Awards: Three Oscar Awards, five British Film Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, two Venice Film Festivals, Golden Lion Award for Best Film, two Golden Bear Awards for Best Film at Berlin Film Festival.
Education
National Taiwan Univ. of Arts — 1973 — B.S., Film and Drama
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — 1979-1980 — B.S., Drama
New York Univ. — 1981-1984 — M.S., Film Production
Employment
Self-Employed — Movie Director — (1991-)
Family
Wife: 林惠嘉
Son: 李涵, 李淳
Role in the Community
Celebrated in the TAH community as “Pride of Taiwanese American”: profiled in 229. 台美人的榮耀: 8, 李安 導演 (2015/04) and in 55. Ang Lee 李安 (Who’s Who, 2014).
Community feature on his marriage to 林惠嘉: 270. 李安與林惠嘉 牽手與推手 (2015/01).
Record The first Oscar Winner of Movie Director (2013) — HOLD: name rendered “Ann Lee” in that record vs “Ang Lee” elsewhere; treated as the same person, spelling not harmonized.
Community timeline entry: Our Journeys 123 (2015/11-12) — 李安電影展 at Walker Art Center; 李安 attended the closing dialogue with long-time collaborator 夏慕斯 (James Shamus).
Adjacent community echo: 2020 (11/2020) — 蔡立勳 as first Taiwanese Hollywood food styling artist, cited via 李安’s production.
HOLD: duplicate person pages — corpus links both ang-lee and this page ang-lee-2 as 李安; not merged.
Movement-press analysis.Taiwan Films That Imagine Taiwanese America situates him between Taiwan and Taiwanese America: NYU grad whose winning GIO screenwriting-contest scripts became Taiwanese American film co-productions — 推手 and 喜宴 (1993), the latter his international breakthrough and a landmark of both Taiwan and Asian American cinema. In later community interviews he is cited as an inspiration by filmmakers, e.g. Erin Li — Erin Li brings filmmaking and storytelling to life.