Oscar nominations, and became the highest grossing foreign-language film ever released in America. Lee then filmed the comic-book adaptation, Hulk (2003) - an elegant（优美的）and skillful film with nice action scenes. Lee has also shot a short film Hire, The Chosen (2001), and is currently working on Brokeback Mountain (2005), a film based on a short story by E. Annie Proulx.

Neil Jordan

Born in 1950 in Sligo, Ireland, Neil Jordan's early career began as a writer. He wrote short stories Night in Tunisia in 1976. He also published three novels, The Past (1979), The Dream of A Beast (1983) and most recently Sunrise with Sea Monster (1994). Jordan's published fiction has been translated into several anguages, including French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese.

In 1982 Neil Jordan wrote and directed his first feature film Angel. The Company of Wolves (1984) was his next film and was honored（给......以荣誉）with Best Film and Best Director Awards by the London Critics Circle.

Mona Lisa followed in 1986, and Mona Lisa was followed by two comedies. One, High Spirits (1988), was set in Ireland. The other, Were No Angels (1989), his first all-American production, starring Robert De Nitro and Sean Penn. He then returned to Ireland to make a much smaller film The Miracle in 1991, which starred Beverly D'Angelo.

In 1992 Jordan wrote and directed The Crying Game which was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Stephen Rea), Best Supporting Actor (Jaye Davidson) and which won Jordan an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

In 1994 Jordan returned to the United States to film an adaptation（改编）of Anne Rice's popular novel Interview With the Vampire. Next came the film of the Irish revolutionary Michael Collins (1996), starring Liam Nelson, Aidan Quinn and Julia Roberts, which won a Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival. In 1999