John Woo to be honored with Lifetime Achievement award at Venice film festival 2010 news
Asian and Hollywood director and producer John Woo will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 67th edition of the Festival.
This award recognizes a filmmaker who in recent decades, with his revolutionary conception of staging and editing, has renewed action movies to the core, introducing an extreme stylization (close to visual art), both in Asia (in films such as A Better Tomorrow, 1987; The Killer, 1989; Bullet in the Head (1990); Hard Boiled, 1991; the recent colossal film The Battle of Red Cliff), and in Hollywood (Broken Arrow, 1996; Face/Off 1997; Mission Impossible 2, 2000).
John Woo will return to the Venice International Film Festival for the fourth time. In 2004 he was the “godfather” of the Secret History of Asian Film. In 2006 he directed one of the episodes of All the Invisible Children, a film screened out of competition at the 63rd Festival. In 2007 he was the producer of Blood Brothers (Tiantang kou), the debut feature by Alexi Tan, the closing-film of the 64th Festival.
