Stephanie Hsu

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Stephanie Hsu's Oscar Celebration Will Include a Nice Long Walk (Vanity Fair)

Everything Everywhere All at Once actor Stephanie Hsu was flying high, literally, when she heard about her Oscar nomination for best supporting actress, ...

“I feel really proud to get to be on this journey alongside [Yeoh] and be grateful for her and get to internally celebrate her as we go through this last push.” “I’m just so happy and proud to be alongside these people to celebrate, to acknowledge that we have come very far and we have much further to go.” “I’m so honored and excited to be one person who represents this moment that I never got to see when I was a kid,” she says. And so it only feels right that we get to celebrate if a lot of us get to celebrate together.” “And to be able to return to the actual work itself and kind of see how much has happened since we made that movie.” “It was like a ritual, just to kind of say, no matter what happened, that what we made was something special,” she tells Vanity Fair.

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Stephanie Hsu on Everything Everywhere All at Once's Lucky Success (Gizmodo)

The A24 film from the Daniels is a smash hit that garnered 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture—and one of its starts has an idea why.

And for it to now be a movie that has shifted the world of cinema and also is in, you know, [the] Oscar conversation is pretty wild.” I think back to that all the time, because so much magic has been happening for us and we never should have been as successful as we are. And, you know, because of the success of it and all the all the good things that have come from it,” she said. And so we did that on the first day. Basically you bless the set for smooth sailing, and the directors and the lead actors—we take a big knife and we hold onto the knife at the same time, and you cut the pig from head to tail to bless an easeful shoot. [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://gizmodo.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-centers-love-amid-the-1848698179), the little multiverse film that could, has received [11 Academy Award nominations](https://gizmodo.com/oscar-nominations-2023-everything-everywhere-yeoh-1850022857).

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Stephanie Hsu, Austin Butler & More Broadway Alums Receive ... (Broadway.com)

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.

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Broadway's Stephanie Hsu, Brian Tyree Henry among 2023 Oscar ... (Broadway News)

Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams announced the nominees for the 95th annual Academy Awards on Jan. 24. Among those recognized with nominations were a number ...

[Oscars.org](https://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023). Brian Tyree Henry earned a nod as Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in “Causeway,” which, notably, was directed by Broadway’s Lila Neugebauer. Bassett has appeared on Broadway in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” and “The Mountaintop.” Stephanie Hsu, best known on Broadway for featured roles in “Be More Chill” and “SpongeBob SquarePants,” earned a nomination in the same category for her turn in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Both movies were also nominated in the Best Picture category. Keeravaani; lyrics by Chandrabose This marks the first time an actress from the Marvel universe has been nominated for an Oscar.

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Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu make 2023 Oscars history (Axios)

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/).

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'Everything Everywhere's Michelle Yeoh On Making Oscar History (Deadline)

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?

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