Ang Lee OBS (Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born 23 October 1954) is a Taiwanese film director and screenwriter. Lee\'s work is known for its emotional charge, which critics believe is responsible for his success in offsetting cultural barriers and achieving international recognition.\n', '

Lee\'s earlier films, such as The Wedding Banquet, Pushing Hands, and Eat Drink Man Woman explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition and modernity, Eastern and Western. Soon after, Lee arrived in Hollywood with his first film Sense and Sensibility. Lee\'s films also deal heavily with repressed, hidden emotions in many of his films, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Ice Storm, Hulk, Sense and Sensibility, Life of Pi, and Brokeback Mountain. Lee won two Academy Awards for Best Director, for his work on Brokeback Mountain, and Life of Pi, becoming the first non-white person to win the award. He also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, receiving nominations for Best Picture and Best Director as well.\n', '

Ang Lee was born in a Waishengren family, in a military dependents\' village of the Republic of China Armed Forces, located at Chaochou, Pingtung, a southern agricultural county in Republic of China(Taiwan). Both of Lee\'s parents moved from Mainland China to Taiwan following the Chinese civil war in 1949. He grew up in a household that put heavy emphasis on education.\n', '

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