Background
Ang Lee was born on 23 October 1954 in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
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Ang Lee was born on 23 October 1954 in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
Lee grew up in an athmosphere that put heavy emphasis on education. He attended the Provincial Tainan First Senior High School (now National Tainan First Senior High School) where his father was the principal. He entered a three-year college, the National Arts School (now reorganized and expanded as National Taiwan University of Arts), and graduated in 1975. Lee went to the US in 1979 to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he completed his bachelor's degree in theater in 1980. After all he attended the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University, where he received his MFA in film production.
Ang did theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then film at New York University, where he met James Schamus, who has been his producer and/or cowriter on all his projects.
In 1990, Lee submitted two screenplays, Pushing Hands and The Wedding Banquet.
In 1994, a film producer Hsu Li-kong invited Lee to return to Republic of China to make Eat Drink Man Woman.
In 1995, Lee directed Columbia TriStar's British classic Sense and Sensibility.
In 1999, Hsu Li-kong, Lee's old partner and supporter, invited him to make a movie based on the traditional "wuxia" genre concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Lee assembled a team from the United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Mainland China for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The film had a success.
In 2003, Lee returned to Hollywood to direct Hulk.
Lee decided to take on a small-budget, low-profile independent film based on Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-finalist short story, Brokeback Mountain.
After Brokeback Mountain, Lee returned to a Chinese topic. His next film was Lust, Caution, which was adapted from a short novel by the Chinese author Eileen Chang.
Lee's next film after 2009's Taking Woodstock was Life of Pi, which was adapted from the novel of the same name written by Yann Martel.
The last film which he edited was Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk in 2016. Also he made music for this film.
Lee's work is known for its emotional charge, which critics believe is responsible for his success in offsetting cultural barriers and achieving international recognition.
Film Sense and Sensibility made Lee a second-time winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwriter Emma Thompson. Sense and Sensibility also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama.
Lee's film Brokeback Mountain won Best Film and Best Director at the 2006 British Academy Awards (BAFTA). Brokeback Mountain was nominated for a leading eight Oscars and was the front runner for Best Picture heading into the March 5 ceremony. Ang Lee became the first non-white person to win the Best Director at the Academy Awards (when Lee won again for Life of Pi, he became the second non-white person to win). In 2006 Lee was bestowed the Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon, the second highest civilian honour, by the R.O.C. government.
Ang Lee is at least as good as “everyone” says. More than that, he is capable of quietly giving the slip to his large, adoring following, and getting back to the vein, those two “failures" in his illustrious list The Ice Storm and Ride with the Devil.
Lee lives in Larchmont, in Westchester County, New York, with his wife Jane Lin. He married Jane in 1983. The couple has two sons, Haan (born 1984), and Mason (born 1990).
