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Ang Lee

Having garnered international acclaim for his work, Taiwanese director Ang Lee was one of the first Chinese-born directors to find critical and commercial success on both sides of the Pacific. Born in Taipei, he graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then went to the United States, where he studied theater directing at the University of Illinois and film production at NYU. After winning awards in 1985 for his student work, Lee spent the next six years working on screenplays, eventually making his directorial debut in 1992 with Pushing Hands. Two other films followed, The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994). Both films met with widespread acclaim, winning numerous awards and nominations. His mainstream Hollywood debut came with Sense and Sensibility in 1995. A fairly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, with a screenplay written by its star, Emma Thompson, the film proved another success for the director, earning honors including a Best Picture Oscar nomination, a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and a number of British Academy Awards. Lee was voted the year's Best Director by the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle. In 1997, the director next turned to adapting Rick Moody's novel The Ice Storm... Next

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