(b. 1954), Chinese film director. Ang Lee was born in Taiwan on 23 October 1954. In 1978, he moved to the United States where he studied theater at the University of Illinois and film production at New York University. Lee directed his first feature film, Pushing Hands, in 1992, a tale of a Chinese family struggling to adapt to life in the United States, which in Taiwan won him three Golden Horse awards and a special jury prize for direction. Pushing Hands was followed in 1993 by The Wedding Banquet, a comedy about a gay Chinese man living in New York City, which received the Golden Bear award in Berlin. These films led to increased funding for Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (1994) and Sense and Sensibility (1995), both of which earned Academy Award nominations for Lee. In his next films, Ice Storm (1997) and Ride with the Devil (1999), Lee focused on American subjects. In a return to Chinese-language films, the martial arts adventure Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) won four Academy Awards including best foreign language film.
Ang Lee holds his Oscar for the best foreign language film at the 25 March 2001 Academy Awards in Los Angeles. (AFP/CORBIS)
Further Reading
Ang Lee, et al. (1994) Two Films by Ang Lee. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press.
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