- Diehard NHL fan with his team being the Calgary Flames
- Passed on Terminator 3 in order to direct The Hulk. Oops.
- One of the first directors chosen to do BMW's The Hire commercial series starring Clive Owen
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, his masterpiece, currently holds the record for largest domestic gross for a foreign language film with $128 million
- Has been happily married for almost 25 years, so you can save the Brokeback Mountain jokes.
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Best Director, Academy Awards
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Best Director, Directors' Guild
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Best Director, San Francisco Film Critics Circle
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Best Director, Golden Satellites
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Best Director, National Board of Review
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Best Director, Southeastern Film Critics Association
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Best Director, Spirit Awards
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Best Director, Florida Film Critics
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Best Director, Dallas Fort Worth Critics
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Best Director, Las Vegas Film Critics
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Best Director, Boston Film Critics
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Best Director, Los Angeles Film Critics
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Best Director, Broadcast Film Critics Association
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Best Director, New York Film Critics
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Best Director, Golden Globes
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Best Director, Online Film Critics Association
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Best Director, Chicago Film Critics
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Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards
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Best Director, Washington (DC) Area Film Critics Association
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