Everything Everywhere's starring prima Michelle Yeoh has besides acknowledged what the movie's momentum, and her Oscars win, signified for the Asian community. The 60-year-old became the archetypal Asian-identifying prima to triumph Best Actress and lone the 2nd pistillate of colour to instrumentality the statue successful the Academy Awards' 95-year history.

"I'm precise alert that it's beyond maine being recognized arsenic an actress," she told BBC News successful an interrogation published March 9. "It's a full assemblage of Asians coming guardant and saying: You person to bash this for us."

In Everything Everywhere, Michelle plays Evelyn Wang, an Asian migrant who runs a laundromat alongside her hubby Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) and has a hard narration with her girl Joy, played by Stephanie Hsu. The relation was Stephanie's archetypal workplace feature, and she put her "whole heart" into it, she told E! News successful February.

The travel has felt similar a "rollercoaster" for Stephanie, who was nominated alongside winner Jamie Lee Curtis for Best Supporting Actress, but it's been a thrust she wouldn't instrumentality back.

"That's each artist's benignant of dream, right?" she said. "You enactment yourself retired determination and you anticipation radical spot it and understand."

Here's how Everything Everywhere shattered records and etched its sanction successful the Oscars past books.

What Everything Everywhere Achieved Prior To The Oscars

Everything Everywhere reportedly surpassed Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as the most-awarded movie of each time, according to IGN. The outlet calculated that it presently has 158 "major" wins compared to Return of the King's 101 awards. But overall, according to IMDb, the movie has scored 336 wins and 355 nominations. The movie's Oscars run further cemented its presumption successful the hallway of fame.

Everything Everywhere's nominations besides marked the astir Asian practice astatine the Oscars, according to the New York Daily News.

How Everything Everywhere Broke Records astatine the 2023 Oscars

This beingness witnessed past being made.

Michelle Yeoh became the archetypal Asian-identifying pistillate to person the grant and conscionable the 2nd pistillate of colour aft Halle Berry's groundbreaking 2002 win.

The Malaysian prima officially became the archetypal Asian-identifying histrion to beryllium nominated for the prize successful January. Some see Merle Oberon, who was reportedly of partial Sri Lankan descent, to beryllium the archetypal Asian Best Actress nominee, but she did not publically place arsenic Asian, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and she didn't instrumentality location the trophy backmost successful 1936.

Ke Huy Quan's triumph for Best Supporting Actor made him the 2nd Asian antheral to execute the award, 38 years aft Haing S. Ngor won for The Killing Fields.

Not to mention, co-director Daniel Kwan became the 4th Asian manager to triumph successful Best Directing.

Everything Everywhere became the 3rd movie successful Oscar past to triumph 3 acting awards, the archetypal of its benignant successful the 21st century, pursuing successful the footsteps of 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire and 1976's Network.

To spot however Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and much stars celebrated their nominations successful January, click here.

This communicative was primitively published connected March 12, 2023 astatine 4 a.m. PT. It was updated astatine 8:43 p.m. PT aft the Oscars to bespeak the winners.