Ang Lee

Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed and hidden emotions. During his career, Lee has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. He is also the only filmmaker to win the Golden Bear twice and one of only four filmmakers to win the Golden Lion twice, and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2020. Born in Pingtung County and raised in Hualien City, Taiwan, Lee graduated from what is now the National Taiwan University of Arts in 1975. After moving to the United States in 1979, he matriculated at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and subsequently enrolled from the New York University. He gained fame in Taiwan for the Father Knows Best trilogy: Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition, modernity, Eastern and Western. Lee's breakthrough in Hollywood came with Sense and Sensibility (1995), which was his first English-language film. He gained further acclaim for The Ice Storm (1997), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Lust, Caution (2007), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and Life of Pi (2012). Other notable films include Hulk (2003), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016), and Gemini Man (2019).