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The Auteur The Auteur
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The Outsider The Outsider
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American Education American Education
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Reversal of Fortune Reversal of Fortune
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Taking Flight—International Celebrity Taking Flight—International Celebrity
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Humility and Grace Humility and Grace
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Making History: The Academy Award for Best Direction Making History: The Academy Award for Best Direction
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Brokeback Mountain—After the Academy Awards Brokeback Mountain—After the Academy Awards
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After Brokeback: Lust/Caution and Taking Woodstock After Brokeback: Lust/Caution and Taking Woodstock
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The Second Academy Award for Best Director: Life of Pi The Second Academy Award for Best Director: Life of Pi
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Conclusion: Security/Insecurity Conclusion: Security/Insecurity
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One Introduction: Ang Lee—A History
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Published:December 2014
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This chapter provides a historical overview of Ang Lee's career as a Hollywood filmmaker. Lee has been dubbed an auteur—he is an artist with his actors, and seems to draw amazing work out of his cast, from the smallest to the greatest, while continuing to reiterate common themes of family, culture, and identity in an astonishing variety of genres. He has drawn performances of the highest quality out of actors as diverse as Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Katie Holmes, Kate Winslet, and Zhang Ziyi. Ang Lee was thirty-seven years old when he directed his first film, Pushing Hands (1991). His impressive ouvre includes Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012), The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Hulk (2003), Ride with the Devil (1999), Lust/Caution (2007), The Ice Storm (1997), and Taking Woodstock (2007). Lee won the Academy Award for Best Director twice: the first for Brokeback Mountain and the second for Life of Pi.
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