Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director born October 23, 1954, in Pingtung County, Taiwan. His films explore emotional restraint and hidden feeling across a wide range of genres and settings, from Chinese-language family dramas to English-language literary adaptations and action epics. His best known works include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and Life of Pi (2012). He has won two Academy Awards for Best Director, for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi, along with BAFTA and Golden Globe awards, and is the only filmmaker to have won the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear twice.
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Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker.
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Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus.
Lust, Caution (Wikipedia)
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Lust, Caution (Chinese: 色，戒; pinyin: Sè, Jiè; Jyutping: Sik1Gaai3) is a 2007 erotic spy film directed by Ang Lee, based on the 1979 novella by Eileen Chang.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung.
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