Golden Globes best actress winner Michelle Yeoh has given rise to expectations that the Malaysian actress will win an Oscar. Ms. Yeoh won the prize for her lead performance in the science fiction comedy Everything Everywhere At Once.
She remarked, “It’s been a tremendous journey and an extraordinary fight to be here today.
Evelyn Wang, a Chinese immigrant who runs a struggling laundromat, was portrayed by the 60-year-old.
After Awkwafina in 2020 for The Farewell, Ms. Yeoh is the second actor from Asia to get the honor.
Online congratulations poured in after Ms. Yeoh’s triumph, many of which praised it as well-deserved and expressed the hope that it would increase her prospects of winning the best actress Oscar.
Ms. Yeoh, whose career in show business began in Hong Kong in the 1980s, thought back on her early days in Hollywood during her award speech.
“I recall my first visit to Hollywood. Up until I arrived, it was a dream come true but now look at this face. When I arrived, I was informed that I was in the minority “She carried on talking.
Ms. Yeoh gave her prize to other actresses of color. This is also for all the people whose shoulders I have stood on, all the people who look like me and have come before me, and all the people who are continuing on this journey with me, she added.
Ms. Yeoh became well-known for her parts in action movies from Hong Kong, especially those in which Jackie Chan also starred. Famously, she performed several of the stunts herself.
Later, she gained further recognition from western audiences for her performances in the Oscar-winning drama Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the James Bond thriller Tomorrow Never Dies, which marked her Hollywood debut.
She made appearances in the popular films Crazy Rich Asians and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings more recently.
Ms. Yeoh will become the first Asian actress to win an Oscar if she is successful. The 95th Oscars’ nominations will be revealed later in January, and the actual ceremony will take place in March.
Former Asian Oscar winners include Bong Joon-Ho, who won for best director and best original screenplay for his 2019 film Parasite.
Chloe Zhao received best director in 2020 for Nomadland, and Youn Yuh-Jung took home best supporting actress honors for Minari.
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