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The Guardian: After 56 years, 200 films and innumerable injuries, Jackie Chan wins Oscar

By The Guardian.
Honoree Jackie Chan accepts his award during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 8th annual Governors Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland Center on November 12, 2016 in Hollywood, California.
Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images/AFP

The Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan had star billing at the Governors awards on Nov. 12 night, in which the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences handed out four honorary Oscars.

Introducing Chan, Tom Hanks acknowledged that the blend of slapstick comedy and martial arts virtuosity for which the star became famous was “historically underrepresented at the Oscars”.

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