Tony Leung Reflects On Career, Talks Working With Wong Kar-Wai & Looks Ahead To “Finally” Playing A Bad Guy In Andy Lau Reteam ‘Goldfinger’ – Venice Film Festival

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Tony Leung Chiu-wai has starred in three movies that have scooped the top prize Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and today he is receiving his very own Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

The 61-year-old Hong Kong actor and singer is one of Asia’s most successful and internationally recognized stars. Among his major global credits are Wong Kar-wai’s 2000 romantic drama In the Mood for Love, for which he won the Best Actor prize in Cannes.

His other collaborations with Wong include Chungking Express, Happy Together and The Grandmaster. Leung also starred in the Academy Award-nominated film Hero by Zhang Yimou, and the box office hits Hard Boiled by John Woo and Infernal Affairs by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak.

The latter trilogy formed the basis for Martin Scorsese’s Oscar winning The Departed. Talking with the press today, Leung beamed of the Lifetime Achievement Lion, “Finally I can have it for myself, I don’t have to share it with anybody.” (The three Golden Lion winners he has starred in are Hsiao-Hsien Hou’s A City of Sadness, Tran Anh-hung’s Cyclo and Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution).