Filmmakers

Tony Leung

An Asian cinema icon for nearly two decades, Tony Leung Chiu-wai has also made his mark worldwide, recognized by critics and audiences for his versatility as an actor.

Best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar Wai, Mr. Leung has appeared in six of the writer/director's nine features. Following a cameo appearance in Days of Being Wild, he has starred in Ashes of Time, for which he won several awards; in Chungking Express, for which he received the Best Actor prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards; Happy Together, for which he again received the Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards; In the Mood for Love, for which he was named Best Actor at the 2000 Cannes International Film Festival and at the Hong Kong Film Awards; and 2046, for which he won Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

Mr. Leung's other notable films include John Woo's classics Bullet in the Head and Hard-Boiled; Zhang Yimou's Hero; Ching Siu-tung's A Chinese Ghost Story III; Tran Anh-hung's Cyclo; Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Flowers of Shanghai; and Andrew Lau and Siu Fai Mak's Infernal Affairs, Infernal Affairs III, and Confession of Pain. He is currently reteaming with John Woo on the epic Red Cliff.

Tang Wei

Tang Wei makes her feature film debut in Lust, Caution.

She was born in Hangzhou, the beautiful city near Shanghai, China.

As a teenager, Ms. Tang began modelling. In 2004, she made it to the final round of the Miss Universe pageant in Beijing.

She graduated from China's Central Academy of Drama with a major in Film Directing.

Ms. Tang is already a rising star in mainland China, having performed in stage plays and in the telefilm Jinghua Swallow. The latter earned her the Best Actress award at the 2006 CCTV Movie Channel Awards.

She has also written short novels and stage dramas, and directed theater productions.

Joan Chen

Joan Chen was born in Shanghai, China. As a teenager, she was selected for the Actor's Training Program by the Shanghai Film Studio.

Her first starring role was in the movie Youth, on which she worked with acclaimed director Xie Jin. Her next starring role, in Zhang Zheng's The Little Flower, won her the Best Actress Award in China.

Ms. Chen left China for America to study filmmaking, and graduated with honors from California State University, Northridge. She resumed her acting career in the U.S. and abroad, playing leading roles in Daryl Duke's Tai-Pan; Bernardo Bertolucci's Academy Award-winning The Last Emperor; David Webb Peoples' The Blood of Heroes; Stephen Wallace's Turtle Beach; John Madden's Golden Gate; and Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth. She also starred as Josie Packard in the classic television series Twin Peaks.

In 1993, she returned to her hometown of Shanghai to star in Stanley Kwan's Red Rose, White Rose, which was adapted from a novel by "Lust, Caution" author Eileen Chang. Ms. Chen's performance as Red Rose earned her the Golden Horse Award (Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscar) and the Hong Kong Film Critics Society award for Best Actress.

She made her directorial debut with the critically acclaimed feature Xiu Xiu, The Sent-Down Girl, for which she also co-wrote the screenplay adaptation with author Yan Geling. The film was released internationally in the spring of 1999 and went on to win awards all over the world, including Golden Horse Awards for Best Picture and Director. Ms. Chen was honored by the National Board or Review with the International Freedom of Expression Award; and was named by Variety as one of its "10 Directors to Watch." Her second effort behind the camera was Autumn in New York, starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder.

In recent years, Ms. Chen returned to China to star in three features; Hou Yong's Jasmine, Zhang Yang's Sunflower, and Jiang Wen's The Sun Also Rises. Additionally, she starred in Alice Wu's independent feature Saving Face and Tony Ayres' Australian independent feature The Home Song Stories.

Wang Leehom

A native of Rochester, New York, Wang Leehom is a pop music idol and actor in Asia. He did not study Chinese until he was 17 years old, but is now fluent in both speaking and writing it.

While he has appeared in a few movies – such as Stanley Tong's China Strike Force – he is best known for composing and producing 12 solo albums that have sold over 10 million copies worldwide. After studying at the Eastman School of Music, Williams College, and the Berklee College of Music, he burst onto China's pop music scene in 1998 with his album "Revolution." At Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards – China's equivalent of the Grammy Awards – he won both the Best Male Artist of the Year and Best Producer of the Year awards, and was the youngest artist ever to win either prize.

Mr. Wang has been nominated for the Best Male Artist award every year since then, solidifying his presence as one of the most influential and prolific artists in Asian music. He won Golden Melody Awards for Best Producer and Best Male Artist again in 2003 and 2006, respectively.

On his albums and in his live concerts, he plays many instruments; these include piano, drums, guitar, bass, violin, vibraphone, erhu, and xun. Mr. Wang's concert tours entail large-scale 3-hour-long shows in Asia's biggest arenas. His 2006 tour took him through China, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and – in a sold-out performance for 80,000 fans – Shanghai.

His musical education enables him to explore a variety of styles, and a sound that is distinctively Chinese yet also global. His 2005 album "Shangri-la" combined rhythm and blues with hip-hop as well as tribal music from Tibet, Mongolia, and Yunan; his 2006 album "Heroes of Earth" incorporated Beijing opera and its forerunner Kun Qu.

Mr. Wang is active in many charities and educational initiatives. In 2002, he was appointed by UNICEF as the Youth Ambassador to Nepal. In 2003, during the SARS epidemic, he wrote and produced the research benefit song "Hand in Hand," which was performed by 85 Chinese artists.

He has also been the National Geographic Channel spokesperson in Hong Kong, and as such recorded an album "Nature," dedicated to Jane Goodall; starred in Ashes to Ashes, the Hong Kong government-sponsored anti-smoking short film; recorded, with Tetsuya Komuro, the song "Happiness x3, Loneliness x3" for the Japanese government's anti-drug campaign; wrote "Love Will Never Disappear," performed by A-Mei Chang as a fundraiser for disaster relief following Taiwan's 1999 earthquake; and, with the help of his fans over the Internet, composed the song "Frozen Dreams," the proceeds of which went to Taiwan's Education Foundation for Youth.

Mr. Wang's newest album, released in July 2007, is "Change Me"; it is aimed at raising Asian awareness of global warming and environmental considerations.

He and his Lust, Caution director Ang Lee were recently listed among "The 80 Most Inspiring Asian-Americans of All Time," by Goldsea Asian-American Daily.

Ang Lee

In 2006, Ang Lee won the Best Director Academy Award for Brokeback Mountain.

The Focus Features film won 2 additional Academy Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay (Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana) and Best Original Score (Gustavo Santaolalla) – and was nominated for 5 more, including Best Picture. Mr. Lee also won the Directors Guild of America, BAFTA, Independent Spirit, and Golden Globe Awards for Best Director, among other industry accolades. The film won 3 additional Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture [Drama]; the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature; 3 additional BAFTA Awards, including Best Film; and the Golden Lion Award, for Best Picture, at the 2005 Venice International Film Festival, among awards all over the world.

Additionally, Mr. Lee and the film's star Jake Gyllenhaal were honored with the Human Rights Campaign Equality Award; and Brokeback Mountain was named Outstanding Film [Wide Release] by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's (GLAAD) Media Awards.

In 2001, as director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Mr. Lee received the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.

Based on a novel by Du Lu Wang, that film won 3 additional Academy Awards – Best Cinematography (Peter Pau), Best Original Score (Tan Dun), and Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Tim Yip) – and was nominated for 6 more, including Best Picture and Best Director. Mr. Lee won the Directors Guild of America, BAFTA, and Golden Globe Awards for Best Director, among other honors.

Born and raised in Taiwan, Mr. Lee moved to the United States in 1978. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre from the University of Illinois, he went to New York University to complete a Masters of Fine Arts Degree in film production. His short film Fine Line won Best Director and Best Film awards at the annual NYU Film Festival.

His first feature film, Pushing Hands, was screened at the 1992 Berlin International Film Festival and won Best Film at the Asian-Pacific Film Festival. The film was also nominated for 9 Golden Horse Awards (Taiwan's equivalent of the Academy Award).

Pushing Hands was also the first film in his "Father Knows Best" trilogy, all of which starred actor Sihung Lung. The next film in the trilogy, The Wedding Banquet, premiered at the 1993 Berlin International Film Festival. It won the top prize (the Golden Bear) there and subsequently opened to international acclaim. The film was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, and received 6 Independent Spirit Award nominations.

Mr. Lee capped the trilogy with Eat Drink Man Woman, which was selected as the opening night feature for the Directors Fortnight section of the 1994 Cannes International Film Festival. Named Best Foreign-Language Film by the National Board of Review, the film was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, and received 6 Independent Spirit Award nominations.

In 1995, he directed Sense and Sensibility, starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet. The film was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won for Best Adapted Screenplay (Emma Thompson, from the Jane Austen novel). Sense and Sensibility also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture [Drama] and Best Screenplay; was named Best Picture by BAFTA, the Boston Society of Film Critics, and the National Board of Review; and won the top prize (the Golden Bear) at the 1996 Berlin International Film Festival. Mr. Lee was cited as Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review, and the Boston Society of Film Critics.

Mr. Lee next directed The Ice Storm, adapted by James Schamus from Rick Moody's novel, and starring Joan Allen, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Christina Ricci, and Tobey Maguire. The film premiered at the 1997 Cannes International Film Festival (where it won the Best Screenplay award), and was selected as the opening night feature for the 1997 New York Film Festival. For her performance in the film, Sigourney Weaver won a BAFTA Award, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, for Best Supporting Actress.

Mr. Lee's subsequent films were Ride with the Devil (adapted by James Schamus from Daniel Woodrell's novel, and reteaming the director with actor Tobey Maguire); the aforementioned Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; the boxoffice hit The Hulk (starring Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly); and the aforementioned Brokeback Mountain.

Wang Hui Ling

Lust, Caution marks Wang Hui Ling's third collaboration with director Ang Lee and screenwriter/producer James Schamus.

The trio first wrote Mr. Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman, which was selected as the opening night feature for the Directors Fortnight section of the 1994 Cannes International Film Festival. Named Best Foreign-Language Film by the National Board of Review, the film was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, and received 6 Independent Spirit Award nominations.

Ms. Wang next teamed with Mr. Schamus to co-write (with Tsai Jung Kuo) a screenplay adaptation of Du Lu Wang's book Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Directed by Mr. Lee, the film version won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film and 3 other Oscars, and was nominated for 6 more, including Best Picture; with her fellow writers, Ms. Wang was an Academy Award nominee in the Best Adapted Screenplay category, and was also nominated for Writers Guild of America, Independent Spirit, BAFA, and Hong Kong Film Awards.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she graduated from Taipei College of Education, where she majored in piano. While in college, she began writing for film and television.

Ms. Wang's other screenwriting credits include Yah Ming Ding's miniseries April Rhapsody; Hsu Li-Kong and Yin Chi's Fleeing by Night; Yah Ming Ding's Migratory Bird; co-writing Stanley Tong's The Myth, starring Jackie Chan; Dongyu Fu's television series Thank You For Having Loved Me; and co-writing John Woo's upcoming The Battle of Red Cliff, which stars Tony Leung of Lust, Caution.

She also wrote the television documentary series The Legend of Eileen Chang, about the late author and screenwriter who wrote the original short story Lust, Caution, among other works.

James Schamus

An integral contributor to the American independent film business for over a decade, James Schamus has the unique distinction of being an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and producer who is also a film executive.

He is chief executive officer (CEO) of Focus Features, a motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company committed to bringing moviegoers the most original stories from the world's most innovative filmmakers. He formed Focus with David Linde in May 2002.

Mr. Schamus has had a long collaboration as writer and producer with Ang Lee, on ten feature films. The director's Brokeback Mountain, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, was released worldwide through Focus Features and is Focus' all-time top-grosser, with global ticket sales of over $180 million. Brokeback Mountain, on which Mr. Schamus served as a producer, won, among other honors, 3 Academy Awards; 4 Golden Globe Awards; 4 BAFTA Awards; and the Producers Guild of America's top prize, the [Darryl F. Zanuck] Producer of the Year Award, Theatrical Motion Pictures.

Prior to Lust, Caution and Brokeback Mountain, the duo's earlier films together include The Hulk (which Mr. Schamus wrote and produced); Ride with the Devil (which Mr. Schamus produced and adapted); The Ice Storm (which Mr. Schamus produced and adapted, earning the Best Screenplay prize at the 1997 Cannes International Film Festival as well as WGA and BAFTA Award nominations); Sense and Sensibility (which Mr. Schamus co-produced); Eat Drink Man Woman (which Mr. Schamus co-wrote and associate-produced); The Wedding Banquet (which Mr. Schamus co-wrote and produced); and Pushing Hands (which Mr. Schamus produced).

Prior to the formation of Focus, Mr. Schamus was co-president of the independent film production company Good Machine, which he co-founded in 1991. Mr. Schamus and his partners at the company produced over 40 films during an 11-year period, in partnership with filmmakers such as Mr. Lee, Todd Solondz, and Nicole Holofcener. Through its financing and distribution arm, Good Machine International, the company represented dozens more filmmakers, among them Pedro Almodóvar and the Coen Brothers. Good Machine was honored with a 10-year retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Mr. Schamus is also a screenwriter, and received Academy Award nominations in the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Song categories for his work on Mr. Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The blockbuster Good Machine feature, which Mr. Schamus co-wrote and executive-produced, won 4 Academy Awards.

He executive-produced several Good Machine features that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, including Edward Burns' The Brothers McMullen, Tom Noonan's What Happened Was…, and Todd Haynes' Poison. Among the other films that he executive-produced at Good Machine are Paul Schrader's AutoFocus, Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers, Todd Solondz' Happiness, Bart Freundlich's The Myth of Fingerprints, Cindy Sherman's Office Killer, Nicole Holofcener's Walking and Talking, and Todd Haynes' Safe.

Mr. Schamus is also Associate Professor in Columbia University's School of the Arts, and he currently serves on the board of directors of Creative Capital. He was the 2006 Presidential Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, and received his Ph.D. in English from U.C. Berkeley in 2003.

He was honored with the NBC Screenwriter Tribute at the 2002 Nantucket Film Festival as well as with the Writers Guild of America, East's 2003 Richard B. Jablow Award for devoted service to the Guild.

Focus' celebrated releases have included four more Academy Award winners, Roman Polanski's The Pianist, Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener, Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries; and Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven, François Ozon's Swimming Pool, and Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams. Focus' second-highest-grossing film to date (after Brokeback Mountain) is Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, which grossed over $100 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Current and upcoming Focus Features releases, in addition to Lust, Caution, include Lajos Koltai's Evening, starring Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Mamie Gummer, Eileen Atkins, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close; Kasi Lemmons' Talk to Me, starring Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor; Shane Acker's animated fantasy epic 9, starring Elijah Wood and Jennifer Connelly; Henry Selick's stop-motion animated feature Coraline, starring Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher; Joe Wright's Atonement, starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, and Romola Garai; David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, and Vincent Cassel; Terry George's Reservation Road, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly, and Mira Sorvino; Martin McDonagh's In Bruges, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Ralph Fiennes; Bharat Nalluri's Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams; and Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, and Brad Pitt.

In addition to Lust, Caution and the majority of the previously mentioned titles, the company's Focus Features International division is also currently handling the overseas sales and distribution of among other films, Fernando Meirelles' Blindness, starring Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore; Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind, starring Jack Black and Mos Def; Justin Chadwick's The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Bana; Peter Hedges' Dan in Real Life, starring Steve Carell, Dane Cook, and Juliette Binoche; Sean Penn's Into the Wild, starring Emile Hirsch, Catherine Keener, and Vince Vaughn; and Carlos Cuarón's Rudo y Cursi, starring Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.

Focus Features and Focus Features International are part of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric and 20% owned by Vivendi.

Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang (1920-1995) is the most influential writer in China's modern literary era. Her unique style continues to impact readers and writers across Asia and all over the world.

She studied literature at the University of Hong Kong, and began her writing career in her native Shanghai. It was there that she wrote and published two works, "Romances" and "Written on Water," that established her reputation. After living in Hong Kong for several years, she emigrated to the United States, and lived and worked for the last few decades of her life in California.

She wrote short stories (including "Se, Jei" ["Lust, Caution"]), prose, reviews, stage dramas, translations, and novels. Several of her novels, including "Love in a Fallen City," "Eighteen Springs," and "Rouge of the North" have been adapted into feature films. The film versions of the latter two novels were directed by Ann Hui.

Ms. Chang's translation of the novel "Flowers of Shanghai" was filmed by director Hou Hsiao-hsien, and starred Tony Leung of Lust, Caution. The feature adaptation of her novel "Red Rose, White Rose," directed by Stanley Kwan, starred Joan Chen of Lust, Caution.

She also wrote feature film screenplays, for such directors as Yueh Feng (The Wayward Husband and The Battle of Love) and Wang Tian-lin (The Greatest Wedding on Earth, Father Takes a Bride, and The Greatest Love Affair on Earth).

Ms. Chang's writings have been translated into English, Japanese, Korean, French, and German, among other languages.

Bill Kong

Bill Kong was an Academy Award nominee, and won BAFTA and Independent Spirit Awards, as producer of Ang Lee's martial arts epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which won 4 Academy Awards (Best Foreign-Language Film, Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography) and 2 Golden Globe Awards (Best Foreign-Language Film and Best Director). The film was also a blockbuster hit, and became the most popular foreign-language film ever in the U.S.

Mr. Kong is head of Edko Films, one of Hong Kong's longest-standing independent film companies.

His inaugural 1993 production, The Blue Kite (directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang), was named Best Film at the Hawaii and Tokyo International Film Festivals. He next produced Yim Ho's The Day the Sun Turned Cold, which also won the top prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival (as well as Best Director honors there).

In 2002, he produced an ambitious and acclaimed slate of feature films. They included Sun Zhou's Zhou Yu's Train, starring Gong Li; Tian Zhuangzhuang's remake of Springtime in a Small Town, which won prizes at the Toronto and Venice International Film Festivals; and Zhang Yimou's Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-nominated martial arts drama, Hero. The latter film, Kong's first collaboration with superstar Jet Li, smashed box-office records when it opened in China before continuing on to blockbuster success worldwide.

Kong's subsequent projects include Kwak Jae-young's Windstruck, the first Korean film ever to open day-and-date in Korea, Hong Kong and China; Secret, written and directed by and starring Jay Chou; the currently lensing Blood: The Last Vampire, a live-action feature directed by Chris Nahon and based on the anime movie of the same name; a second successful collaboration with Jet Li, Jet Li's Fearless, directed by Ronny Yu; and Zhang Yimou's Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-nominated House of Flying Daggers and Academy Award-nominated Curse of the Golden Flower.

Doris Tse

Doris Tse Kar Wai has been a producer on movies in Asia for nearly two decades, and started in the business during the resurgence of Hong Kong cinema.

She is currently co-producing Rob Cohen's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which will be in theatres worldwide in the summer of 2008. The epic adventure tale stars Jet Li, Brendan Fraser, and Maria Bello.

Ms. Tse's early film credits as line producer include Stanley Kwan's award-winning Centre Stage, starring Maggie Cheung; Mabel Cheung's The Soong Sisters, which teamed Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, and Vivian Wu; and Peter Chan's He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father, in which Tony Leung of Lust, Caution appeared. As associate producer, her film projects include Yip Kam Hung's Love Is Not a Game, But a Joke and Metade Fumaca.

She has since produced such features as Wilson Yip's Skyline Cruisers; Yee Chung Man's And I Hate You So; Yip Kam Hung's Lavender, Just One Look, and Elixir of Love; Thomas Chow's Merry-Go-Round; and Mabel Cheung's feature of ten short films addressing 2003's SARS epidemic.

Ms. Tse again reunited with the latter director as co-producer of the notable feature documentary Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan & His Lost Family.

David Lee

David Lee, who was born in Taiwan, began working with Ang Lee while still a student at New York University's film school.

Initially a production assistant, on Pushing Hands, David Lee then became Ang Lee's assistant on The Wedding Banquet. Ever since that time, David Lee has assisted Ang Lee on the latter's feature films.

Rodrigo Prieto A.S.C., A.M.C.

For his work on Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, Rodrigo Prieto was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award. His cinematography on the film was cited as the year's best by the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, the Florida Film Critics Circle, and the Chicago Film Critics Association.

Amores perros brought him to the attention of the world film community. His work on the feature, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, brought Mr. Prieto several honors, including the Silver Ariel Award (Mexico's equivalent of the Academy Award) and the Golden Frog Award at the Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.

His subsequent films as cinematographer have included Michael Cristofer's Original Sin; Julie Taymor's Frida, for which he was an ASC Award nominee; Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile; Spike Lee's 25th Hour; and, again for Alejandro González Iñárritu, the award-winning 21 Grams (also a Focus Features release) and Babel. The latter film earned Mr. Prieto his second consecutive BAFTA Award nomination.

He traveled to Cuba with director Oliver Stone to shoot Comandante, the documentary on Fidel Castro. The two then went to the Middle East to film a documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Persona Non Grata. Their next project together was the epic Alexander, for which Mr. Prieto was honored with the Silver Frog Award at the Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.

He studied at Mexico City's Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica. Prior to Amores perros, he shot 12 Mexican feature films in a decade, winning two previous Silver Ariel Awards for his work on Carlos Carrera's Un Embrujo and Daniel Gruener's Sobrenatural.

Tim Squyres, A.C.E.

Tim Squyres has edited nine previous films for director Ang Lee; Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, the short Chosen (part of the "The Hire" series of BMW Internet short features starring Clive Owen), The Hulk, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

The latter earned Mr. Squyres Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Hong Kong Film Award, and [American Cinema Editors (ACE)] Eddie Award nominations, as well as the Golden Horse Award (Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscar).

He was again an Eddie Award nominee for his work on Robert Altman's Academy Award-winning Gosford Park, which also earned Mr. Squyres an American Film Institute (AFI) Award nomination.

His other feature credits as editor include Stephen Gaghan's Syriana, starring Academy Award winner George Clooney; Paul Auster's Lulu on the Bridge and The Inner Life of Martin Frost; and George Butler's documentary Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Squyres was supervising sound editor on Nancy Savoca's Dogfight and True Love; and Yurek Bogayevicz' Anna, starring Academy Award nominee Sally Kirkland.

He has also edited television documentaries for Bill Moyers (What Can We Do About Violence? and Addiction: Close to Home), Michael Moore, ESPN, and VH1; and commercials and music videos.

Pan Lai

Pan Lai worked as production and costume designer on Lust, Caution, as is customary on Asian films.

His feature work includes several films for Stanley Kwan; among these were Centre Stage (for which Mr. Pan won a Hong Kong Film Award in the art direction category), Full Moon in New York (for which Mr. Pan won a Golden Horse Award, which is Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscar, in the costume design category), and Rouge (for which Mr. Pan won a Golden Horse Award in the art direction category).

He has collaborated with Lust, Caution star Joan Chen on two prior projects. These were Stanley Kwan's Red Rose, White Rose, adapted from a novel by "Lust, Caution" author Eileen Chang, in which Ms. Chen starred and for which Mr. Pan was a double Golden Horse Award winner, in both the art direction and the costume design categories; and Xiu Xiu, The Sent-Down Girl, which won seven Golden Horse Awards, including Best Director for Ms. Chen.

Alexandre Desplat

In January 2007, Alexandre Desplat won the Golden Globe Award for his score for John Curran's The Painted Veil; he was also simultaneously nominated for his score to Stephen Frears' The Queen. He was subsequently an Academy Award nominee for his score for the latter film. His scores for both films earned him the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Best Music award.

Mr. Desplat is a classically trained musician, and fuses that knowledge with his love of American jazz and classic movie scores in the film scores that he composes.

He has composed the music for over four dozen European films, earning two César (France's equivalent of the Oscar) Award nominations, for Jacques Audiard's Un héros très discret [a.k.a. A Self-Made Hero] and Sur mes lèvres [a.k.a. Read My Lips]. Mr. Desplat won the César, and a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, for scoring Mr. Audiard's most recent film, De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté [The Beat That My Heart Skipped].

Mr. Desplat first came to U.S. film industry attention with his score for Peter Webber's Girl with a Pearl Earring. The latter earned him Golden Globe, BAFTA, and European Film Award nominations. His subsequent scores have included the ones for Jonathan Glazer's Birth; Mike Binder's The Upside of Anger; Florent Siri's Hostage; and Stephen Gaghan's Syriana, for which he was again a Golden Globe Award nominee.

He continues to score both U.S. and international features, and is currently completing work on Chris Weitz' globally anticipated The Golden Compass, the film adaptation of the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.