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Won First Asian to win Best Cinematography. 1958 The Old Man and the Sea: Nominated 1963 Hud: Won First Asian to win multiple Academy Awards. 1966 Seconds: Nominated 1970 Osamu Furuya Shinsaku Himeda Masamichi Satoh: Tora! Tora! Tora! Nominated All three are of Japanese descent. [37] (Shared with Charles F. Wheeler.) 1975 James Wong Howe Funny ...
Michelle Yeoh just became the first Asian actress to win the academy award for best actress. Read her history-making speech and who she dedicated it to. ... “Mom, I just won an Oscar,” he ...
Michelle Yeoh is rewriting the record books, becoming the first Asian Best Actress winner in the Academy Awards' 95-year history.The Malaysian-born star, 60, became the first actress who ...
Yeoh’s Oscar is particularly significant given the history of Asian actors and the Academy Awards. Yeoh, who was born in Malaysia, is only the second Asian actress to be nominated in her ...
Won [7] Academy Awards: 2023: Best Actress: Won [8] Alliance of Women Film Journalists: 2023 Best Actress Won [9] Most Daring Performance Nominated Grand Dame Award for Defying Ageism — Nominated Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry Nominated Ammy Awards 2001 Best Female Actor Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Won [10] Asian ...
In the late 2010s, South Korean consecutive entrants Chang-dong's Burning and Joon-ho's Parasite shortlisted the International Feature Film category: The former became the first to make it to the final nine-film shortlist of the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film but it didn't make for the nomination. [2]
Michelle Yeoh cemented Oscars history on Sunday night as she became the first Asian person to win for lead actress. Yeoh took home the first Academy Award of her celebrated career, for best ...
Won Japanese descent. [13] First Asian nominated for Best Supporting Actress First East Asian to win an acting award. 2006 Rinko Kikuchi: Babel: Chieko Wataya Nominated Japanese descent. [14] First role that used Japanese sign language to ever be nominated.