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acclaim for his work, Taiwanese director Ang Lee was
one of the first Chinese-born directors to find critical and
commercial success on both sides of the Pacific. Born in
1954 in Taipei, he graduated from the National Taiwan
College of Arts in 1975 and then went to the United States,
where he studied theater directing at the University of
Illinois and film production at New York University.
N.Y.U., he also worked on Spike
Lee's acclaimed student film, Joe's Bed-Stuy
Barbershop: We Cut Heads), Lee spent the next six
years working on screenplays, eventually making his
directorial debut in 1992 with Pushing
Hands. A comedy about the generational and
cultural gaps in a Taiwanese family in New York, it won
awards in Lee's native country. His next film, The
Wedding Banquet (1993), further explored cultural
and generational differences through a gay New Yorker who
stages a marriage of convenience to please his visiting
Taiwanese parents. The film met with widespread acclaim,
winning a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and a Best
Director prize at the Seattle Film Festival, as well as
Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations
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