This film, perhaps more so than any of my previous work, is truly made for cinemas. In Sweden, we call it, ‘the trouble wrinkle’ and its emergence suggests that the owner has lived a life filled with struggle. This production was not that…As a director, one of the things I value most is the communal experience we all share when watching something together on the big screen.
FILMMAKER QUOTES ABOUT ENDINGS AND NEW BEGINNINGS FREE
Free Botox for everyone! Maybe now I’ll lose the ‘Swedish director freaks out title.’ It is the perfect dramaturgy! The ‘triangle of sadness’ refers to the space just below one’s forehead, between their eyebrows, that is often considered the first thing to go as we age. Ustlund said of his Oscar nominations: “Ahoy! My gratitude goes out to the Academy this evening. The Cannes Palme d’Or-winning social class satire earned Oscar nominations for Best Film as well as Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for its Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund. She became the first Filipina to be nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA. Her showbiz past also yielded the unthinkable: She was Miss Malaysia in 1983 and joined the Miss World the same year but failed to make it to the top 15.ĭolly de Leon at BAFTA awards night in London (From the FB page of Ferdy Lapuz) She had to take piano lessons for the part since the Burmese leader played the keyboard. The 60-year-old actress could be looking back on her modest beginnings in the movies as a James Bond leading lady, the cantankerous mom in Crazy Rich Asians, and as the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in The Lady. Here’s hoping it won’t take more than 20 years for another person of color to win Best Actress, or 39 years for another Asian to win Best Supporting Actor. Somehow it gives a bit of hope that the world is ready for wilder storytelling, a broader set of faces, a wider spectrum of voices. She made history as the first Asian and the first Malaysian to win Best Actress in The Academy’s 95-year history.įilipino filmmaker Keith Sicat said of Yeoh’s triumph: “Lots of mixed feelings for her historic win. Ladies, don’t let anyone ever tell you you’re past your prime.” (From Miss World Malaysia FB)įrom the first-time Oscar Best Actress Michelle Yeoh: “For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. Michelle Yeoh as Miss Malaysia in 1983 at age 20. He got the role and described the filming in Sri Lanka as “the best adventure of my life.” He ended up in a room with Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford.Īt that time, his family couldn’t even afford to go to the movies. Quan got the part after a hiatus of some 40 years, when he tagged along with an older brother to a casting call for the role of Short Round, the plucky Chinese sidekick in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. To all of you out there, please keep your dreams alive.” This is the American dream! … Dreams are something you have to believe in, I almost gave up on mine. I spent a year in a refugee camp, and somehow, I ended up here, on Hollywood’s biggest stage….
He went on: “My journey started on a boat. Quivered a very emotional Ke Huy Quan after accepting his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Everything Everywhere All at Once: “My mom is 84 years old, and she’s at home watching.
Someone noted how every rejection, every disappointment, has led one to this moment at the Oscars. It was also a night of quotable quotes from the victors. When the cheering and emotions settled down at the Oscars, only one thing remained clear: It was the night of the Asian story, the Asian actors, and the Asian actors’ difficult journey to well-deserved recognition.
0 kommentar(er)
