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Jackie Chan to Be Honored With Locarno Film Festival Career Award
Jackie Chan will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with a career award celebrating the martial arts superstar.
After starting out as a child actor in the 1960s, Chan scored a major hit in 1978 with “Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow” and “Drunken Master.” Over the next decade his signature kung-fu comedy style blending bold stunts and easy-going charisma became a reliable box-office draw for Hong Kong’s now legendary Golden Harvest studio. “From his years at the China Drama Academy under Master Yu Jim-Yuen, working at a very young age as a stuntman in King Hu’s masterpiece ‘A Touch of Zen,’ Chan has continually reinvented martial arts cinema and much beyond it. Previous winners of the Locarno Pardo alla Carriera Award include Francesco Rosi, Bruno Ganz, Claudia Cardinale, Johnnie To, Harry Belafonte, Jane Birkin, Costa-Gavras, Tsai Ming-liang, and, in 2024, Shah Rukh Khan.
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