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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a Chinese-language film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 in the wuxia
Wuxia

Wuxia or Wuxi? . Wuxi? is a Chinese martial literary form that has figured prominently in the popular culture of Chinese-speaking areas since ancient times to the present; the most important Wuxi? writers have devoted followings....
 (chivalric
Chivalry

Chivalry is a term relating to the medieval institution of knighthood. It is usually associated with ideals of knightly virtues, honor and courtly love....
 and martial arts
Martial arts film

Martial arts film is a film genre that originated in the Pacific Rim. This genre is a type of action film characterized by extensive fighting scenes employing various types of martial arts....
) style, released in 2000. A China-Hong Kong-Taiwan-United States co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee
Ang Lee

Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....
 and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese
Zhonghua minzu

Zhonghua minzu , usually translated as Chinese ethnic group or Chinese nation, refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ethnic divisions, with a central identity to China as a whole....
 actors, including Chow Yun-Fat
Chow Yun-Fat

Chow Yun-Fat Silver Bauhinia Star is a Hong Kong Film Awards-winning actor. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer , and Hard-Boiled; and to the West for his role as Rama IV in Anna and the King....
, Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh

Malay titles#Dato.27 Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award-nominated actor and dancer, well known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action cinema that brought her to fame in the early 1990s....
, Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actresses. Zhang is considered one of the Four Young Dan actresses in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun....
 and Chang Chen
Chang Chen

Chang Chen is a Taiwanese actor, born in Taipei. His name is sometimes seen in the Western order . He is the son of a Taiwanese actor Zhang Guozhu and brother of a Taiwanese actor, Zhang Han ....
. The movie was based on the fourth novel
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (novel)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the fourth in a sequence of five novels that are collectively called the Crane Iron Pentalogy, written by Wang Dulu from 1938 to 1942....
 in a pentalogy
Pentalogy

A pentalogy is a set of five connected works of art that can be seen as a single work or as five individual works....
, known in China as the Crane-Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu
Wang Dulu

Wang Dulu was a China author whose novel Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was made into a successful feature film by director Ang Lee .Wang Dulu was born into a poor Manchu Banner family in Beijing as Wang Baoxiang , his style Xiaoyu ....
.






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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a Chinese-language film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 in the wuxia
Wuxia

Wuxia or Wuxi? . Wuxi? is a Chinese martial literary form that has figured prominently in the popular culture of Chinese-speaking areas since ancient times to the present; the most important Wuxi? writers have devoted followings....
 (chivalric
Chivalry

Chivalry is a term relating to the medieval institution of knighthood. It is usually associated with ideals of knightly virtues, honor and courtly love....
 and martial arts
Martial arts film

Martial arts film is a film genre that originated in the Pacific Rim. This genre is a type of action film characterized by extensive fighting scenes employing various types of martial arts....
) style, released in 2000. A China-Hong Kong-Taiwan-United States co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee
Ang Lee

Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....
 and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese
Zhonghua minzu

Zhonghua minzu , usually translated as Chinese ethnic group or Chinese nation, refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ethnic divisions, with a central identity to China as a whole....
 actors, including Chow Yun-Fat
Chow Yun-Fat

Chow Yun-Fat Silver Bauhinia Star is a Hong Kong Film Awards-winning actor. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer , and Hard-Boiled; and to the West for his role as Rama IV in Anna and the King....
, Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh

Malay titles#Dato.27 Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award-nominated actor and dancer, well known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action cinema that brought her to fame in the early 1990s....
, Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actresses. Zhang is considered one of the Four Young Dan actresses in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun....
 and Chang Chen
Chang Chen

Chang Chen is a Taiwanese actor, born in Taipei. His name is sometimes seen in the Western order . He is the son of a Taiwanese actor Zhang Guozhu and brother of a Taiwanese actor, Zhang Han ....
. The movie was based on the fourth novel
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (novel)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the fourth in a sequence of five novels that are collectively called the Crane Iron Pentalogy, written by Wang Dulu from 1938 to 1942....
 in a pentalogy
Pentalogy

A pentalogy is a set of five connected works of art that can be seen as a single work or as five individual works....
, known in China as the Crane-Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu
Wang Dulu

Wang Dulu was a China author whose novel Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was made into a successful feature film by director Ang Lee .Wang Dulu was born into a poor Manchu Banner family in Beijing as Wang Baoxiang , his style Xiaoyu ....
. The martial arts and action sequences
Stage combat

Stage combat is a specialized technique in theatre designed to create the illusion of physical combat without causing harm to the performers. It is employed in live stage plays as well as operatic and ballet productions....
 were choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping, well known for his work in The Matrix
The Matrix

The Matrix is a science fiction film-action film written and directed by Wachowski brothers and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving....
 and other films.

Made on a mere US$15 million budget, with dialogue in Mandarin, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a surprise international success. After its US premier at the Hawaii International Film Festival
Hawaii International Film Festival

File:HIFF Logo.jpgThe Hawaii International Film Festival is a film festival held in the United States state of Hawaii. It was started in 1981 and has been held annually in the fall for two weeks....
, it grossed US$128 million in the United States alone, 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
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
 and three other Academy Awards, and was nominated for six other Academy Awards, including Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
. The film also won three BAFTAs and two Golden Globes, one for "Best Foreign Film" as well as additional nominations for ten BAFTAs including "Best Picture".

Plot

The fictional story is set in the historic Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
 in China, in the 43rd year of Emperor Qianlong's reign (1778).

The story follows two martial arts
Martial arts

Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. While they may be studied for various reasons, martial arts share a single objective: to physically defeat other persons and to defend oneself or others from physical threat....
 warriors, Li Mu-bai (Chow Yun-Fat
Chow Yun-Fat

Chow Yun-Fat Silver Bauhinia Star is a Hong Kong Film Awards-winning actor. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer , and Hard-Boiled; and to the West for his role as Rama IV in Anna and the King....
) and Yu Shu-lien (Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh

Malay titles#Dato.27 Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award-nominated actor and dancer, well known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action cinema that brought her to fame in the early 1990s....
). The two characters are attracted to each other but have abstained from a relationship. Mu-bai, an accomplished Wudang
Wudangquan

Wudangqu?n, is a classification of Chinese martial arts known more generally as n?ijia.The name Wudang refers to the Wudang Mountains of Hubei Province....
 swordsman, asks Shu-lien to give his valuable sword, the Green Destiny, to his friend Sir Te because he wants to leave his warrior life behind but Sir Te decides to keep it for safekeeping in Beijing. In the meantime, Mu-bai intends to commemorate the death of his master, who was murdered long ago by Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-pei
Cheng Pei-pei

Cheng Pei-pei is an actress best known for her performance in the seminal 1966 King Hu wuxia film Come Drink with Me. She continued to play expert swordswomen in a number of films throughout the 1960s....
), a woman who sought to learn Wudang. Also searching for Jade Fox is Tsai (Da Ming Wang) an undercover police inspector.

In Beijing, Shu-lien delivers the sword and meets Jen (Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actresses. Zhang is considered one of the Four Young Dan actresses in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun....
), the daughter of Governor Yu, a Manchu
Manchu

The Manchu people are a Tungusic peoples who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the seventeenth century, with the help of Ming rebels , they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established Republic of China in its place....
 aristocrat. Jen is destined for an arranged marriage, yet yearns for adventure; she becomes fascinated with the warrior Shu-lien.

One night, a masked thief sneaks onto Sir Te's estate and steals the Green Destiny. Tsai, Shu-lien, and others pursue the thief across rooftops, walls, and other obstacles. Shu-lien discovers that the thief is well-versed in the Wudang school of martial arts. The fight is broken off when a mysterious figure shoots a dart at Shu-lien, which she catches just in time.

Mu-bai and Shu-lien trace the theft to Governor Yu's compound and learn that Jade Fox has been posing as Jen's governess
Governess

A governess is a female employee of a family who teaches children within their home. In contrast to a nanny or a babysitter, she concentrates on teaching children, not their physical needs....
 for many years to evade the authorities. Jade Fox challenges Inspector Tsai, his daughter May, and Master Bo to a showdown; she easily defeats all 3 of them before Mu-bai arrives and outmaneuvers Jade Fox, but the masked thief reappears and, to Mu-bai's amazement, uses Wudang techniques. After another short confrontation in which Tsai is killed, the thief and Jade Fox escape, and in a confrontation, Jade Fox realizes that Jen (the "thief") has secretly read her Wudang manual and surpassed her in skill. Mu-bai catches the masked Jen attempting to return the Green Destiny, and after defeating her, suggests that she become his apprentice. She refuses and escapes.

The dart that prevented Shu-Lien from capturing Jen came from a man named Lo (Chang Chen
Chang Chen

Chang Chen is a Taiwanese actor, born in Taipei. His name is sometimes seen in the Western order . He is the son of a Taiwanese actor Zhang Guozhu and brother of a Taiwanese actor, Zhang Han ....
), who returns and asks Jen to leave with him. A flashback reveals that Lo is a desert bandit called Dark Cloud who had raided Jen's caravan and stolen her comb. Jen chased after him to get it back; Lo defeated and kidnapped her. However, they eventually fell in love. Lo convinced Jen to return to her family, though not before telling her a legend of a man who jumped off a cliff but did not die. Instead, his wishes came true.

Lo has come to Beijing to persuade Jen not to go through with her arranged marriage. However, Jen refuses to leave with him. Soon after, she is married in an elaborate ceremony. Mu-bai and Shu-lien find Lo and tell him to wait for Jen at Wudang Mountain. The day after her wedding, Jen runs away. She is at a crossroads: should she be a court official's wife, the lover of a desert bandit, an outlaw under Jade Fox, or a martial artist under Li Mu-bai? Headstrong, she rejects the path of Shu-lien and Mu-bai, and starts a fight in a restaurant.

Jen finds Shu-lien, who tells her that Lo is at Wudang Mountain. Jen is outraged, thinking that Shu-lien is setting her up. Shu-lien is angry at Jen's lack of gratitude, and says that she always knew Jen was the thief, but covered it up for the sake of Jen's family. The two women fight, and it becomes clear that Shu-lien has better technique but Jen has the better sword (the Green Destiny). Mu-bai arrives and pursues Jen into the forest. He again offers to train her and she says that she will accept him as her master if he can take the Green Destiny from her in three moves. To Jen's surprise, Mu-bai snatches the sword from her hand in a single movement. When Jen still refuses to become Mu-bai's pupil, he throws the Green Destiny over a waterfall. Jen chases after the sword, and Mu-bai is too shocked to pursue her.

Jen retrieves the sword and is rescued by Jade Fox. She puts Jen into a drugged sleep and leaves her in a cavern. Mu-bai and Shu-lien find her there. Jade Fox suddenly reappears and attacks the others with poisoned needles. Mu-bai blocks all but one needle with his sword. He avenges his master's death by mortally wounding Jade Fox, only to realize that he has been hit with a poisoned needle. With his last breaths, Mu-bai confesses his love for Shu-lien. Shu-lien is heartbroken at his death, and furious with Jen for spoiling her chance at happiness. However, Shu-lien spares Jen's life and instructs her always to remain true to herself.

Jen goes to Wudang Mountain and spends one last night with Lo, who is waiting for her. The next morning, Lo finds Jen standing on a balcony overlooking the edge of the mountain. In an echo of the legend that they spoke about in the desert, she asks him to make a wish. He complies, wishing them to be together, back in the desert, and Jen leaps into the clouds.

Production and marketing

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation
China Film Co-Production Corporation

China Film Co-Production Corporation , abbreviated as CFCC, is a China film production company and distributor. It is a subsidiary of China Film Group....
; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
, Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Classics

Sony Pictures Classics is one of two specialty film divisions of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the other being Screen Gems . Founded in December 1991, Sony Pictures Classics produces, acquires, finances and distributes independent films from America and around the world....
 and Good Machine
Good Machine

Good Machine is an Independent film film production and film distribution company started in the early 1990s by its co-founders and producers, Ted Hope and James Schamus....
; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film; and the Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
ese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

The film was made in Beijing, with location shooting in the Anhui
Anhui

Anhui is a province of China of the People's Republic of China. Located in eastern China across the basins of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, it borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, and Shandong for a tiny section in the north....
, Hebei
Hebei

For the people of Hebei, see Hebei people is a North China province of China of the People's Republic of China. Its one-Chinese character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province , a Han Dynasty province that included southern Hebei....
, Jiangsu
Jiangsu

is a Province of China of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou....
 and Xinjiang
Xinjiang

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area, spanning over 1.6 million sq....
 provinces of the People's Republic of China.

Unlike most Chinese films, this one was supported by American distributors and therefore received marketing typical of Western films. It opened first in China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 and made its US premier as the opening film of the 2000 Hawaii International Film Festival
Hawaii International Film Festival

File:HIFF Logo.jpgThe Hawaii International Film Festival is a film festival held in the United States state of Hawaii. It was started in 1981 and has been held annually in the fall for two weeks....
.

The movie was also adapted into a video game
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (video game)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a video game based on the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon film by Ang Lee. Players may play as Li Mu Bai, Yu Shu Lien, Jen, and Lo....
.

Reception and aftermath

Crouching Tiger was very well received in the Western world
Western world

The term Western world, the West or the Occident can have multiple meanings dependent on its context . Accordingly, the basic definition of what constitutes "the West" varies, expanding and contracting over time, in relation to various historical circumstances....
, receiving critical acclaim and numerous awards. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films. The name derives from the historical clich? of throwing tomatoes and other produce at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad....
 reported that 97% of critics gave Crouching Tiger positive reviews, based on 141 reviews, while Metacritic
Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, console game, film, television program, DVDs, and books. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged....
 reported the film had an average score of 93 out of 100, based on 31 reviews.

Some Chinese-speaking viewers were bothered by the accents of the leading actors. Neither Chow (a native Cantonese
Cantonese

Cantonese generally refers to people or things associated with a region around the Chinese province of Guangdong or its capital, Guangzhou.* Cantonese, a branch of the Chinese language family, spoken in Guangdong and neighboring provinces...
 speaker) nor Yeoh (an overseas Chinese
Overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese people birth or descent who live outside the territories administered by the rival governments of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China ....
 born and raised in Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
) speaks Mandarin as a mother tongue. All four main actors spoke with different accents: Chow speaks with a Cantonese accent; Yeoh with a Malaysian accent; Chang Chen a Taiwanese accent; and Zhang Ziyi a Beijing accent. Yeoh responded to this complaint in a December 28, 2000 interview with Cinescape. She argued that "My character lived outside of Beijing, and so I didn’t have to do the Beijing accent." When the interviewer, Craig Reid, remarked that "My mother-in-law has this strange Szechuan-Mandarin accent that’s hard for me to understand," Yeoh responded: "Yes, provinces all have their very own strong accents. When we first started the movie, Cheng Pei Pei was going to have her accent, and Chang Zhen was going to have his accent, and this person would have that accent. And in the end nobody could understand what they were saying. Forget about us, even the crew from Beijing thought this was all weird."

The film led to a boost in popularity of Chinese wuxia
Wuxia

Wuxia or Wuxi? . Wuxi? is a Chinese martial literary form that has figured prominently in the popular culture of Chinese-speaking areas since ancient times to the present; the most important Wuxi? writers have devoted followings....
 films in the western world
Western world

The term Western world, the West or the Occident can have multiple meanings dependent on its context . Accordingly, the basic definition of what constitutes "the West" varies, expanding and contracting over time, in relation to various historical circumstances....
, where they were previously little known, and led to films such as House of Flying Daggers
House of Flying Daggers

House of Flying Daggers , is a Chinese films of the 2000s Cinema of China action film/romance film directed by Zhang Yimou. The film is in the wuxia genre, similar in style to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero , and Warriors of Heaven and Earth....
 and Hero
Hero (2002 film)

Hero is a Chinese films of the 2000s Cinema of China martial arts film, directed by Zhang Yimou with music by Tan Dun. Starring Jet Li as the nameless protagonist, the movie is loosely based on the legendary Jing Ke....
 marketed towards western audiences. The film also provided the breakthrough role for Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actresses. Zhang is considered one of the Four Young Dan actresses in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun....
's career, who noted that:

The film also ranks at number 497 on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.

Awards


Won

  • ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards: Top Box Office Films (Tan Dun)
  • Academy Awards
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
    :
    • Best Foreign Language Film (Taiwan)
    • Best Cinematography (Peter Pau)
    • Best Music, Original Score (Tan Dun)
    • Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Timmy Yip [art director])
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
    Saturn Award

    The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and Horror fiction in film, television, and home video....
     ("Saturn Award"): Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film
  • Australian Film Institute
    Australian Film Institute

    The Australian Film Institute , established in 1958, is an organisation that promotes Australian film and television through the annual Australian Film Institute Awards, a membership program and AFI film events throughout the year....
    : Best Foreign Film
  • BAFTA Awards:
    • David Lean Award for Direction (Ang Lee)
    • Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music (Tan Dun)
    • Best Costume Design (Timmy Yip)
  • Bergen International Film Festival
    Bergen International Film Festival

    The Bergen International Film Festival is a film festival held annually in Bergen, Norway, Norway since 2000 in Bergen, Norway. The 9th edition of the festival will run from the 15th to the 22nd of October....
    : Audience Award (Ang Lee)
  • Bodil Awards
    Bodil Awards

    The Bodil Awards are the major Denmark film awards, given annually by the Denmark's National Association of Film Critics at a ceremony in the Imperial Theater, Copenhagen in central Copenhagen....
    : Best Non-American Film
  • Bogey Awards
    Bogey Awards

    The Bogey Awards is a series of Germany film awards. The award is based on the number of people seeing a film within a given time frame. The prize is awarded by the industry's trade journal "Blickpunkt: Film."...
     (Germany): Bogey Award
  • Boston Society of Film Critics
    Boston Society of Film Critics

    The Boston Society of Film Critics is an organization of film reviewers from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, based publications.The BSFC was formed in 1981 to make "Boston's unique critical perspective heard on a national and international level by awarding commendations to the best of the year's films and filmmakers and local film t...
    : Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography (Peter Pau)
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association
    Broadcast Film Critics Association

    The Broadcast Film Critics Association is the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and Canada, representing 199 television, radio and online critics....
    : Best Foreign Language Film
  • Chicago Film Critics Association
    Chicago Film Critics Association

    The Chicago Film Critics Association is an American film criticism association....
    : Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography (Peter Pau), Best Original Score (Tan Dun)
  • Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
    Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

    The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association is an organization of 35 print, radio/TV and internet journalists from Dallas-Fort Worth-based publications....
    : Best Foreign Film, Best Cinematography (Peter Pau)
  • Directors Guild of America
    Directors Guild of America

    Directors Guild of America is the trade union which represents the interests of film director and television director directors in the United States motion picture industry....
    : Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (Ang Lee)
  • Film Critics Circle of Australia
    Film Critics Circle of Australia

    The Film Critics Circle of Australia is a non-profit organisation, a group of film criticism that judge Australian films....
    : Best Foreign Language Film
  • Flanders International Film Festival (Belgium): Georges Delerue Prize (Tan Dun)
  • Florida Film Critics Circle
    Florida Film Critics Circle

    The Florida Film Critics Circle is an organization of film reviewers from fourteen Florida-based publications and websites. In December, the FFCC meets to vote on their awards for films released during that year....
    : Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography (Peter Pau)
  • Golden Bauhinia Awards
    Golden Bauhinia Awards

    Golden Bauhinia Awards is a Hong Kong film awards organised by the Hong Kong Film Critics Association. Its first award presentation ceremony took place in 1996....
     (Hong Kong): Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Ziyi Zhang), Golden Bauhinia - Best Director (Ang Lee)
  • Golden Globe Awards:
    • Best Foreign Language Film (Taiwan)
    • Best Director - Motion Picture (Ang Lee)
  • Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan): Best Picture (Ang Lee), Best Action Direction (Woo-ping Yuen), Best Editing (Tim Squyres), Best Sound Effects (Eugene Gearty), Best Visual Effects (Leo Lo and Rob Hodgson)
  • Golden Trailer Awards
    Golden Trailer Awards

    The Golden Trailer Awards is an annual awards show that honors achievements in Motion Picture Marketing, including film trailers, posters and television advertisements....
    : Best Art and Commerce (for the trailer), Best Romance (for the trailer)
  • Grammy Awards:
    • Best Score Soundtrack Album
      Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (soundtrack)

      Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the original soundtrack album of the 2000 in film Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon starring Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang and Chen Chang....
       For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media (Tan Dun)
  • Hong Kong Film Awards
    Hong Kong Film Awards

    The Hong Kong Film Awards , founded in 1982, are the most prestigious List of film awards in Hong Kong and among the most respected in mainland China and Taiwan....
    : Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Pei-pei Cheng), Best Director (Ang Lee), Best Cinematography (Peter Pau), Best Original Film Score (Tan Dun), Best Original Film Song (CoCo Lee [performer]), Best Action Choreography (Woo-ping Yuen), Best Sound Design (Eugene Gearty)
  • Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
    Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards

    The Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards are an annual award given by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society in Hong Kong, China since 1995. It is not to be confused with the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Bauhinia Awards organised by the Hong Kong Film Critics Association....
    : Special Achievement Award (Woo-ping Yuen)
  • Hugo Awards: Best Dramatic Presentation
  • Independent Spirit Awards
    Independent Spirit Awards

    The Independent Spirit Awards , founded in 1984 in film, are awards dedicated to Independent film.Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films....
    : Best Feature, Best Supporting Female (Ziyi Zhang), Best Director (Ang Lee)
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle
    Kansas City Film Critics Circle

    The Kansas City Film Critics Circle is a group of media film critics and one of the oldest recognized voting groups in the country. It was founded by the late Dr....
    : Best Foreign Language Film
  • London Film Critics Circle
    London Film Critics Circle

    The London Film Critics' Circle is the name by which the Film Section of the The Critics' Circle is known internationally.The word London was added because it was thought the term Critics' Circle Film Awards lacked meaning ? for people in LA for example ? and the Film Section wished its annual Awards to be recognised on film advertising, es...
    : Best Foreign Language Film
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association
    Los Angeles Film Critics Association

    The Los Angeles Film Critics Association was founded in 1975. Its main purpose is to present yearly awards to members of the film industry who have excelled in their fields....
    : Best Picture, Best Cinematography (Peter Pau), Best Music Score (Tan Dun), Best Production Design (Timmy Yip)
  • MTV Movie Awards
    MTV Movie Awards

    The MTV Movie Awards is a film awards show presented annually on MTV . It also contains movie parodies that used official movie footage with hosts and other celebrities and music performances....
    : Best Fight (Ziyi Zhang vs. entire bar)
  • Motion Picture Sound Editors
    Motion Picture Sound Editors

    Founded in 1953, Motion Picture Sound Editors is an honorary society of motion picture sound editors. The society's goals are to educate others about and increase the recognition of the sound editors, show the artistic merit of the Soundtrack, and improve the professional relationship of its members....
     ("Golden Reel Award"): Best Sound Editing - Dialogue & ADR, Domestic Feature Film
  • National Board of Review: Best Foreign Language Film
  • New York Film Critics Circle: Best Cinematographer (Peter Pau)
  • Online Film Critics Society
    Online Film Critics Society

    The Online Film Critics Society is a professional association for film critics as well as film journalists, scholars, and historians who publish their reviews, interviews and essays on the Internet....
    : Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography (Peter Pau)
  • Robert Festival (Denmark): Best Non-American Film
  • Satellite Awards: Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
    Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

    Science Fiction Writers of America, or SFWA , was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight. The organization has since changed its name to Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., but continues with the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the acronym SFFWA....
    : Best Script
  • Southeastern Film Critics Association
    Southeastern Film Critics Association

    The Southeastern Film Critics Association is an organization of film reviewers from publications based in the Southeastern United States.In December of each year, the SEFCA meets to vote on their Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards for films released in the same calendar year....
    : Best Foreign Language Film
  • Toronto Film Critics Association
    Toronto Film Critics Association

    The Toronto Film Critics Association is an organization of film reviewers from Toronto-based publications. As of 1999, the TFCA is member of FIPRESCI....
    : Best Picture, Best Supporting Performance - Female (Ziyi Zhang)
  • Toronto International Film Festival
    Toronto International Film Festival

    The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario. The festival begins the Thursday night after Labour Day#Labour Day in Canada and lasts for ten days....
    : People's Choice Award (Ang Lee)
  • Young Artist Awards: Best Young Actress in an International Film (Ziyi Zhang)


Nominations

  • Academy Awards
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
    :
    • Best Picture (Murphy)
    • Best Director (Ang Lee)
    • Best Adapted Screenplay (Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai)
    • Best Costume Design (Timmy Yip)
    • Best Editing (Tim Squyres)
    • Best Original Song (Jorge Calandrelli, Tan Dun [composers] and James Schamus [lyricist] Coco Lee
      CoCo Lee

      Ferren Lee-Kelly , popularly known as Coco Lee, is a China singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. She is the only Asian artist to have multiple top-three singles in the MTV Asia Hitlist....
       [performer]) - for the song "A Love Before Time"
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
    Saturn Award

    The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and Horror fiction in film, television, and home video....
     ("Saturn Award"): Best Actor (Yun-Fat Chow), Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actress (Ziyi Zhang), Best Director (Ang Lee), Best Writing (Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai), Best Music (Tan Dun and Yo-Yo Ma), Best Costumes (Timmy Yip)
  • Amanda Awards (Norway): Best Foreign Feature Film
  • American Cinema Editors
    American Cinema Editors

    Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing itself....
     ("Eddie Award"): Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic (Tim Squyres)
  • American Society of Cinematographers
    American Society of Cinematographers

    The American Society of Cinematographers is an educational, cultural, and professional organization. It is not a labor union, and it is not a guild....
    : Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases
  • Art Directors Guild
    Art Directors Guild

    The The Art Directors Guild is a local union of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees representing approximately 2,000 motion picture and television professions based in the Western United States....
    : Excellence in Production Design Award Feature Film - Period or Fantasy Films
  • BAFTA Awards:
    • Best Film
    • Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh)
    • Best Supporting Actress (Ziyi Zhang)
    • Best Screenplay - Adapted (James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang and Kuo Jung Tsai)
    • Best Cinematography (Peter Pau)
    • Best Editing (Tim Squyres)
    • Best Sound (Drew Kunin, Reilly Steele, Eugene Gearty and Robert Fernandez)
    • Best Production Design (Timmy Yip)
    • Best Make Up/Hair (Yun-Ling Man and Siu-Mui Chau)
    • Best Special Visual Effects (Rob Hodgson, Leo Lo, Jonathan F. Styrlund, Bessie Cheuk and Travis Baumann)
  • Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Action Team [Internet Only] (Yun-Fat Chow and Michelle Yeoh)
  • British Society of Cinematographers
    British Society of Cinematographers

    The British Society of Cinematographers was formed in 1949 by Bert Easey, the then head of the Denham and Pinewood studio camera departments....
    : Best Cinematography Award (Peter Pau)
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association
    Broadcast Film Critics Association

    The Broadcast Film Critics Association is the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and Canada, representing 199 television, radio and online critics....
    : Best Picture


See also

  • A Love Before Time
    A Love Before Time

    "A Love Before Time" was the end-credit title song of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The song was nominated for Academy Award for Best Song in 2000....
     (end-credit title song)
  • Cinema of China
    Cinema of China

    The Chinese language film has three distinct historical threads: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China, and Cinema of Taiwan. After 1949 and until recent times, the cinema of mainland China operated under restrictions imposed by the Communist Party of China....
  • Cinema of Hong Kong
    Cinema of Hong Kong

    The Movie theater of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language film, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan....
  • Cinema of Taiwan
    Cinema of Taiwan

    The history of Chinese language film has three separate threads of development: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China and Cinema of Taiwan. Taiwanese cinema grew up outside of the Hong Kong mainstream and the censorship of the People's Republic of China....
  • New Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    New Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    New Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2004 film based on Wang Dulu by Wang Du Lu. The film is composed of footage from a Taiwanese television series....


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