Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(2000)
Rusty: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Original Score (Tan Dun)
Academy Award for Best Production Design
Hong Kong Film Award for Best FilmAward nominations: Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Academy Award for Best Director (Ang Lee)
Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Tim Squyres)
Academy Award for Best Picture (William Kong, Hsu Li Kong, Ang Lee)
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (James Schamus)Award details: (details at IMDb)
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film. An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen. The film was based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu. The martial arts and action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping. Made on a US$17 million budget, with dialogue in Mandarin, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a surprise international success, grossing $213.5 million. It grossed US$128 million in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history. It has won over 40 awards. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and three other Academy Awards, and was nominated for six other Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film also won four BAFTAs and two Golden Globe Awards, one for Best Foreign Film.