Ang Lee

Ang Lee was born in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The son of a high school principal with traditional ideas about education, Lee chose to study theater in America instead. He went on to earn an MFA in film production at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 1984. In 1990, Lee made his first feature film, Pushing Hands, which garnered international praise and paved the way for a trajectory of future successes. Over the course of his career in filmmaking, Lee has been nominated for nine Academy Awards and eleven Golden Globe awards. He received Academy Awards in the categories of Best Director (Life of Pi and Brokeback Mountain) and Best Foreign Language Film (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon); Golden Globe Awards in the categories of Best Director (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain), Best Motion Picture – Drama (Sense and Sensibility and Brokeback Mountain) and Best Foreign Language Film (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Lee also won the Producers Guild of America Award for Brokeback Mountain, and the Directors Guild of America Award for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. His films also include The Wedding Banquet (Golden Bear, Berlin Film Festival), Eat Drink Man Woman, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, Hulk, Lust, Caution (Golden Lion), Taking Woodstock, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Gemini Man. He lives in New York with his wife.

More information can be found in the press release announcing Ang Lee as a 2020 Tisch Gala Honoree.