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Events on Thursday 18 May 2000 1
2000Release of Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonAng Lee's martial-arts epic becomes a global hitAng Lee's Mandarin-language wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2000 and opened widely later that year. It became the highest-grossing foreign-language film in United States history to that point and won four Academy Awards. Its wire-assisted fight choreography influenced action cinema worldwide.