Michelle Yeoh's Best Actress win was a historic one for the Oscars, but the Academy must do more when it comes to diverse award recipients.
Michelle Yeoh's Best Actress win at the 95th Academy Awards made Oscars history, but it also proved that the Academy must do more. Yeoh's performance in the multiverse-hopping comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All at Once triumphed over a group of equally talented women: Cate Blanchett for Tár, Ana de Armas for Blonde, Michelle Williams for The Fabelmans, and Andrea Riseborough for To Leslie.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Yeoh has had an impressive career, acquiring fame in the 1990s after starring in a series of Hong Kong films where she performed her own stunt work. After moving to the United States, Yeoh portrayed Bond girl Wai Lin, a fan-favorite, in the 1997 film Tomorrow Never Dies. She also gained recognition for starring in Ang Lee's 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which received a Best Picture nomination and won Best Foreign Language Film, among other awards.
Yeoh joins a small but important club of Asian performers who have won Oscars, which started with Miyoshi Umeki's 1957 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in the wartime romantic drama Sayonara. Supporting Actress wins like Umeki's, or Yuh-Jung Youn's 2021 award for her role in Best Picture candidate Minari are important, but to see an Asian actress be recognized for a lead performance is especially exciting.
Yeoh’s Win Proves That The Oscars Still Have Work To Do While Yeoh's win is exciting, it also proves that the Academy still has work to do regarding diversity and representation. Michelle Yeoh is only the second woman of color to win Best Actress, after fellow Bond girl Halle Berry in 2001 for Monster's Ball.
Michelle Yeoh winning is a good sign, but as Yeoh herself said in an interview , "But we have to keep at it. We mustn’t take our foot off the pedal.” There is still a need for the Academy to properly recognize performers of color during the Oscars. This is not to detract from the talented performance of white actors and actresses, but many people of color deserve to get their due.
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