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 (2008 TV series) as part of their Austen "Masterpiece Theatre" series. The drama was split into two episodes, which aired on 30 March and 6 April 2008. "Sense and Sensibility" began airing from 26 June 2008 on the UKTV channel in Australia. "Sense and Sensibility" was released on a two-disc DVD in the UK on 14 January 2008. All three episodes were given away free with a copy of the "Daily Mail" in 2009. The offer was part of the newspaper's British Classics collection. The Region 1 DVD was released a few days after its premiere on PBS. The two-disc set also included