Academy Award for Best Director

"Lights, camera, action!" The famous line of a director. The highest honor a director can get is an Academy Award at the Oscars. Usually, when the Oscars come around the public gets caught up in the fashionable dress, Hollywood glitter, and red carpet drama, but what they fail to acknowledge is the true talent of the directors of some extraordinary films. Last year, Ang Lee won the Academy Award for Best Director with the film Life of Pi. Life of Pi was an amazing film that captured the deep moral of the book. One of the most difficult things in filmmaking I think is making a popular book into an even more popular movie. Ang Lee truly transferred the philosophical messages in the book into a thrilling adventure in the Life of Pi. Lee also directed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. As a Taiwanese-born American, Lee incorporates a lot of culture into many of his films. One of the reasons why Life of Pi,  was such a good movie was because it had rich culture that Lee was able to bring to the film because of his childhood in Taiwan.

Here is a link to an interview of Ang Lee talking about his award winning film Life of Pi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mbEU-m_zOs !!