On Sunday night, Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian actor to win the coveted best actress award at the Oscars.
“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight—this is a beacon of hope and possibility,” said Michelle Yeoh as she held her Oscar aloft on Sunday night, shortly after becoming the first Asian actor to win the coveted best-actress award. The moment, which will certainly go down in Academy history, can be viewed below:—the film Yeoh starred in as Chinese-American immigrant mother Evelyn Wang—roundly swept the 2023 Oscars with a whopping seven wins .
Yeoh’s win breaks a long and enduring streak of diversity being overlooked in lead-actor categories at the Oscars. It’s beensince an actor of color won a best actress award , and Yeoh noted the lineage that had brought her to the point of receiving the highest honor in acting, saying: “I have to dedicate this to my mom, all the moms in the world, because they are really the superheroes, and without them, none of us would be here tonight.
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