{"id":849,"date":"2023-03-21T00:14:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/?p=849"},"modified":"2023-03-21T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:16:39","slug":"first-asian-oscars-best-actress-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/21\/first-asian-oscars-best-actress-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"First Asian Oscar&#8217;s Best Actress Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"849\" class=\"elementor elementor-849\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-marvy_enable_drop_animation=\"false\" data-marvy_enable_fancy_rotate=\"false\" data-marvy_enable_flying_object=\"false\" data-marvy_enable_ripples_animation=\"false\" data-marvy_enable_waves_animation=\"false\" data-marvy_enable_rings_animation=\"false\" data-marvy_enable_topology_animation=\"false\" data-marvy_enable_gradient_animation=\"false\" data-marvy_enable_snow_animation=\"false\" data-marvy_enable_firework_animation=\"false\" data-marvy_enable_cloud_animation=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2d938e03 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default exad-glass-effect-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"2d938e03\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6fc73ba6 exad-glass-effect-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"6fc73ba6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5140fd5d exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5140fd5d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Rebecca Rubin for Variety<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michelle Yeoh cemented Oscars\u00a0history on Sunday night as she became the first Asian person to win for lead actress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeoh took home the first Academy Award of her celebrated career, for best actress in \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once\u201d The honor came after decades of in martial arts and action movies like \u201cCrouching Tiger Hidden Dragon\u201d and \u201cYes, Madam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities,\u201d Yeoh said from the stage. \u201cThis is proof that dreams do come true. And ladies, don\u2019t let anybody tell you that you are ever past your prime. Never give up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the stacked competition, Yeoh was the odds-on favorite to win because she was honored at nearly every precursory ceremony, including SAG Awards, Independent Spirit Awards and the Golden Globes. In clinching the trophy, Yeoh beat Cate Blanchett for \u201cT\u00e1r,\u201d Michelle Williams for \u201cThe Fabelmans,\u201d Andrea Riseborough for \u201cTo Leslie\u201d and Ana de Armas for \u201cBlonde.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"662\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blog-06.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blog-06.png 662w, https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blog-06-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rebecca Rubin for Variety Michelle Yeoh cemented Oscars\u00a0history on Sunday night as she became the first Asian person to<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/21\/first-asian-oscars-best-actress-winner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Asian Oscar&#8217;s Best Actress Winner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.geraldsastra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}