"""The First Emperor"" calls for Chinese instruments in addition to a full orchestra, including guzheng and bianzhong. The original Met production was directed by Zhang Yimou, with whom Tan Dun had collaborated on the film ""Hero. Tan Dun earned more widespread attention after composing the score for Ang Lee's ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" (2000), for which he won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a BAFTA Award. Other film credits include the aforementioned ""Hero"" (Zhang Yimou, 2002), Gregory Hoblit's ""Fallen"" (1998), and Feng Xiaogang's ""The Banquet (2006). Following the composition of the film score for ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"","
"Mountain"" also won Best Film and Best Director at the 2006 British Academy Awards (BAFTA). ""Brokeback Mountain"" was nominated for a leading eight Oscars and was the front runner for Best Picture heading into the 5 March ceremony, but lost out to ""Crash"", a story about race relations in Los Angeles, in a controversial upset. He became the first non-white person to win the Best Director at the Academy Awards (when he won again for ""Life of Pi"", he became the second non-white person to win). In 2006, following his Best Director Oscar, Ang Lee was bestowed the Order of"
"Timmy Yip Timmy Yip Kam-tim (; born 1967) is a Chinese art director and designer for fiction films. He is best known for his work on the 2000 martial arts film ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Yip also won a BAFTA award for the film's costume design. He has been alternatively credited as Tim Yip Kam-tim, Kam Tim Yip, Kam-tim Yip, and Tim Yip. A renowned artist, Timmy Yip has multidisciplinary works in costume design, visual and contemporary art. For his work in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Tim won the"
"Peter Pau Peter Pau Tak-Hei (, born 1951) is a Hong Kong cinematographer and film director, best known to western audiences as for his work on ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematographer in 2000. One of Hong Kong's premier cinematographers, he has collaborated with directors John Woo, Ronny Yu, Ang Lee, Tsui Hark, and Wong Kar-wai. Pau is a member of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers. The asteroid 34420 Peterpau was named in his honour in early 2006. His older sister is Hong Kong Film Awards best actress winner Paw Hee-Ching."
"Peter Pau Peter Pau Tak-Hei (, born 1951) is a Hong Kong cinematographer and film director, best known to western audiences as for his work on ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematographer in 2000. One of Hong Kong's premier cinematographers, he has collaborated with directors John Woo, Ronny Yu, Ang Lee, Tsui Hark, and Wong Kar-wai. Pau is a member of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers. The asteroid 34420 Peterpau was named in his honour in early 2006. His older sister is Hong Kong Film Awards best actress winner Paw Hee-Ching."
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny () is a 2016 American-Chinese martial arts film directed by Yuen Woo-ping and written by John Fusco, based on the novel ""Iron Knight, Silver Vase"" by Wang Dulu. It is also a sequel to the 2000 film ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"". The film stars Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh, Harry Shum, Jr., Jason Scott Lee, Roger Yuan, Woon Young Park, Eugenia Yuan, JuJu Chan, Chris Pang, Veronica Ngo, Shuya Chang and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. The film was released in Hong Kong on February 18, in China on"
"tie-in novel had been written by Justin Hill. The novel was released on January 26, 2016. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny () is a 2016 American-Chinese martial arts film directed by Yuen Woo-ping and written by John Fusco, based on the novel ""Iron Knight, Silver Vase"" by Wang Dulu. It is also a sequel to the 2000 film ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"". The film stars Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh, Harry Shum, Jr., Jason Scott Lee, Roger Yuan, Woon Young Park, Eugenia Yuan, JuJu Chan, Chris Pang, Veronica Ngo, Shuya Chang and"
"William Kong William Kong sometimes credited as Bill Kong () (born 1953) is a film producer known for his active role in the Hong Kong film industry and International co-production. He is most famous for co-producing the wuxia film ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" (2000), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture as well as a BAFTA Award for Best Film. He co-produced the historical drama war film ""The Flowers of War"". Among his other films are ""Rise of the Legend"" (2014) and ""Monster Hunt"" (2015), which was at the time of its release the largest grossing film"
"""Stranger than Paradise"" (Jim Jarmusch, 1984), ""Blue Velvet"" (David Lynch, 1986), ""The Civil War"" (Ken Burns, 1990), ""The Crying Game"" (Neil Jordan, 1992), ""Mulholland Drive"" (David Lynch, 2001), ""Brokeback Mountain"" (Ang Lee, 2005), ""The Imitation Game"" (Morten Tyldum, 2014), ""Sully"" (Clint Eastwood, 2016), ""Moonlight"" (Barry Jenkins, 2016), and ""Lady Bird"" (Greta Gerwig, 2017). Since 1995 a special medallion has also been presented annually, usually to a non-filmmaker who has had a major impact on American or international film culture. Past recipients include Milos Stehlik (founder of Facets Multi-Media), HBO, the French film magazine ""Positif"", Ted Turner, and Janus Films. Each"
"in Chinese history. William Kong William Kong sometimes credited as Bill Kong () (born 1953) is a film producer known for his active role in the Hong Kong film industry and International co-production. He is most famous for co-producing the wuxia film ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" (2000), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture as well as a BAFTA Award for Best Film. He co-produced the historical drama war film ""The Flowers of War"". Among his other films are ""Rise of the Legend"" (2014) and ""Monster Hunt"" (2015), which was at the time of its release the"
"Movies with ""strong homosexual themes"" are typically given R21 ratings regardless of other content in the film. The American films ""Milk"", a 2008 biopic starring Sean Penn as gay rights activist Harvey Milk, and ""Brokeback Mountain"", a 2005 romantic drama about two homosexual cowboys played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, both received R21 rating for depictions of homosexual sexual activities. However, the 2018 film ""Love, Simon"" about a gay teenager coming to terms with his identity and finding out which of his classmates is his anonymous online pen pal was given an R21 classification despite having no depictions of"
"score was also nominated for a Golden Globe but lost to the score of the film ""Gladiator"". Tan Dun arranged portions of the film score into a concerto for cello and orchestra called the Crouching Tiger Concerto. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (soundtrack) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the original soundtrack album of the 2000 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning film ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" starring Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang and Chen Chang. The score was composed by Tan Dun, originally performed by Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai National Orchestra, and Shanghai Percussion Ensemble. It also features many solo"
"""Terms of Endearment"", which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture (1984); and ""Lonesome Dove"", which became a popular television miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall. In 2006, he was cowinner (with Diana Ossana) of both the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for ""Brokeback Mountain."" He accepted his Oscar wearing jeans and cowboy boots along with his dinner jacket, and used his speech to promote books by reminding his audience that ""Brokeback Mountain"" was a short story by E. Annie Proulx before it was a movie. In his Golden Globe acceptance"
"Brokeback Mountain Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus. Adapted from the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx, the screenplay was written by Ossana and Larry McMurtry. The film stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams, and depicts the complex emotional and sexual relationship between Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist in the American West from 1963 to 1983. The film received critical acclaim and commercial success. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Best Picture"
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (soundtrack) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the original soundtrack album of the 2000 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning film ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" starring Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang and Chen Chang. The score was composed by Tan Dun, originally performed by Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai National Orchestra, and Shanghai Percussion Ensemble. It also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma. The ""last track"" (""A Love Before Time"") features Coco Lee. The music for the entire film was produced in two weeks. In addition to the awards won (see below) the"
"directed and produced the financially successful, and controversial, biblical drama film ""The Passion of the Christ"" (2004). He received further critical notice for his directorial work of the action-adventure film ""Apocalypto"" (2006), which is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century. After several legal issues and controversial statements leaked to the public, Gibson's public image significantly plummeted, affecting his acting and directorial career. His career began seeing resurgence with his critically acclaimed performance in Jodie Foster's ""The Beaver"" (2011), and his directorial comeback after an absence of 10 years; ""Hacksaw Ridge"" (2016), which won two Academy Awards and was"
"2009, the critics’ group have agreed with the Academy on six occasions: Steven Soderbergh for ""Traffic"" (2000), Clint Eastwood for ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), Ang Lee for ""Brokeback Mountain"" (2005), Martin Scorsese for ""The Departed"" (2006), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007), and Kathryn Bigelow for ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009). Oscar winner denoted by * New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking."
"Jack Fisk Jack Fisk (born December 19, 1946 in Canton, Illinois) is an American production designer and director. As a production designer, he is known for his collaborations with Terrence Malick, designing all of his eight films including; ""Badlands"" (1973), ""Days of Heaven"" (1978), ""The Thin Red Line"" (1998) and ""The Tree of Life"" (2011). His other credits include films like; ""Phantom of the Paradise"" (1974), ""Carrie"" (1976), ""Eraserhead"" (1977), ""Heart Beat"" (1980), ""The Straight Story"" (1999), ""Mulholland Drive"" (2001), ""Water for Elephants"" (2011), ""The Master"" (2012) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for ""There"
"Kevin Hershberger Kevin Richard Hershberger. (born September 7, 1973) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Hershberger. was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and grew up in Maryland. He attended the Virginia Military Institute (1995) and majored in International Studies and History. He then served as a Military Intelligence Officer in the United States Army for eight years. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia. Kevin is president of LionHeart FilmWorks and is best known for his first feature film, ""Wicked Spring"" (2001) which he wrote, directed and produced. For television, Hershberger has directed several broadcast series including ""Legends &"
"""Pacific Rim"" (2013). He also directed the gothic romance film ""Crimson Peak"" (2015). As a producer, he worked on the films ""The Orphanage"" (2007), ""Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"" (2010), ""The Hobbit"" film series (2012–14), ""Mama"" (2013), ""The Book of Life"" (2014), and ""Pacific Rim Uprising"" (2018). With Chuck Hogan, he co-authored ""The Strain"" trilogy of novels (2009–2011), later adapted into a comic-book series (2011–15) and a live-action television series (2014–17). With DreamWorks Animation, he created the Netflix animated series """" (2016–18), the first installment of the ""Tales of Arcadia"" trilogy, based on the 2015 novel he co-wrote with"
"aspired to be a film director. For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in ""Brokeback Mountain"", Ledger won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and Best International Actor from the Australian Film Institute, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Academy Award for Best Actor. Posthumously, he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the ensemble cast, the director, and the casting director for the film ""I'm Not There"", which was inspired by the life and songs of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan."
"Peter Jackson Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the ""Lord of the Rings"" trilogy (2001–03) and the ""Hobbit"" trilogy (2012–14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other films include the critically lauded drama ""Heavenly Creatures"" (1994), the mockumentary film ""Forgotten Silver"" (1995), the horror comedy ""The Frighteners"" (1996), the epic monster remake film ""King Kong"" (2005), the supernatural drama film ""The Lovely Bones"" (2009), and the"
"adaptation of ""Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry"". Smight died from cancer in Los Angeles in 2003. Jack Smight John R. Smight (March 9, 1925 – September 1, 2003) was an American theatre and film director. Smight was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and went to school with future actor Peter Graves. His film credits include ""The Traveling Executioner"", ""No Way to Treat a Lady"", ""Rabbit, Run"", ""Loving Couples"", ""Midway"", ""Harper"", ""Airport 1975"", ""Damnation Alley"" and the Emmy Award-winning ""Eddie"" as well as many episodes of television series such as ""The Twilight Zone""; ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour""; and ""Columbo: Dead Weight""."
"Sucks"". Black said to the audience beforehand, ""We haven't played [this song] for years, because it just never felt appropriate - But now, we're happy to unleash the beast. The government totally sucks."" Jack Black Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, musician, and songwriter. His acting career has been extensive, starring primarily in comedy films. Black is known for his roles in ""High Fidelity"" (2000), ""Shallow Hal"" (2001), ""School of Rock"" (2003), ""King Kong"" (2005), ""The Holiday"" (2006), the ""Kung Fu Panda"" franchise (2008–2016), ""Tropic Thunder"" (2008), ""Gulliver's Travels"" (2010), ""Bernie"" (2011), ""Goosebumps"" (2015),"
"for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed animal cruelty charges against Hackenberger based on the video evidence. ""Life of Pi"" was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won four (more than any other film from 2012): Best Director (Ang Lee), Best Cinematography (Claudio Miranda), Best Visual Effects (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. Elliott) and Best Original Score (Mychael Danna). It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and won for Best Original Score. The film also won awards for cinematography, film editing, sound effects and original score at several other awards ceremonies. In addition"
"Award nominations for other projects and was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Cinematographers. Ronald Víctor García Ronald Víctor García is an American cinematographer and film director. He is known for directing 1970s horror and exploitation films, such as ""The Toy Box"" and ""Inside Amy"", as well as his later work on television series, including directing ""Silk Stalkings"", and working as the director of photography on series such as ""Hawaii Five-0"", ""Numb3rs"", ""Gilmore Girls"", and the pilot of ""Twin Peaks"". In 1991, García received the CableACE Award for Direction of Photography for a Dramatic or"
"Company, and other important Chinese industry partners and government agencies. At Sony, she was responsible for Ang Lee’s ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"", winner of four Oscars that set records in the United States and around the world with US $230 million in global box office receipts. Robinson was also a driving force behind Stephen Chow’s very successful ""Kung Fu Hustle""""."" Earlier in her career, Robinson partnered with Zhang Yimou on his films ""Raise the Red Lantern"" (Silver Lion, Venice 1991; Best Foreign Film, BAFTA 1992) and ""To Live"" (Grand Jury Prize, Cannes 1994; Best Foreign Film, BAFTA 1995). In 2006"
"11th Critics' Choice Awards The 11th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 9, 2006, honoring the finest achievements of 2005 filmmaking. ""' Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Capote"" ""' Reese Witherspoon – ""Walk the Line"" ""' ""Crash"" ""' ""The 40-Year-Old Virgin"" ""' John Williams – ""Memoirs of a Geisha"" ""' Ang Lee – ""Brokeback Mountain"" ""' ""March of the Penguins (La marche de l'empereur)"" ""' ""Kung Fu Hustle (Kung fu)"" • China / Hong Kong ""' ""Brokeback Mountain"" ""' ""Into the West"" ""' ""Hustle & Flow"" – ""Hustle & Flow"" ""Walk the Line"" ""' Paul Giamatti – ""Cinderella Man"" ""'"
"Byron Howard Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, story artist and occasional voice actor at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is best known as the co-director of ""Bolt"" (2008), ""Tangled"" (2010), and ""Zootopia"" (2016), and a supervising animator on ""Lilo & Stitch"" (2002) and ""Brother Bear"" (2003). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for ""Tangled"" and won an Oscar for ""Zootopia"". Howard was born in Misawa, Japan, and raised in both the outskirts of Philadelphia and Issaquah, Washington, United States, in a middle-class family. He attended Evergreen State College"
"for Tomorrow"", ""Shooting for Something Else"" and ""Tomorrow's End"". Campbell received multiple awards for the short films ""Shooting for Tomorrow"" and ""Shooting for Something Else"", including the categories Best Short Film, Best Short Film and Best Experimental Short. ""Shooting for Tomorrow"" won Best Short Film at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Scott Michael Campbell Scott Michael Campbell (born August 14, 1971) is an American actor, writer, producer and director. Campbell is best-known from his roles in ""Brokeback Mountain"", ""Push"" and the remake of ""Flight of the Phoenix"". Among the roles he has played (many of them as a guest star"
"on January 20, 2006, in Taiwan, where director Ang Lee was born, and it ran there until April 20. Professional film critics widely praised ""Brokeback Mountain"". The film won four Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, and was nominated for seven, leading all other films in the 2005 awards. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, as well as the title of Best Picture from the Boston Society of Film Critics, British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), Broadcast Film Critics Association, Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics Circle, Independent Spirit"
"Hollywood Chinese Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Academy Award-nominated director Arthur Dong. From early films like the 1900s ""Beheading the Chinese Prisoner"" to Ang Lee's triumphant ""Brokeback Mountain"" in 2005, Dong uses clips of more than 100 films and interviews of prominent Chinese Americans to create a thorough overview on the depiction of Chinese in mainstream Hollywood films. He hits many major points such as white performers who portray Asians in both The Good Earth and Fu Manchu series, Nancy Kwan's roles in ""The World of Suzie Wong"", Bruce"
"Tajamika Paxton Tajamika Paxton or Taj Paxton is an American writer, director and producer. Her credits include writing, directing and producing ""A Fat Girl’s Guide to Yoga,"" written and developed from her interest in yoga and a winner of NBCUniversal’s Second Annual “Comedy Short Cuts” Diverse City Festival in 2007. She produced the films ""Green Dragon"" starring Forest Whitaker and Patrick Swayze, which won a Humanitas Award, and ""Chasing Papi"", with Sofía Vergara. She sat on Outfest’s board of directors and served as GLAAD’s liaison to Hollywood. Paxton was born in Los Angeles, California is a graduate of Georgetown University’s"