Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to take home the best actress accolade at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday night.
Everything Everywhere All At Once dominated the Oscars and won seven awards including best picture, director, and original screenplay. Yeoh played a Chinese-American laundrette owner stuck in a failing marriage to her husband played by Ke Huy Quan, and had a strained relationship with her daughter Joy, played by Stephanie Hsu.
Yeoh, 60, became the second woman of colour to win best leading actress, following Halle Berry for Monster's Ball more than two decades ago. Accepting her award, she said: "For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities."
She continued: "And ladies, don't let anybody tell you that you are ever past your prime.
"This is proof that dreams do come true," Yeoh said in her speech. "I have to dedicate this to all the moms in the world because they are the superheroes, and without them, none of us would be here tonight.
"This is history in the making." Yeoh continued and said she had "kung-fud" the "glass ceiling" with her win.
"I think this is something that we have been working so hard towards for a very long time and tonight we frigging broke that glass ceiling," she said. "I kung-fud it out and shattered it, and we need this because there are so many who have felt unseen or unheard."
Quan was named best supporting actor for his role in the film, becoming the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Oscar. “Mom, I just won an Oscar!” he said tearfully. “They say stories like this only happen in the movies, I cannot believe this is happening to me.
"My journey started on a boat," The Goonies star said. "I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood's biggest stage."
Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar for best supporting actress in the film and paid special tribute to her parents, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, during her speech. She said: "My mother and father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories, I just won an Oscar."
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