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Ang Lee
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Lee at the 85th Academy Awards
3 Nominations / 2 Wins
Role Director
Born October 23, 1954
Chaochou, Pingtung, Taiwan
 

Ang Lee is a Taiwanese-born American film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Brokeback Mountain (2005), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director and most recently Life of Pi (2012). He is the first person of Asian descent to win the Best Director Oscar.

Wins[]

78th Academy Awards, 2005
Best DirectorBrokeback Mountain
85th Academy Awards, 2012
Best DirectorLife of Pi

Nominations[]

73rd Academy Awards, 2000
Best DirectorCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Best PictureCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (shared with Bill Kong and Hsu Li Kong)
78th Academy Awards, 2005
Best DirectorBrokeback Mountain
85th Academy Awards, 2012
Best DirectorLife of Pi
Best PictureLife of Pi (shared with Gil Netter and David Womark)

Videos[]

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