Ang Lee Biography (1954-)

Born October 23, 1954, in Pingtung, Taiwan; son of a high school principal; married Jane Lin (a microbiology researcher), 1983; children: Han, Mason. Addresses: Agent: Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.; Publicist: PMK/HBH Public Relations, 8500 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Nationality: Taiwanese
Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, producer, screenwriter
Birth Details: October 23, 1954; Pingtung, Taiwan

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Sound operator, East to West, 1982
Director, Dim Lake, 1983
Assistant camera operator and first assistant director, Joe's Bed-StyBarbershop: We Cut Heads, First Run Features, 1983
Fine Line, 1984
Director and producer, Tui shou (also known as Pushing Hands), Central Motion Pictures Corporation, 1991
Director and producer, Hsi yen (also known as The Wedding Banquet and Xiyan), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1993
Director, Yinshi nan nu (also known as Eat Drink Man Woman), Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1994
Director, Sense and Sensibility, Columbia, 1995
Director and producer, Siao Yu (also known as Shaonui Xiaoyu), Central Motion Pictures Corporation, 1995
Director and producer, The Ice Storm, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 1997
Director, Ride with the Devil, Universal, 1999
Director, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (also known as Wo hu can long, Ngo foo chong lung, and Wo hu cang long), Sony Pictures Classics, 2000
Director, Berlin Diaries, 1940-45, Good Machine, 2000
Director, The Hire: Chosen (short), BMW Films, 2001
Director, Hulk, Universal, 2003

Executive producer, One Last Ride, 2003
Film Appearances
Yang +/- Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (documentary), British FilmInstitute, 1996
Himself, Feast for the Eyes: Ang Lee in Taipei (documentary), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists Home Entertainment, 2001
Himself, Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (documentary; also known as Playboy Presents Sex at 24 Frames Per Second: The Ultimate Journey ThroughSex in Cinema), Image Entertainment, Inc., 2003
Television Appearances
Specials
The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards, IFC, 2001
Jackie Chan, Bravo, 2001
The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards, NBC, 2001
(Archive footage) Himself, The 73rd Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2001
The 2002 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards, IFC, 2002
The Hulk: MTV Movie Special, MTV, 2003
Hulk: The Lowdown, SciFi, 2003
Episodic
Himself, "Ang Lee," The South Bank Show, 2003
Also appeared in Conversations in World Cinema, Sundance Channel.
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Tui shou (also known as Pushing Hands), Central Motion Pictures Corporation, 1991
Hsi yen (also known as The Wedding Banquet and Xiyan), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1993, published with Yinshi nan nu in Two Films by Ang Lee, Overlook Press (Woodstock, NY), 1994
(With Hui-Ling Wang and James Schamus) Yinshi nan nu (also known as Eat Drink Man Woman), Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1994, published with Hsi yen in Two Films by Ang Lee, Overlook Press, 1994
Siao Yu (also known as Shaonui Xiaoyu), Central Motion Pictures Corporation, 1995

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

The film Tortilla Soup, released by Samuel Goldwyn Films in 2001,was based on the Lee's original screenplay for Yinshi nan nu (also known as Eat Drink Man Woman).

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 44, Gale Group, 2002

Periodicals

Entertainment Weekly, December 22, 2000, p. 36; February 23, 2001,p. 104
Interview, September, 1997, pp. 64-66; December, 2000, p. 48
New York Times, August 1, 1993, sec. 2, p. 25
Time, July 9, 2001, p. 55
Variety, February 12, 2001, p. 26; July 30, 2001, p. 35

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