Sense and Sensibility: Directed by Ang Lee. With James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Kate Winslet. Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance.

Sense and Sensibility (1995) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Lee followed this with Sense and Sensibility (1995), his first Hollywood-mainstream movie. It acquired a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and won Best Adapted Screenplay, for the film's screenwriter and lead actress, Emma Thompson. Lee was also voted the year's Best Director by the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle.

Trying to narrow down the best Austen works is difficult as many will cite Sense and Sensibility, which was adapted into a 1995 film directed by Ang Lee and starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, with Thompson also writing the script, earning her an Oscar.

"Sense and Sensibility" (1981) is a BBC mini-series directed by Rodney Bennett. The basic plot of Jane Austen's novel is familiar. The Dashwood sisters are forced to leave their home because their elder half-brother inherits the estate after their father dies.

Sense and Sensibility: Directed by Ang Lee. With James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Kate Winslet. Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance.

Ang Lee, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, and Imogen Stubbs in Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Sense and Sensibility: Directed by Ang Lee. With James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Kate Winslet. Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The older two daughters are the title opposites.

Sense & Sensibility: With Dominic Cooper, Charity Wakefield, Hattie Morahan, Janet McTeer. In England in the 1800s, sisters Eleanor and Marianne Dashwood try to find love and security. The two could not be more different: where Eleanor is calm and always behaves properly, Marianne is passionate and usually forgets herself.

Ang Lee and Kate Winslet in Sense and Sensibility (1995)