Ang Lee
An eclectic writer-director who has endured a turbulent showbiz career, Lee moved from his native Taiwan to the U.S. and studied filmmaking at NYU. After years of watching potential projects fall thro...
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10/22/1954
Pingtung, Taiwan |
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| Failed his national university entrance exams in Taiwan. |
| Passed on an offer to direct Terminator 3. |
| Served as assistant director on Spike Lee's NYU student film Joe's Bed-Stuy Barber Shop: We Cut Heads. |
| His 1993 movie The Wedding Banquet became the first production from Taiwan to earn a Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar nomination. |
