In Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg again focused on the Second World War and won another Academy Award for Best Director.

Now, fifteen years later, with Lincoln, Spielberg is a continuing force in cinema, crafting history for millions of moviegoers.

Ang Lee’s Oscar-nominated film Life of Pi, about an Indian boy adrift with a Bengal tiger, is a visual masterpiece. Lee’s cinematography and special effects make the sea and the kinetic tiger supporting characters.

For Ang Lee, success came late in life.

He won acclaim for his 1995 British period-piece, Sense and Sensibility.

From then on, he became famous for his nuanced treatment of culturally diverse stories.

In 1997, he directed The Ice Storm about dysfunctional families in the affluent New York suburbs.

In 1999, his Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, about Chinese martial arts, won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language film.

But Lee’s climactic moment came in 2005 with Brokeback Mountain, about the forbidden love between two gay cowboys in the American West. Lee’s tender and poignant story put gay romance into the American mainstream. The film was nominated for Best Picture but lost to another, many say because of its subject matter. Yet, Ang Lee received the Oscar for Best Director.

This year, with Life of Pi, Lee focuses on an Indian family and the universality of faith as a source of strength and courage.

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