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Tied for second most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with five nominations. (Shared with Jessica Sanders.) 2005 Steven Okazaki / The Mushroom Club: Nominated 2008 The Conscience of Nhem En: Nominated Tied for third most Oscar-nominated Asian of all time, with four nominations. 2011 Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Saving Face: Won Pakistani descent ...
West Side Story: Nominated [57] [58] Film Performance Ariana DeBose Runner-up ReFrame: March 1, 2022 The ReFrame Stamp: West Side Story: Won [59] St. Louis Film Critics Association: December 19, 2021: Best Film: West Side Story: Nominated [60] Best Director: Steven Spielberg Nominated Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno Nominated Best Adapted ...
Yeoh was born on 6 August 1962 in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, [11] to Janet Yeoh and Yeoh Kian-teik. Her father was elected as a Senator of Malaysia from 1959 to 1969 as a member of Perak's Malaysian Chinese Association, [12] [13] [14] the Chairman of the Perak Bar Association, [when?] [12] and the founder of "Sri Maju" in 1975, a major intercity coach service in Malaysia and Singapore.
The cast includes new faces and higher-profile Puerto Ricans and American-born actors of Puerto Rican descent such as Moreno, Ana Isabelle and Oscar-nominated Ariana DeBose (who also just won a ...
West Side Story is a 2021 American musical romantic drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Tony Kushner.The second feature-length adaptation of the 1957 stage musical, [9] [10] which was itself inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, it stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler, the latter making her film debut, with Ariana DeBose, David ...
Yeoh, who was born in Malaysia and is a legend in the Hong Kong action film world, also made history as the first Asian woman to win best actress in the 95-year history of the Academy Awards. This ...
(British actress Merle Oberon, who some consider to be the first Asian Best Actress nominee for 1936's The Dark Angel, was of partial Sri Lankan descent through her mother's side, but hid her ...
For playing Anita in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story (2021), she won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her Oscar win made her the first Afro-Latina and first openly queer woman of color to win an Academy Award for acting. Additionally, with her win following Rita Moreno's 1962 ...