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Jackie Chan, a ‘true pioneer and legend’, is getting a lifetime achievement Oscar

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Jackie Chan on the set of The Protector in 1984. Photo: SCMP Picture
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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: AP
Jackie 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.

“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 Picture
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 Picture
Actor 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
Actor 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 US$61 million, just below Fast and Furious star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Gregory So, Hong Kong’s Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, congratulated Chan following the announcement.

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