Actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman will be presented with honorary Oscars to recognize their lifetime contributions to the movie industry, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.
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Jackie, 62, won praise from the Academy for his “distinctive worldwide career”, which has seen him star in, write, direct and produce movies in his native Hong Kong, as well as achieve box office success around the globe.
LOS ANGELES Martial arts expert and actor Jackie Chan will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday.
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs called the honorees “true pioneers and legends in their crafts”.
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. She won an Academy Award for her work on Lean’s 1963 epic “Lawrence of Arabia” and has earned four additional Oscar nominations for “Becket”, “The Elephant Man”, “In the Line of Fire” and “Out of Sight”.
The eighth annual Governors Awards will be presented at a private dinner ceremony on November 12 at the Hollywood & Highland Center. His credits include “Inherit the Wind”, “The Graduate”, “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Deliverance”, “Coming Home”, “Tootsie” and “The Right Stuff”.
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The acclaimed documentarian, awarded with Venice’s Golden Lion in 2014, has helmed 40 documentaries over the span of his career, with his most recent, 2015′s In Jackson Heights, being the first project he took to public pitch forums – specifically, to the Hot Docs Forum in 2015. While the event is generally untelevised, clips may be included in the 2017 Academy Awards telecast on February 26. For the protection of AP and its licensors, content may not be copied, altered or redistributed in any form. Doing so may result in civil and/or criminal penalties.
