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Lifetime Achievement Award He won the DGA Award for the Feature Film category twice, once in 2000 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and again in 2005 for Brokeback Mountain, which also won an Academy Award for Best Director. He was nominated in the same category in 1995 for Sense and Sensibility, and again in 2012 for Life of Pi. Lee is widely recognized for his artistic risk-taking, and fi lmmaking achievements across a wide array of genres. In addition to the aforementioned fi lms, his directing credits also include the technologically groundbreaking Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which was shot at 120 frames per second and combined 3D and 4K technology; and Lust Caution, which swept Asia's Golden Horse Awards in 2007. Lee's other fi lms also includes Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), The Ice Storm (1997), Ride with the Devil (1999), Hulk (2003), Taking Woodstock (2009), and most recently Gemini Man (2019). Lee earned his Masters of Fine Arts degree in fi lm production from New York University. His short fi lm Fine Line won Best Director and Best Film awards at the annual NYU Film Festival. "I am honored to be recognized in such an incredible way by my beloved Guild," said Lee. "To be given the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award is a momentous achievement for me personally, and an opportunity to refl ect on what my work has meant to this amazing community of my fellow fi lmmakers." with presenter Ron Howard and his DGA Award for Brokeback Mountain in 2005 directing Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of Brokeback Mountain in 2004 J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 5 I 1 3 with his The Ice Storm actors Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline who were his presenters at DGA Honors in 2018 2022 Spike Lee 2017 Ridley Scott 2013 Miloš Forman 2010 Norman Jewison 2006 Clint Eastwood 2004 Mike Nichols 2003 Martin Scorsese 2000 Steven Spielberg 1998 Francis Ford Coppola 1997 Stanley Kubrick 1996 Woody Allen 1995 James Ivory 1994 Robert Altman 1993 Sidney Lumet 1992 Akira Kurosawa 1990 Ingmar Bergman 1988 Robert E. Wise 1987 Elia Kazan Past recipients of the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award: 1986 Joseph Mankiewicz 1985 Billy Wilder 1984 Orson Welles 1983 John Huston 1982 Rouben Mamoulian 1981 George Cukor 1973 William Wellman David Lean 1970 Fred Zinnemann 1968 Alfred Hitchcock 1966 William Wyler 1961 Frank Borzage 1960 George Stevens 1959 Frank Capra 1957 King Vidor 1956 Henry King 1954 John Ford 1953 Cecil B. DeMille