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 It was only the fourth time in the history of the Academy Awards that the five nominees for Best Director and Best Film were the same. And despite some stiff competition from the likes of George Clooney and Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee has come out on top. The director picked up the Oscar for his work on Brokeback Mountain. He was the favourite going into the race and made fun of the fact when it was his turn at the podium.
Boy are they getting old. Biography for Ang Lee Height Mini 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 the University of Illinois 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 (1992), 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) as Lee's next film, an exploration of cultural and generational conflicts through a homosexual Chinese 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), 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), 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 film with nice action scenes. Lee has also shot a short film - Hire, The Chosen (2001) - and is currently working on Brokeback Mountain (2005), a film based on a short story by E.Annie Proulx. IMDb mini-biography by artist_signal Spouse Jane Lin (1983 - present) 2 children Trade mark Frequently casts actor Sihung Lung as his 'father figure' Some of his films - Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, - involve repressed women trying to deal with the confines of their society. Trivia While attending NYU, worked on Joe's Bed-Sty Barbershop, Spike Lee's well-renowned student film. Graduated from Tisch School of the Arts Graduate program Graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in theater. Earned his Masters Degree in Fine Arts from New York University Turned down an offer to direct _Terminator 3 (2003)_ . Two sons: Haan (b. 1984) and Mason (b. 1990). His movies Hsi yen (1993), Yin shi nan nu (1994) and Wo hu cang long (2000) were Oscar-nominated for "Best Foreign Language Film". Wo hu cang long (2000) won. Father of Mason Lee Left Taiwan in 1978 to study in the US. A dedicated fan of Calgary Flames hockey team. Both his children were born in Illinois. Taught Kai Wong filmmaking as Montgomery-Fellow-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, an Ivy League college which Meryl Streep once attended. Never storyboards his movies, even visually complex films such has his acclaimed Wo hu cang long (2000) (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) ilmography as: Director, Producer, Writer, Miscellaneous Crew, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Himself, Archive Footage Director - filmography Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Filmography as: Director, Producer, Writer, Miscellaneous Crew, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Himself, Archive Footage Producer - filmography The Hands of Shang-Chi (2007) (announced) (producer)
Filmography as: Director, Producer, Writer, Miscellaneous Crew, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Himself, Archive Footage Writer - filmography Tortilla Soup (2001) (earlier screenplay)
Filmography as: Director, Producer, Writer, Miscellaneous Crew, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Himself, Archive Footage Miscellaneous Crew - filmography Thumbsucker (2005) (thanks) Filmography as: Director, Producer, Writer, Miscellaneous Crew, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Himself, Archive Footage Second Unit Director or Assistant Director - filmography Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983) (first assistant director) Filmography as: Director, Producer, Writer, Miscellaneous Crew, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Himself, Archive Footage Himself - filmography Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
Filmography as: Director, Producer, Writer, Miscellaneous Crew, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Himself, Archive Footage Archive Footage
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