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His films Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. He has also received ten British Academy Film Award nominations winning four awards for Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , and Brokeback Mountain .
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won over 40 awards and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2001, including Best Picture, and won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography, [3] receiving the most nominations ever for a non-English-language film at the time, until 2018's Roma tied this record.
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Ang Lee was born in 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. Both of Lee's parents moved following the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 from De'an, Jiangxi province in Mainland China to Taiwan. He grew up in a household...
1991–1994: International films
The 'Father Knows Best' trilogy Pushing Hands (1991) was a success in Taiwan both among critics and at the box office. It received eight nominations in the Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan's premier film festival. Inspired by the success, Hsu Li-kong collaborated with Lee in their second film, The Wedding Banquet (1993), which won the Golden Bear at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated as the Best Foreign Language Film in both the Golden Globeand the Academy Awards....
1994–2012: Breakthrough and acclaim
In 1995, Lee directed Columbia TriStar's British classic Sense and Sensibility based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name. This made Lee a second-time winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwriter Emma Thompson, who also starred in the movie alongside Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant and Kate Winslet. Sense and Sensibility also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. Thompson...
2013–present: Career fluctuations
In 2013, he was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. In March 2013, it was announced that Lee would direct a television pilot for the drama series Tyrant, created by Gideon Raff and developed by Howard Gordon and Craig Wright. Production was scheduled for the summer of 2013 for the FX series.However, Lee decided to quit the project to take a break from his hectic schedule. Lee next directed the war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk based on t...
Lee lives in Larchmont, in Westchester County, New York, with his wife, Jane Lin, a microbiologist. They married in 1983 and have two sons, including Mason. Lee is sometimes described as a naturalized US citizen but has said he is a permanent resident of the United States. Lee has stated that he believes in the Taoist-Buddha.
Lee has been involved in the process of filmmaking in various capacities, though the highlight of his career and legacy is his directorial work. The following are Lee's various credits. Lee also directed the commercial Chosen(2001). Acting credits
In 2003, Lee was ranked 27th in The Guardian's 40 best directors. In August 2007, Lee was named the 41st greatest director of all time in a poll by Total Film magazine. Lee has also received awards from the French Government including becoming a Knight of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2012). and a Knight of the French Legion of Honor (2...
Ang Lee has had a career-long collaboration with producer and screenwriter James Schamus and editor Tim Squyres. He has also worked several times with music composer Mychael Danna and a few times with Danny Elfman.[note 1]
Cheshire, Ellen. Ang Lee. London: Pocket Essentials, 2001.Ang Lee at IMDbAng Lee at the TCM Movie DatabaseJump to. 104 wins & 99 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 2013 Nominee Oscar. Best Motion Picture of the Year. Life of Pi. Shared with: Gil Netter · David Womark. 2013 Winner Oscar. Best Achievement in Directing. Life of Pi. 2006 Winner Oscar. Best Achievement in Directing. Brokeback Mountain.
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- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005) Screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, based on the short story by Annie Proulx. Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris.
- CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000) Screenplay by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, Tsai Kuo Jung, based on the novel by Wang Dulu. Starring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Sihung Lung, Cheng Pei-pei.
- THE ICE STORM (1997) Screenplay by James Schamus, based on the novel by Rick Moody. Starring Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Henry Czerny, Adam Hann-Byrd, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, James Sheridan, Elijah Wood, Sigourney Weaver, Katie Holmes.
- LIFE OF PI (2012) Screenplay by David Magee, based on the novel by Yann Martel. Starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu Hashmi, Adil Hussain, Rafe Spall, Gerard Depardieu.
Jun 30, 2024 · Three of Lee's films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) winning.The other two nominations were The Wedding banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994).
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Jun 29, 2024 · The Oscar-winning Ang Lee is the mind behind incredible movies, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Life of Pi.
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