Lee studied in the Provincial Tainan First Senior High School (now National Tainan First Senior High School) where his father was the principal. He grew up in a household that put heavy emphasis on education. Both of Lee's parents moved from De'an, Kiangsi province in Mainland China to Taiwan, following the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949. Sabine Cheng & Lilian Wu, 1 October 2016 Īng Lee was born in a Waishengren family, in a military dependents' village of the Republic of China Armed Forces, located in Chaochou, Pingtung, a southern agricultural county in Taiwan. Ang Lee, speaks of his attachment to Taiwan. Wherever I shoot my film, it is a Taiwanese film" The basic me was growing up here, mixed with a lot of other things. "the formation of an individual decides their world perception, especially the things that happen before one is 20, so since he did not go to the US until he was 23, "whatever I do, whatever I absorb outside, my nature remains very Taiwanese. Lee has also been awarded Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globes and British Academy Film Awards, among others, and is the recipient of the Order of Brilliant Star, the second highest civilian honor bestowed by the government of Taiwan. Lee is one of four directors to win the Golden Lion twice and the sole filmmaker to have been awarded the Golden Bear twice. For The Wedding Banquet and Sense and Sensibility, Lee won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Brokeback Mountain and Lust Caution, he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Lee has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, of which he has won three: Best Foreign Language Film for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Best Director for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi, becoming the first non-white director to win the latter. Much of Lee's work is known for its emotional charge and exploration of repressed, hidden emotions. He went on to direct films in a broad range of genres, including the drama The Ice Storm (1997) the Civil War epic Ride with the Devil (1999) the martial arts wuxia drama Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) the superhero blockbuster Hulk (2003) the romantic drama Brokeback Mountain (2005) the erotic espionage period film Lust, Caution (2007) and the magic realist survival drama Life of Pi (2012). His first entirely English-language film was Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which he received critical praise and a number of accolades. The films were critically successful both in his native Taiwan and internationally. Lee's early successes included Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition and modernity, Eastern and Western the three films are informally known as the " Father Knows Best" trilogy. During his filmmaking career he has received international critical and popular acclaim and a range of accolades.
Born in the Pingtung County of southern Taiwan, Lee was educated in Taiwan and later in the United States. Ang Lee OBS ( Chinese: 李安 pinyin: Lǐ Ān born 23 October 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker.