Ang Lee to obtain DGA Lifetime Achievement Award

The guild introduced Tuesday that Lee, 70, will probably be given the award on the 77th DGA Awards on Feb. 8. The DGA, which considers the award its highest honor, has given it to 36 filmmakers over its 88-year historical past. The final director to obtain it was Spike Lee in 2022.

“Ang Lee is actually a grasp filmmaker,” stated Lesli Linka Glatter, DGA president, in a press release. “For over 30 years, he has directed a dynamic physique of labor that boldly cuts throughout genres – from interval drama to comedy, journey to western, superhero to martial arts – all the time fearlessly taking over new challenges, by no means repeating himself, and constantly attaining cinematic excellence.”

“I’m honored to be acknowledged in such an unbelievable manner by my beloved guild,” stated Lee. “To be given the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award is a momentous achievement for me personally, and a possibility to replicate on what my work has meant to this wonderful group of my 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 Taiwan-born filmmaker has twice gained the Oscar for greatest director, for “Brokeback Mountain” and for “Lifetime of Pi.” His final movie was 2019’s “Gemini Man,” a Will Smith-starring motion movie shot at 120 frames per second.

At a current ceremony in Tokyo the place Lee acquired the Praemium Imperiale Award, he lamented that he hasn’t made a film lately.

“I haven’t made a film for six years, and I don’t know the place to begin once more,” Lee stated, in response to 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 can make audiences marvel once more.”

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