Editing Wayne Wang (section)

==Biography==
Wang was born and raised in [[Hong Kong]], and named after his father's favorite movie star, [[John Wayne]].<ref name=times>Lim, Dennis. "[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/movies/14lim.html?ex=1379476800&en=ffb70de38d3d956f&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink Wayne Wang, Bridging Generations and Hemispheres]." ''[[New York Times]]''. 12 September 2008.</ref> When he was 17, his parents arranged for him to move to the [[United States]] to study, to prepare for medical school. Wang, however, soon put this plan aside when his "eyes were completely opened" by new experience. He turned to the arts,<ref name=times/> studying film and television at [[California College of Arts and Crafts]] in [[Oakland, California|Oakland]].<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last=Mitchell |first=Elvis |author-link=Elvis Mitchell |author2=Ed. Lia Chang |year=2000 |title=Fade to Black With Auteur Wayne Wang |url=http://asianweek.com/2001_08_10/arts_wang.html |url-status=dead |journal=[[AsianWeek]] |issue=10 Aug – 16 Aug |issn=0195-2056 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214234458/http://www.asianweek.com/2001_08_10/arts_wang.html |archive-date=2007-12-14 |access-date=2025-03-17 |quote="Born and raised in Hong Kong, Wayne Wang came to the United States at the age of 17 to study painting, filmmaking and TV production at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, Calif."}}</ref>

After graduating from film school, Wang returned to Hong Kong and briefly worked on a popular soap opera before being fired and returning to the United States.<ref name=":0" /> Here he taught English to new immigrants in Chinatown.<ref>{{Cite AV media |title=Wayne Wang and [[Hua Hsu]] |date=January 2022 |type=Video |language=en-US |publisher=[[Criterion Collection]]}}</ref>

Wang has also worked within the mainstream Hollywood studio system on the films [[The Joy Luck Club (film)|The Joy Luck Club]] (1993), [[Maid in Manhattan]] (2002). Despite these being his some of his most financially successful films,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wayne Wang - Box Office |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/person/148760401-Wayne-Wang#tab=technical&all_technical_credits=od3 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=The Numbers}}</ref> Wang has described the experience as largely negative, and after the production of [[Last Holiday (2006 film)|Last Holiday]] (2006 film) resolved to work exclusively on independent productions.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Hsu |first=Hua |date=2022-06-05 |title=How Wayne Wang Faces Failure |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/how-wayne-wang-faces-failure |access-date=2025-05-05 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> Wang has also collaborated with the author [[Paul Auster]] on the films [[Smoke (film)|Smoke]] (1995) and [[Anywhere but Here (film)|Anywhere but Here]] (1999),<ref name=":1" /> which deviated from his typical subject matter of Asian American life. 

In 2001 Wang released his film [[The Center of the World]] without a [[Motion Picture Association|MPAA]] rating because he refused to make cuts to the films sexually explicit scenes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Indiewire |date=2001-03-15 |title=DAILY NEWS : New Wang Film Unrated; Microcinema Continues; and Chediak Chats |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/daily-news-new-wang-film-unrated-microcinema-continues-and-chediak-chats-81081/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}}</ref> Wang has said the films commercial and critical failure set his career back and led him to work on less personal films<ref>{{Cite news |last=Yu |first=Brandon |date=2022-05-05 |title=Wayne Wang Still Isn’t Satisfied |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/movies/wayne-wang.html |access-date=2025-05-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

He won the [[Golden Shell]] at the [[San Sebastian Film Festival]] in September 2007 for ''[[A Thousand Years of Good Prayers]]''.

In 2016, he won a [[Lifetime achievement award|Lifetime Achievement Award]] at the [[San Diego Asian Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pacarts.org/sdaff-award-winners/|title=SDAFF Award Winners {{!}} Pacific Arts Movement|website=pacarts.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-27|archive-date=2018-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419122146/http://pacarts.org/sdaff-award-winners/|url-status=dead}}</ref>