Oscar

The Malaysian-born actor made history by winning the Academy Award for best actress in a leading role for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at ...

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. 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. We are part of the society and very, very much an intricate part of this whole community.

The Malaysian-born Yeoh is only the second woman of color ever to win best actress at the Oscars.

"If this is your passion, this is your love, you have to stand up for yourself and for what you believe in and for what you want to do," she told reporters backstage. "She's 84, and I'm taking this home to her," Yeoh added. "I think this is something that we have been working so hard towards for a very long time, and tonight we freaking broke that glass ceiling," she continued. "For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. The Malaysian-born Yeoh is only the second woman of color ever to take home the award. This is proof — dream big and dreams do come true," Yeoh said during her acceptance speech.

Michelle Yeoh's mother and family broke down in tears during the 2023 Oscars telecast, where Yeoh was awarded the best actress prize for her performance in ...

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” won a total of seven Oscars, including best picture. “Malaysia Boleh (Malaysia Can)!” The actress’ mom, Janet Yeoh, and other family members watched the Oscars live in Malaysia and cheered, wept and screamed when Michelle’s name was called as the winner.

In the video, a crowd watching a livestream of the awards show cheers as presenter Halle Berry calls out her daughter's name, and Janet Yeoh immediately stands ...

All the moms in the world,” Michelle declared. [Michelle Yeoh](https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/oscars-2023-michelle-yeoh-best-actress.html) continues to [do it for the mommies](https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-oscars-history.html) but not without forgetting her own [mother](https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/michelle-yeoh-win-independent-spirit-awards.html). “Because they are really the superheroes, and without them, none of us would be here tonight.”

M.M. Keeravani has brought the spotlight back to India after a historic Oscar musical win.

Other best original song nominees were Rihanna’s Lift Me Up, a song she collaborated on with Tems, director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Goransson; Lady Gaga’s Hold My Hand with BloodPop,” Diane Warren’s Tell It Like a Woman and This is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once. Rahman won an Oscar in the category for Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire – a British production – in 2009. Naatu Naatu is the first song from an Indian film to earn a nomination and win in the best original song category. I feel very happy to open doors and the world to embrace my culture.” "For the world, particularly the Western world, folks are more on India and Asian music. Keeravani won best original song for his joyously energetic anthem Naatu Naatu from the film RRR.

A song from the blockbuster Indian film RRR won the Oscar for best song and is now the talk of India's music biz. But will it lift other musicians to — well ...

"A lot is lost," he says. "They would be occasionally annoyed" by his devotion to making music "but always are supportive," he says. In many cases, we're driven by passion and just looking to survive," he says. No one talks about the struggle musicians face, he says — the many years where you run after a dream in spite of financial, social and family pressures. Sometimes that's all the fuel a dreamer needs." And to promote his music, he would need to hire a production team—a video editor, a make-up artist, sound and lighting. Back in 2014, after the release of his first album, he was painting a house. "People like me don't usually dare to dream of a career in music," Kadhiravel says. "Poor musicians are forced to sell their original content to bigger companies for peanuts because they cannot afford these production costs," he says. "Wins like 'Naatu Naatu' put us on the world map, which is so fantastic," says Berty Ashley, a musician in Bengaluru, and co-founder of "It was incredibly exciting to see an Indian musical get worldwide recognition," he says. The song shot to viral global fame on TikTok and Instagram.

The independent studio behind “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “The Whale” became the first to sweep the acting awards and win best director and best ...

The Australian horror film “Talk to Me” was just shown to rave reviews at the SXSW film festival and is scheduled to hit theaters this summer. “I felt like ‘The Whale’ in the theater would be a great experience because it would bring people together to feel in such a deep way and in a different way than the theater has been used for a very long time,” Mr. “It’s actually just amazing, what they’ve done,” said Stephen Galloway, the dean of Chapman University’s film school. The film was made for $3 million and turned into a modest hit, with a worldwide gross of $37 million and Oscar nominations for Mr. “The economics for everyone now are really screwed up,” he added. Darren Aronofsky, director of “The Whale,” said he had the opportunity to sell his film to a streaming service for more money. [Michelle Yeoh](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/movies/michelle-yeoh-oscars-best-actress.html) (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) in the lead categories, along with [Jamie Lee Curtis](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/movies/jamie-lee-curtis-oscars-win.html) and [Ke Huy Quan](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/movies/ke-huy-quan-oscars-win.html), both from “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” for their supporting roles. “It’s clear that they love their movies and they’re proud of their movies and I think that’s how they choose their movies,” he said. “Between him and his partners, they had an instinct to go even edgier — moving into the indie fringes — and they have proven a business that no one else has done, as a true independent, over time.” It felt like a fitting exclamation point to a triumphant evening for his genre-bending film and the studio that helped make it a reality. The company issued a pat statement instead: “It was a special night. They’re helping us and the world realize that it’s OK to be strange.

The 2023 Oscars were watched by about 18.7M people, which still makes it among the least-watched ceremonies ever.

The most-watched Oscars telecast in history, which brought in about 57M viewers, was the year Titanic was nominated in 1998. That was also the year that Black Panther, which was a historic film that came in at No. It was the first time in a long time any of the nods for the top prizes reflected films that worldwide audiences are actually watching. 2020’s 23.6M was nothing to bat an eye at when just a few years earlier the viewership had been nearly double. That’s up about 5 million compared with last year, which is a bit of a surprise considering how buzzy the slap was. The 95th annual ceremony brought in 18.7 million viewers, a 12% increase from last year when the telecast captured 16.6M viewers.

Michelle Yeoh cemented Oscars history on Sunday night as she became the first Asian person to win for lead actress. Yeoh took home the first Academy Award ...

The prize adds to a record awards season for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which became only the fifth film in history to sweep four major guild awards (DGA, PGA, SAG and WGA). She’s also just the second woman of color to win best actress after Halle Berry in 2002 for “Monster’s Ball.” “They are the real superheroes, and without them, none of us will be here tonight,” she said.

Oscar ratings weathered a fungus-infected zombie invasion -- in the form of the season finale of HBO's hit drama "The Last of Us" -- to post their second ...

Tune-in for the series steadily built from 4.7 million same-day viewers for the premiere in January. Executive producers Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann sent a letter to critics on Monday thanking them for all the “beautiful attention” they had showered on the series, a callback to a line from the third episode. By any measure, the video game adaptation has been a huge hit for the pay service. The Oscars sank to a record-low audience of 10.5 million viewers in 2021, amid an across-the-board crash for award-show ratings. Notably, streaming titles “CODA” and “Nomadland” won the previous two years. The 95th annual Academy Awards averaged 18.7 million viewers, per Nielsen data, a 12% boost compared to last year, and the biggest audience for any awards show in three years.

Winners and also-rans shared cocktails and In-N-Out burgers with moguls, musicians and models at the annual post-awards gala.

Earlier, she had taken the best actress prize for her role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” which made her the first woman of color to win in that category since 2002, when Halle Berry was honored for “Monster’s Ball.” For a moment he seemed to consider taking the burger, only to decide against that, too. Quan’s work dating back to “The Goonies,” which the actor had co-starred in at age 13. “It’s all sort of a haze,” Ms. On the other, holding her statue, was Ms. Perhaps it was the press room, where she had faced a phalanx of interviews. “I want to dance.” The “Ozark” star Julia Garner was to her left. Cate Blanchett arrived in the blue and black Dior gown she had worn to the ceremony. The director seemed happy to see Hailee Steinfeld, a star of the AppleTV+ series “Dickinson” who happens to be the niece of someone Mr. Was he hoping to soft-pitch his way back into the Academy’s good graces? A little ways off, Steven Spielberg stood with his wife, the actress and artist Kate Capshaw.

Michelle Yeoh's historic Oscar win is hailed by film industry insiders, movie fans and officials in Hong Kong and Malaysia. 'It's not an accident at all,' ...

Lawyers for Liberty says it is hypocritical to praise Michelle Yeoh after hauling up local producers over the content of their films.

As such, it is the duty of the government to protect such artistic expression and not give way to certain groups who want to dictate what can or cannot be produced." "If the government truly wants to take credit for any accolades obtained by Malaysian artists, then it should protect the products of creative freedom within our own country by upholding it as part of a right safeguarded by Article 10(1)(a) of our constitution." "Art, in any shape or form, is protected under the freedom of expression under Article 10(1)(a) of the Federal Constitution.

The image, misusing the identity of Malaysian news outlet The Star, showed Yeoh giving her acceptance speech after she was named the Academy Award winner for ...

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Michelle Yeoh's history-making Oscar win caused jubilation this week in her native Malaysia, but it also sparked false rumors that a national holiday had ...

“I’ll call her to come home (to Malaysia) and celebrate very soon. “I’m taking this home to her,” Yeoh said in her acceptance speech. “The news is false,” it said. I’m bringing this home to you,” she said. She is very hardworking,” her mother told local reporters. There was “no truth” to claims of an Oscar public holiday, the statement from Anwar’s office read.