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Academy Awards 2023: Michelle Yeoh Makes History With Best Actress Oscar Winner

Michelle Yeoh made history oscar On Sunday, she became the first Southeast Asian actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. Yeoh won for her role as Evelyn Wang in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. It also won the best work award.

Yeo is known for her roles in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, James Bond series ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ and ‘Crazy Rich Asians’. Despite her decades of work and her dozens of roles, this is Yeo’s first Oscar nomination.

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Michelle Yeoh at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, CA on March 12, 2023.

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in her Oscar-winning role, Yeoh plays a Chinese immigrant who can explore another life in another universe.

She received a standing ovation as she took the stage to receive her award. “Thank you, thank you. For all the little girls and boys who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility,” she said in her speech. It is proof that dreams do come true.”

“And ladies, don’t let anyone tell you you’re past your prime,” Yeo, 60, continued. After CNN anchor Don Lemon received backlash For presidential candidate and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, who said she was past her prime at age 51. Lemon later apologized.

“Never give up,” the audience cheered when Yeo said. It was dedicated to

“They really are superheroes and I wouldn’t be here tonight without them,” she said, while Daniel Kwan, one of the film’s directors, also thanked her mother in one of her acceptance speeches. Did.

Yeoh said her mother is 84 and is watching with friends and family in Malaysia. “I love you guys, I’m taking this home for you,” she said, thanking the “big family” in Hong Kong where she started her acting career.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” was written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s duo The Daniels, and won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

Yeo co-star Ke Hoi Quan, who started out as a child actor in ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ and ‘The Goonies’, is back home Best Supporting Actor Awardbecoming the second Asian performer to win the award.

And longtime movie star Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film — her first oscarThe film also won Best Editing.

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Michelle Yeoh made history oscar On Sunday, she became the first Southeast Asian actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. Yeoh won for her role as Evelyn Wang in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. It also won the best work award.Yeo is known for her roles in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, James Bond series ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ and ‘Crazy Rich Asians’. Despite her decades of work and her dozens of roles, this is Yeo’s first Oscar nomination.

Michelle Yeoh at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, CA on March 12, 2023.

Rich Pork/Variety via Getty Images

in her Oscar-winning role, Yeoh plays a Chinese immigrant who can explore another life in another universe.

She received a standing ovation as she took the stage to receive her award. “Thank you, thank you. For all the little girls and boys who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility,” she said in her speech. It is proof that dreams do come true.””And ladies, don’t let anyone tell you you’re past your prime,” Yeo, 60, continued. After CNN anchor Don Lemon received backlash For presidential candidate and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, who said she was past her prime at age 51. Lemon later apologized.

“Never give up,” the audience cheered when Yeo said. It was dedicated to”They really are superheroes and I wouldn’t be here tonight without them,” she said, while Daniel Kwan, one of the film’s directors, also thanked her mother in one of her acceptance speeches. Did. Yeoh said her mother is 84 and is watching with friends and family in Malaysia. “I love you guys, I’m taking this home for you,” she said, thanking the “big family” in Hong Kong where she started her acting career. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s duo The Daniels, and won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

Yeo co-star Ke Hoi Quan, who started out as a child actor in ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ and ‘The Goonies’, is back home Best Supporting Actor Awardbecoming the second Asian performer to win the award. And longtime movie star Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film — her first oscarThe film also won Best Editing.

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Kaitlyn O’Kane

Caitlin O’Kane is a digital content producer covering trending stories for CBS News and its Good News brand. up lift.

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