NEW YORK (AP) — Ang Lee, the protean filmmaker of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Brokeback Mountain,” will obtain the Administrators Guild of America's lifetime achievement award.
The guild introduced Tuesday that Lee, 70, will obtain the award on the 77th DGA Awards on Feb. eight. The DGA, which considers the award its highest honor, has awarded it to 36 filmmakers all through its 88-year historical past. The final director to obtain it was Spike Lee in 2022.
“Ang Lee is actually a grasp filmmaker,” Lesli Linka Glatter, president of the DGA, stated in a press release. “For greater than 30 years, he has directed a dynamic work that boldly spans all genres, from interval drama to comedy, from journey to western, from superhero to martial arts, at all times fearlessly taking over new challenges, by no means repeating itself and always reaching cinematic achievements. excellence.”
“I’m honored to be acknowledged in such an unbelievable manner by my beloved guild,” Lee stated. “Receiving the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award is a momentous achievement for me personally and a possibility to mirror on what my work has meant to this unbelievable neighborhood of fellow filmmakers.”
Lee's movies additionally embrace 1995's “Sense and Sensibility,” 1997's “The Ice Storm,” 2003's “Hulk” and 2012's Lifetime of Pi. The Taiwanese-born filmmaker has twice received the Oscar for greatest director, for “Brokeback Mountain” and for “Lifetime of Pi”. His final movie was 2019's “Gemini Man,” an motion film starring Will Smith filmed at 120 frames per second.
At a current ceremony in Tokyo the place Lee obtained the Praemium Imperiale award, he regretted not having made a movie lately.
“I haven't made a film in six years and I don't know the place to start out once more,” Lee stated, in line with the Hollywood Reporter. “Cinema wants a drastic change. If we proceed down the identical path, will probably be a lifeless finish. We want one thing that makes the viewers marvel once more.”
Jake Coyle, Related Press