HONG KONG, Aug 3 (AP) -- Cannes-winning American director Edward Yang, who died in June, will be honored at this year's Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese-language equivalent of the Oscars, organizers in his native Taiwan said Friday.

The Golden Horse Awards executive committee voted Wednesday to honor Yang with a lifetime achievement award at its awards ceremony on Dec. 8 in Taipei, organizers said in a statement on the event's Web site Friday.

Yang, an American citizen, died at his home in Beverly Hills on June 29 from complications from colon cancer.

The engineer-turned-director favored stories set in the Taiwanese capital Taipei. Among his works are "A Brighter Summer Day," a 1991 film set in 1950s Taipei about Elvis-worshipping teenage boys who get involved with gangsters.

"Taipei Story" (1985) revolved around a young couple and "A Confucian Confusion" (1994) centered on the lives of Taipei yuppies and artists.

Yang won the Cannes best director award in 2000 for "Yi Yi," a film about a Taiwanese family coping with the serious illness of their elderly mother.