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Ranked: the 10 best movies of Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Venice Film Festival 2023 lifetime achievement awardee
- With the Venice Film Festival set to award Tony Leung a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement, we rank the actor’s 10 best films out of the nearly 100 he’s made
- In movies ranging from Marvel’s Shang-Chi to John Woo actioner Hard Boiled, Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution and several with Wong Kar-wai, he’s showed his vast range
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At the 80th Venice International Film Festival which opened on August 30, celebrated Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai has been honoured with a special Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement.
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During his long and prolific career, Leung has starred in close to 100 feature films, collaborating numerous times with Hong Kong art-house auteur Wong Kar-wai.
Remarkably, the actor has already appeared in three films that won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice festival – Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989), Tran Anh Hung’s Cyclo (1995) and Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution (2007).
Leung is currently in production on Silent Friend, a historical drama from Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi (On Body and Soul), and will next be seen on the big screen in Felix Chong Man-keung’s crime drama The Goldfinger, which reunites Leung with his Infernal Affairs co-star Andy Lau Tak-wah.
In recognition of his diverse achievements, we have compiled our list of Leung’s 10 best films, ranked in order from good to great.
10. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
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