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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia martial arts film directed by Ang Lee, a Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland Chinese and American co-production following two warriors pursuing a stolen sword and a headstrong young noblewoman drawn into their world of martial arts clans. The film paired wire-assisted action choreography by Yuen Woo-ping with a deliberately restrained, literary tone, giving Western audiences an unusually prestige-scale introduction to the wuxia genre long established in Chinese-language cinema. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and became the first Chinese-language film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, alongside major international box-office success.

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Chinese 1
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Academy Award for Best International Feature Film 1
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Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film 1
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Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation 1
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Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award 1
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2000 1
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China 1
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  • lead paragraph, first sentence
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee
  • Production section
    Although its Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Description, original language
    The film paired wire-assisted action choreography by Yuen Woo-ping with a deliberately restrained, literary tone, giving Western audiences an unusually prestige-scale introduction to the wuxia genre long established in Chinese-language cinema.
  • Wikipedia category, checked 2026-09-27
    Category:Best Film Hong Kong Film Award winners
  • Wikipedia category (hugo-award-for-best-dramatic-presentation), checked 2026-09-27
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  • Wikipedia category (toronto-international-film-festival-people-s-choice-award), checked 2026-09-27
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  • Wikipedia category (academy-award-for-best-international-feature-film), checked 2026-09-27
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  • In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung.
  • Created By: Ang Lee, Article lead sentence
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung.
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