VIDEO : Jackie Chan Receives an Honorary Oscar

Jackie Chan. (AP) Los Angeles - Action movie star Jackie Chan accepted an honourary Oscar on Saturday. Chan, known for his comic timing and acrobatic fighting style, has appeared in around 200 movies since becoming a child actor in his native Hong Kong in the 1960s. But he roused Hollywood's Ray Dolby Ballroom with an anecdote about realising how badly he wanted an Academy Award after going to Stallone's house 23 years earlier and touching, kissing and smelling the American actor's Oscar statuette. Film editor Anne Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman were also awarded statuettes at the Academy's 8th Annual Governors Awards.