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Bios of the DGA Special Award recipients were featured in the January 2025 issue of DGA Monthly
See video from the Lifetime Achievement Award presentation at www.dga.org.
DGA Lifetime Achievement Award
Ang Lee
In recognition of distinguished achievement in
directing and a ground-breaking career
Ang Lee
Top: Lee receives a standing ovation for his body of work
Below: Presenter Michelle Yeoh speaks about the legacy of Ang Lee
Lee is congratulated by Sec-Treas Paris Barclay and Pres. Lesli Linka Glatter
About Ang Lee:
Ang Lee is the 37th recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. He is widely
recognized for his artistic risk-taking, and fi lmmaking achievements across a wide
array of genres.
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.
His other directing credits include Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet
(1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), The Ice Storm (1997), Ride with the Devil
(1999), Hulk (2003), Lust Caution (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009), Billy Lynn's
Long Halftime Walk (2016), and most recently Gemini Man (2019).
In 2018, the Guild awarded Lee with a DGA Honor for his contributions to
American culture and the nation's fi lm and television industry.
