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Ang Lee
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed and hidden emotions. During his career, Lee has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. He is also the only filmmaker to win the Golden Bear twice and one of only four film…
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entertainment · Taiwanese filmmaker (born 1954) · film director · screenwriter · writer · film producer · director · also Ang Lee, Lee Ang, Lee
Born 23 October 1954 · Q160726
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
IndieWire: Andrew Ahn on Adapting Ang Lee’s ‘The Wedding Banquet’ for 2025: ‘What If the Bride Was Also Queer and Had a Queer Partner?’
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2024· 7 entries
Yardbarker: Ang Lee feels 'honored' to receive Lifetime Achievement Award
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Yahoo: Ang Lee to receive lifetime achievement award at DGA Awards
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Variety: Ang Lee Honored With DGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award
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Yahoo: Ang Lee to Receive Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award
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WSLS 10: Ang Lee to receive DGA Lifetime Achievement Award
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The Hollywood Reporter: Ang Lee Will Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor at 2025 DGA Awards
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Deadline.com: Ang Lee Boards Documentary ‘76 Days’ Based On Steven Callahan’s Survival Memoir ‘Adrift’ As Executive Producer
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ang Lee casts son Mason to play Bruce Lee in biopic
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2021· 3 entries
Lee received the Presidential Culture Award in the arts and culture category from Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2021).
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Awarded Asia's Most Influential Taiwan (2021).
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2020· 1 entry
Received a BAFTA Fellowship for his Outstanding Contributions to British Cinema
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2019· 2 entries
To negative reviews and flopped at the box office
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The Guardian: Ang Lee: 'I know I'm gonna get beat up. But I have to keep trying'
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ang Lee: 'I am Hulk! I am the hidden dragon!'
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2014· 1 entry
In order to make Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Life of Pi (2013).
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Lee began development on a film dramatising Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali's heavyweight title fight, known as the Thrilla in Manila
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Was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2012).
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2007· 2 entries
Won Golden Lion for Lust, Caution (2007).
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Won Golden Horse Award for Best Director for Lust, Caution (2007).
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Brokeback Mountain (2006).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Brokeback Mountain (2006).
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Following his Best Director Oscar, Lee was bestowed the Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon, the second highest civilian award, by the R
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2005· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Brokeback Mountain (2005).
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Awarded Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director for Brokeback Mountain (2005).
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2003· 2 entries
Lee returned to Hollywood to direct the superhero blockbuster Hulk, his second big-budget movie after the disappointment of Ride with the Devil's restricted release
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Lee was ranked 27th in The Guardian's 40 best directors
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001).
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1999· 1 entry
Hsu Li-kong, Lee's old partner and supporter, invited him to make a movie based on the traditional "wuxia" genre concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China
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1996· 1 entry
Won Golden Bear for Sense and Sensibility (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Lee directed Columbia TriStar's British classic Sense and Sensibility based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name
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1994· 1 entry
Hsu invited Lee to return to Taiwan to make Eat Drink Man Woman, a film that depicts traditional values, modern relationships, and family conflicts in Taipei
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1993· 2 entries
Won Golden Horse Award for Best Director for The Wedding Banquet (1993).
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Won Golden Bear for The Wedding Banquet (1993).
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1990· 1 entry
Lee submitted two screenplays, Pushing Hands and The Wedding Banquet, to a competition sponsored by Government Information Office of R
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1985· 1 entry
Lee struggled to find work despite interest from the William Morris Agency, spending several years unemployed while continuing to write screenplays with his wife's support
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1979· 2 entries
To study at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he graduated with his Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater in 1980
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Matriculated at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and subsequently enrolled from the New York University
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1956· 1 entry
When Lee was 2 years old, his family moved to Hualien because his father took a position as the Principal of Taiwan Provincial Hualien Normal School (TPHNS)
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1954· 2 entries
Born 1954-10-23.
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To a waishengren family in a military dependents' village of the Republic of China Armed Forces, located in Chaochou, Pingtung, a southern agricultural county in Taiwan
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1950· 1 entry
And was loosely based on an actual event that took place in 1939–1940 in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China, during World War II
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