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All About Merle Oberon, the First Asian Best Actress Oscar Nominee Who Hid Her Heritage from...
People via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoGeorge Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Merle Oberon Before Michelle Yeoh made history as the second Best...
The Complex History of Asian Representation at the Oscars
Time via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoMerle Oberon in The Dark Angel, 1935; Haing Ngor in The Killing Fields, 1984; Michelle Yeoh in...
The tragic history of the first Asian woman nominated for Best Actress, over 85 years before...
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoWhen Michelle Yeoh was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once,...
The first Asian actress to be nominated for an Oscar kept her heritage hidden until after her death
INSIDER via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoHerbert Dorfman/Getty Images Merle Oberon is credited as the first actress of Asian descent to be...
Michelle Yeoh Is Officially the First Asian-Presenting Best Actress Oscar Winner
InStyle via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHer acceptance speech, which thanked moms everywhere, should get an award, too. Getty Images May we...
'Everything Everywhere' tops Oscar nominations with 11
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThe multiverse-skipping sci-fi indie hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once” led nominations to the...
For Asian Americans, Yeoh, Quan's Oscar wins are theirs too
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoEdward Dion Fariñas watches the Academy Awards every year but the Filipino American didn't expect to...
Read Michelle Yeoh's full Academy Award acceptance speech
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoMichelle Yeoh makes history as the first Asian actor to win a lead actress award at the Oscars, for...
Oscar 2023 nominations: Firsts, flukes, figures and other fun facts
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThe 2023 Oscar nominations were full of firsts, flukes, figures and other fun facts. (Photo...
How Ke Huy Quan’s Soulful Role Can Win ‘Everything’ This Awards Season
Variety via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoKe Huy Quan, who played Harrison Ford’s 11-year-old sidekick Short Round in 1984’s “Indiana Jones...