In 1993, his popular comedy The Wedding Banquet, about a gay man's sham marriage, unexpectedly won a Golden Bear award for Best Picture at the Berlin Film Festival, and the next year it was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category--a first for a Taiwanese film.
1993 年一齣同志假結婚的通俗喜劇《喜宴》，意外摘下柏林影展金熊獎，隔年並入圍奧斯卡最佳外語片，這是台灣電影有史以來首次入圍奧斯卡。