Ang Lee

Known for DirectingBorn 1954-10-23 (age 71)Chaojhou, Pingtung, Taiwan

Ang Lee OBS (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, hidden emotions. During his career, he has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Born in Pingtung County, Lee gained fame in Taiwan for the Father Knows Best trilogy, including Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition and modernity, and between Eastern and Western cultures. His breakthrough in Hollywood came with Sense and Sensibility (1995), which was his first English-language film. His other notable films include The Ice Storm (1997), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Hulk (2003), Lust, Caution (2007), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016), Gemini Man (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ang Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

A Forbidden Passion

Thirteen Talks

Golden Horse Awards

Heath Ledger: A Tribute

E! True Hollywood Story

Brokeback Mountain

The Hire

I Am Heath Ledger

Eat Drink Man Woman

Life of Pi

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Sense and Sensibility

Lust, Caution

Siao Yu

Pushing Hands

The Wedding Banquet

Grade One

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Lights, Action, Music

The Wedding Banquet

The Colbert Report

The Ice Storm

Trespassing Bergman

The Oscars

Gemini Man

Past Present

Tortilla Soup

Ride with the Devil

Chosen

Taking Woodstock

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies

Hulk

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

鲁豫有约一日行

Lisa Lu Plays Herself

76 Days Adrift

Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion

The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Retrospective

A Touch of Art — Ang Lee on King Hu

Life of Pi: A Filmmaker's Epic Journey

Silence

Adapting Austen