Jackie Chan salute rumbling into academy’s Samuel Goldwyn on Monday

Hong Kong martial arts superstar Jackie Chan has made more than 100 films, including his 1978 breakthrough, “Drunken Master,� and the “Rush Hour� trilogy of comedy-action blockbusters with Chris Tucker that have grossed nearly $900 million internationally.

His defy-defying stunts have astonished audiences. But after enduring decades of severe injuries including broken and dislocated bones and a near suffocation from a throat wound on “The Young Master,� Chan announced last fall that “Chinese Zodiac 2012� would be his last martial-arts action film.

Along the way, Chan has won numerous honors, including several Hong Kong Film Awards. Now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is rolling out the red carpet for Chan, 59, with an in-person salute Monday evening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

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Besides a conversation with Chan, who made his film debut in 1962’s “Big and Little Wong Tin Bar,� the academy will screen his 1992 Hong Kong hit “Police Story III -- Supercop,� in which he plays a tough Hong Kong police detective.

The thriller is filled with some of Chan’s best-known stunts, including a leap from a roof of a tall building onto a rope ladder.

There’ll also be special gallery hours after the screening of the academy’s current exhibition of kung fu posters from the Stephen Chin collection.

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“I am super-excited about Jackie Chan,� said the academy’s Ellen Harrington, director of exhibitions and special events. “We had invited him to accept a salute and have been waiting for a time when he was able to be in the U.S.�

Said Chan, via email: “I am really looking forward to it. The academy came up with the idea and approached me with the opportunity.�

The original, subtitled release print of “Supercop� comes from the Academy Film Archive. “We decided it would be great to be able to showcase our print,� Harrington said.

“I did select this movie,� Chan said. “‘Supercop’ is the third of my ‘Police Story’ series and it was one of my favorite films.�

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Harrington describes Chan’s stunt work as an art form. She also called him “a modern-day silent-film comedian.�

“When you look at his movement, his humor and the pacing, he is like Buster Keaton but in a contemporary setting. I think to a certain degree he’s under-appreciated because his films are considered primarily genre pictures.�

Chan said that with his action days behind him, he would like to do more dramatic roles such as Mr. Han in the 2010 remake of “The Karate Kid� with Jaden Smith. “Maybe I will become the Asian Robert De Niro!�

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