The Hollywood Reporter described actress Michelle Yeoh as the first woman who “identifies as Asian” to be nominated for Best Actress after the nominations were announced.
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2023 OSCAR NOMINATIONS: ‘ELVIS,’ ‘EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE,’ ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ LEAD THE PACK"It took 59 years for Michelle Yeoh to land her first lead role in a Hollywood film. And it’s taken 95 years for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize a woman who identifies as Asian in its best actress category," senior editor Rebecca Sun wrote."What," conservative commentator Chad Felix Green responded.
Insider editor Tanya Chen wrote,"the context for this awkward ‘identifies as asian’ language that's getting dragged is actually really sad: Michelle Yeoh is the first woman to be nominated who ‘identifies as asian’ bc an actress who was first nominated in the 1930s hid her asian ancestry and passed as white."
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