Culture Michelle Yeoh wins the Oscar for best actress making history as the first person who identifies as Asian to win the award - "identifies as Asian" nigga NPR wtf are you smoking?

For the first time in its 95-year history, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded the Oscar for best actress in a leading role to an Asian woman. Michelle Yeoh accepted the Oscar for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, in which she plays Evelyn Wang, the Chinese first-generation immigrant owner of a laundromat around whom the film's absurdist multiverse revolves.

Yeoh received a lengthy standing ovation as she walked to the podium to accept her award.

Brandishing the Oscar statuette, she said, "For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility.

"And ladies, don't let anyone ever tell you you are past your prime."

She dedicated her win to her mother, whom she called a "superhero."

The Malaysian-born Yeoh became a star of Hong Kong cinema before coming to global attention in films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, Tomorrow Never Dies and Crazy Rich Asians. This was her first Oscar nomination.

Speaking to All Things Considered's Alisa Chang last April, Yeoh said she saw a cultural moment where Asians could finally find a larger voice in Hollywood and society.

"We just have to rock the boat and say, look at us," she said. "Give us a chance - because guess what? We exist in your society. We are part of the society and very, very much an intricate part of this whole community. This is the only way we will get more opportunities — if we fight for it and no longer be able to say, OK, I'll turn the other cheek. Dang — no more turning the other cheek."

Before tonight's ceremony, Yeoh's work in Everything Everywhere All at Once garnered her many accolades, including a Golden Globe, an Independent Spirit Award, several local Film Critics Awards, a SAG Award, and nominations for a Critics' Choice Award and a BAFTA Award.

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[SuperShibuyaFighter]

Retarded article but good for her. Would smash

 

[Lone MacReady II]

"Gas is 5$ a gallon, Barbarians are imported by the Millions, the currency is 100% debased, China and Russia are Conquering and expanding, your phones are used daily to spy on you, and the bribed lobbied politicians have never been this corrupt... Guess it's time to sit back, relax, watch some Dieversity Quota Oscars!!!" - (Likely Obese) American Retard, 2023.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Everything Everywhere All at Once and Turning Red where all movies produced by Hollywood shitting on traditional Asian culture. Yet Disney still ban songs of the south.

 

[tehpope]

Scheinert’s words, “the mommies of the world .... specifically my mom and dad, thank you for not squashing my creativity when I was making really disturbing horror films or really perverted comedy films or dressing in drag as a kid, which is a threat to nobody!” The audience cheered.

There's a difference between a kid exploring his world or dressing up as a girl for fun. And parents forcing their kid to be the opposite gender because they have interest that the opposite sex usually has. That Daniel probably thinks the latter most likely.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

These people are weird and talk like aliens from outer space.

It's generally a thing from Millennials onward.

 

[Traummaschine]

I saw a preview for the movie a while back and as a (mostly) movie/tv hater, actually remembered it looked interesting but if they're giving away racial oscars for it I'm guessing that'd be a hard negative on it being any good?

It's a fun and weird movie that's a breath of fresh air among a sea of unimaginative sequels. I wouldn't call it classic Oscar bait about racism, the main characters are just chinese immigrants.

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

It's "person who identifies as Asian" so they didn't have to write the words "Asian woman" in the headline, because calling a woman a woman would have the troons calling them transphobic bigots.

Whenever I see one of these exaggeratedly politically correct phrases I read it in my head as the most offensive way possible, so I heard "ching-chong slant-eye chinawoman with a sideways cunt".

 

[The handsome tard]

Everything Everywhere All at Once was pretty fucking overrated, ngl.

These people are weird and talk like aliens from outer space.

Cuz they are.

 

[derpherp2]

These people are weird and talk like aliens from outer space.

I have a running theory that LA has somehow gotten a new version of autism that has become airborne. Literally everyone there is this kind of retarded.
send help they're scratching at the door pls hel

But seriously the social lag these dumbfucks have is a symptom for a lot of things. My best guess is they're choosing their words carefully to hide something. Whether it's fear of being cancelled by their peers, being a sexpest, being an autist, or all three (my choice) is unknown.

 

[Dan Abrams]

It's "identifies as" because we let people race swap now when it's convenient for them like Copmala

 

[Idiotron]

Everything Everywhere All At Once is better than 99% of Hollywood trash this year so it's good that it won in so many categories.

As for the ceremony itself, the most entertaining thing about it are all the black racists crying that the trashfire that was the Woman King didn't get anything.
I wonder how many of these blacks are descendants of the slaves who were sold to the Europeans by the Dahomey tribe.

 

[ZehnBoat]

Michelle Yeoh wins the Oscar for best actress making history as the first person who identifies as Asian to win the award​

so she stole it from a proud black?
time to push more ching changs in front of trains
damn that white supremacy and shit

 

[Ser Prize]

It’s “identifies as Asian” because a British-Indian woman was nominated in 1935:

Merle Oberon - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

And if only East Asians count, a ethnically Mongol Russian man won in 1956:

Yul Brynner - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Neither of them identified themselves as modern Asian-Americans, so they don’t count.

Yul Brynner was so cool man.

 

[Overly Serious]

I saw a preview for the movie a while back and as a (mostly) movie/tv hater, actually remembered it looked interesting but if they're giving away racial oscars for it I'm guessing that'd be a hard negative on it being any good?

It's worth a watch, good but not quite there. I can see how it would be mind-blowing for oscar judges and people who have only a passing acquaintance with weird fiction, sci-fi, etc. In fact, that might not be a bad way to describe it: it's alternative universe sci-fi for art critics. They get to enjoy something imaginative like the rest of us have been doing for years without having to lower themselves to use the term "sci-fi". Like how Margaret Atwood would write dystopian futures and novels about genetic engineering gone awry but kept insisting that she wasn't a Sci-Fi author and her books were always out on their own not mixed in with trash like Asimov or Neal Stephenson or Phillip K. Dick.

Michelle Yeoh was very good in it. Ke Huy Quan as her husband also superb. He was the little kid in Indiana Jones 2 but apparently mainly does theatre I think so doesn't show up in movies much. The girl playing her daughter was alright I guess - didn't like the character much so that can make it hard to judge. James Hong (aka Lo Pan from Big Trouble, Little China) has a supporting role and he is always excellent.

I liked it for the most part and I liked the message as well. There were a few elements that felt off. For example, Michelle Yeoh's character mixes up he and she and explains it as "in Chinese they are the same" which I'm about 80% sure is not true. And even if it were she is far too good at English to not be able to get one of the most basic elements of it right when she can speak so clearly the rest of the time. Clearly the writers trying hard to force it in. It clearly worked though as I saw a YouTube reactor watching it and when that line came up she exclaimed gleefully - and this is word for word - "he and she are the same in Chinese? Wow - Chinese people are so progressive". I shit you not! Also, Jamie Lee Curtis is exceptionally mediocre in the film. She doesn't spoil it at all and isn't miscast. But people celebrating her in it mystify me. Unless perhaps like they love being able to say "asian" it's that her character is a lesbian.

Anyway, I don't mean to slate the movie overmuch. It's well worth a watch. But basically it's Sci-Fi wrapped in sufficiently long dialogue and avant guarde (can we still say that?) directing that those who want to look down on Sci-Fi can. I've long admired Michelle Yeoh. If anyone wants to see her in another serious role but, imo, a better film, I strongly recommend Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (non-dubbed).

 

[Mine is the Fury]

I'm happy for her. Haven't the seen the film and I don't think I will, but she's a good actress and I'm glad she's getting some recognition. I remember reading she was supposed to get her own James Bond spin -off film after she appeared in Tomorrow Never Dies... I think that would have been cool and honestly if I had to choose between Michelle Yeoh or Shaniqua Jackson as a leading lady, I'm going for the Malaysian GILF ten times out of ten.

 

[Dysnomia]

Not trying to hijack your thread, but didn't know where else to put this. These are the directors behind the film:
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The fag on the right:

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I was rolling my eyes at that last part. Seems to have flown over the woketard heads though. I was expecting a bunch of hilarious articles. Maybe they'll start tricking in.

I don't care about drag really. I just don't want kids exposed to perverts with inappropriate names and clothing. Drag events for kids have just gone all out with no real vetting. And if you say anything you are a transphobe. Even though queens are not the same as trannies. But the lines blur so much now anyway that it doesn't seem to matter.

 

[FatalTater]

The best part of the whole "identifies as Asian" thing was how pissed a lot of twitter was about it. Gave me a glimmer of hope that people might be waking up to the bullshit, just a little.

 

[Caligura]

It’s “identifies as Asian” because a British-Indian woman was nominated in 1935:

Merle Oberon - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

And if only East Asians count, a ethnically Mongol Russian man won in 1956:

Yul Brynner - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Neither of them identified themselves as modern Asian-Americans, so they don’t count.

Mongols and Mongolia is considered part of East Asia geographically and arguably culturally due to historical ties with China. Both Mongolia and China ruled each other for centuries each. But then again who am I to expect your average liberal Amerimutts to even know basic Geography.

 

[ZehnBoat]

The best part of the whole "identifies as Asian" thing was how pissed a lot of twitter was about it. Gave me a glimmer of hope that people might be waking up to the bullshit, just a little.

the best part of the whole "identifies as asian" is that it validates the trans-race morons the left were getting angry over years ago

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

"For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility

Relax lady, nobody watched.