Michelle Yeoh is now one of the actors that is in the highest demand all around the globe. The Malaysian-born actress made her debut in Hollywood with the James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies” in 1997. Since then, she has worked on a wide variety of films, including “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Reign of Assassins,” “Kung Fu Panda 2,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” among many others.
Her breakthrough performance in “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” is credited with catapulting her to the highest level of popularity, despite the fact that she has an extensive filmography. She did an outstanding job portraying a frustrated laundromat owner who transformed into a multiversal hero, and she displayed her wonderful acting talents as well as a very remarkable stunt performance in her action scenes.
She has been nominated for several accolades and has won many of these honors for the role. Yeoh received her first Golden Globe nomination as well as victory, her second Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, which she also won, and her second BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. All of these honors came in the same year.
Nonetheless, Yeoh’s achievement of winning the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 95th Annual Academy Awards, which are more often referred to as the Oscars, in 2023 may be considered her biggest triumph to date. She was the first Asian woman to win in the category, making her the second person of color after Halle Berry to take home the award for this category. It was Yeoh’s first time being nominated for the renowned awards event, much like the other winners in the acting categories that took place in the same year, including her castmates Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan, as well as the winner of the award for Best Actor, Brendan Fraser.
Yeoh seized the occasion to deliver an emotional acceptance speech, during which she encouraged women of all ages to strive for greatness. Continue reading to find out more about the stirring speech that Yeoh gave!
The Academy Award for Best Actress was given at the 2023 Oscars by two actresses who had already won the award: Jessica Chastain and Halle Berry. Halle Berry made history by being the first woman of color to win an Oscar in any acting category.
The whole Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, exploded into a thunderous roar and ovation as soon as Yeoh’s name was revealed, in commemoration of Yeoh’s triumph that established a new precedent in the history of the competition. Berry felt as if she had come full circle when she presented the Oscar to the second woman of color to take home the trophy.
The actress, who is now 60 years old, used her address to provide an uplifting message of encouragement to young people and women in general.
“Thank you very much, both of you. This should serve as a light of hope and possibility for all the young boys and girls who look like they may be me and are watching tonight. This demonstrates the fact that… dream big, and dreams do come true. And females, don’t allow anyone tell you you are ever beyond your prime. “Never give up,” she concluded, bringing another round of applause from everyone in the arena.
After expressing her gratitude to the film’s filmmakers and cast, Yeoh went on to express her appreciation to the most important lady in her life: her mother.
“I have to dedicate this to my mum, and to all the mothers in the world, because they are truly the superheroes, and without them, none of us would be here today,” I said. “I have to dedicate this to my mom, and to all the women in the world.” I’m going to take this to her house since she’s 84 years old. She is now seeing it in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with my family and several friends there. She went on to say, “I adore you guys, and I’m taking this present home to you.”
IGN reports that “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” has won 158 honors, making it the picture with the most accolades in the history of cinema. This puts it ahead of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” which won 101 awards.