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Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin Golden Bear 1993 · Winner
Academy Award Foreign Language Film 1994 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film 1994 · Nominated
Five Golden Horse Awards
- It was both a critical and commercial success and won five Golden Horse Awards, including Best Film and Best Director. It received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Foreign-Language Film, as well as six Independent Spirit Award nominations.
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It was both a critical and commercial success and won five Golden Horse Awards, including Best Film and Best Director. It received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Foreign-Language Film, as well as six Independent Spirit Award nominations.
- $23.6 million
- Thierry Schollhammer, Chosei Funahara
- $1 million
- Ang Lee, Ted Hope, James Schamus
Aug 4, 1993 · The Wedding Banquet: Directed by Ang Lee. With Ah-Lei Gua, Sihung Lung, May Chin, Winston Chao. To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
- (17K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Ang Lee
- 1993-08-04
A wedding by a justice of the peace does not match their vision of a suitable ceremony. And then an old friend of the father's materializes, now a successful restaurant owner, and offers to stage a proper Chinese wedding banquet.
Wai-Tung has not been open about his sexuality with his Taiwanese parents (Sihung Lung, Ah-Leh Gua), and decides to acquiesce to their wish for a traditional Chinese union by marrying Wei-Wei (May...
- (387)
- Ang Lee
- R
- Winston Chao
Considering that it cost only $750,000, "The Wedding Banquet," is a remarkably polished looking film. But its biggest strengths have little to do with production values.
Based on cost-to-earnings ratio (with global grosses of $30 million), Wedding Banquet was the most profitable film of 1993, beating even Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. Oscar Context: The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, but did not win.
Nominated for six 1993 Spirit Awards by the Independent Feature Project/West, including best picture, best actor (Mitchell Lichtenstein), best actress (May Chin), best supporting actress (Ah-Leh Gua), best director and best screenplay.