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The Wedding Banquet

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The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 romantic comedy film about a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. [1]

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Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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Amy Tan

Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience.

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Ang Lee

Ang Lee OBS (born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese film director and screenwriter.

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Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany.

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Brian Yorkey

Brian Yorkey is an American playwright and lyricist.

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Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American neo-Western romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.

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Co-production (media)

A co-production is a joint venture between two or more different production companies for the purpose of film production, television production, video game development, and so on.

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Eat Drink Man Woman

Eat Drink Man Woman() is a 1994 Taiwanese comedy-drama film directed by Ang Lee and starring Sihung Lung, Yu-wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, and Kuei-mei Yang.

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Fandango (company)

Fandango is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website as well as through their mobile app.

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Golden Bear

The Golden Bear (Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globes, an American film awards ceremony.

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Good Machine

Good Machine was an independent film production, film distribution, and foreign sales company started in the early 1990s by its co-founders and producers, Ted Hope and James Schamus.

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Gua Ah-leh

Grace Gua Ah-leh (born 2 June 1944) is a Taiwanese actress and singer.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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James Schamus

James Allan Schamus (born September 7, 1959) is an American screenwriter, co-founder of Good Machine production company, and the CEO of Focus Features, the motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company, until its merging with FilmDistrict.

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John Tillinger

John Tillinger (born June 28, 1938) is a theatre director and actor.

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Jong Lin

Lin Liang-chung, credited as Jong Lin, is a Taiwanese-born cinematographer.

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Jurassic Park (film)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen.

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Kao Chin Su-mei

Kao Chin Su-mei (born September 21, 1965), also known as Chin Su-mei, May Chin and Ciwas Ali, is a Taiwanese politician and retired actress and singer.

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Lavender marriage

A lavender marriage is a male-female marriage in which one or both of the partners is homosexual, pansexual or bisexual.

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List of submissions to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The 66th Academy Awards, which were held on March 21, 1994, saw 35 countries submit films for competition in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

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List of Taiwanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Republic of China (Taiwan) has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1957, and regularly since 1980.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Mainland China

Mainland China, also known as the Chinese mainland, is the geopolitical as well as geographical area under the direct jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Michael Gaston

Michael Gaston (born November 5, 1962) is an American film and television actor.

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Mitchell Lichtenstein

Mitchell Wilson Lichtenstein (born March 10, 1956) is an American actor, writer, producer and director.

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Mixed-orientation marriage

A mixed-orientation marriage is a marriage between partners of differing sexual orientations.

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National Revolutionary Army

The National Revolutionary Army (NRA), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army (革命軍) before 1928, and as National Army (國軍) after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in the Republic of China.

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Neil Peng

Neil Peng (born 23 September 1953) is a Taiwanese screenwriter and political activist.

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Penske Media Corporation

Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American digital media, publishing, and information services company founded in 2003.

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Permanent residence (United States)

United States lawful permanent residency, informally known as having a green card, is the immigration status of a person authorized to live and work in the United States of America permanently.

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Playbill

Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers.

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Pushing Hands (film)

Pushing Hands is a film directed by Ang Lee.

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Radio Times

Radio Times is a British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine.

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Red envelope

In Chinese and other East Asian and Southeast Asian societies, a red envelope, red packet, lì xì (Vietnamese), lai see (Cantonese), âng-pau (Hokkien) or hóngbāo (Mandarin) is a monetary gift which is given during holidays or special occasions such as weddings, graduation or the birth of a baby.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as the portmanteaus romedy or romcom) is a genre with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Same-sex relationship

A same-sex relationship is a relationship between persons of the same sex and can take many forms, from romantic and sexual, to non-romantic homosocially-close relationships.

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Seattle International Film Festival

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America.

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Sergio Trujillo

Sergio Trujillo is a Colombian choreographer.

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Sihung Lung

Sihung Lung (c. 1930 – May 2, 2002) was a Chinese actor who worked in the cinema of Taiwan.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee.

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Ted Hope

Ted Hope (born 1962) is an American independent film producer based in New York City.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Samuel Goldwyn Company

The Samuel Goldwyn Company was an American independent film company founded by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., the son of the famous Hollywood mogul, Samuel Goldwyn, in 1979.

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Theatre Communications Group

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is a non-profit service organization headquartered in New York City that promotes professional non-profit theatre in the United States.

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Tim Squyres

Timothy S. “Tim” Squyres (born March 29, 1959) is an American film editor with about 30 film credits.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Village Theatre

Village Theatre is a major regional theatre located in the Seattle Metropolitan Area.

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Welly Yang

Wellington "Welly" Yang (Traditional Chinese: 楊呈偉, Pinyin: Yáng Chéngwěi) is a Taiwanese actor, singer, writer and producer.

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Winston Chao

Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor of Chinese ethnicity.

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43rd Berlin International Film Festival

The 43rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 11 to 22 February 1993.

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66th Academy Awards

The 66th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1993 and took place on March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_Banquet

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