Jackie Chan, a ‘true pioneer and legend’, is getting a lifetime achievement Oscar
Hong Kong action movie star Jackie Chan is due to receive a lifetime achievement Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday, to recognise a glittering career that has seen him become a cultural icon.
The 62-year-old martial artist, known for his comic timing and acrobatic fighting style, has appeared in more than 150 movies since becoming a child actor in Hong Kong in the 1960s. Jackie Chan will receive his Oscar statuette at the annual Governors Awards ceremony in November. Photo: APJackie Chan will receive his Oscar statuette at the annual Governors Awards ceremony in November. Photo: AP
Film editor Anne Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman will also be awarded honorary Oscar statuettes at the Academy’s 8th Annual Governors Awards in November.
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“The honorary award was created for artists like Jackie Chan, Anne Coates, Lynn Stalmaster and Frederick Wiseman - true pioneers and legends in their crafts,” said Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Jackie Chan holds aloft his Action Direction Award at the eighth Hong Kong Film Awards in 1989, as late star Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing looks on. Photo: SCMP PictureJackie Chan holds aloft his Action Direction Award at the eighth Hong Kong Film Awards in 1989, as late star Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing looks on. Photo: SCMP PictureActor Jackie Chan poses for the cameras at the announcement of the beginning of production for the science fiction action film Bleeding Steel in Sydney, Australia, on July 28. Photo: ReutersActor Jackie Chan poses for the cameras at the announcement of the beginning of production for the science fiction action film Bleeding Steel in Sydney, Australia, on July 28. Photo: Reuters
Chan’s Hollywood breakthrough came with Rumble in the Bronx in 1996, and he has gone on to be become a global star through the Rush Hour movies, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid and the Kung Fu Panda series of animated films.
In August, he was ranked the second-highest paid actor in the world by Forbes with estimated 2016 earnings of $61 million, just below Fast and Furious star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Coates, who is 90 and lives in England, won an Oscar for her work on David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia” and in more than 60 years as a film editor has collaborated with some of the industry’s most acclaimed directors.
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Stalmaster, 88, a one-time stage and screen actor from Omaha, Nebraska, began working in casting in the mid-1950s and has signed up talent for more than 200 films, including “The Graduate,” “Deliverance” and “Tootsie.”Australian actress Nicole Kidman with Jackie Chan at the Huading Awards ceremony in Macau in 2013. Photo: ReutersSuperstar Jackie Chan (right) putting on make-up in preparation for filming in 1986. Photo: SCMP Picture
China's President Xi Jinping (right) speaks to Jackie Chan (second left) during a creative industry event at Lancaster House in London. Looking on is Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton. Photo: ReutersWiseman, 86, has made a film almost every year since 1967, starting with the “Titicut Follies,” which went behind the scenes at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane.
The Governors Awards were created as a separate event in 2009 to allow more space for the honorees to accept their statuettes and to declutter the main show’s packed schedule.
Previous winners of honorary Oscars include Lauren Bacall, Francis Ford Coppola, Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie and Spike Lee.
Additional reporting by Reuters
Hong Kong action movie star Jackie Chan is due to receive a lifetime achievement Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday, to recognise a glittering career that has seen him become a cultural icon.
The 62-year-old martial artist, known for his comic timing and acrobatic fighting style, has appeared in more than 150 movies since becoming a child actor in Hong Kong in the 1960s. Jackie Chan will receive his Oscar statuette at the annual Governors Awards ceremony in November. Photo: APJackie Chan will receive his Oscar statuette at the annual Governors Awards ceremony in November. Photo: AP
Film editor Anne Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman will also be awarded honorary Oscar statuettes at the Academy’s 8th Annual Governors Awards in November.
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“The honorary award was created for artists like Jackie Chan, Anne Coates, Lynn Stalmaster and Frederick Wiseman - true pioneers and legends in their crafts,” said Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Jackie Chan holds aloft his Action Direction Award at the eighth Hong Kong Film Awards in 1989, as late star Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing looks on. Photo: SCMP PictureJackie Chan holds aloft his Action Direction Award at the eighth Hong Kong Film Awards in 1989, as late star Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing looks on. Photo: SCMP PictureActor Jackie Chan poses for the cameras at the announcement of the beginning of production for the science fiction action film Bleeding Steel in Sydney, Australia, on July 28. Photo: ReutersActor Jackie Chan poses for the cameras at the announcement of the beginning of production for the science fiction action film Bleeding Steel in Sydney, Australia, on July 28. Photo: Reuters
Chan’s Hollywood breakthrough came with Rumble in the Bronx in 1996, and he has gone on to be become a global star through the Rush Hour movies, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid and the Kung Fu Panda series of animated films.
In August, he was ranked the second-highest paid actor in the world by Forbes with estimated 2016 earnings of $61 million, just below Fast and Furious star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Coates, who is 90 and lives in England, won an Oscar for her work on David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia” and in more than 60 years as a film editor has collaborated with some of the industry’s most acclaimed directors.
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Stalmaster, 88, a one-time stage and screen actor from Omaha, Nebraska, began working in casting in the mid-1950s and has signed up talent for more than 200 films, including “The Graduate,” “Deliverance” and “Tootsie.”Australian actress Nicole Kidman with Jackie Chan at the Huading Awards ceremony in Macau in 2013. Photo: ReutersSuperstar Jackie Chan (right) putting on make-up in preparation for filming in 1986. Photo: SCMP Picture
China's President Xi Jinping (right) speaks to Jackie Chan (second left) during a creative industry event at Lancaster House in London. Looking on is Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton. Photo: ReutersWiseman, 86, has made a film almost every year since 1967, starting with the “Titicut Follies,” which went behind the scenes at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane.
The Governors Awards were created as a separate event in 2009 to allow more space for the honorees to accept their statuettes and to declutter the main show’s packed schedule.
Previous winners of honorary Oscars include Lauren Bacall, Francis Ford Coppola, Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie and Spike Lee.
Additional reporting by Reuters
