Ang Lee including the Best Director from Independent Spirit. The three films show the Confucian family at risk and star the Taiwanese Chinese actor Sihung Lung to form what has been called Lee's "Father Knows Best" trilogy. In 1995, Lee directed Columbia TriStar's British classic "Sense and Sensibility". This made Lee a second-time winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwriter Emma Thompson, who also starred in the movie alongside Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant and Kate Winslet. "Sense and Sensibility" also won the Golden Globe Award
Sense and Sensibility romantic relationships, but it is very closeness between the sisters that allows these differences to emerge during their exchanges. Many critics explore "Sense and Sensibility" in relation to authors and genres popular during Austen's time. One of the most popular forms of fiction in Austen's time was epistolary fiction. This is a style of writing in which all of the action, dialogue, and character interactions are reflected through letters sent from one or more of the characters. In her book "Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics, and the Fiction of Letters," Mary Favret explores Austen's fraught relationship with epistolary fiction, claiming that