Jackie Chan, Lynn Stalmaster to receive honorary Academy Awards
Jackie Chan, Lynn Stalmaster to receive honorary Academy Awards
Actor Jackie Chan.
(Photo: Brendon Thorne, Getty Images)
Director Frederick Wiseman. (Photo: Xavier Leoty, AFP/Getty Images)
Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY 3:14 p.m. EDT September 1, 2016
The four Oscar statuettes will be presented at the academy’s eighth annual Governors Awards Nov. 12 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center.
The Academy praised Chan, 62, for his "distinctive international career." Chan has starred in — and often wrote, directed and produced — more than 30 martial arts features in his native Hong Kong.
Since Rumble in the Bronx in 1996, Chan has hit worldwide success with the Rush Hour movies, Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights, Around the World in 80 Days, The Karate Kid and the Kung Fu Panda animated films.
Pete Hammond, awards columnist for the industry website Deadline.com, praised the choice of Chan for recognition of the actor's stunt-driven career and awards diversity. "The Asian community in particular will welcome it, as very few Asian actors have been honored with an Oscar, to be sure."
But Hammond expressed surprise that Chan was selected, considering how many fellow respected actors haven't won Oscars — "Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow and Doris Day, to name three."
"Chan is a choice I would not have guessed," Hammond says.
British editor Coates, 90, is best known for her work with director David Lean on the classic 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, for which she won an Oscar. In more than 60 years as a film editor, she has worked with leading directors including Sidney Lumet (Murder on the Orient Express), Richard Attenborough (Chaplin) and Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich).
Coates also earned Oscar nominations for Becket, The Elephant Man, In the Line of Fire and Out of Sight.
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