Global Cinema

“After 56 years in the film industry, making more than 200 films, after so many broken bones, finally, this is mine,” Jackie Chan joyfully proclaimed at the annual Governors Awards where he was presented an Honorary Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award by Tom Hanks in 2016. Considered the heir to Buster Keaton, as well as to Bruce Lee, Chan is the first Chinese star to be honored by the Academy’s Governors for the cinematic legacy he has built for fans all over the world, the one star from the East that has received bona fide Hollywood stardom.

In 2008, Newsweek listed him as one of the top 50 most powerful people in the world, a list that included Obama, Oprah and Osama Bin Laden. In 2011, the Los Angeles Times called him “the biggest movie star you’ve never heard of.