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Lee accepting the Best Foreign Film award for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the 73rd Academy Award

Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; Pinyin: Lǐ Ān ) (born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning film director from Taiwan.

Early life

Lee was born and raised in Pingtung, Taiwan and educated in the United States, where he found success as a Hollywood director, well-known for his wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).

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.

Career

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. Lee's films also tend to draw on deep secrets and internal torment that begin to come to the surface such as the gay-themed films The Wedding Banquet (1993), Brokeback Mountain (2005), the martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and the comic book adaptation Hulk (2003)

He received the Dartmouth Film Award in 2002, along with Meryl Streep.

Lee's film Brokeback Mountain (2005) won the best film award at the Venice International Film Festival, was named 2005's best film by the Los Angeles film critics. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama, with Lee winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture. Ang Lee is also nominated for the 78th Academy Award Best Director, and Brokeback Mountain is nominated for Best Picture of the year. Brokeback Mountain has been nominated for a total of 8 Academy Awards.

Private life

His wife, Jane, is a microbiologist; they have two children, Haan and Mason. He is a huge fan of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League.

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