Michelle Yeoh poses with her best actress Oscar backstage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The Everything Everywhere All at Once actress is the first who identifies as Asian to win the award in 95 years of the Academy Awards. Photo: Reuters
Michelle Yeoh poses with her best actress Oscar backstage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The Everything Everywhere All at Once actress is the first who identifies as Asian to win the award in 95 years of the Academy Awards. Photo: Reuters
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‘It’s not an accident at all’: Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win hailed by Hong Kong film producer who helped launch her career

  • Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win is deserved recognition for her talent and hard work, says Hong Kong film director Norman Chan, who helped her get started in movies
  • Fellow actors take inspiration from her win, the first by an Asian actress, as well as fans and her mother, 84, who says, ‘She has made Malaysia proud’

Mabel Lui
Mabel Lui

Updated: 7:48am, 14 Mar, 2023

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Michelle Yeoh poses with her best actress Oscar backstage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The Everything Everywhere All at Once actress is the first who identifies as Asian to win the award in 95 years of the Academy Awards. Photo: Reuters
Michelle Yeoh poses with her best actress Oscar backstage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The Everything Everywhere All at Once actress is the first who identifies as Asian to win the award in 95 years of the Academy Awards. Photo: Reuters
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