BUSAN, Aug 6 \u2014 Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh is adding yet another glittering career honour to her already groaning trophy shelf.<\/p>\n
The Busan International Film Festival has named the Oscar winner its Asian Filmmaker of the Year.<\/p>\n
Yeoh will receive the honour at the festival\u2019s opening ceremony on October 6 at the Busan Cinema Center.<\/p>\n
The prize has been handed out every year since 2003 to celebrate exceptional contributions to Asian cinema.<\/p>\n
Yeoh has more than earned it across four decades of boundary-breaking work.<\/p>\n
She first exploded onto the scene in Hong Kong martial arts classics like Yes, Madam!, Police Story 3: Supercop and Wing Chun.<\/p>\n
Those roles helped rewrite the rules for women in action movies before she went fully global with Tomorrow Never Dies and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.<\/p>\n
Her Hollywood run then delivered Crazy Rich Asians, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and the Wicked films.<\/p>\n
It all peaked with Everything Everywhere All at Once, which made her the first Asian performer to win the best actress Oscar.<\/p>\n
This Busan gong caps a banner year of career tributes for the star.<\/p>\n
In February she became the first Asian woman to receive the Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.<\/p>\n
Fellow Oscar winner Sean Baker presented that award and later dropped Sandiwara, an 11-minute short he wrote, directed and shot on an iPhone in a Penang night market.<\/p>\n
Yeoh plays five intertwining characters in the Self-Portrait-financed film, which Baker called a love letter to both his star and her home country Malaysia.<\/p>\n
For Busan, Yeoh has personally picked a three-film showcase of her work.<\/p>\n
It includes Sandiwara, Everything Everywhere All at Once and the 2010 wuxia favourite Reign of Assassins.<\/p>\n
The festival will also screen It\u2019s My Time, her first Chinese-language feature since the Oscar.<\/p>\n
Directed by Bai Xue and released in China last month, the feel-good drama sees Yeoh as a seventy-something who discovers a late-life talent for competitive speedcubing.<\/p>\n
Fresh from her final turn as Madame Morrible in Wicked: For Good, she next stars in Prime Video\u2019s Blade Runner 2099.<\/p>\n
Past Asian Filmmaker of the Year recipients include Jafar Panahi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung Chiu-wai.<\/p>\n
The 31st Busan International Film Festival runs from October 6 to 15, with Pachinko star Kim Minha hosting the opening night where Yeoh will be celebrated.<\/p>\n
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