Oscars 2023: Michelle Yeoh Has a Message for All the Dreamers

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Now this is simply a brag level speech.

Michelle Yeoh delivered immoderate inspiring words for each dreamer acold and wide who watched her instrumentality the signifier portion accepting the coveted grant of Best Performance by an Actress successful a Leading Role for her enactment successful Everything Everywhere All astatine Once astatine the 2023 Oscars. (See the afloat database of winners here.)

"For each the small boys and girls who look similar maine watching tonight, this is simply a beacon of anticipation and possibilities," the 60-year-old said. "This is impervious that dreams... imagination big, and dreams bash travel true. And ladies, don't fto anybody archer you you are ever past your prime. Never springiness up."

Reflecting connected a idiosyncratic who shaped her, Michelle honored her mother, who she said was watching the Oscars broadcast successful Malaysia.

"I person to dedicate this to my mom," Michelle added, "all the moms successful the satellite due to the fact that they are truly the superheroes and without them, nary of america would beryllium present tonight."

Others nominated successful the class included Cate Blanchett for Tár, Ana de Armas for Blonde, Andrea Riseborough for To Leslie and Michelle Williams for The Fabelmans.

Though her vocation spans 49 years with projects including Supercop, Tomorrow Never Dies and Crazy Rich Asians, this is her archetypal Oscars win. And it's 1 that marks a history-making infinitesimal for the Academy Awards.

Michelle is the archetypal Asian-identifying pistillate to beryllium nominated successful the Best Actress category, and now, she is the archetypal to triumph the award.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Merle Oberon, whose ma was reportedly portion Sri Lankan, is considered by immoderate to beryllium the archetypal Asian nominee for Best Actress astatine the Oscars. However, Merle hid her ancestry from the public.

Michelle is besides the 2nd pistillate of colour to instrumentality location the Best Actress statue. In 2001, Halle Berry was awarded Best Actress for her enactment in Monster's Ball.

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Her onstage connection is conscionable the latest headline-making code she has delivered portion accepting an grant successful caller months. While scoring her archetypal triumph astatine the Golden Globes in January, Michelle got audiences laughing erstwhile organizers tried to get her to wrapper up her code by playing euphony implicit her arsenic she spoke.

"Shut up, please!" Michelle joked onstage arsenic euphony began to play. "I tin bushed you up, OK? And that's serious."

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More recently, Michelle made headlines erstwhile again for letting immoderate curse words fly portion accepting the grant for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor successful a Leading Role for Everything Everywhere All At Once at the 2023 SAG Awards.

"I deliberation if I speak, my bosom volition explode," she began during the Feb. 26 ceremony. "SAG-AFTRA, to get this from you, who understands what it is to get here. Every 1 of you knows the journey, the roller coaster ride, the ups and downs. But astir importantly, we ne'er springiness up."

"S--t. F--k," Michelle said, which was followed by clapping and cheering from assemblage members. "Wow, convey you. Thank you. This is not conscionable for me, this is for each small miss that looks similar me."

Now astatine the 2023 Oscars, Michelle has different award and another memorable acceptance code nether her belt.

See each the winners from the 2023 Oscars below.

Best Picture

All Quiet connected the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
WINNER: Everything Everywhere All astatine Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking

Best Directing

The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh
WINNER: Everything Everywhere All astatine Once, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg
Tár, Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Östlund

Best Lead Actress

Cate Blanchett, Tár
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
WINNER: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All astatine Once

Best Lead Actor

Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
WINNER: Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau, The Whale
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
WINNER: Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All astatine Once
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All astatine Once

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
WINNER: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All astatine Once

Best Costume Design

Babylon
WINNER: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All astatine Once
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Best Original Score

WINNER: All Quiet connected the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All astatine Once
The Fabelmans

Best Sound

All Quiet connected the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
WINNER: Top Gun: Maverick

Best Adapted Screenplay

All Quiet connected the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
WINNER: Women Talking

Best Original Screenplay

The Banshees of Inisherin
WINNER: Everything Everywhere All astatine Once
The Fabelmans
Tar
Triangle of Sadness

Best Live Action Short Film

WINNER: An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase

Best Animated Short Film

WINNER: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me The World Is Fake And I Think I Believe It

Best Original Song

"Applause" from Tell It similar a Woman, Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
"Hold My Hand" from Top Gun: Maverick, Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
"Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
WINNER: "Naatu Naatu" from RRR, Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose
"This Is A Life" from Everything Everywhere All astatine Once, Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne

Best Documentary Feature Film

All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
WINNER: Navalny

Best Documentary Short Film

WINNER: The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger astatine the Gate

Best International Feature Film

WINNER: All Quiet connected the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close
EO
The Quiet Girl

Best Animated Feature Film

WINNER: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss successful Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

All Quiet connected the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
WINNER: The Whale

Best Visual Effects

All Quiet connected the Western Front
WINNER: Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Production Design

WINNER: All Quiet connected the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans

Best Cinematography

WINNER: All Quiet connected the Western Front
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár

Best Film Editing

The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
WINNER: Everything Everywhere All astatine Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick

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