Ang Lee

He was born in Taïwan and settled in the USA in 1978. He studied diection and graduated in direction at the New Yok Univesity where he made Fine Line, a medium length film awarded best film at the NYU Film Festival in 1985. He wrote screenplays of Pushing Hands and The Wedding Banquet, awarde by the government information office of Taïwan. He could make his first feature film, Pushing Hands in 1991, awarded in many festivals; he then directed The wedding banquet awarded in Berlin and nominated for an Oscar. Eat Drink Man Woman is his third film.