5/23/2023 0 Comments Oscar proud familyThe documentary short film has become the first Indian film to win Oscar. The movie won Oscar in the category of Best Documentary Short Subject and the director dedicated the award to India. It is another feather in the cap for Yeoh who is now viewed as an accomplished actress in the international stage.Kartiki Gonsalves’ The Elephant Whisperers, a documentary short film has made India proud by winning at the 95 Th Academy Awards. The win at the Oscars on Sunday is historic as Yeoh emerged the first Asian woman to win the Best Actress Oscar, and the second woman of color to win the award after Halle Berry in 2003. Yeo also played a notable supporting role in the acclaimed romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians. Her early role in English films including the Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) that won her international acclaim and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) that brought her a British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) nomination. She has acted in various films and in various roles, and has been nominated for numerous awards and had won many. Since starting off in a series of Hong Kong films in the 1990s, the former beauty queen has come a long way in achieving international stardom. The movie termed as “absurdist sci-fi comedy” sees Yeoh playing the role of the matriarch of a Chinese-American family that owned a laundromat and had to face a universe-hopping supervillain while undergoing a tax audit. don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime.” In her brief speech on the stage after receiving the award, the elated Yeoh said, “For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is proof dreams do come true. Oscar for the best actor went to Brendan Fraser for the movie The Whale. Yeoh, who played the role of the laundromat owner Evelyn, outshined the other three contenders in the best actress category - Cate Blanchet ( Tár), Ana de Armas ( Blonde), Andrea Riseborough ( To Leslie), and Michelle William ( The Fabelmans).Īpart from Yeoh’s Oscar, Everything Everywhere All at Once which received 11 nominations also swept another six awards - Best Picture, Directing (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), Best Actor in a Supporting role (Key Huy Quan), Best Actress in a Supporting role (Jamie Lee Curtis), Original Screen Play, Editing (Paul Rogers). The Oscar adds to Yeoh’s recent winning streak for the same film including the Golden Globe Awards in early January as the Best Actress in A Musical of Comedy Motion Picture, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards in early February for the best performance by a female actor in a leading role and the most recent the Spirit Awards for her best lead performance. The Ipoh-born Yeoh, who received the Oscar at the award event held at the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles on Sunday, is also the first actress of Southeast Asian descent to win the prestigious award. LOS ANGELES: Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh has made Malaysia proud again as she won the Oscar as the best actress in a leading role in the comedy-drama film Everything Everywhere All at Once, which also won the best picture award at the 95th Academy Awards.
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