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Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure film Life of Pi at
the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013.
Life of Pi shows a young Indian named Pi, who finds the world he knows
swept away when his family sells their zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few
animals. Only Pi escapes from the storm and floats in a lifeboat with a giant
Bengal tiger.
"I really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing
this unbelievable journey with me," Lee said in his speech. The film also
won three other Oscars, for best original music, best cinematography (电影艺术) and best visual
(视觉的) effects. It won more awards than Lincoln and Argo
which were also among the hottest nominees.
Coming from China's Taiwan, Lee won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language
Film in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and another for Best Director
in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain. He is the only Asian person to win the
directing award and one of the rare people who won that award more than once.
In an after-ceremony interview, Lee said he believed Asian films would
come to the main stage of the world sooner or later. "I was born in Asia
and grew up with Chinese education. It is natural for me to put Asian thinking
into Western things." The film, which cost 120 million U.S. dollars, has
earned nearly 600 million dollars worldwide. Lee said most of the earnings came
from outside China. Lee said he felt warm that he won the award on the day of
the Lantern Festival, a traditional Chinese festival on which families get
together to solve puzzles on lanterns and eat Tangyuan. He wished everyone a
happy new year of the snake and everybody gets lucky.