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Ang Lee

Director
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The Profile

Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter whose work spans family dramas, period pieces, wuxia epics, and cutting-edge 3D cinema. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi.

Born in 1954 in Pingtung County, Taiwan; alumnus of NYU Tisch School of the Arts; two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director; Golden Lion winner at Venice for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Lust, Caution (2007); Golden Bear winner at Berlin in the 1990s.

Four DeBaser reviews celebrate Ang Lee’s range: intimate romance, espionage in wartime Shanghai, survival parable in 3D, and a media-savvy Iraq War homecoming. Praise centers on nuanced storytelling, visual ambition, performances, and mood. Censorship issues and awards crop up, as do themes of faith, identity, and spectacle. Overall verdict: consistently strong cinema.

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