Everything Everywhere All At Once’s Michelle Yeoh among historic firsts for 2023 Oscar nominations
and an incredible career; it’s the first time that an Asian actor has ever been nominated in a historically white category.
There are some possible discrepancies—Merle Oberon , who reportedly hid her Asian ancestry, or nominees like Salma Hayek, Cher, and Natalie Portman who “have claims to some western Asian heritage” per—but Yeoh is the first nominee in the category who actually identifies as Asian. Yeoh is joined in the acting categories by co-stars Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu as well as Hong Chau, marking the most-ever Asian actors nominated in a single year.
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