Ricky Lee: National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts

Ricky Lee
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Congratulations National Artist Ricardo Lee! (Ricky Lee)

Ricardo Lee also known as Ricky Lee is a screenwriter for film and television, journalist, playwright, and multi-awarded fictionist who published several novels, plays, essays, and short story collections along with his screenplays and screenwriting manuals. He has demonstrated his mastery of writing historical films, literary and true-to-life adaptations, political, courtroom, and dramas, the stories of “outsiders” and marginalized figures such as laborers, prostitutes, rebels, migrant workers, and gay people, and his consistent elevation of all manner of genre fare, from horror to tearjerkers to comedies. Lee emerged in screenwriting in the late 1970s as part of the generation of filmmakers who ushered the “Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema.”

Lee has demonstrated his mastery of writing historical films, literary and true-to-life adaptations, political, courtroom, and diasporic dramas, the stories of “outsiders” and marginalized figures such as laborers, prostitutes, rebels, migrant workers, and gay people, and his consistent elevation of all manner of genre fare, from horror to tearjerkers to comedies.

The conferment ceremony for the eight new National Artists will be on June 16, 2022, at 4:00 PM, at the Rizal Hall of Malacanang Palace.

Ricky Lee (National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts – March 19, 1948)

Greetings to National Artist Ricardo “Ricky” Lee on his 75th birthday!

Ricky Lee is a screenwriter, journalist, playwright, and prize-winning fictionist. With almost five decades of career in the film business, he has written over one hundred eighty scripts, several best-selling Filipino books, and the “Trip to Quiapo” screenwriting textbook, which is utilized in introductory film classes all throughout the nation. Lee has collaborated with notable figures in Filipino cinema, including fellow national artists Lino Brocka, Ishmael Bernal, and Marilou Diaz-Abaya.

To ready more about the award: https://ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/culture-profile/national-artists-of-the-philippines/

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