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 Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Masters Degree in Film Production at New York University. At NYU, he served as Assistant Director on Spike Lee's student film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983). After Lee wrote a couple of screenplays, he eventually appeared on the film scene with Pushing Hands (1991), a dramatic-comedy reflecting on generational conflicts and cultural adaptation, centering on the metaphor of the grandfather's Tai-Chi technique of "Pushing Hands". The Wedding Banquet (1993) (aka The Wedding Banquet) was Lee's next film, an exploration of cultural and generational conflicts through a homosexual Taiwanese man who feigns a marriage in order to satisfy the traditional demands of his Taiwanese parents. It garnered Golden Globe and Oscar nominations, and won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The third movie in his trilogy of Taiwanese-Culture/Generation films, all of them featuring his patriarch figure Sihung Lung, was Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (aka Eat Drink Man Woman), which received a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination. 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. Lee and frequent collaborator James Schamus next filmed The Ice Storm (1997), an adaptation of Rick Moody's novel involving 1970s New England suburbia. The movie acquired the 1997 Best Screenplay at Cannes for screenwriter James Schamus, among other accolades. The Civil War drama Ride with the Devil (1999) soon followed and received critical praise, but it was Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) (aka Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) that is considered one of his greatest works, a sprawling period film and martial-arts epic that dealt with love, loyalty and loss. It swept the Oscar nominations, eventually winning Best Foreign Language Film, as well as Best Director at the Golden Globes, and became the highest grossing foreign-language film ever released in America. Lee then filmed the comic-book adaptation, Hulk (2003) - an elegantly and skillfully made film with nice action scenes. Lee has also shot a short film - Chosen (2001) (aka Hire, The Chosen) - and most recently won the 2005 Best Director Academy Award for Brokeback Mountain (2005), a film based on a short story by Annie Proulx. In 2012 Lee directed Life of Pi which earned 11 Academy Award nominations and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Director. In 2013 Ang Lee was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Bio:
Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Masters Degree in Film Production at New York University. At NYU, he served as Assistant Director on Spike Lee's student film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983). After Lee wrote a couple of screenplays, he eventually appeared on the film scene with Pushing Hands (1991), a dramatic-comedy reflecting on generational conflicts and cultural adaptation, centering on the metaphor of the grandfather's Tai-Chi technique of "Pushing Hands". The Wedding Banquet (1993) (aka The Wedding Banquet) was Lee's next film, an exploration of cultural and generational conflicts through a homosexual Taiwanese man who feigns a marriage in order to satisfy the traditional demands of his Taiwanese parents. It garnered Golden Globe and Oscar nominations, and won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The third movie in his trilogy of Taiwanese-Culture/Generation films, all of them featuring his patriarch figure Sihung Lung, was Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (aka Eat Drink Man Woman), which received a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination. 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. Lee and frequent collaborator James Schamus next filmed The Ice Storm (1997), an adaptation of Rick Moody's novel involving 1970s New England suburbia. The movie acquired the 1997 Best Screenplay at Cannes for screenwriter James Schamus, among other accolades. The Civil War drama Ride with the Devil (1999) soon followed and received critical praise, but it was Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) (aka Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) that is considered one of his greatest works, a sprawling period film and martial-arts epic that dealt with love, loyalty and loss. It swept the Oscar nominations, eventually winning Best Foreign Language Film, as well as Best Director at the Golden Globes, and became the highest grossing foreign-language film ever released in America. Lee then filmed the comic-book adaptation, Hulk (2003) - an elegantly and skillfully made film with nice action scenes. Lee has also shot a short film - Chosen (2001) (aka Hire, The Chosen) - and most recently won the 2005 Best Director Academy Award for Brokeback Mountain (2005), a film based on a short story by Annie Proulx. In 2012 Lee directed Life of Pi which earned 11 Academy Award nominations and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Director. In 2013 Ang Lee was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Tivia:
Had planned on changing to a career in Computer Science when his film career stalled, but his wife encouraged him to stick with it.Never storyboards his movies, even visually complex films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).Is one of only seven living directors who have won the Directors Guild of America Award more than once. The others are Steven Spielberg (3 times) and two-time winners Clint Eastwood, Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola, Oliver Stone and Milos Forman. However, Lee is unique in this group and being the only one not to have directed a best picture Oscar winner.Was a stay at home parent for six years when his film career stalled and his wife was the sole earner in the family.Was 37 years old when he directed his first feature film.Earned his Masters Degree in Fine Arts from New York University.Developed a very strong relationship with Anne Hathaway while filming Brokeback Mountain (2005). It was Ang who persuaded Anne to take the role of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane (2007); having directed Sense and Sensibility (1995) he knew she would be perfect for the role.Because of his directorial work of Life of Pi (2012), the film became the first family film to win the Academy Award for Best Director since Carol Reed for Oliver! (1968) at the 41st Academy Awards in 1969, though others have been nominated: Norman Jewison for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), George Lucas for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Steven Spielberg for Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Martin Scorsese for Hugo (2011).Directed 5 actors in Oscar nominated performances: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michelle Williams.His movies The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) were Oscar-nominated for "Best Foreign Language Film". Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) won.Was considered to direct Spider-Man (2002).The first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director who is not Caucasian, i.e. American or European. In the years since, Alfonso Cuar��n, Alejandro G. I?��rritu, Guillermo del Toro, and Bong Joon Ho have also went on to win Best Director Oscars.Two sons: Haan (b. 1984) and Mason (b. 1990), both born in Illinois.Father Sheng Lee died in 2004 at the age of 91. He was the head teacher at Tainan First Senior High School.Is one of 10 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director's Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same movie, winning for Brokeback Mountain (2005). The other directors to achieve this are Mike Nichols for The Graduate (1967), Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Richard Attenborough for Gandhi (1982), Oliver Stone for Platoon (1986), Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List (1993), Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Alfonso Cuar��n for Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018), Alejandro G. I?��rritu for The Revenant (2015), and Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water (2017).Graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theater Studies from the Department of Theater.Turned down an offer to direct Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).Left Taiwan in 1978 to study in the US.When he cast Winston Chao as his lead in The Wedding Banquet (1993), Chao was an airline steward and model and had never acted in a film before. They spent three to four hours every day to teach him how to act. Lee later cast Chao again in Eat Drink Man Woman (1994).Two of his films, The Ice Storm (1997) and Ride with the Devil (1999), are in the Criterion Collection.Only Asian to win a Best Director Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA. Along with Alfonso Cuar��n and Alejandro G. I?��rritu, he is also one of three non-Caucasian directors to win all three awards for directing.Only one of four people to have won the Best Director Oscar more than once without any of those films having won the Oscar for Best Picture. His two wins are for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012). The other three individuals are Frank Borzage for directing 7th Heaven (1927) and Bad Girl (1931), George Stevens for directing A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956), and Alfonso Cuar��n for directing Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018).He was the first Asian director to direct a comic book film with Hulk (2003) and was the only one until James Wan directed Aquaman (2018) and Cathy Yan directed Birds of Prey (2020).While attending NYU, worked on Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), Spike Lee's well-renowned student film.He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Brokeback Mountain (2005).As of 2017, he has directed 4 films that have been Oscar nominated for Best Picture: Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and Life of Pi (2012).Taught Kai Wong filmmaking as Montgomery-Fellow-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, an Ivy League college which Meryl Streep once attended.Graduated from Tisch School of the Arts Graduate program.Was in negotiations to direct Terminator Genisys (2015) but a deal could not be reached.Ang Lee discovered actor Winston Chao and cast him in The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994). In the film Kabali (2016), Chao plays the part of a mob boss whose mentor is named Ang Lee.Directed two films which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Brokeback Mountain (2005). Lee also won Best Director for the latter.A dedicated fan of Calgary Flames hockey team.Father of Mason Lee.One of 4 children.Is to date the only filmmaker to have directed both a Chinese martial arts swashbuckler, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), and a superhero film, Hulk (2003). |
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Ang Lee |
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Director,Producer,Writer (IMDB) |
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| Biography: |
Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today\'s greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at |
| Trivia: |
Had planned on changing to a career in Computer Science when his film career stalled, but his wife encouraged him to stick with it.Never storyboards his movies, even visually complex films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).Is one of only seven living directors who have won the Directors Guild of America Award more than once. The others are Steven Spielberg (3 times) and two-time winners Clint Eastwood, Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola, Oliver Stone and Milos Forman. However, Lee is unique in this group and being the only one not to have directed a best picture Oscar winner.Was a stay at home parent for six years when his film career stalled and his wife was the sole earner in the family.Was 37 years old when he directed his first feature film.Earned his Masters Degree in Fine Arts from New York University.Developed a very strong relationship with Anne Hathaway while filming Brokeback Mountain (2005). It was Ang who persuaded Anne to take the role of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane (2007); having directed Sense and Sensibility (1995) he knew she would be perfect for the role.Because of his directorial work of Life of Pi (2012), the film became the first family film to win the Academy Award for Best Director since Carol Reed for Oliver! (1968) at the 41st Academy Awards in 1969, though others have been nominated: Norman Jewison for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), George Lucas for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Steven Spielberg for Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Martin Scorsese for Hugo (2011).Directed 5 actors in Oscar nominated performances: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michelle Williams.His movies The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) were Oscar-nominated for "Best Foreign Language Film". Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) won.Was considered to direct Spider-Man (2002).The first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director who is not Caucasian, i.e. American or European. In the years since, Alfonso Cuar��n, Alejandro G. I?��rritu, Guillermo del Toro, and Bong Joon Ho have also went on to win Best Director Oscars.Two sons: Haan (b. 1984) and Mason (b. 1990), both born in Illinois.Father Sheng Lee died in 2004 at the age of 91. He was the head teacher at Tainan First Senior High School.Is one of 10 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director's Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same movie, winning for Brokeback Mountain (2005). The other directors to achieve this are Mike Nichols for The Graduate (1967), Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Richard Attenborough for Gandhi (1982), Oliver Stone for Platoon (1986), Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List (1993), Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Alfonso Cuar��n for Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018), Alejandro G. I?��rritu for The Revenant (2015), and Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water (2017).Graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theater Studies from the Department of Theater.Turned down an offer to direct Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).Left Taiwan in 1978 to study in the US.When he cast Winston Chao as his lead in The Wedding Banquet (1993), Chao was an airline steward and model and had never acted in a film before. They spent three to four hours every day to teach him how to act. Lee later cast Chao again in Eat Drink Man Woman (1994).Two of his films, The Ice Storm (1997) and Ride with the Devil (1999), are in the Criterion Collection.Only Asian to win a Best Director Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA. Along with Alfonso Cuar��n and Alejandro G. I?��rritu, he is also one of three non-Caucasian directors to win all three awards for directing.Only one of four people to have won the Best Director Oscar more than once without any of those films having won the Oscar for Best Picture. His two wins are for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012). The other three individuals are Frank Borzage for directing 7th Heaven (1927) and Bad Girl (1931), George Stevens for directing A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956), and Alfonso Cuar��n for directing Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018).He was the first Asian director to direct a comic book film with Hulk (2003) and was the only one until James Wan directed Aquaman (2018) and Cathy Yan directed Birds of Prey (2020).While attending NYU, worked on Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), Spike Lee's well-renowned student film.He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Brokeback Mountain (2005).As of 2017, he has directed 4 films that have been Oscar nominated for Best Picture: Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and Life of Pi (2012).Taught Kai Wong filmmaking as Montgomery-Fellow-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, an Ivy League college which Meryl Streep once attended.Graduated from Tisch School of the Arts Graduate program.Was in negotiations to direct Terminator Genisys (2015) but a deal could not be reached.Ang Lee discovered actor Winston Chao and cast him in The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994). In the film Kabali (2016), Chao plays the part of a mob boss whose mentor is named Ang Lee.Directed two films which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Brokeback Mountain (2005). Lee also won Best Director for the latter.A dedicated fan of Calgary Flames hockey team.Father of Mason Lee.One of 4 children.Is to date the only filmmaker to have directed both a Chinese martial arts swashbuckler, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), and a superhero film, Hulk (2003). |
| Trademarks: |
Frequently cast actor Sihung Lung as his 'father figure'
Some of his films - Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) (aka Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) - involved repressed women trying to deal with the confines of their society.
Outdoor settings
Spectacular, CGI-ladden action scene in service of psychological, intimate drama
High diversity of settings in his films, which pain-stakingly depict various international cultures |
| Quotes: |
"Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western".
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It could be the hidden side of you; I think making movies is a great way to release that. I think it is important to be honest with that, and have fun with it.
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There's a private feeling to the movie, an intimate feeling. I think eventually everybody has a Brokeback Mountain (2005) in them. Someone you want to come back to. And, of course, some people don't come back.
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American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
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On the receiving side, I think the whole world is more ready, with the Internet, with film festivals and DVDs. It used to be a one-way street from West to East: we were receiving and the West was producing. I think we're getting closer and closer. The gap between cultures is getting erased every day. |
| Job title: |
Director,Producer,Writer |
| Others works: |
Directed short film "Chosen" for bmwfilms.com - Internet and DVD for BMW (2001)
Was interviewed in "Talking Movies" (2006).
Was interviewed in an episode of "Talking Movies" about the 2006 Oscars. The other interviewees wer |
| Spouse: |
Jane Lin (August 19, 1983 - present) (2 children) |
| Children: |
Mason Lee |
| Parents: |
Lee Shengl
Yang Si-Chuan Lee |
| Relatives: |
Khan Lee (Sibling) |
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