Asian-American-led projects have been the biggest standouts at this year’s award shows, and the Academy Award nominations, which were announced Tuesday, were no different.
A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” dominated the list with 11 nominations, the most for any film.
Golden Globe-winning stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan were also nominated for best actress and best supporting actor, respectively. Stephanie Hsu, who played Yeoh’s daughter Joy, and Jamie Lee Curtis, who played Deirdre, an IRS inspector, were also nominated for best supporting actress.
These are the first Academy Award nominations for Yeoh, Quan, Hsu and Curtis.
The film was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Costume Design, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Song.
Directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert also earned the Best Director nomination.
The sci-fi comedy, which follows a struggling laundromat owner (Yeoh) as she travels across multiple dimensions to save the multiverse with the help of her husband, Waymond (Quan), won two Golden Globes and five Awards. Critics Choice this year.
“As time has gone by, I turned 60 last year, and I think all of you women understand this because the days, the years, the numbers increase, the opportunities also decrease,” Yeoh said during her emotional speech on Thursday. acceptance into the Golden. Balloons this month. «Then came the best gift: ‘Everything, everywhere, all at once.'»
Hong Chau, who plays Liz in A24’s “The Whale” with Brendan Fraser, was also nominated for best supporting actress.
“Naatu Naatu”, the hit song from the Telugu-language film “RRR”, was nominated for Best Original Song, along with “Everything Everywhere All at Once”.
The four and a half minute song was also the surprise winner of this month’s Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, beating out Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift. “RRR” also won Best Foreign Language Film at the Critics Choice Awards.
“Turning Red,” the coming-of-age story of Chinese-Canadian eighth-grader Meilin Lee, who unexpectedly turns into a red panda and must learn to navigate puberty and be a dutiful daughter, earned the nomination for the best animated film
In an interview with NBC News last year, director Domee Shi said she hoped immigrant children, especially Asian children, could relate to the changes Meilin went through and how she learned to understand those changes.
“They have to figure out which world they belong to, how to honor their parents and their family’s expectations, but how to carve out this independent identity for themselves in this new world of not being their family,” Shi said.
“All That Breathes,” the HBO documentary directed by Shaunak Sen, was nominated for Best Documentary Short. The film follows two brothers who own a bird hospital in New Delhi dedicated to rescuing injured black kites.
British drama «Living,» written by British Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, was nominated for best adapted screenplay, which was an adaptation of the 1952 Japanese film «Ikiru.»
The awards ceremony will take place on March 12 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live on ABC.