Stephanie Hsu

Nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were revealed on January 24, and many Broadway alums made the list. Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the cerem.

Paul Mescal, who recently joined the [Merrily We Roll Along movie](https://www.broadway.com/buzz/202969/paul-mescal-replaces-blake-jenner-in-merrily-we-roll-along-movie/), was nominated for his performance in Aftersun. In addition, [David Byrne](https://www.broadway.com/buzz/stars/david-byrne/profile/) is nominated for co-creating “This Is a Life,” which was recognized for Best Original Song. Nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were revealed on January 24, and many Broadway alums made the list.

Allyson RiggsStephanie Hsu is finally getting her flowers. On Tuesday morning, Hsu received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ...

For the first time in its nearly 100-year history, an Asian-identifying performer has been nominated for lead actress.

[THR](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/michelle-yeoh-first-asian-actress-oscar-nominee-2023-1235308034/). among the four acting races," according to [notes](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/24/movies/oscar-nominations-academy-awards/the-number-of-actors-of-color-nominated-could-increase?smid=url-share). And all these disappointed Asian faces looking: ‘Why did you not do it for us?’” - "It’s been my nightmare for the last two days, because it could happen, right? [Variety notes](https://variety.com/2023/awards/awards/oscars-asian-actors-history-diversity-1235499840/).

In that moment, Yeoh made history as the first self-identifying Asian lead actress nominee in Academy history (Merle Oberon was nominated in 1936 for The Dark ...

Some patterns are breaking, and I feel really honored to be alongside her and alongside so all the principal cast in our movie and with so much of our crew. And I understand the need for our Asians to turn around and say, ‘We need this,’ because it just validates that we deserve to have a seat at the table, and we deserve to be part of all this.” “I was out auditioning left and right and I could not get one single job,” he said. “I was just so worried that [getting hired for Everything Everywhere] was a one-time thing and that’s it. And you need need it to be out there. During the pandemic, in the space between shooting the film and waiting for it to come out, Ke Huy Quan lost his health insurance because he could not get a job. And to be able to get to experience this together feels like some cycles are breaking, you know? Feeling awkward, Hsu asked the stewardess to re-set the plane’s system. You tell stories because it’s important for that story to be told. If she can do it, I can freaking well do it as well.’ That is the most important thing. Speaking with Deadline following the news, Yeoh said: “I think what I, “What it means to me, is all those Asians out there go, ‘You see, it’s possible. What about all those people who have such hopes and they’ve pinned their hopes and aspirations on you to tell us that we should be there?

But Alpha-Evelyn pushed her daughter too hard in verse-jumping training, and her mind splintered. Now that daughter is Jobu Tupaki, an anarchic force that ...

At the movie’s climax, as Jobu is preparing to enter the bagel and end the multiverse, Joy is begging her mother through tears to let her go. But Evelyn can now see Joy, really see her, in the way that we in the audience do, and it’s that connection that saves the world. We may be in Evelyn’s perspective, but Hsu never lets us forget what her brand of motherhood has cost, in this timeline and every other, as well as how badly she wants to connect despite the past mistakes, hurts, and erasures. Evelyn and Joy are at this impasse; Evelyn wants to do what’s best for Joy but doesn’t know what that is or how to do it. But while Hsu is stellar in each role separately, what really makes her performance sing is the way her Joy and her Jobu inform one another. She just wants it all to end, and she wants to find the version of her mother, somewhere across the infinite multiverse, who can understand that yearning and support it. But what makes the relationship soar is the equal ache inside Hsu’s Joy and Jobu. By giving us equal access to Jobu’s explosivity and her exhaustion, Hsu builds an indelible villain who maybe, in the end, isn’t a villain at all, but just a lonely kid who needs her mom. By showing us the human in the metaphysical and the heart in the everyday, Hsu gave a performance that earns every accolade. All of this adds up to not just a dazzling performance, but the beating heart of a movie that is so much about that terrifying and glorious mother-daughter relationship. In unshowy clothes and undone hair, she seems almost ready to disappear, used to being unseen by her mother and forced into a role she doesn’t want to play. She makes us feel both Joy and Jobu’s deeply human yearning to connect, to find purpose, and to be nurtured by her mother, whether in a flannel and jeans or some truly otherworldly hair and makeup.

Hey, everyone. You're listening to IT'S BEEN A MINUTE from NPR. I'm Brittany Luse. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC). LUSE: It's officially award season, the time where we ...

HSU: ...Because there were no roles available for him. HSU: Where I feel like there is intergenerational healing that's happening - us getting to be there together and go on this journey feels like we're helping a circle complete and fix some wounds that have happened to each and every single one of us at different points in our lives. HSU: Tomorrow - I don't know. HSU: You know, it's pretty wild because, you know, as I'm sure you've seen, this is the first time Michelle's ever been No. LUSE: I mean, and the hallway - I mean, I say hallway scene. HSU: And bubbles were a really big thing. HSU: And I remember going to work the next day. HSU: I was like, what? HSU: I'm a-splayed (ph). I wonder, like, was that something you saw, and you were like, oh, yeah. HSU: Well, the first day that we walked onto set together, you know, they were blowing, like, a leaf blower on my face. HSU: I didn't know Michelle Yeoh was attached.