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Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān ) (born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated Taiwanese director. He was born and raised in Tainan, Taiwan and educated in the United States, where he found success as a Hollywood director. He is best known for his 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, his 2000 wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and his 2005 film Brokeback Mountain.
Many of his films have focused on the interactions between modernity and tradition. His films have also tended to have a light-hearted comic tone which marks a break from the tragic historical realism which characterized Taiwanese filmmaking after the end of the martial law period in 1987. He also created the gay genre in Asian films.
He completed his bachelor's degree in Theater from the University of Illinois and received his MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where in 1984 he made a thesis film called Fine Line. He was a classmate of Spike Lee and worked on the crew of the latter Lee's thesis film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Lee's 2005 film Brokeback Mountain won the best film award at the Venice International Film Festival and has been named 2005's best film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Lee was recognized as Best Director at the 2006 Critic's Choice Awards for Brokeback Mountain, and the film was recognized as Best Picture. He was also awarded the Golden Globe for best director for Brokeback Mountain on January 16, 2006.
He received the Dartmouth Film Award in 2002, along with Meryl Streep.
He taught filmmaking to actor Kai Christophe Wong.
His wife, Jane, is a microbiologist; they have two children.
Selected films
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Hulk (2003)
- The Hire (BMW Short Movies) - Chosen (2002)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Ride with the Devil (1999)
- The Ice Storm (1997)
- Sense and Sensibility (1995)
- Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
- Wedding Banquet (1993)
- Pushing Hands (1992)
Bibliography
- Ang Lee Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)
External links
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