Oscar-winning director Ang Lee is set to be honored with the Directors Guild of America’s (DGA) Lifetime Achievement Award at the 77th DGA Awards on Feb. 8.
“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 reflect on what my work has meant to this amazing community of my fellow filmmakers.”
Lee will be the 37th director to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, regarded as the DGA’s highest honor. The last recipient was Spike Lee in 2022.
“Ang Lee is truly a master filmmaker. For over 30 years, he has directed a dynamic body of work that boldly cuts across genres – from period drama to comedy, adventure to Western, superhero to martial arts – always fearlessly taking on new challenges, never repeating himself, and consistently achieving cinematic excellence”, said DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter in a press release released on Dec. 10. “Through his films, Ang invites his audiences to explore complex characters that linger in your heart and mind long after the screen has gone dark. From his earliest features like The Wedding Banquet to artistic and commercial successes like Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang’s work is consistently recognized by critics, festivals and audiences for its brilliant storytelling and technological innovations. His unique approach has left an indelible mark on the history of cinema that will be celebrated for generations to come. The DGA couldn’t be prouder to honor Ang Lee as a recipient of our Lifetime Achievement Award,”.
As mentioned by Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Lee has been a DGA member since 1996 and was previously awarded by the DGA in 2018 for his support of New York’s film and television industry. He has also been nominated for the feature film DGA award four times, taking the award home twice in 2000 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and for Brokeback Mountain in 2005, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. His other DGA nominations were 1995’s Sense and Sensibility and 2012’s The Life of Pi, which also won Lee the Best Director Award at the Academy Awards. As mentioned by ABC News, Lee recently accepted the Praemium Imperiale Award at a ceremony in Tokyo.
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