Overview

• Jackie Chan received the Pardo alla Carriera, known as the Career Leopard award, at the 78th Locarno Film Festival’s open-air Piazza Grande.
• At age 71, he declared, “I’m 71, and I can still fight,” underscoring his enduring physical prowess after six decades in film.
• In a Q&A session with Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro, Chan argued that major Hollywood studios are “not filmmakers” but business operators focused on recouping investments.
• He recounted early milestones such as stunt work with Bruce Lee on Fist of Fury and described his long-held goal of being recognized as an “Asian Robert De Niro.”
• Festival organizers hailed Chan as an “Asian megastar, master filmmaker and Hollywood mainstay” whose multi-hyphenate career bridged Eastern and Western cinema.