Ricky Lee
Ricky Lee was born in Daet, Luzon, Philippines on March 19th, 1948 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 76, Ricky Lee biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Rizco Lee, born on March 19, 1948, is a Filipino screenwriter, journalist, author, and playwright. Since 1973, he has written more than 150 film screenplays, including a 2003 Natatanging Urian Lifetime Achievement Award from the Manununci ng Pelikulang Pilipino (Filipino Film Critics).
He has worked with many Filipino film writers, most notably Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal.
Several of his films have been shown in Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, and other international film festival venues.
Early life
Lee and his relatives grew up in Daet, Camarines Norte. His mother died when he was 5 years old and he only saw his father on rare occasions. He attended primary and secondary school in the same town. Lee was reportedly sneaking into film houses and burst himself in books at the school library, ripping away pages with striking photos. He ranked his class from grade school to high school as an intelligent student. When he received his first national literary award for a short story he wrote when he was still in high school, he took a first step toward his promising writing career. He stayed away from home and took a bus to Manila, motivated by his desire to fulfill dreams. He walked the streets during the day, doing menial duties as a waiter and begging his town mates to house him during the night until he collapsed one day in Avenida out of hunger.
Literary career
His body of works, which has spanned over forty years, include writing short stories, plays, essays, novels, teleplays, and screenplays. He has written more than 150 produced scripts, earning for him more than fifty trophies from all the award-giving bodies in the Philippine movie industry. He has never and will never write any literary work in English, a conviction he holds to this day.
He started writing fiction in the late 60s, gaining confidence with the publication of his first short story "Mayon" in the Philippine Free Press while he was still in high school. His early efforts won him several national awards in the Pilipino Free Press (Pagtatapos, Third Place-1969) and first prizes in consecutive years for the short story in the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Huwag, Huwag Mong Kukuwentuhan ang Batang si Weng Fung/1969 and Servando Magdamag/ 1970).
A rare achievement for a writer, two of his short stories won first prizes at the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for two years in a row (1970 and 1971).
He was a staff writer of the Pilipino Free Press in the 70s. Throughout that turbulent decade until the 90s, he wrote features and interviews for the Asia-Philippines Leader, Metro Magazine, Expressweek, TV Times, Malaya Midday, The National Midweek, Veritas and Sunday Inquirer Magazine on topics as diverse as street children, vendors around Quiapo Church, an NPA commander, unsung workers in the film industry, a defunct Gala vaudeville-and-burlesque theater, film actors, an activist-martyr during a tragic peasant protest march, teenage prostitutes, Director Lino Brocka, among others.
His screenplay "Salome/Brutal" won the 1981 Philippine National Book Awards for best screenplay.
In 2000, he was one of the recipients of the Centennial Honors for the Arts from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for Tagalog fiction from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas.
In 2011, he was awarded the Manila Critics Circle Special Prize for a Book Published by an Independent Publisher. His two-stage plays Pitik-Bulag sa Buwan ng Pebrero and DH (Domestic Helper) played to SRO crowds. DH, starring Nora Aunor, had toured the US and Europe in 1993.