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Oscar-Winning Director Reveals Key To His Success

AP | Posted 05.09.2013 | Entertainment

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee says modesty and diligence have been the keys to his success in penetrating the foreign ...

Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee Headline Star-Studded Cannes Jury

AP | THOMAS ADAMSON | Posted 04.24.2013 | Entertainment

PARIS — The Cannes Film Festival announced its most Hollywood-heavy jury lineup in years Wednesday, with a list that includes Oscar winners Nico...

Exactly How Amazing It Is To Work With Ang Lee

AP | Posted 04.23.2013 | Entertainment

NEW DELHI — "Life of Pi" actor Suraj Sharma credits director Ang Lee with setting him on a path to continue with a career in movies. Sharma tol...

Union Road: A Conversation With Diane Arkenstone, Plus Simone Dinnerstein & Tift Merritt's 'Colors' Video Exclusive

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.18.2013 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

The new album Night combines the talents of pianist Simone Dinnerstein and singer-songwriter Tift Merritt on which they explore folk, rock and classical music.

The Life of Pi As a Dream of Taiwan

Mahlon Meyer | Posted 05.18.2013 | Entertainment
Mahlon Meyer

The Life of Pi, as a movie, is ultimately more optimistic, I am guessing, than Ang Lee himself. I am guessing that he worries about the future of his Chinese civilization that found a home on Taiwan. The Life of Pi ends in India. The future of Taiwan, Ang Lee's erstwhile home, is not so certain.

Mandy Moore Switches From A Comedy To A Drama

Posted 03.15.2013 | TV

After exiting ABC's comedy pilot, "Pulling," Mandy Moore has joined CBS' legal drama "The Advocates," according to Deadline. Moore will reportedly ...

LOOK: Ang Lee Chows Down On In-N-Out To Celebrate Oscars Win

The Huffington Post | Cavan Sieczkowski | Posted 02.26.2013 | Entertainment

His "Life of Pi" protagonist might have been a vegetarian, but Ang Lee went full carnivore while celebrating his Academy Award win. Lee stopped by...

Oscar Predictions: How Accurate Was the Math?

Ben Zauzmer | Posted 04.28.2013 | Entertainment
Ben Zauzmer

Sunday evening was a fantastic night if you're a fan of Argo, Seth MacFarlane, James Bond or movie musicals. But it was an equally great night if you're a fan of movie math.

Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane Best When He Wasn't Trying to be Funny

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.27.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Russnow

Seth MacFarlane is a very, very funny guy, I love his TV shows, but sometimes what might seem funny in your head or even in your living room might better go unsaid.

Who Ang Lee Made Very Happy

AP | Posted 04.27.2013 | Entertainment

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A second Academy Award for best director has thrust Taiwan native Ang Lee into the top ranks of world filmmakers and made him a...

Sasha Bronner

PHOTOS: 10 Best Things Said Backstage At The Oscars

HuffingtonPost.com | Sasha Bronner | Posted 02.25.2013 | Los Angeles

This year's Academy Awards may have been full of zingers and inappropriate Seth MacFarlane jokes, but some of the best banter took place backstage in ...

Best Director Winner

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 02.25.2013 | Entertainment

Ang Lee won an Oscar for Best Director at the 85th annual Academy Awards. Lee's Oscar win was for directing "Life of Pi." The Best Director race...

Watch Oscar Experts Battle Over Those 'Crazy' Races for Best Picture and Director

Tom O'Neil | Posted 01.30.2013 | Entertainment
Tom O'Neil

Good thing Chris Rosen has a jolly sense of humor. Soon after Michael Hogan and I raise him up as a model of Oscar punditry for picking Argo early on to win Best Picture, we tear him down in this webcam chat.

Oscar-Winning Global Smash Gets Surprise Sequel

Posted 01.25.2013 | Entertainment

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," one of the most influential imports of the last 13 years, will get a sequel. According to Deadline.com, The Weinstei...

Mike Ryan

Ang Lee: 'I Don't Feel So Lonely Anymore'

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Ryan | Posted 01.10.2013 | Entertainment

Even though Ang Lee's name had surfaced in most Oscar prediction summaries, the "Life of Pi" director wasn't so sure he'd make the cut this year. At l...

Who Will Direct Angelina Jolie In 'Cleopatra'?

Posted 01.09.2013 | Entertainment

More than two years after the news first broke that a new "Cleopatra" biopic was in the works, the film is finally close to getting a director. "I'...

Hold the Free-Range Chicken and Creamed Kale: Tom Hooper Celebrated at Michael's

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.11.2013 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

As to the DGA awards, Hooper joins Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Ang Lee, and Ben Affleck for this honor. Omitted were Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, and most serious, a favorite: David O. Russell.

2012: The Year the World Moved

Tom Silva | Posted 03.05.2013 | Entertainment
Tom Silva

As we look at prognostications about the economy and politics of 2030, is it possible that the axis of global culture is also moving to other places, or at least will be more evenly distributed in the decades to come?

'Life Of Pi:' A Film Autopsy

Posted 03.04.2013 | College

Professors Kevin Anderson and Salman Hameed evaluate the merits of the new Ang Lee film, "Life of Pi." Watch the trailer below. ...

Are These The 13 Most Creative Midlifers Of 2012?

The Huffington Post | Shelley Emling | Posted 12.18.2012 | Fifty

There's the husband-and-wife architectural team behind the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and the playwright who has probably brought more Asi...

Why 3D doesn't matter

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.03.2013 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

After seeing Life of Pi and The Hobbit, whose 48-frame-per-second 3D is game-changing, according to some observers, it feels like the right time for m...

ReThink Review: Life of Pi -- Of Gods and Tigers

Jonathan Kim | Posted 01.28.2013 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

Life of Pi is more about the nuts and bolts of a teenager surviving at sea and bonding with a tiger than a spiritual quest that asks hard questions about the wisdom, will, and existence of God.

Oscar-Winning Director Opens Up

Posted 11.28.2012 | Los Angeles

This story comes courtesy of Los Angeles Magazine As told to Nancy Miller I first came to L.A. by Greyhound bus. I was in film school in New Yor...

Life of Pi Is Like a Sweet Dessert

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 01.26.2013 | Entertainment
Jackie K. Cooper

Any film that can entertain you and challenge you at the same time is above average in every way.

God and Life of Pi

David Edmund Moody | Posted 01.25.2013 | Entertainment
David Edmund Moody

Life of Pi is a strangely affecting film that employs an adventure story and 3D photography to pose a simple question: Does God exist?