 Lam attended the New York Asian Film Festival in 2015 where he was a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.Lam's last film, "Sky on Fire", was released in 2016; it is the last installment in his "On Fire" series.On December 29, 2018, Lam was confirmed dead at his Hong Kong residence at age 63, after his wife found him unresponsive in his bed.