has a great cast. The Hulk bored me to death….it took a few different viewings to finally finish it. Brokeback Mountain was good….but I found the story pretty average. So from a stay at home dad to a net worth of $32 million….there is hope for me…lol. The Thrilla in Manila could be interesting…..I also look forward to it. Good stuff as always.
Thanks for the feedback and for giving me your take on Kasha’s The Ice Storm and Brokeback Mountain. I always value your opinion about movies that I haven’t seen. However whilst I haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain it will always hold a nostalgic spot in my affections.
On New Year’s Day 2006, W o Bob, my daughter and son-in-law and I went on a day trip to Dublin and it was there my daughter announced she was pregnant with my now 13 year old first grandchild; the posters for Brokeback were all over the place and at one point we even stood outside a cinema gazing at them.
I tend to associate events with movies a lot. For example in 1976 I vividly remember watching a TV rerun of Ty Power’s 1951 Rawhide while I awaited the start of television coverage of that year’s US Presidential election. I liked Jimmy Carter and was itching to see him win!
Take care, and good to see you apparently recovered. You mustn’t be feeling too bad now if you’re answering even Steve’s posts: he seems to thinks he’s always left out!
Very cool about Brokeback Mountain being associated with your first grandchild. That is a very interesting way to remember life events. Feel much better…even though the time constraints are still pretty tight. I think even WoC is feeling better. So all is good.
As for missing comments. I admit…I sometimes do not get to all the comments..but it is not for lack of trying. When we first started this hobby…I was a stay at home dad…..now eight years later….I have started a second career…..which requires lots of planning…which cuts into the comment time…..yet I still get in about 100 comments a week…..and my comments are normally at least 100 to 200 words long. Some are almost mini pages. But I did stay up late last night to catch up on most of the recent comments. So in other words….I am trying….lol.
HI BRUCE Good explanation/’defense’ of your comments response record – thanks for taking the trouble to provide it.
Stay at home dads seem to be more of a practice in the US than they are over here in Northern Ireland. When I visited Daughter o Bob during her year-long stay in the States in 1999/2000, one of the families that she had made friends with in your country had a stay at home dad. It made economic sense because the hubby could work from home whereas the wife couldn’t.
Courteously the family had my clan and me round to dinner and the one thing that I can remember about ‘Mr Stay at Home’ is that he was a fanatical George W Bush fan! I wasn’t – but wisely I kept quiet about that as I didn’t want to get into one of those heated arguments about politics like the ones that people get into on this site about for example Myrna’s grosses!
Regarding ‘Brokeback’ and my first grandchild on the way, one of the beauties of this ‘family-orientated’ site for me is that heartwarming personal matters can be mentioned without some guy like Lensman shouting “mush” at the contributor!
By the way I’v mentioned before that often when a star is discussed on Cogerson, the very next day he or she will pop up in a TV rerun. Last night I watched a 1971 episode of Columbo called Suitable for Framing and guess who popped up in it in a strong supporting role as a straight-laced lawyer: Don Ameche!
Looking at the chart I’ve seen just 5 Ang Lee films – Hulk, Life of Pi, Billy Lynn, The Ice Storm and Crouching Dragon Hidden Tiger. I didn’t much care for Billy Lynn or The Ice Storm, I have the other three on blu-ray disc.
Gemini Man looks interesting but the critics hated it and moviegoers don’t seem very enthused about it so I’ll wait for home viewing on that one.
Crouching Lion tops all the charts, it’s been years since I last watched it.
Life of Pi had excellent 3D effects, one clever bit involved flying fish leaping over the top and bottom of the widescreen frame, as if they really were falling out of the screen.
A good subject Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve…thanks for the visit and comment on our Ang Lee page. I have seen 8 of his movies….and I will see Gemini Man at some point in the future. You are so right…critics and audiences really do not like that movie. A person I work with saw on the Thursday before it opened….and they were not impressed at all…..gave it a huge thumbs down. Apparently motorcycle boxing is a little ahead of it’s time…lol. Crouching Dragon is probably his masterpiece…not sure he will ever top that. I will have to rewatch my 3D version of Life of Pi. I do not remember that part about the fish. I worry that my 3D system is nearing it’s last legs….as it appears 3D is dying quickly. Ang Lee is a huge 3D person…but the failure of Gemini Man might be the death blow to 3D. Good stuff as always.
Actually put this page together last week….but forgot to publish it…..but Gemini Man is still in the Top 3 at the box office.