Crouching Tiger Wins Another Award

On Saturday, the Directors Guild of America presented Ang Lee with the award for outstanding directorial achievement in feature film, choosing his work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon over Ridley Scott’s Gladiator. In response to the unexpected award, Lee stated his hopes that his success will inspire more film-makers to create movies different from the standard Hollywood formula. Lee stated, “Mainstream films have occupied Hollywood but you can get bored very easily. It can be very repetitive and I think now we want something fresh and something inspiring and different, daring. The mainstream film is very expensive to make and it scares people. It’s made for the worldwide audience, you have to please so many people, and the business men start running the movies rather than artists. This is back to the oldest way of Hollywood filmmaking, creating a fantasy, but it has been lost. It seems to take a foreign language film to recoup that ultimate movie viewing experience.”

Source: Internet Movie Database