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Ang Lee
Directing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · Brokeback Mountain
- Born
- 23 October 1954
- Birthplace
- Pingtung County, Taiwan
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Ang Lee
A Taiwanese filmmaker whose work crosses languages and genres while returning to restrained emotion and social expectation. He has combined intimate drama with ambitious visual filmmaking.
Early life
Taiwan education
Studied at Taiwan’s arts college before moving to the United States.
American training
Studied theatre at Illinois and filmmaking at New York University.
Career
- 1991–1994
Family trilogy
Made Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman.
- 1995
English-language breakthrough
Directed Sense and Sensibility.
- 2000–2005
International successes
Made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain.
- 2012
Life of Pi
Combined a survival story with extensive digital imagery.
Selected work
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Brought wuxia action and restrained romance to a broad international audience.
Brokeback Mountain
Told a decades-long relationship shaped by social constraint.
Life of Pi
A visually elaborate story of survival and belief.
Beyond directing
Technical experiments
Explored 3D and high-frame-rate filmmaking.
Family
His wife Jane Lin supported the family during years before his directing breakthrough.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Academy Awards ceremony ↗Photo: The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers from White Plains, NY, USA. CC BY 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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