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Lee went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Director twice for the romantic drama Brokeback Mountain (2005); and the survival drama Life of Pi (2012).
In 2012 Lee directed Life of Pi which earned 11 Academy Award nominations and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Director. In 2013 Ang Lee was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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Oct 21, 2023 · He directed his first feature, “Pushing Hands” (1991) at the age of 37. Lee followed up his debut with back-to-back international successes, each one scoring Oscar nominations as Best Foreign...
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- 2010: Kathryn Bigelow, 'The Hurt Locker' The first and only female best director winner, Kathryn Bigelow, started off the decade with a historical win for The Hurt Locker.
- 2011: Tom Hooper, 'The King's Speech' Director Tom Hooper got his start in television with Emmy-winning work on the acclaimed miniseries Elizabeth I followed by John Adams, starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney as the historical first couple.
- 2012: Michel Hazanavicius, 'The Artist' French writer and director Michel Hazanavicius won best director for his film The Artist, a silent black and white film starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo and John Goodman.
- 2013: Ang Lee, 'Life of Pi' Ang Lee is the first non-white director to win the Academy Award for best director (Brokeback Mountain) and remains the only director of Asian descent to win the category, earning his second win for Life of Pi.
- Brokeback Mountain (2005) Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal deliver career-best performances as closeted sheepherders in rural Wyoming. Deprived the best picture Oscar by a shamefully timid Academy, Lee made do with a best director statuette, and his heart-wrenching adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story is the pinnacle of a highly decorated career.
- The Ice Storm (1997) From its impeccable ensemble to its perfectly observed setting, there isn’t a hair out of place in Lee’s chilly depiction of 1970s New England.
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) From its eye-popping production design to the blistering intensity of Yuen Woo-ping’s fight choreography, this remains, in many ways, the definitive Ang Lee movie.
- Life of Pi (2012) Lee won his second best director Oscar for this visually dazzling magical realist parable, shot in 3D and utilising state-of-the-art digital effects.
Jan 12, 2001 · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Directed by Ang Lee. With Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen. A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
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Apr 2, 2014 · In 2006, he became the first Asian to win an Academy Award for best director, for his film Brokeback Mountain, a small-budget, low-profile independent film based on Annie Proulx's short story...
