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  • NAME: Ang Lee
  • OCCUPATION: Director
  • BIRTH DATE: October 23, 1954 (Age: 57)
  • EDUCATION: National Taiwan College of Arts
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Taipei, Taiwan
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Ang Lee is a Taiwanese American film director best known for the films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk and Brokeback Mountain.

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Ang Lee is a Taiwanese American film director who made his debut with Pushing Hands, and earned Oscar nominations for his next two films, The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman. Later films include Sense and Sensibility (Best Picture Oscar nomination) and Crouching Tiger,

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Hidden Dragon (four Oscars). In 2006, he became the first Asian to win an Oscar for Best Director for Brokeback Mountain.

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Film director, producer, and screenwriter, born on October 23, 1954 in Taipei, Taiwan. Ang Lee attended the National Taiwan College of Arts (1975), then went to the USA, where he studied at the University of Illinois and New York University.

Lee made his directorial debut in 1992 with Pushing Hands, and earned Academy Award nominations for his next two films, The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994). Later films include Sense and Sensibility (1995, Best Picture Oscar nomination), The Ice Storm (1997), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, four Oscars, four BAFTA Awards, Best Director Golden Globe), and Hulk (2003). In 2006, Ang 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'sshort story about gay ranch hands.

Lee married Jane Lin in 1982 and they have two children.

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