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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the Original Soundtrack album of the 2000 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon starring Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang and Chen Chang. The soundtrack was awarded at the Academy Awards, Grammys and BAFTA Awards. The score was also nominated for a Golden Globe.

The score was composed by Tan Dun, originally performed by Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai National Orchestra, and Shanghai Percussion Ensemble. It also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma. The last track (A Love Before Time) features Coco Lee. The orchestras string section was accompanied by traditional Chinese instruments such as the bamboo flute and hand drum, and an ethnic Miao group.

Dun is now a winner of todays most prestigious musical honors including the Grawemeyer Award for classical composition, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award and Musical Americas Composer of The Year.