Jackie Chan will honored with the prestigious career achievement award, Pardo alla Carriera at the upcoming 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, taking place from August 6-16 2025.

As part of the tribute, the actor will introduce his films Project A (1983) and Police Story (1985), both directed and starring Jackie Chan. The audience will also have an opportunity to meet Jackie Chan in a public panel conversation.

Jackie Chan’s career has spanned almost sixty years, starting as a child actor in the 1960s, to major success in 1978 with Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow and Drunken Master. By the 1990s, Jackie Chan was Asia’s highest grossing action star, and a career in Hollywood soon followed, with the buddy comedy Rush Hour (1998) cementing Chan’s place as a global superstar. Jackie Chan’s career behind the camera included directing classics like Police Story (1985) and Armour of God (1986).

Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival commented, “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. 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. A pure comic talent, he has absorbed the lessons of Buster Keaton and early cinema as his own, creating masterpieces that have captivated audiences around the world. With a sensibility worthy of the classic musical, he shaped an unprecedented poetics of the human body in motion. In cinema, there is a before Jackie Chan and an after Jackie Chan.”