For the extraordinary contribution to contemporary cinema and particularly to queer world through movies and characters that have already entered collective memory; for having brought to the screen, with “The Wedding Banquet” and “Brokeback Mountain”, astonishing gay love stories, blending great craftsmanship and quality with success of both audience and critics, drawing the attention on the universal difficulties of living homosexual love openly, in different times, in different cultures, in different places; for having brought to the screen the remarkable life of Elliot Tiber in “Taking Woodstock”, CinemArte association has the pleasure and is honoured to award the first ever career achievement Queer Lion to mr. Ang Lee.
