Ang Lee wins Oscar Award for Best Director

李安凭《少年派》再拿最佳导演奖

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Ang Lee, director of "Life of Pi", won the Oscar Award for Best Director Sunday night at the 85th Academy Awards Ceremony.

新华网洛杉矶２月２４日电（记者王军）在２４日晚举行的第８５届奥斯卡奖颁奖礼上，华人导演李安凭借《少年派的奇幻漂流》（下称《少年派》）击败大导演史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格等人，继《断背山》后再次夺得最佳导演奖。

He succeeded over Michael Haneke of "Amour," Benh Zeitlin of "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Steven Spielberg of "Lincoln" and David O. Russell of "Silver Linings Playbook" to win the goldern statutte.

上台领奖的李安显得十分激动。这位５８岁的导演在发表获奖感言时说，感谢大家相信了“派”的故事，并与他一起分享了这一段旅程。他还特别赞扬了少年“派”的扮演者、印度少年苏拉·沙玛。

"Lif of Pi" is an aventure tale featuring a young man named Young Pi, who is the son of zookeepers in Pondicherry, India, finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells the zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few of its remaining animals.

《少年派》在本届奥斯卡上共获得了包括最佳影片和最佳导演等重要奖项在内的１１项提名，仅次于美国本土热门片《林肯》。该片当晚还获得最佳摄影、最佳视觉效果和最佳电影配乐奖。

When a storm capsizes the ship, only Pi escapes and sets adrift in a lifeboat that is also the refuge of an enormous Bengal tiger.

《少年派》是根据扬·马特尔风靡全球的同名小说改编的３Ｄ电影，讲述了印度少年派和一只名叫理查德·帕克的孟加拉虎在海上漂泊２２７天的历程。该片场景奇幻优美，内中暗含的哲学式思考耐人寻味。

Coming from China's Taiwan, the 59-year-old Lee won the Oscar Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003 for "Hulk" and got another Oscar award for Best Director in 2005 for "Brokeback Mountain." He is the first person of Asian descent to win the Oscar for Best Director.

李安曾对媒体表示，看到小说作品后就觉得一定要拍出来。“我无法不去想它，它对于我来讲成了一个使命。”但令这位国际大牌导演没有想到的是，这部影片让他投入４年时间，是他导演生涯中拍摄“最艰难的”一部。不过，李安的努力获得了回报。该片上映后不仅获得业界认可，被美国电影学会评为年度十佳影片，其票房表现也很抢眼，在全球吸金约６亿美元。