TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwanese director Ang Lee (李安) will meet audiences in New York for screenings of his works, according to the Ministry of Culture. 

A complete retrospective of Lee’s films, “Water and Oil: The Movies of Ang Lee,” will be shown at the Asia Society Museum in New York from Feb. 14-23, per an MOC press release. Lee will meet audiences for post-screening question and answer sessions for four of his movies: "Brokeback Mountain," “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Life of Pi," and “Lust, Caution.”

This month, Lee was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Directors Guild of America for his "extraordinary achievements in the art of cinema and motion picture direction.” The Asia Society, organizer of the retrospective, added, “Lee has developed a body of work soaring in its variety but grounded by consistent themes of longing, ritual, repression and existential questioning.” 

Lee was born in Pingtung, Taiwan in 1954. He graduated from National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975, then emigrated to the US at age 23 to study film production at New York University.

He became the first person of color to win an Oscar for Best Director, twice, for “Brokeback Mountain” in 2006 and “Life of Pi” in 2013.