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Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安) (born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning film director from Taiwan. Lee won the 2006 Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain (2005).
Lee decided to take on a small-budget, low-profile independent film based on Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning short story, Brokeback Mountain. The 2005 movie about the forbidden love between two Wyoming cowboys immediately caught public attention and initiated intense debates. The controversies notwithstanding, Brokeback Mountain showcased Lee's skills in probing depths of the human heart. The film was critically acclaimed at major international film festivals and won Lee numerous Best Director and Best Film awards worldwide. Brokeback was nominated for a leading eight Oscars and was the frontrunner for Best Picture heading into the March 5th ceremony, but lost out to Crash, a story about race relations in Los Angeles, in a controversial upset. There was speculation that the film's depiction of homosexuality might have been the reason for the upset. Lee said he was disappointed that his film didn't win Best Picture, but in this his fifth appearance in the Academy Awards, he did win Best Director, becoming the first Asian ever to win the award. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Lee