10 Great Directors With No Movies In The IMDB Top 250

4. Ang Lee

Ang Lee Hulk
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Highest-Rated Movies: Life Of Pi (7.9) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (7.9)

You've probably seen a whole bunch of Ang Lee movies, but you might not be aware that he made them, such is the ridiculously varied nature of his career in directing.

He's helmed period dramas (Sense And Sensibility), martial arts action flicks (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), superhero blockbusters (Hulk), comedies (Taking Woodstock) and one of the most important movies of the 21st century: Brokeback Mountain, which was notable for its unwavering commitment to portraying a moving love story between two adult men.

The variety of his movies is simply unrivalled, and because of this, you'd expect that at least one of them would inch its way onto the Top 250, but as of now, he's got Life Of Pi and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sitting (crouching?) just outside.

In fairness, his Hulk movie was not received warmly in the slightest (29% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes) and that was probably his best shot at making a widely-beloved movie, purely due to its scope and size.

But the future looks bright. Lee is currently working on the Will Smith-starring Gemini Man, and if Suicide Squad, Bright and Focus tell us anything, it's that people love Will Smith no matter what he's in.

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