Ang Lee
Ang Lee (born 1954) is a Taiwanese-born filmmaker who has worked fluidly across Chinese and English-language cinema, becoming the first person of colour to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Born in Pingtung, Taiwan, he studied at the Taiwan Academy of Art before moving to the United States in 1978 to study theatre at the University of Illinois and film at NYU. His Father Knows Best trilogy — Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, and Eat Drink Man Woman — drew on Taiwanese family life and brought him international notice. He won his first Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and a second for Life of Pi (2012), while Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) became the highest-grossing foreign-language film ever released in the United States. He is a recipient of Taiwan's Order of Brilliant Star.