First Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won Golden Globes for best director and best foreign-language film as well as 10 Oscar nominations, and then Lin Cheng-sheng won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Betelnut Beauty.
華裔導演李安以《臥虎藏龍》拿下美國金球獎最佳導演和最佳外語片後，又得到奧斯卡獎十項提名；上月落幕的柏林影展，也將最佳導演頒給《愛你愛我》的台灣導演林正盛。