For the first time in Oscar history, a record-setting four Asian actors received nominations in a single year, including Michelle Yeoh, who is up for best actress for the gorgeous and wonderfully trippy ¡°Everything Everywhere All at Once.¡± That film, which received 11 nods, the most in 2022, features a largely Asian and Asian American cast.
In fact, a bumper crop of filmmakers, performers and artists of Asian descent were nominated for Academy Awards this year. The honorees run the gamut: There are actors, of course, but also directors, screenwriters and musicians, as well as artists skilled in animation, costume design and makeup.
Among the contenders are Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro and Domee Shi, the first woman to direct a short film for Pixar (2018¡¯s ¡°Bao,¡± which won an Oscar). The films themselves range from a critically acclaimed animated feature that is metaphorically about menstruation (Shi¡¯s ¡°Turning Red¡±) to a visually haunting documentary about a bird hospital in India (¡°All That Breathes¡±) and a tune-filled anti-colonialist action extravaganza (¡°RRR¡±).
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