The 61-year-old actor has appeared in three movies which have received the award for greatest image at Venice.
Hong Kong actor and singer Tony Leung has been awarded a Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement on the eightieth Venice Movie Competition.
The award was offered on Saturday night time by the director Ang Lee.
Earlier Tony Leung, 61, who is not any stranger to the Venice movie pageant, quipped: “I all the time wished a Golden Lion. Lastly, I can have it for myself. I haven’t got to share with anyone.”
Three of the movies he appeared in received the Golden Lion for greatest image. They have been: A Metropolis of Disappointment (1989) by Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Cyclo (1995) by Anh Hung Tran and Lust, Warning (2007) by Ang Lee.
Nevertheless, he’s maybe greatest identified for his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai and he was awarded the Greatest Actor award on the Cannes Movie Competition for In The Temper for Love (2000).
He was named by CNN as one in all Asia’s 25 best actors of all time. In 2017 the British Movie Institute (BFI) devoted a monograph to Leung describing him as “one of the acclaimed modern pan-Asian and world movie stars of his technology”.