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New York to hold Ang Lee retrospective • Feb. 13, 2025, 1:30 AM ET (Taipei Times)

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Born October 23, 1954 (age 70) • P’ing-tung • Taiwan
Awards And Honors Academy Award (2013) • Academy Award (2006)
Notable Works “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” • “Brokeback Mountain” • “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” • “Eat Drink Man Woman” • “Gemini Man” • “Hulk” • “Life of Pi” • “Lust, Caution” • “Ride with the Devil” • “Sense and Sensibility” • “Taking Woodstock” • “The Ice Storm” • “The Wedding Banquet”

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Ang Lee
Sense and Sensibility
Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Life of Pi
Brokeback Mountain
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Ethan Coen
American filmmaker
Joel Coen
American filmmaker
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
American actor and director
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
American director
Filming of The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli
American director
Huston, John; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
American film director
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz
Hungarian-American director, actor, and writer
William Wyler
William Wyler
American director
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
American director and producer
A screen legend
Clint Eastwood
American actor and director
George Stevens
George Stevens
American director
George Cukor
George Cukor
American film director
EGOT winner
Mike Nichols
American director
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage
American film director and producer
From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann
American director
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan
American director and author
Robert Wise
Robert Wise
American director and producer
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
American filmmaker

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