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Ang Lee (李安)

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Ang Lee (李安)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Ang Lee
  • Chinese: 李安
  • Era: 1954
  • Geography: Chaozhou, Pingtung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Ang Lee is a Taiwanese American film director born on October 23, 1954, in Pingtung, Taiwan. He studied theater at the National Taiwan University of Arts before emigrating to the United States, where he earned a B.F.A. in Theater from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an M.F.A. in Film Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Career

Ang Lee’s filmmaking career, as listed in the TAH Who’s Who employment table, runs from 1991 to 2019 and is marked by a close collaboration with writer-actor collaborators across Chinese-language and English-language cinema.

Directorial filmography (TAH Who’s Who)

  • 1991 — Pushing Hands (Director, Writer)
  • 1993 — The Wedding Banquet (Director, Writer)
  • 1994 — Eat Drink Man Woman (Director, Writer)
  • 1995 — Sense and Sensibility (Director)
  • 1997 — The Ice Storm (Director)
  • 1999 — Ride with the Devil (Director)
  • 2000 — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Director)
  • 2003 — Hulk (Director)
  • 2005 — Brokeback Mountain (Director)
  • 2007 — Lust, Caution (Director)
  • 2009 — Taking Woodstock (Director)
  • 2012 — Life of Pi (Director)
  • 2016 — Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Director)
  • 2019 — Gemini Man (Director)

Education path

Theater studies at National Taiwan University of Arts (AA, 1975), a B.F.A. in Theater from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1980), and an M.F.A. in Film Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (1985) — the bridge from Taiwan to the American film industry noted in his TAH profile.

Education

  • National Taiwan University of Arts — AA — (1975) — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — BFA/Theater — (1980) — New York University — MFA/Film Production — (1985)

Employment

  • Pushing Hands — Director, Writer — (1991-1991) — The Wedding Banquet — Director, Writer — (1993-1993) — Eat Drink Man Woman — Director, Writer — (1994-1994) — Sense and Sensibility — Director — (1995-1995) — The Ice Storm — Director — (1997-1997) — Ride with the Devil — Director — (1999-1999) — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Director — (2000-2000) — Hulk — Director — (2003-2003) — Brokeback Mountain — Director — (2005-2005) — Lust, Caution — Director — (2007-2007) — Taking Woodstock — Director — (2009-2009) — Life of Pi — Director — (2012-2012) — Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk — Director — (2016-2016) — Gemini Man — Director — (2019-2019)

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

Vault deepening note (2026-09-14, vault-only)

  • Re-check 2026-09-14: the four archived TaiwaneseAmerican.org records linked above document community reception of the filmography already on this page — 2012 Life of Pi Best Director coverage, the 2009 Lust, Caution co-presented screening, the 2010 Rice University (Houston) retrospective, and the 2012 Washington DC month of screenings.
  • No vault pages exist for his collaborators or institutions (NTUA, UIUC, NYU Tisch), so no new wikilinks were added; existing links to |TAH Foundation, |TaiwaneseAmerican.org, and |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org remain the vault connections.

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