Director
Ang Lee
5 films•1995–2012•Drama · Romance · Action
86%average critics74%average audience$102.2Mdomestic average
Films
5
1995–2012
Domestic
$511.0M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.38B
lifetime
Avg opening
$20.1M
3-day
Avg legs
10.8x
opening → total
Return
4.5x
on $304.5M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 5 films directed by Ang Lee, from Sense and Sensibility (1995) to Life of Pi (2012), together grossing $511.0M domestic and $1.38B worldwide. The biggest hit is Life of Pi (2012) at $609.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Hulk (2003) at $62.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Life of Pi | 2012 | $22.5M | $125.0M | 5.57x | $609.0M | A- | 86% | #27 |
 Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | $5.8M | $83.0M | 14.3x | $178.0M | — | 88% | #23 |
 Hulk | 2003 | $62.1M | $132.0M | 2.13x | $245.0M | B- | 63% | #15 |
 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | $6.8M | $128.0M | 18.8x | $214.0M | — | 96% | #12 |
 Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | $3.3M | $43.0M | 13.0x | $135.0M | — | 97% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 4.2 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.5x
$1.38B worldwide on $304.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $511.0MInternational $870.0M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven12.7x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
What’s next
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Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.