The outright winner is Ang Lee, who is at once dependably stylish and smartly unpredictable.
Ang Lee, in his treatment of the plot, cleverly assumes the moviegoer is not homophobic.
Ang Lee, Christopher Nolan and Nicolas Winding Refn are among other leading directors rumoured to have been approached.
Best Director nods went to: Michael Haneke for Amour, Ang Lee for The Life of Pi, David O.
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Ang Lee has made a bold and wondrous movie, one of his best.
That category is another close race, with Lincoln's Steven Spielberg in a duel with Ang Lee for Life Of Pi.
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Actress Nicole Kidman and Oscar-winning Life of Pi director Ang Lee will join Steven Spielberg on this year's Cannes Film Festival jury.
Life of Pi took home the most awards on Sunday, winning four prizes including a best director accolade for Taiwan's Ang Lee.
Life of Pi scored 11 nominations including Best Directing for Ang Lee.
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Oscar-winning film director Ang Lee is branching out into television, after it was announced he will direct the pilot episode of new series, Tyrant.
Ang Lee won his second Oscar for directing Life of Pi, the adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
Ang Lee's 3D epic Life of Pi - which went into the awards with nine nominations - picked up two awards for cinematography and special visual effects.
Brokeback Mountain (Opens Dec. 9) Director Ang Lee's "gay western" about two men whose 20-year bond to each other proves stronger than either of their marriages.
Ang Lee took Life of Pi, a book that was widely considered to be unfilmable, and turned it into a vibrant movie that is full of life.
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Even then, to his credit, Ang Lee is never tempted to domesticate this cat, except briefly, when both boy and beast are starving and at death's door.
Oscars for: director Ang Lee, lead actor Heath Ledger, supporting actor Jake Gyllenhaal, supporting actress Michelle Williams, best film, best cinematography, best screenplay and best musical score.
Oscar-winning director Ang Lee has reportedly pulled out of his first TV project, because he needs "some rest", after spending over four years working on Life of Pi.
The new Ang Lee film is not about the great historical happening of forty years ago but about Elliot Teichberg (Demetri Martin), whose parents run a Borscht Belt motel.
"Ang Lee has demonstrated time and again an ability to present characters with such depth and specificity that they reveal the universal human condition, " said FX president John Landgraf in a statement.
This year's only male on the shortlist, Suraj Sharma, got his break when he was picked from 3, 000 hopefuls to star in Ang Lee's epic adaptation of the novel Life of Pi.
Director Ang Lee, like Bruce Lee, was multicultural.
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It came in ahead of ahead of more widely known films like Japanese Akira Kurosawa's "Shichinin no samurai" ("Seven Samurai"), which took second place and "Wo hu cang long" ("Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon") by Taiwan's Ang Lee, which snared third.
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The new Ang Lee film is scripted in Cantonese and Mandarin and set in the China of the early nineteenth century, although we could be watching a fable from any time in the last millennium, or from no time at all.
Le Portier quickly became a specialist of big-cat scenes and after Pasolini came other famous screen directors such as Jean-Jacques Annaud with "Two Brothers, " Ridley Scott with "Gladiator, " and more recently Ang Lee with "Life of Pi, " which stars a digital tiger.
We don't usually think of "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee as an effects filmmaker, but he gave us the romantic swordplay above swaying bamboo forests in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and, less happily, "Hulk" bouncing across the desert like a rubber ball.
The other scenarios that seem possible are either they split the awards in which case Argo wins Best Picture and Spielberg wins Best Director for Lincoln (or perhaps Ang Lee for Life of Pi) or Lincoln manages to hold on to its early presumptive position with strong support from larger voting blocks and triumphs in both categories.
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