Top 10 Movies Of Oscar-Winning And Life Of Pie Film Director, Ang Lee

Ang Lee Ang Lee is a Taiwanese-origin filmmaker who has pr >> Read More... is a famous director/filmmaker born in Taiwan. He earned many nominations for Oscars in various categories. Ang Lee became the first Asian to receive Bst Director's award at the Oscars in 2006. He has achieved three Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Best Director for Brokeback Mountain, and Best Director for Life of Pi. His contribution to the film industry, his transition from Chinese films to major English films, and movies of more than one nationality and language make him well-known worldwide. He dwells his movies around many genres, from drama to adventure, classics to war, etc. These all-listed movies are worth-watch and must-watch.

1. Life Of Pi Click to look into! >> Read More... - 2012

It is a Canadian-adventurous fantasy novel by Yann Martel that was later adapted as a film by Ang Lee, giving it an Indian touch. It is about Piscine, Pi, the son of the Patel family, who spends 277 days on a lifeboat with the Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. When this family sells their zoo and leaves India for Canada on a freighter with their sons and remaining animals, a striking storm sinks their ship in the Pacific Ocean but leaves only these two to trust each other to survive. It marked four Oscar Awards- Best Director, Visual Effects, Orginal Score, and Cinematography.

2. Brokeback Mountain- 2005

The movie received the Oscars Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Directing. Depicting the homosexuality concept under the aesthetic natural countryside view is relaxing to watch the couple's romantic time spent as shepherds. But it is an emotional breakdown to watch them holding hands with their girlfriends for life.

3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon- 2000

Crouching Tiger has received the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. The movie is set during the Qing Dynasty in the 18th century and talks about a lot of ancient social and cultural Chinese aspects, especially the culture of martial arts. Master Li is in search of his stolen sword, Green Destiny. The woman who steals the sword later enters a romantic world, and the story unfolds gradually.

4. Hulk- 2003

Hulk is a marvel comic-based American superhero film directed by Ang Lee. The film explores the life of a research scientist named Bruce Banner ( Eric Bana Eric Bana took birth in Melbourne, Victoria, Austr >> Read More... ). Bruce Banner transforms him into a green giant called the Hulk due to the side effects of the exposure to gamma radiation in the lab.

5. Lust, Caution- 2007

Based on the real-life woman spy Zheng Pingru and the set during the WW2 period in Hong Kong and Shanghai, respectively, Wang Jiazhi and other University students plots to assassinate a pro-Japanese collaborator with emotional bonding. But Jiazhi falls for her target and fails to murder him. This movie got a lot of criticism, whereas the lead got banned in China for her sexual content. It is a real-life fictionalized movie.

6. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk- 2016

Adapted from Ben Fountain's best-selling novel, it is a war drama movie about a part of Billy Lynn's life. Billy Lynn, a nineteen-year-old U.S soldier, is back from the wars, precisely the Iraq battle, and is back home for a victory tour for some time. The movie goes back and forth, projecting flashbacks of what happened to their squad during the war.

7. Eat Drink Man Woman- 1994

Eat Drink Man Woman is a Chinese film released in 1994, directed by Ang Lee. This movie is a comedy-drama movie that shows challenges in family love and tradition. It is one of the Lee's "Father Knows Best" trilogy. The story depicts the relationship between a semi-retired chef father and his three daughters and their situations relating the basic human desires.

8. Sense And Sensibility- 1995

It is an adaptation of same name novel by Jane Austen, who received the Oscar for Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). The story revolves around the Dashwood family and their three daughters, focusing on two sisters- Elinor and Marianne. When their father dies, this wealthy family faces many issues to survive, but the lead responsibility lies on the older daughter, who is also struggling with heartbreak.

9. The Wedding Banquet- 1993

The wedding banquet is a story of a gay couple living happily in New York City. One of the characters is not open about his sexuality to his Taiwanese parents. He agrees to complete their wish for the Chinese union by marrying an artist who is desperate for a green card. However, the tables turn due to a single wedding banquet.

10. The Ice Storm- 1997

The Ice storm tells a 1973 Thanksgiving story of two dysfunctional families from New Canaan, Connecticut. The whole family is dealing with issues, and in addition, they are satisfying their problems with more problems like- cheating on their wife with the neighbor, having a sexual affair as a teenager, etc. An Ice storm is now on the way to change this continuing life.