Tony Leung Chiu-wai to Chair Jury at Shanghai Film Festival’s Golden Goblet Awards

By Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran

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The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival has tapped revered actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai to head the jury for its main competition Golden Goblet Awards.

The festival opens June 12 and runs through June 21.

Leung has been a fixture of Chinese-language cinema for more than four decades, amassing upward of 100 screen credits and working with some of the most distinguished directors in world cinema, among them Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, John Woo, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tran Anh Hung and Ildikó Enyedi. He got his start in the business in 1982 and appeared on screen for the first time the following year.

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