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2006:

  1. A look at the 2006 Academy Award nominees
    A look at the 2006 Academy Award nominees

    with Bennett Miller, Ang Lee, Paul Haggis and more on Mar 3, 2006

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2005:

  1. A conversation about the film "Brokeback Mountain"
    A conversation about the film "Brokeback Mountain"

    with Ang Lee and Heath Ledger on Dec 7, 2005

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    54 min
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2003:

  1. A conversation with director Ang Lee
    A conversation with director Ang Lee

    with Ang Lee on Jun 19, 2003

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    18 min
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2001:

  1. A series of conversations about the upcoming Academy Awards
    A series of conversations about the upcoming Academy...

    with Geoffrey Rush, Joan Allen, Ang Lee and more on Mar 23, 2001

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    28 min
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2000:

  1. A conversation with Ang Lee
    A conversation with Ang Lee

    with Ang Lee on Nov 21, 2000

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    29 min
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1997:

  1. A discussion about the film "The Ice Storm"
    A discussion about the film "The Ice Storm"

    with James Schamus, Rick Moody and Ang Lee on Oct 14, 1997

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    20 min
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Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning film director from Taiwan.

During graduate school, Lee finished a 16-mm short film, ?Shades of the Lake? (1982), which won the Best Drama Award in Short Film in Taiwan. His own thesis work, a 43-minute drama, ?Fine Line? (1984), won Best Film and earned him Best Director in the NYU student film festival.

In 1990, Lee submitted two screenplays, ?Pushing Hands? and ?The Wedding Banquet?, to a competition sponsored by Taiwan’s Government Information Office. ?Pushing Hands? debuted in 1991 and received eight nominations in Taiwan’s premier film festival. In 1993, ?The Wedding Banquet? was nominated as Best Foreign Language film in both the Golden Globe and the Academy Awards.

In 1995, Lee directed Columbia TriStar’s British classical ?Sense and Sensibility?. The movie was nominated for 7 Academy Awards and won the Best Adapted Screenplay by Emma Thompson. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama.

In 2000 Lee directed ?Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?. With Chinese dialogue and English subtitles, the won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and three technical awards..

Lee won the Academy Award for best director for his work on the 2005 film ?Brokeback Mountain.? The film was critically acclaimed at major international film festivals and won Lee numerous Best Director and Best Film awards worldwide.

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Lee