Jackie Chan Set For Lifetime Achievement Oscar

Martial arts expert and actor Jackie Chan will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar.

Chan, 62, the Hong Kong-born star of Hollywood movies such as “Kung Fu Panda,” “The Karate Kid” and the “Rush Hour” franchise, will join documentary maker Frederick Wiseman, British film editor Anne V. Coates and casting director Lynn Stalmaster as recipients of the 2016 Governors Awards.

Chan’s next movie will see him star opposite Pierce Brosnan as an aggrieved man who hunts down he who is responsible for losses in his family.  Chan made his movie debut at the age of 8, and has acted and sometimes written and directed more than 30 martial arts movies in Hong Kong. He has never won an Oscar.

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 Johnson.