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The story of Asian and Asian American women in the acting categories at the Oscars is one of absence. In this video I give a basic overview of the barriers these women have faced in casting and how America's geopolitical relationship with Asian countries has affected hyphenate identity in media.
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As Bong Joon Ho perfectly put it, “The Oscars are not an international film festival, they're very local."
And he hit the nail on the head. The Oscars have never been claimed to be an international awards show. That is why there is a "Best Foreign Film" category.
Beyond accurate from the gentleman who richly earned his Oscars this year
A tragic reality. Oscars should know their place. Best to go to Cannes or Berlin for real credits.
@@LucyLioness100 Sometimes I wonder if whether the Oscars budged this year because of that quote. Needing to uphold the prestige and all.
@@ljyljy88 i agree. the board (or whoever is behind the oscars) probably decided parasite should win as a last ditch effort to show everyone they could be diverse. i mean, these are the same people who let green book and la la land win, and it happened because there wasn't a big brouhaha about it before the ceremony.
as an asian, i'm definitely glad that parasite won. however, like you said, it feels like the award was a response to the bad press. in a way, it doesn't feel like a 'proper win'? you know?
As an asian-american, a professor once said to me, “if ever a man approaches you & calls you exotic, you should run”. That always stuck with me. It was always hard to explain to my white counterparts, especially men because most of them thought exotic just meant you were pretty. This video was a great way to get that message across!
Yeesh. If exotic means pretty, why not just say pretty? It's like saying "Pretty, but let's project something to supplant your identity :)"
It's a "nice" way of saying "I don't care to know or find out anything about you, so I'm going to operate entirely on stereotypes". Nobody likes that.
@@jauxro Being described as "exotic" fetishizes and objectifies the person. The person is being liked for their looks and their perceived stereotypes.
@Sean Kelly ... I'm gonna let someone else explain to you why it feels horrible to be fetishised for your race, but as a half-n-half I'd just like to add that "diversity" is not a personality trait. "Mixed marriages" are beautiful... When both parties see each other as people first and foremost, not a collection of "outsider" traits.
Sean Kelly Personally, I’ve have plenty of experiences where men have approached me & - without even saying hello - they immediately jump to “omg what are you”/“you’re so exotic”/“you’ve got to be mixed”. It’s always seemed to me that the “exotic-ness” of my existence & therefore my race is more desirable than who I am as a person. It feels very much like it doesn’t matter what person/personality is attached to those features just that those features are present. In short, fetishizing my race. Am I saying that I never want someone to call my features beautiful? Absolutely not. But it becomes problematic when I have to answer what my race is before I’ve even said what my name is.
Films like Parasite and Slumdog Millionaire winning best picture but not getting even a single nomination for their actors reads to me like the academy saying:
“We like your brown/black/yellow stories, just not your brown/black/yellow people.”
The rich family’s mother and the man in the basement were the most noticeably impressive performances in the film to me
Bingo.
I was so rooting for Park So-dam (the Kim daughter) that year, she was fantastic in the movie.
It reads more like as "we can't tell you apart" to be honest.
Americans seem to be incredibly ignorant about Korean films and directors (and non-Hollywood films in general), they've been delivering for years.
As much as I loved Parasite (the first earned Best Picture in at least ten years imo), I hated Slumdog Millionaire though. Embarassing cheesefest.
@@iampagliacci8923 gotta disagree - i thought moonlight also was a well deserved best picture win. other than that youre 100% correct
Eh Parasite has great ensamble but the individual actor just didn't stand out for me. Also consider that both best leading actor and actress were so competitive that year, with Phoenix was a sure win
So glad that Audrey Hepburn turned down the role in Sayonara. As she said, "I'd be laughed off the screen." Wish that ScarJo could adopt the same sentiment 50+ years later.
To be fair, Ghost in the Shell is originally Anime, and Anime characters were drawn with BIG eyes, not necessarily Japanese, or Asian, having said that, the film was shite.
How so?
Michael Reilly lol not all anime have big eyes. Especially not ghost in the shell. And it’s weird people still believe monolid eyes = small eyes.
Michael Reilly serious question but what is Ghost in the Shell plot line? I’ve read Motoko conscious is put into ScarJo body, and sge was stripped of her identity. So I think that made sense to cast a non asian actress.
But was that really the plot of the anime or the movie? If that was just a tweak that the movie team made than that’s is questionable
@@bethyoung5814 No idea, one of my faves is/was Alita Battle Angel, OMG I LOVE that anime, and the new film was fantastic, no one seemed to mind that a south american portrayed that robot/human hybrid which was originally an asian written anime, but there you have it, Anime , I thought, may have been written by Asians, but the characters were universal.....
“Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such”
Y I K E S
Genie Hossain that was just straight up racist I was like “really Ridley?”
😒 He's saying that as if there aren't already bankable actors from Bollywood and the middle East that can speak English. No offence but white people act if there's no world outside of their own sometime. English is a lingua franca. This man didn't even TRY to cast a FEW actors that were ethnically accurate to their characters.
Buy Cowboy by fx On iTunes exactly Bollywood is such a innovative and bankable industry that the same attitude I had when they did the Aladdin remake and had guy Richie direct it and have mixed race ambiguous looking actors play the lead characters when Disney could’ve gone to Bollywood resources and make a proper more authentic remake
@@Kevin-rg3yc Okay but again going to Bollywood for resources to produce a film about the Middle East and Middle Eastern culture is not any better. That's further lumping various distinct and unique cultures together and generalizing them for a western pallet. 100% not authentic or even close to proper.
I feel like that quote should have been circulated more in the press, at least to shut up the people who'd inevitably insist that the film's racism is 100% separate from any of the crew behind it.
You talking about the success of Crazy Rich Asians and how it was helping other Asian movies made me cry. It’s just nice to be hopeful for the future.
Right!!?!? The lead actor in CRA has been in 2-3 big movies since then too (maybe more? I've seen him in previews for at least 2 other movies) and you just know he probably wouldn't have been cast if not for the notoriety of CRA. And who knows, maybe he'll be the next big star. Funny how that works ;)
Scott Dreyer also, Constance Wu was the lead of two huge ($150m+ box office) movies-for-adults (non-franchise - Crazy Rich Asians & Hustlers) films in consecutive years.
If she was a white actress she would be on the cover Vogue & Vanity Fair hailed as the great movie stars. Sigh
Brayden Fitzsimmons - Isn’t she married to a white man?
What does that have to do with anything? Is she not Asian enough if she’s married to a white guy? What’s wrong with you?
It probably flopped in China because the government told its people not to go see it. They can’t let their people know how happy Chinese people are living outside of China where they are actually free to think and believe whatever they want. I really hate the Chinese government especially the way it treats it’s own citizens.
I've been watching more Anna May Wong movies recently. She was definitely a true talent who was unforgivably underutilized. In another world she would have been one of the biggest stars.
Mark Allen you’re a Neanderthal get out
Mark Allen mongrel
Mark Allen the irony
Where are you finding them? I stopped getting TCM and there are barely any older movies on streaming.
@Mark Allen you're trying so hard to be edgy and funny, shut up
Really hope the rumors are true and the new Damien Chazelle movie will have Anna May Wong as a character. It would be great to remind people of her. She should be a movie legend but hollywood didn’t let her.
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"She should be a movie legend but Hollywood didn’t let her." Say it louder for the people in the back.
@@mhawang8204 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Agreed but I would hold my breath on counting on Damien Chazelle. We saw how he treated jazz and it’s historical roots in La La Land.
Tyshawn Davis right how he pushed the white savior narrative of jazz music in la la land I’m gonna take his portrayal of Anna may wong with a grand of salt
Can I just say how appreciative I am of you clarifying at the start that you use the term ‘Asian’ in this video to refer primarily to ‘East Asians’? Because that distinction is SO important and the majority of American media either doesn’t understand or more often does not care about clarifying who the hell they’re talking about what they refer to ‘Asians’. Sincerely, a grateful descendant of South Asians.
I’m curious about Native American’s history & roles in cinema- I’m of Indian heritage on my father’s side, though both he & I were born & raised in Australia - would you consider doing a video on that topic?
That'll definitely tie into the white savior motif. Quite a few films seem to favor the 'hero changes sides to join more primitive people and protect them from invaders' trope, usually with said hero being white. Dances with Wolves is a popular example of this, and a couple of other films off the top of my head that fall into the camp (Last Samurai and Avatar) both beat the idea of the side the savior joins being basically like that of Native Americans.
Star Trek Insurrection even does this, sorta, but it's boring so who cares.
first of all Indians come from India
Matthew
Well, I’m sorry for using a term that has been interchangeable for decades.
@@OcarinaSapphr- As just a general movie watcher who sees a ton of stuff, my two favorite films starring/about North American Indians in the past few years are The Grizzlies and Wind River. I cannot recommend either one of them highly enough.
@@kelly5693 Wind River....starring two white people.....
I'm very surprised that Lucy Liu has a Hollywood Star and Ming Na Wen does not. Ming Na has been a powerhouse since the Joy Luck Club.
And what? Don't be reading no imd page
Most Hollywod stars are brought by the celebrity, unless you are a true star (Tom Hanks, Meryl...)
The Cavalry doesn’t need no stinking star. She is the star.
Yet she hasn’t been in high profile and very successful movies like the likes of Kill Bill or even Charlie’s Angels. Sad but true.
La Femme Futile that is true. While Kill Bill and Charlie’s Angels are okay movies, they were really popular.
To this day, I think Ming Na’s biggest movies are still The Joy Luck Club and Mulan.
The joy luck club is a underappreciated masterpiece, ALL the actresses gave phenomenal performances...even their children counterparts.
And Margaret Cho always talked about how east Asians women difficulty to get roles as just human being and not as ''yellow fever''
I love that movie, it is so great.
@Mark Allen Agreed, there are some gems.
@Mark Allen People should start with Ozu, he's so great.
@Mark Allen I already do, all watch ANYTHING made by Wong Kar-wai.
well i already do watch Japanese cinema, my all time favorite film director is Satoshi Kon. it's just that for the last 10yrs in Japanese cinema nothing really did grasp my interest, only animated works. but recently Shoplifters and 37 seconds were amazing ! Or just for stunning visuals with slice of life stories made by Makoto Shinkai. Just so much movies and so little time !
Also important to point out that legendary actresses like Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Joan Chen, Sylvia Chang to name a few never got the recognition they deserved at awards like the Oscars. They deserved it for their powerhouse performances in the movies that they made, which were so much better than eventual Oscar winners.
Gong Li and Michelle Yeoh are my favorite East Asian actresses, so graceful and talented
Most of them have a couple of big roles in Hollywood movies, but they don't like Hollywood and return to their homes, were they have better roles and and are big stars. Occacionally they return for a couple of movies.
@@WielkiMistrzuBe I also love Maggie Cheung in ...In the Mood for Love
Wong was so ahead of her time. Wow
Did you forget (or did I miss) the worst "Asian" in movie history? Mickey Rooney in Breakfast At Tiffany's...
This.
Even he regret it too
This video focuses on actresses.
I hope Reese Witherspoon does produce more diverse films. I know with her book club she does include various cultures. I would love her to make some of her book picks that aren't a white heroine into a film, or plot twist have actors of various nationalities play the lead.
I loved this video. It’s so sad that there has been no prominent *south asian* representation in the media! Breaks my heart. When people talk about asian, they rarely include South Asian so it was nice to see Ben Kingsley mentioned.
In the U.K., it’s the opposite with Asian mainly referring to people from South Asia. It’s likely because most Asian immigrants in the U.K. tend to be from the Indian sub-continent, but from East Asian in the USA.
In reality, the American Media only identify the 'East Asians' as Asians. Also, The notion no Asian has won Best Actress isn't really true, Cher, who's half Armenian became the first Actress of Asian ancestry to have been honored and in 2011 Israeli-born Natalie Portman became the second of Asian ancestry and the first Asian born.
@@paulskyekahawaty6133 Vivien Leigh was born in British India, and I may be misremembering but there may have been controversy over her ancestry, but it may have been about another actress that was was partly of colour and tried to hide it from Hollywood.
@@peterdunlop7691 Merle Oberon tried to hide her Indian roots, partly because of her illegitimate child status.
Paul Skye Kahawaty that was probably what I was thinking about. It may have been mentioned in BeKind’s Vivien Leigh Oscar video.
Also, "Otherness" is also a new idea to old school audiences. Think about how groundbreaking "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was, it only had a best screenplay oscar nom and nothing else. I think that movie was out in 2003 or 2004.
2001 actually
2002, and the sequel came out 14 years later.
Puppy Power!!! But how groundbreaking was it? Are there still a lot of successful Greek or Grecian characters in movies?
Otherness is still not that big of a deal to most audiences, there are more people discovering it as a concept, but this is an old concept from the late 1700s
The original was based on Nia Vardalos marriage to Puerto Rican/Jewish man Ian Gomez. Yet the subsequent movies, tv series the male character was WASP.
Same with Bend it Like Beckham, that became an underground hit in the early 2000s! Also, yay South Asians!
It’s staggering to me how Parasite swept every award last year and none of its actors got acting nominations. Song Kang Ho could run circles around Leo’s hammy acting in OUATIH, likewise Park Sodam or Cho Yeojung against Margot Robbie’s thankless role in the same film.
I watch your videos multiple times each, 'cause your level of professionalism and academic-style research for the videos is stellar. I'm happy you finally have a sponsor for the video, you should be paid all the money!
Anyone else here after watching Netflix’s “Hollywood”?
As an east asian american.....thank you. This video explained things so clearly and respectfully. Media rarely talks about the asian experience in the western world.
Anybody remember the yellow-face of Joel Grey in "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins" from 1985? The yellow-face gave the movie it's single Oscar nomination: Best Makeup. SMH x infinity
wut
OMG really? I had so much respect for Joel Grey because of his performance in Cabaret :(
Granted he shouldn't have taken the role, but at the same time everyone that was part of that movie should've seen how messed up of an idea that was.
I’ve never clicked so hard on a notification
HAHAHA me too! Sitting here with a piece of pizza and ready to watch.
My issue with Awkwafina is that she made a name by putting on a blaccent and mimicking black culture. Then, when people started to push for actors and actresses to be their true selves, she stopped and won't explain why she was mimicking other people when she could've been great being herself. Her whole voice has changed along with persona. I wish she would just be genuine.
Ari Entyse yeah the topic of anti blackness and cultural appropriation in the Asian community is something that largely needs to be discussed. There’s serious cult-like subcultures in Asian countries like Korea, China and Japan dedicated to culturally appropriating black American culture, I like Awkwafina but I hope she address this before it bite her back
Arguments like this tend to disregard that fact that black American culture is a part of American mainstream culture. She is not appropriating blackness, because we’re not a monolith, she is a product of an aspect of American mainstream culture. The question is really ‘why do we find it more acceptable for non-black people to adopt and present Black American culture?’
I mean she is from queens and a lot of non black people do have that accent based on the areas they live,work or the people they hang out with. Accents are developed based on the accent of the people you surround yourself with.
@@NoName-dx1no No. You do not get to be that ignorant in 2020. Nora Lum was not kicking it with black people enough in Queens to shape her accent. Why do I know that? It’s an excuse people love to trot out and she would have used it already if it was true.
@@melodramaticfoolmiz But society still sees us as a monolith as a function of white supremacy and picks over the most prominent and/or expressions of blackness to commodify and mimic. You present a salient point but it’s the rejection of black people and the near-obsessive acceptance of blackness on non black people that allows appropriation of certain elements of black culture.
I was so pissed none of the actors in Parasite were nominated, especially after the movie won so many oscars. They should stop nominating people who have been nominated or won so many times. Let some other people get recognition.
@Mark Allen Not for them, they need oppresion points. EVERYBODY has to be represented in the US or Europe, yet they I don´t see any spanish movie nominated in asian cinema awards... maybe because they just care about their own people as it should be. Why would I want spanish people represented, for example in Bollywood movies if what I want is watch indian people represented in their own movies? Why do I have to have someone from EVERY country in my own spanish movies when they got their own cinema industry? They don't ask non asian people represented in asian cinema, yet I don't get why do I have to see non spanish people in mine... Why they don't ask indian movies to have more black people or south american people in their movies??? Why they don't let every country to have THEIR OWN representation... you have black actors in african movies, south american actors in south american movies, japanese actors in japanese movies... why is always white people that HAVE TO change our cinema for others???? People living right now shouldn't be accountable for something that happened 600 years ago.
That's kinda childish
“Change is infuriating slow” so true!
Zhang Ziyi Was Phenomenal in Memiors of a Geisha. It is still one my Favorite films. She should have been nominated for best actress.
Parasite is absolutely stunning. I was surprised none of the actors received at least a nomination for their acting. LOVE your videos btw
I'm ashamed to say I had never even heard of Merle Oberon before watching this video and I'm currently stuck in a 2 hour wiki hole learning more about her and her movies! Thank you! :)
Of we're gonna talk about diversity, should talk about how there's barely any Muslims in industry. Especially women
So true . Hijabis too. With fully developed , varied characters
Not even background characters , as if we're a fever dream , we don't really exist .
The biggest one I can think of is Shohreh Aghadashloo.
our favourite singer if there is... it won’t be long till the hijab will be thrown open and completely abandoned, so will anything that identified the characters in the first place. It might as well be a non- Muslim character. I think they think it would be difficult to write a developed character whilst being a Muslin
To be fair it's not like there are many Muslim women who are out there, hustling, to be in the industry. Many Muslim families are first or second generation and they want safe jobs to bring security to their families. Secondly, it's especially hard to be a Muslim actress because there's so many characters Muslims won't play and scripts can't be conformed to suit an actor. It's the other way around. I come from a Muslim family and being an actor is considered ridiculous because of how immodest the job requires one to be.
you do sooo much research and you're so well spoken ahhh plz never stop making videos
The Farewell deserved better and so did the cast of Parasite.
Park So-Dam should have been nominated!
@@ellehansen7507 Most everyone should have been! Song Kang-Ho was honestly my choice for Best Supporting Actor regardless of the nominees
@@psycane8462 absolutely!
As an Asian, loooooove this video. Thank you for shining a light on this problem.
why does that Cloud Atlas guy look like John Mulaney lmao
Because John is a tall Asian American woman.
Cloud Atlas did not belong in this list to begin with. Each actor played numerous roles, as it had 6 different plot lines, but one group of actors. If we complain about Hugo Weaving playing an Asian character in one... are we also going to complain about him playing a female in another?
So happy you covered this.
Awkwafina was the best actress of 2019 and I don't think it was even close. I was so mad at the Oscars for not even nominating her.
I had watched your video a few weeks back and last week I binge watched Netflix's Hollywood and My God you were right on the money. 👏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾
I haven't even finished watching the video, but I think it would be very interesting to see a historical overview of Latin American actors in the Hollywood Industry. I'm sure you've already thought about it, but the numbers of Latin American women winning Academy Awards as Best Actress are very low. Not to mention their representation as directors, screenwriters or else which, in any case for women, is almost null.
GUATEVERS not one has won and so far on my search only three nominations. Definitely video worthy.
It would be cool if you did a video addressing Ryan Murphy's show Hollywood on Netflix. Anna May Wong and a lot of other minority Hollywood figures are characters, and I would be really interested in what you think of the direction the show takes and the Oscars scene. Love your videos!
Obsessed with your videos. Thank you
I was genuinely shocked when I saw that Akwafina was not nominated for her role in The Farewell
Hollywood keeps on disrespecting Asians 😥
Your videos have been my quarantine savior this past week. I'm currently watching all of them again. So brilliant! Hugs from Colombia.
Wow I watched your video before i started 'Hollywood' the Netflix series. It gave the series so much more context.
When a biopic was made on indian boxing champion Mary Kom, Priyanka Chopra was chosen to play Mary Kom citing bankability as the reason. I feel the film would've felt more authentic if a north-east indian actor who shares the same ethnicity as Mary Kom played her.
love the quote by ming-na wen at 8:12! so simple and so true!
As a non-American, I find it so crazy and just odd that Americans consider The Joy Luck Club a foreign film when it so clearly and beautifully depicts the Asian-American experience.
We're suspended between two worlds. We're too American to our immigrant parents and we're not white enough to Americans.
Don't understand how a white actress can walk into an audition for an Asian character and say "why yes, of course I can be Asian!" *cough* Emma Stone *cough* Shout-out to my girl Audrey for turning down an Asian role.
Your videos are so well researched, detailed, and orated. And making incredible points without being preachy. So solid.
Anne May Wong deserved oscar
Have you guys seen Hollywood in Netflix, love that they are talking about this and so many other issues
Thank you for this in depth study! I appreciate your thoroughness I’m raising awareness for Asian American talent who needs to have the recognition they deserve and have long been owed.
Thank you, BKR! This was a good one that I watched immediately when it was in my feed!
You’re so good at these. Please keep up the great work and thank you.
I squealed when Rose Tico appeared! Kelly Marie Tran is a treasure and deserved so much better. thank you so much, amazing video, as always ♥
billie lurks - Rose Tico was a horrible character.
@@xmuta didn't ask
We did a podcast where we awarded "Babbies" to films we thought were great irrespective of whether Bafta, or Oscars had nominated. Best supporting actress we gave to (or I did) to an actress in The Farewell. She was great. The podcast was a little rushed but it's early days.
Thank you so, so, so much
I swear to god, you make the best videos on UA-cam
Your videos always make me happy, angry, sad and hopeful at the same time
This is a super old video so you likely won’t see this comment, but it blows my mind to see Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian and East Asian actors lumped into one category. The sheer differences in culture are insane. To say nothing of individual countries and their varying cultures and the like.
coming back after michelle yeoh’s and ke huy quan’s monumental’s win. makes me so proud of them making waves for asian representation 🥲
BKR getting a sponsor! We love to see it 👏👏👏👏 Excellent video as usual. Can't wait for the next one
As a brazillian I was so happy to see you single out Brazil while talking about NordVPN lol I love this channel.
I recommend the Netflix series Hollywood to everyone here. Great way to flaunt your knowledge of this channel. The first episodes are depressing and show Hollywood at its worst, but the second half is a rewrite of Hollywood history ft. justice for Anne May Wong, Hattie McDaniel coaching a young black actress who __does__ make it and a sped up LGBT acceptance movement. It may make it a bit too easy, but it's hopeful and heartwarming way. I cried.
One of the most informative and entertaining channels on UA-cam. Keep up the good work.
Beautiful actress Dona Drake was ¾ Black, but played many non-ethnic major roles such as in "So This Is New York", 1948 and "The Girl Form Jones Beach", 1949 among others. In 1942, she and Dorothy Lamour played Moroccan girls in "Road To Morocco", with Lamour winning the hand of Bing Crosby, and Drake winning the hand of Bob Hope.
Thank you so much for the video, feeling sad and your my favourite channel so happy to get to watch it. Am quietly hoping you might be home from work so we might get more videos :) but no pressure, stay safe
Netflix is doing amazing at getting Asian content up which is hopefully helping the shift.
P.S. Lee Jung Eun, I love you!
LOVE love this channel!
Yaaaaaaaaas! I was checking yesterday if you had a new video.
Thank you so much for this. Truly!
Just watch the Netflix series Hollywood, it was precious to watch at least in fiction a justice for Anna May Wong career. It left me in tears.
please make a video abt Annette Bening! I know she always loses but.. she's amazing!!
Honestly I'm dying for a new video
I am really really digging this #OscarsSoWhite series its just something really amazing and its super well done(like all your stuff!!)
I know that this was a streaming service movie (Netflix), but I feel like I have to bring up "To All the Boys I've Loved Before." This was the first movie where I felt like race didn't really matter. The character of Lara Jean could have been played by anyone and the fact that being Asian had nothing to do with her character struck a chord with me as an Asian American. I feel that we need more characters like her.
you're really doing an amazing job, it really shows you try to understand a topic from the perspective of the culture in question. i'm truly tired of the hostility that stems from the question of representation. keep doing what you're doing, you deserve all the success!
My grandmother had two favorite films: #1 was GONE WITH THE WIND and #2 was THE GOOD EARTH. The former because early life living through the Great Depression and under Japanese occupation made her identify with Scarlett O'Hara. She loved THE GOOD EARTH because she swore that Luise Rainer looked and moved just like her mother. She had no actual photographs of her mother or even photos of herself taken before a 1945 wedding photo.
The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite films and it doesn't have the love and recognition it deserves. Ming Na Wen is such an amazing actress, I love her.
Edit: Also does someone want to explain to me how Natalie Portman is listed as winning an Academy Award as an 'Asian' on the Wikipedia page for Asian Academy Award winners? Is someone messing with me? I get Israel is considered West Asian but I don't think she should be listed in that category. 🤦🏻♀️
I enjoyed Joy Luck Club but I felt the direction wasn't the best. I had seen a few
other films by the same director (Wayne Wang) and just felt after the movie was
over something was missing.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan was the same, a great story idea but the execution
left you with a feeling of nice, not thrilling but nice.
Natalie Portman is the best Asian actress you never heard of :)
I got so excited when I saw you uploaded a new video. Every video you put together is so well done!
Great research for the video!
I feel like this video has aged incredibly well with Michelle Yeoh being the first Asian actress, as well as the second WOC, to win Best Actress.
I'm writing about "The Farewell" for my final paper!
The girl from parasite is better actress than Aquafina whatever
I would have nominated Awkawfina but I don’t think the academy takes her seriously. She’s funny and she raps. They just don’t see her as a heavy-hitter. I think the bigger snub was Jennifer Lopez who went from an industry plant to legend in 25 years.
about that part in the video about "foreign language films": I remember a movie from Germany ("Victoria", 2015) wasn't eligible because for long stretches in the movie, characters talk english. So at least it's consistent with that, albeit kind of dumb still
Hey there! I really enjoy your videos! Please keep making them!
No matter what you say about Mel Gibson, he did what no director dared to when he decided to make Apocalypto with an unknown cast speaking in a foreign language more than half the world could understand. Ridley Scott’s excuse for The Ten Commandments was that he was working for someone else, while Gibson forked his own money into his production, which became a success.
You and Karina Longworth are the absolute best and I've learned SO much. Thank you so very much. 💞
Great job, as always. Your UA-cam channel is very informative.
Can't wait for part 3 about Latinas. Rita Moreno is, to this day, the only Latina to win an Academy Award for Acting (Best Supporting Actress for 'West Side Story') and that was 60 years ago.
when you said "Asian is an enormous complicated identity that means a lot of things" I kind of felt that. I'm half Filipino, half British. Born in the Philippines but raised in the Britain. And to this day, I still don't know what would be the right way to address Filipinos. Asian? Pacific Islander? I don't know lol.
Also, I've seen a lot Filipino films to learn the language and I think some of them are great. Their actors are enormously talented, it's just that they are not very well recognized globally.
I know he had some European ancestry but Yul Bryner was Asian and he won Best Actor. Are we not including him?
mechaguess I’m not sure Sir Ben Kingsley or Hang Nor would identify as actresses!
@@dubbaddare She talked about Asian actors in general winning oscars when she named them.
Abandoned Hope - No she said they were the ‘only two’ Asian men who had won awards for acting. I was just adding that Yul Bryner was by the same definition Asian. He had European ancestry as well, as did Ben Kingsley. Most of the former Soviet States were Asian as was the vast majority of continental Russia. He also had Mongolian ancestry.
@@dubbaddare He lied about his Mongolian ancestry.
@@dubbaddare Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner in the city of Vladivostok not far from Russia's borders with China and North Korea. He had Swiss-German, Russian and Buryat (Mongol) ancestry.
I strongly believe that although both the infamous Hays Code and the abhorrent Legion of Decency have long ceased to exist, the scars left on Hollywood have not truly healed.
It's telling how many video essays on representation of minority in media, be it race, sexual orientation or others, refer to Hays Code.
Could you please make a video on how Jewish actors were similarly pushed into stereotypical foreigner roles but now are largely considered "white". Example Dustin Hoffman
A: This channel focuses on women in film. B. Jewish is not a race it is a religion, people who believe in spooky creatures who live up in the sky - like Jews, christians, muslims etc can have any variation of skin tone from palest white to darkest chocolate and even freckles lol. Perhaps a person's non christian religion may have put them as foreigners in old hollywood as most Americans back in the day were christian, no?
@@michaelreilly3513 if you did a bit of research you would find that Jewish actresses were also discriminated against due to their background. Many were encouraged to get a nose job in order to get work.
@@tamarleahh.2150 Well, when you mentioned Dustin Hoffman - a man - I thought this is what you meant, apologies if you meant women, then I thought you would have provided an example of an actress who is American and portrayed as a foreigner because she is Jewish, no?
@@tamarleahh.2150 Both on-screen and behind the scenes, Jewish directors, producers and writers are credited with developing the Hollywood system as we know it today.
These seven pioneering Jewish actresses defied expectations of their gender and many survived religious persecution, fleeing Europe during World War II.
Their films are testaments to their talent and prove the power of cinema as both a realm of escapism and a vehicle to explore some of the world’s most pressing issues.
The article goes on to mention 7 of the most famous including Hedy Lamar.
I am still waiting for a movie about Anna Mayer Wong. Long overdue.
Ali wong could be the new change we need for Hollywood. She's a rising star up coming Chinese American actress and comedian
Y’all should do one for south East Asian women, Latina/hispanic women, Middle Eastern women and south Asian women. I rarely see them in movie. Let alone Oscar nominated ones
K but O-Ren is a fantastic character, not a 1-D stereotype.
I mean Lucy Liu is known for playing Dragon Lady characters. They're not bad but Asians should be able to play more than just stereotypes. O-Ren is better than a lot of dragon ladies only because we understand where she came from. She actually has reasons as to why she acts the way she does.