Edward Yang was a Taiwanese and American filmmaker, born in Shanghai on 6 November 1947 and died on 29 June 2007. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the Taiwanese New Wave of the 1980s, alongside fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang. Within this atlas Edward Yang is credited on Yi Yi. These details are drawn from the English Wikipedia article Edward Yang, which this entry cites as its source.
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AwardCannes Film Festival Award for Best Director 1 Connections
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Edward Yang (Chinese: 楊德昌; pinyin: Yáng Déchāng; November 6, 1947, June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese and American filmmaker.
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He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi.
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For A Brighter Summer Day, Yang won the FIPRESCI Prize and a Special Jury Prize (and was nominated for the Tokyo Grand Prix) at The Tokyo International Film Festival, and a Golden Horse award for Best Film as well as Best Original Screenplay, credited to writers Edward Yang, Hung Hung, Alex Yang, and Mingtai Lai.
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Yi Yi (Chinese: 一一; pinyin: Yī Yī; lit. 'one one'; subtitled A One and a Two) is a 2000 Taiwanese drama film written and directed by Edward Yang.
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