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![S4 - [ENCORE] - Taiwanese-American Director Ang Lee Wins Again](https://getpodpage.com/image_transform_gate_v3/yZnadHHD42TsBEHVMDRBakpGQUlu_ULAjpD-93tazWA=/?image_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com%2Fredwood-labs%2Fshowpage%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F5fe4634d-57bf-4684-aab3-6db04128fe71.jpg&w=1200&h=630&fill=blur "S4 - [ENCORE] - Taiwanese-American Director Ang Lee Wins Again")
To celebrate Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (李安) being named the winner for theater/film of the 2024 Praemium Imperiale, a global arts prize awarded annually by the Japan Art Association, we thought we'd reprise our Ang Lee bio episode from Formosa Files Season 2. Enjoy!
Cover shows Ang Lee as a young man, directing a movie (date/details unknown) Via UnboxedWriters.com
Official Website (English) of the Praemium Imperiale global arts prize.
Below: Posters for the two films that earned Ang Lee Oscars for Best Director - Brokeback Mountain (2005), and Life of Pi (2012).
Below: Jane Lin, left, and Ang Lee. Jane Lin was hugely responsible for helping get her husband's career off the ground. (Pic via Taiwan Today.)
Below: Ang Lee at 28 years old (left).
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Check our very first episode, the story of a very white man who showed up in London in 1703... and claimed to be from Formosa. Or try a foodie episode from Season 3. Or, for those who want some harder-core history, hear the tale of the Lockheed U-2 pilot Wang Hsi-chueh 王錫爵, who became famous for defecting to the PRC by hijacking China Airlines Flight 334 on May 3, 1986.
