| Ang Lee | |
|---|---|
 Lee at the 85th Academy Awards | |
| 3 Nominations / 2 Wins | |
| Role | Director |
| Born | October 23, 1954 |
| Chaochou, Pingtung, Taiwan | |
Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning 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 Academy Award for Best Director.
Wins[]
Nominations[]
- 73rd Academy Awards, 2000
- Best Director — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Best Picture — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (shared with Bill Kong and Hsu Li Kong)
- 85th Academy Awards, 2012
- Best Director — Life of Pi
- Best Picture — Life of Pi (shared with Gil Netter and David Womark)
Videos[]
Ang Lee winning the Oscar® for Directing "Life of Pi"
Best Director 2012
Ang Lee winning the Oscar® for Directing "Brokeback Mountain"
Best Director 2005