Taiwan-born director Ang Lee is one of the awardees for this year’s Directors Guild of America’s DGA Honors, the Los Angeles-headquartered organization announced Aug. 15.
The Academy Award-winner was selected for his “tremendous contributions to the industry as a pioneering filmmaker,” the guild said, adding that Lee is “widely recognized for his artistic risk-taking and filmmaking achievements across a wide array of genres.” DGA President Thomas Schlamme called Lee “a legendary director.”
Lee, 63, has had a long and illustrious career. He won the Oscar for best director for the western “Brokeback Mountain” in 2006 and again in 2013 for the 3-D film “Life of Pi,” while his martial arts movie “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” was selected as best foreign language film in 2000. The thriller “Lust, Caution” bagged seven prizes at the Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan’s equivalent of the Oscars, in 2007.
The celebrated filmmaker is one of six industry professionals to be honored at the ceremony Oct. 18 in New York. Other recipients include Fox Searchlight Chairman Nancy Utley and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Launched in 1999, DGA Honors recognizes the achievements of individuals and institutions in the business, filmmaking, politics and television world that help produce world-class entertainment. Past honorees include filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee, actor Robert De Niro and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. (CPY-E)
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