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 (film) Austen’s feminist satire on Regency gender economics," drawing attention not only to the financial plight of the Dashwoods but also to eighteenth-century women in general. In the United States, Sony and Columbia Pictures released "Sense and Sensibility" on a slow schedule compared to mainstream films, first premiering it on 13 December 1995. Believing that a limited release would position the film both as an "exclusive quality picture" and increase its chances of winning Academy Awards, Columbia dictated that its first weekend involve only seventy cinemas in the US; it opened in eleventh place in terms of box office takings and