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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How many Academy Awards did Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon win?
It won four of its ten Academy Award nominations: art direction, cinematography, original score and foreign language film.
The film received ten Academy Award nominations at the ceremony honoring 2000 films and won four of them: art direction, cinematography, original score and foreign language film. The foreign language film award was credited to Taiwan, even though the film was an international co-production. Ang Lee was nominated for directing and the film was nominated for best picture, but neither won.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee
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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
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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.
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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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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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