Ang_Lee

{{Infobox Actor
| name = Ang Lee 李安
| image = Ang_lee.jpg
| birthdate = {{birth date and age|1954|10|23}}
| location = [[Pingtung]], [[Taiwan]]
| spouse = Jane Lin (1983–)
| children = Haan Lee (b.1984) Mason Lee (b.1990)
| yearsactive = 1992–present
| academyawards = '''[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]''' 2005 ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' '''[[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]''' 2000 ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''
| afiawards = '''Best Foreign Film''' 2001 ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''
| baftaawards = '''[[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]]''' 1995 ''[[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' '''[[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Foreign Film]]''' 2000 ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' '''[[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]]''' 2000 ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' 2005 ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]''
| goldenglobeawards = '''[[Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture|Best Director - Motion Picture]]''' 2001 ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' 2005 ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]''
| awards = '''[[Berlin International Film Festival|Golden Berlin Bear]]''' 1993 ''[[The Wedding Banquet]]'' 1995 ''[[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' '''[[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|NYFCC Award for Best Director]]''' 1995 ''[[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' 2005 ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' '''[[National Board of Review Award for Best Director|NBR Award for Best Director]]''' 1995 ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' 2005 ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' '''[[Golden Lion]]''' 2005 ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' 2007 ''[[Lust, Caution (film)|Lust, Caution]]''
}}

'''Ang Lee''' ({{zh-cp|c=李安|p=Lǐ Ān}}) (born [[October 23]], [[1954]]) is an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[film director]] from [[Taiwan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/05/oscar.advancer/index.html|date=March 7, 2006 |title=Best picture goes to gritty drama 'Crash', Lee best director; Hoffman best actor; Witherspoon best actress|publisher=[[CNN]]|accessdate=2007-04-22}}</ref>

==Career overview==
Many of Ang Lee's films have focused on the interactions between modernity and tradition. Some of his films have also had a light-hearted comic tone which marks a break from the tragic historical realism which characterized Taiwanese filmmaking after the end of the [[martial law]] period in 1987. Lee's films also tend to draw on deep secrets and internal torment that come to the surface, such as in the gay-themed films ''[[The Wedding Banquet]]'' (1993) and ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' (2005) (won the [[Academy Award for Best Director]]), the martial arts epic ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' (2000) (nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Director]]), and the comic book adaptation ''[[Hulk (film)|Hulk]]'' (2003).

The director's cut of ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' premiered on the [[Ivy League]] campus of [[Dartmouth College]] in 2000.[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~montfell/biographies/g_n/leea.html] He received the Dartmouth Film Award in 2001, along with [[Meryl Streep]].<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2000/oct00/lee.html |title = Mongtomery Fellow Ang Lee to receive Dartmouth film award |publisher = Dartmouth News |date = 2006-10-13}}</ref> At Dartmouth, he also taught [[Kai Wong]] filmmaking.

Lee's film ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' (2005) won the [[Golden Lion]] (best film) award at the [[Venice International Film Festival]] and was named 2005's best film by the Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and London film critics. It also won best picture at the 2005 [[Broadcast Film Critics Association]], [[Directors Guild of America]], [[Writers Guild of America]] (Adapted Screenplay), [[Producers Guild of America]] and the [[Independent Spirit Awards]] as well as the [[Golden Globe Award]] for Best Motion Picture — Drama, with Lee winning the [[Golden Globe Award]] for Best Director. Brokeback also won Best Film and Best Director at the 2006 British Academy Awards ([[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]]). In January 2006, Brokeback scored a leading eight [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, which Lee won. He is the first Asian director to do so.

In 2007, Lee's film ''[[Lust, Caution (film)|Lust, Caution]]'' earned him a second [[Golden Lion]], making him one of only two directors to have ever won [[Venice Film Festival|Venice's]] [[Golden Lion|most prestigious award]] twice[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lion#Golden_Lion]

==Biography==
===Education===

Ang Lee was born in the town of [[Chaochou, Pingtung|Chaochou]] in [[Pingtung County|Pingtung]],<ref>Ho Yi. [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/03/07/2003296130 Family and friends praise Ang Lee's quiet dedication]. [[Taipei Times]]. [[March 7]] [[2006]].</ref> a southern agricultural county in [[Taiwan]]. He grew up in a household that put heavy emphasis on education and the [[Chinese classics]]. Both of Ang Lee's parents moved to Taiwan from [[mainland China]] following the [[Kuomintang|Nationalists]]' defeat in the [[Chinese Civil War]] in 1949. Lee's father, a native of [[Jiangxi Province]] in southern China, imbued his children with studying Chinese culture and art, especially [[calligraphy]]. Lee's grandparents died during the [[Cultural Revolution]] because they were accused of being one of the [[Five Black Categories]] ({{zh-stp|s=黑五类|t=黑五類|p=hēiwǔlèi}})<ref>{{cite|author=Lycos|title=Ang Lee|publisher=Lycos.com|date=2006}}</ref>

Lee studied in the prestigious [[National Tainan First Senior High School]] where his father was a former principal. He was expected to pass the annual Joint College/University Entrance Examination, the only route to a university education in Taiwan. But after failing the Exam twice, to the disappointment of his father, he entered a three-year college, National Arts School (now reorganized and expanded as [http://www.ntua.edu.tw/eng/ National Taiwan University of Arts]) and graduated in 1975. His father had wanted him to become a professor, but he had become interested in art at college. This early frustration set his career on the path of performance art.

After finishing the mandatory military service, Lee went to the U.S. in 1979 to study at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], where he completed his bachelor's in theater in 1980. Thereupon, he enrolled at the [[Tisch School of the Arts]] of [[New York University]], where he received his [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]]. He was a classmate of [[Spike Lee]] and worked on the crew of his thesis film, ''[[Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads]].'' During graduate school, Lee finished a 16 mm short film, ''Shades of the Lake'' (1982), which won the Best Drama Award in Short Film in Taiwan. His own thesis work, a 43-minute drama, ''Fine Line'' (1984), won NYU's prestigious [[Wasserman Award]] for Outstanding Direction and was later selected for the [[Public Broadcasting Service]].

===Dormancy after graduation===
Lee's NYU thesis drew attention from the [[William Morris Agency]], the famous talent and literary agency that later represented Lee. At first, though, WMA found Lee few opportunities, and Lee remained unemployed for six years. During this time, he was a full-time househusband, while his wife Jane Lin ({{zh-cp|c=林惠嘉|p=Lín Huìjiā}}), a [[molecular biology|molecular biologist]], was the sole breadwinner for the family of four. This arrangement, an embarrassment in Chinese culture, put enormous pressure on the couple, but with Lin’s support and understanding, Lee did not abandon his career in films but continued to generate new ideas from movies and performances. He also wrote several screenplays during this time. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://chinafoc.us/modules/article/transfer.php/c82/149/pdf |title=China Focus: Ang Lee |accessdate=2007-04-22}}</ref>

In 1990, Lee submitted two screenplays, ''Pushing Hands'' and ''The Wedding Banquet'', to a competition sponsored by Taiwan’s [[Government Information Office]], and they came in first and second respectively. The winning screenplays brought Lee to the attention of Li-Kong Hsu ({{zh-cp|c=徐立功|p=Xú Lìgōng}}), a recently promoted senior manager in a major studio who had strong interests in Lee’s unique style and freshness. Hsu, a first-time producer, invited Lee to direct ''Pushing Hands'', a full-length feature that debuted in 1991.

===Debut from Taiwan===
''[[Pushing Hands (film)|Pushing Hands]]'' (1992) was a success in Taiwan both among critics and at the box office. It received eight nominations in the [[Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards|Golden Horse Film Festival]], Taiwan’s premier film festival. Inspired by the success, Hsu collaborated with Lee in their second film, ''[[The Wedding Banquet]]'' (1993), which won the Golden Bear in the [[Berlin Film Festival]] and was nominated as the [[Best Foreign Language Film]] in both the [[Golden Globe]] and the Academy Awards. In all, this film collected eleven Taiwanese and international awards and made Lee a rising star.

Lee's first two movies were based on stories of [[Taiwanese American]]s, and both were filmed in the US. In 1995, Hsu invited Lee to return to Taiwan to make ''[[Eat Drink Man Woman]]'', a film that depicts traditional values, modern relationships, and family conflicts in [[Taipei]]. The film was once again a box office hit and was critically acclaimed. For a second consecutive year, Lee’s film received the Best Foreign Language Film nomination in both the Golden Globe and Academy Awards, as well as in the [[British Academy Award]]. ''Eat Drink Man Woman'' won five awards in Taiwan and internationally, including the Best Director from [[Independent Spirit]]. [[Hollywood]] optioned the film rights and remade it into ''Tortilla Soup'' (2001, dir. María Ripoll). This is one of the rare occasions in which a Taiwanese film was remade outside the island.

===Coming to Hollywood===
Lee's three dramas opened the door to [[Hollywood]] for him. In 1995, Lee directed [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]] [[TriStar]]'s British classical ''[[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility]]''. The switching from Taiwanese to British films did not stop Lee from claiming awards in the film festivals. ''Sense and Sensibility'' made Lee a second time director of the Golden Bear film in the Berlin Film Festival, and it was nominated in 7 Academy Awards and won the [[Best Adapted Screenplay]] by [[Emma Thompson]]. It also won the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama]]. After these successes, Lee directed another two Hollywood movies: ''[[The Ice Storm (film)|The Ice Storm]]'' (1997), a family-oriented satire set in 1970s suburban America, and ''[[Ride with the Devil]],'' an American Civil War drama (1999).

Although the critics still highly favored these works, the box office was not impressive, which paused Lee’s uninterrupted popularity from the general audience and art schools since his first full-length movie. However, in the late 1990s and 2000s, ''The Ice Storm'' has had high [[VHS]] and [[DVD]] sales and rentals and repeated screenings on [[Cable]] television, which has increased the film's popularity among audiences.

===Wuxia and the superhero genre ===
In 1999, Li-Kong Hsu, Lee’s old partner and supporter, invited him to make a movie based on the traditional Chinese “[[wuxia]]” (martial arts and chivalry) genre. Excited about the opportunity to fulfill his childhood dream, Lee assembled a team from Taiwan, [[Hong Kong]], and [[Mainland China]] for ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' (2000). The film was a surprising success worldwide. With Chinese dialogue and English subtitles, the film became the highest grossing foreign film in many countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, and was nominated for [[Best Picture]], Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Director at the Academy Awards. It ended up winning Best Foreign Language Film and three technical awards. The success of ''Crouching Tiger'' demonstrated that Lee's artistry had a general appeal; it also inspired such established directors as [[Zhang Yimou]] and [[Chen Kaige]] to explore wuxia films for Western audience.

In 2003, Lee returned to Hollywood to direct ''[[Hulk (film)|Hulk]]'', his first big-budget movie. Even though the film was based on a comic book superhero and was filled with obligatory [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] special effects, Lee used the genre to tell the tortuous story between a father and his son. The movie was a disappointment amongst both critics and audiences. After the setback, Lee considered retiring early, but his father encouraged him to continue making movies.

===Climbing the Mountain===
Lee decided to take on a small-budget, low-profile independent film based on [[Annie Proulx]]'s [[Pulitzer Prize]]-finalist short story, ''[[Brokeback Mountain (short story)|Brokeback Mountain]]''. In a 2005 [http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/search/mmx-0512040442dec04,1,4975765.story| article] by [[Robert K. Elder]], Lee was quoted as saying, "What do I know about gay ranch hands in Wyoming?"
In spite of the director's removal from the subject at hand, ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' showcased Lee's skills in probing depths of the human heart.

The 2005 movie about the forbidden love between two [[Wyoming]] cowboys immediately caught public attention and initiated intense debates. The film was critically acclaimed at major international film festivals and won Lee numerous Best Director and Best Film awards worldwide. In addition, "Brokeback" became a cultural phenomenon and a box office hit. "Brokeback" was nominated for a leading eight Oscars and was the frontrunner for Best Picture heading into the [[March 5]] ceremony, but lost out to ''[[Crash (2005 film)|Crash]]'', a story about race relations in [[Los Angeles]], in a controversial upset. There was speculation that the film's depiction of [[homosexuality]] might have been the reason for that upset, while others speculate that ''[[Crash (2005 film)|Crash]]'' was simply a better movie. Lee said he was disappointed that his film did not win Best Picture<ref>{{cite news|title=Lee Disappointed Over 'Brokeback' Loss|date=[[2006-03-08]]||publisher=CBSNews|author=AP|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/08/ap/entertainment/mainD8G7F01O0.shtml}}</ref>, but was honored to win Best Director, becoming the first Asian to ever win the award.

===Lust, Caution===
After ''Brokeback Mountain'', Lee returned to a Chinese topic. His next film is ''[[Lust, Caution (film)|Lust, Caution]]'', which is adapted from a short novel by a Chinese author [[Eileen Chang]]. The story was written in 1950 loosely based on an actual event that took place in 1939-1940 in Japanese occupied-[[Shanghai]], China, during World War II. Similar to ''Brokeback Mountain'', Ang Lee adapted and expanded a short, simple story into a featured film in a way that allows individual figures to develop sophisticated layers of reserved emotions, without being sidetracked by complicated plots or overstuffed materials.

''Lust, Caution'' is being distributed by [[Focus Features]] and premiered at international film festivals in the summer and early fall of 2007. In the US, the movie received a [[NC-17]] rating (no one 17 and under admitted) from the [[Motion Picture Association of America|MPAA]] mainly due to several strongly explicit sex scenes. This was a challenge to the film's distribution because many theater chains in the United States refuse to show NC-17 films. The director and film studio have decided not to appeal the decision. In order to be permitted to show ''Lust, Caution'' in mainland China, however, Lee removed 9 minutes from the film to make the content suitable for minor audiences, according to government restrictions.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ang Lee bows to China and self-censors award-winning film|date=[[2007-09-11]]||publisher=Yahoo! News|author=AFP|url=http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070911/ten-entertainment-venice-film-china-taiw-1dc2b55.html}}</ref>

''Lust, Caution'' won the [[Golden Lion]] from 2007 Biennale [[Venice Film Festival]], making Lee awarded the highest prize for the second time in three years. The critics in the US, however, are not all positive. When ''Lust, Caution'' was played in Lee's native Taiwan in its original full-length edition, it was very well received. Staying in Taiwan to promote the film and to participate in a traditional Chinese holiday, Lee got emotional when he found that his work was widely applauded by fellow Chinese. Lee admitted that he had low expectations for this film from the US audience since "its pace, its film language — it's all very Chinese."<ref>{{cite news|title=Ang Lee: Don't expect much from 'Lust, Caution'|date=[[2007-09-23]]|publisher=USA Today|author=Min Lee, Associated Press|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/2007-09-23-anglee_N.htm}}</ref>

===Collaborations with James Schamus===
Ang Lee is also known for his longtime collaboration with writer/producer [[James Schamus]], with whom he co-wrote and produced nearly all his films, including ''Pushing Hands,'' ''Eat Drink Man Woman,'' ''The Wedding Banquet,'' ''The Ice Storm,'' ''Ride with the Devil,'' ''Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,'' ''Tortilla Soup,'' ''Hulk,'' ''Brokeback Mountain,'' and ''Lust, Caution''.

===Personal life===
Lee lives in Larchmont, New York, with his wife, Jane Lin, a microbiologist, whom he married in 1983, and their younger son, Mason Lee (born 1990), a student at Mamaroneck High School. The couple also has another son, Haan Lee (born 1984).[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/25Rleenj.html?ref=nyregionspecial2]

==Linguistic diversity in Chinese films==
Ang’s Chinese language films show a fair amount of linguistic diversity, which is rarely found at all in most Chinese films.{{Fact|date=November 2007}} In ''[[Pushing Hands (film)|Pushing Hands]]'', Mr. Old Chu had a fat [[Tai chi chuan]] student who spoke [[Standard Cantonese|Cantonese]]. In ''[[The Wedding Banquet]]'', Wai-tun Gao’s would-be bride of convenience Wei-wei, spoke to her parents on the telephone in the [[Wu (linguistics)|Wu]] dialect ([[Shanghainese]]). And the Chinese restaurant's owner spoke Mandarin with a [[Sichuan]] accent. In ''[[Eat Drink Man Woman]]'', most of the younger generation spoke Mandarin with a Taiwanese accent; a matriarch spoke Mandarin with a [[Hunan]] accent. There was also a scene in ''Eat Drink Man Woman'' where an old man spoke to Jia-Chien in [[Taiwanese]], while she responded in Mandarin.

While [[Chow Yun-Fat]] and [[Michelle Yeoh]] were criticized by Mandarin speakers for what they considered Mandarin with poor accents in ''[[Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon]]'', Yeoh pointed out in an [[December 28]], [[2000]] interview with [[Cinescape]] that, “My character lived outside of Beijing, and so I didn’t have to do the Beijing accent.” When the interviewer Craig Reid remarked that, “[M]y mother-in-law has this strange Sichuan-Mandarin accent that’s hard for me to understand,” Yeoh responded, “[Y]es, provinces all have their very own strong accents. When we first started the movie, Cheng Pei Pei was going to have her accent, and Chang Zhen was going to have his accent, and this person would have that accent. And in the end nobody could understand what they were saying. Forget about us, even the crew from Beijing thought this was all weird.” In [[Lust, Caution (film)|Lust, Caution]], languages range from [[Cantonese]], [[Shanghainese]], [[Mandarin]], [[Suzhou dialect]], to [[Hindi]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and [[English language|English]].

==Films==
===Director===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Chinese Title !! No. of Oscar nominations !! No. of Oscar wins
|-
| 1992 || ''[[Pushing Hands (film)|Pushing Hands]]'' || <<推手>> || ||
|-
| 1993 || ''[[The Wedding Banquet]]'' || <<喜宴>> || 1 || ||
|-
| 1994 || ''[[Eat Drink Man Woman]]'' || <<飲食男女>> || 1 || ||
|-
| 1995 || ''[[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' ||<<理性與感性>> || 7 || 1 ||
|-
| 1997 || ''[[The Ice Storm (film)|The Ice Storm]]'' || <<冰風暴>> || ||
|-
| 1999 || ''[[Ride with the Devil (film)|Ride with the Devil]]'' || <<與魔鬼共騎>> || ||
|-
| 2000 || ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' || <<臥虎藏龍>> || 10 || 4 ||
|-
| 2002 || ''[[The Hire]]'' || || ||
|-
| 2003 || ''[[Hulk (film)|Hulk]]'' ||<<綠巨人>> || || ||
|-
| 2005 || ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' || <<斷背山>> || 8 || 3 ||
|-
| 2007 || ''[[Lust, Caution (film)|Lust, Caution]]'' || <<色，戒>> || ||
|-
|}
''See also:'' [[:Category:Films directed by Ang Lee|Films directed by Ang Lee]]

===Writer===
* ''[[Pushing Hands (film)|Pushing Hands]]'' ({{zh-cp|c=推手|p=Tuīshǒu}}) (1992)
* ''[[The Wedding Banquet]]'' ({{zh-cp|c=喜宴|p=Xǐyàn}}) (1993)
* ''[[Eat Drink Man Woman]]'' ({{zh-tsp|t=飲食男女|s=饮食男女|p=Yǐnshínánnǚ}}) (1994)
* ''[[Siao Yu]]'' ({{zh-tspl|t=少女小漁|s=少女小渔|p=Shàonǚ xiǎo yú|l=Young girl, small fish}}) (1995)

===Actor===
* ''[[The Wedding Banquet]]'' ({{zh-cp|c=喜宴|p=Xǐyàn}}) (1993)
* ''[[Hulk (film)|The Hulk]]'' (2003)

===Editing===
* ''[[Pushing Hands (film)|Pushing Hands]]'' ({{zh-cp|c=推手|p=Tuīshǒu}}) (1992)
* ''[[Eat Drink Man Woman]]'' ({{zh-tsp|t=飲食男女|s=饮食男女|p=Yǐnshínánnǚ}}) (1994)

===Producer===
* ''[[Siao Yu]]'' ({{zh-tspl|t=少女小漁|s=少女小渔|p=Shàonǚ xiǎo yú|l=Young girl, small fish}}) (1995)
* ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' ({{zh-tsp|t=臥虎藏龍|s=卧虎藏龙|p=Wòhǔcánglóng}}) (2000)

==Awards==
* Best Director, [[National Board of Review of Motion Pictures]] for ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995)
* Best Director, New York Film Critics Circle Awards for ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995)
* Best Director, Independent Spirit Awards for ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' (2001)
* Best Director/Motion Picture, Golden Globes for ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' (2001)
* Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, Directors Guild of America for ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''(2001)
* The David Lean Award for Achievement in Directing, BAFTA Awards for ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' (2001)
* Best Director, [[Boston Society of Film Critics]] for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
* Best Director, [[Broadcast Film Critics Association]] for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
* Best Director, [[Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association]] for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
* Best Director, [[Independent Spirit Awards]] for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
* Best Director, [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]] for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
* Best Director, [[New York Film Critics Circle Awards]] for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
* Best Director, [[San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards]] for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
* Best Director, [[Vancouver Film Critics Circle]] for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
* Best Director/Motion Picture, [[Golden Globes]] for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
* Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, [[Directors Guild of America]] for ''Brokeback Mountain''(2005)
* The David Lean Award for Achievement in Directing, [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] Awards for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
* Best Achievement in Directing, 78th [[Academy Awards]] for ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005)
*A [[Golden Lion]], the most prestigious award offered at the [[Venice Film Festival]] for ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' (2005)
* One of 100 individuals included in Time Magazine's ''TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World'' (2006)
*Another [[Golden Lion]], the most prestigious award offered at the [[Venice Film Festival]] for ''[[Lust, Caution]]'' (2007); as of 2007, he is one of only two directors to have ever won two [[Golden Lion|Golden Lions]] (the other being [[André Cayatte]]), and he is the only director to have won two Golden lions within three years of each other[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lion#Golden_Lion]

==Notes==
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==External links==
{{wikinews|2006 Oscars handed out at Kodak Theatre}}
* {{imdb name|id=0000487|name=Ang Lee}}
* [http://movie.cca.gov.tw/PEOPLE/people_inside.asp?rowid=70&id=1 Ang Lee] (Chinese)
* [http://www.guestinvenice.tv/view/55/ang-lee-press-conference-lust-caution/ Ang Lee 64th Venice Film Festival press conference] (English)

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