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Taiwanese-American film director, Ang Lee has an estimated net worth of $32 million.
Having garnered international acclaim for his work, Taiwanese director Ang Lee was one of the first Chinese-born directors to find critical and commercial success on both sides of the Pacific. Born in 1954 in Taipei, he graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then went to the United States, where he studied theater directing at the University of Illinois and film production at New York University.
After winning awards in 1985 for his student work (while at N.Y.U., he also worked on Spike Lee's acclaimed student film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads), Lee spent the next six years working on screenplays, eventually making his directorial debut in 1992 with Pushing Hands. A comedy about the generational and cultural gaps in a Taiwanese family in New York, it won awards in Lee's native country. His next film, The Wedding Banquet (1993), further explored cultural and generational differences through a gay New Yorker who stages a marriage of convenience to please his visiting Taiwanese parents. The film met with widespread acclaim, winning a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and a Best Director prize at the Seattle Film Festival, as well as Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.
Earnings & Financial Data
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
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2019 |
Asset |
Estimated purchase value of Ang Lee's luxury home in Larchmont, New York |
$2,800,000 |
2019 |
Asset |
Purchase value of Ang Lee's Mercedes Benz, Ford and Alfa Romeo |
$800,000 |
2017 |
Others |
Sales of the video Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as the film's director and producer |
$2,140,000 |
2016 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as the film's director and producer |
$30,930,000 |
2013 |
Others |
Sales of the video Life of Pi as the film's director and producer |
$48,980,000 |
2012 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie Life of Pi as the film's director and producer |
$609,020,000 |
2009 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie Taking Woodstock as the film's director and producer |
$10,070,000 |
2007 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie Se jie or Lust, Caution as the film's director and producer |
$65,170,000 |
2006 |
Others |
Sales of the video Brokeback Mountain as the film's director |
$45,340,000 |
2005 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie Brokeback Mountain as the film's director |
$178,060,000 |
2003 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie The Hulk as the film's director |
$245,360,000 |
2000 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the film's director and producer |
$213,530,000 |
1999 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Ride with the Devil as the film's director |
$635,100 |
1997 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie The Ice Storm as the film's director |
$16,010,000 |
1995 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movies Sense and Sensibility as the film's director and Pushing Hands as the film's director, writer and editor |
$135,140,000 |
1994 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Eat Drink Man Woman as the film's director, writer and editor |
$7,290,000 |
1993 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie The Wedding Banquet as a wedding guest and the film's director and writer |
$6,930,000 |