When Australian actor Jillian Nguyen watched Everything Everywhere All at Once command Hollywood's biggest stage at the Oscars this week, she felt a flood of emotions. But while she's overwhelmed with hope, she says Australia is still 'very, very behind'.
abc.net.au/news/oscars-win-diversity-representation-australia/102112528When Australian actor Jillian Nguyen watched Everything Everywhere All at Once command Hollywood's biggest stage at the Oscars this week, she felt a flood of emotions.Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven Oscars this week, including best picture and best actress for Michelle Yeoh
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a genre-blending film about an immigrant family in the United States. Nguyen is best known for starring in the SBS four-part supernatural series Hungry Ghosts, the ABC's 1970s beach drama Barons, and as a lead in the 2022 sci-fi film Loveland. Actors of Asian descent made up 9 per cent of cast and crew roles in Australia, compared to making up roughly 17.4 per cent of the broader population, according to findings between 2021 and 2022 in an interim report by the Screen Diversity Inclusion Network.Australian-born filmmaker Nicole Ma grew up in Hong Kong and Singapore until she travelled to New York on a holiday in 1985 and snapped up one of her first jobs in film.
Ma produced films in the United States for 13 years before returning to Australia, where she described a scene dominated by men and people of Anglo-Celtic backgrounds.Australia in the 1990s was more of a "cottage industry" compared to America, not gushing with opportunities according to Ma. Ma started working on her first screenplay — a fictional story based on her great-grandmother's story of migrating to a remote tin mine in Tasmania.
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