Jackie Chan to be honoured with career achievement award at Locarno Film Festival 2025

Los Angeles: Action star Jackie Chan will receive the career achievement honour, at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, the organisers announced on Tuesday.

Chan, who was Asia’s highest-grossing action star during the 1990's has also directed a number of films, including The Fearless Hyena (1979), Who Am I? (1998) and Police Story (1985).

Giona A Nazzaro, artistic director of the festival said Chan's influence has "rewritten the rules of Hollywood cinema".

"Director, producer, actor, screenwriter, choreographer, singer, athlete, and daredevil stuntman, Jackie Chan is both a key figure in contemporary Asian cinema and one whose influence has rewritten the rules of Hollywood cinema," he said in a statement.

"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." The festival will take place between August 6 and August 16.