FILM DIRECTOR

Ang Lee

1954 - Today

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Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed, hidden emotions. During his career, he has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ang Lee has received more than 5,596,877 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Ang Lee is the 101st most popular film director (up from 103rd in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Taiwan (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Taiwanese Film Director.

Ang Lee is most famous for his films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 73

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ang Lees by language

Over the past year Ang Lee has had the most page views in the with 601,434 views, followed by Chinese (237,559), and Spanish (43,618). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Wu Chinese (124.26%), Malagasy (111.52%), and Irish (78.79%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ang Lee ranks 101 out of 2,041. Before him are René Clair, George Cukor, Sidney Lumet, Michael Mann, Zhang Yimou, and Sam Peckinpah. After him are Marcel Carné, Jean-Pierre Melville, Walter Hill, Mel Brooks, Joris Ivens, and John Carpenter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ang Lee ranks 24. Before him are Fernando Santos, Kazuo Ishiguro, Oprah Winfrey, Dieter Bohlen, Stieg Larsson, and Ray Liotta. After him are Jorge Jesus, Serzh Sargsyan, Annie Lennox, Harald Schumacher, Condoleezza Rice, and Matt Groening.

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In Taiwan

Among people born in Taiwan, Ang Lee ranks 4 out of 116. Before him are Tsai Ing-wen (1956), Teresa Teng (1953), and Lee Teng-hui (1923). After him are Momofuku Ando (1910), William Lai (1959), Chen Shui-bian (1950), Yuan T. Lee (1936), Terry Gou (1950), Chen Chien-jen (1951), Teruo Nakamura (1919), and Shu Qi (1976).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Taiwan

Among film directors born in Taiwan, Ang Lee ranks 1. After him are Justin Lin (1971).

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Filmography

Hulk
Director
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.
Jun 19o 20035.54 / 10
Life of Pi
Director
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Nov 20o 20127.397 / 10
Brokeback Mountain
Director
Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis are hired as sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, they spark a physical relationship. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, they keep up their tortured, sporadic love affair for 20 years.
Sep 10o 20057.8 / 10