Michelle Yeoh won best actress at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night, becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win the award.
当地时间周日(3月12日)晚,杨紫琼获得第95届奥斯卡金像奖最佳女主角,成为首位奥斯卡亚裔最佳女主角。
Yeoh, who earned the trophy for her acclaimed performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once, is the fifth person of Asian descent to win an Oscar in an acting category and the first to win in a lead acting category.
凭借在电影《瞬息全宇宙》中的出色表现,杨紫琼赢得了这座小金人。她是第五位获得奥斯卡表演类奖项的亚裔,也是第一位获得主演类奖项的亚裔。
“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof to dream big, and dreams do come true,” Yeoh gushed while accepting her Oscar.
在她的获奖感言中,杨紫琼说:“对于所有像我一样(黄皮肤的)、今晚正在看这场颁奖礼的孩子们来说,这是希望的灯塔,预示着许多可能性。这是远大梦想的证明,也是梦想成真的标志。”
In Everything Everywhere All at Once, Yeoh portrayed Evelyn Wang, an immigrant mother and laundromat owner who's unexpectedly tasked with saving the multiverse from destruction.
在《瞬息全宇宙》中,杨紫琼饰演华裔移民母亲伊芙琳,她是自助洗衣店老板,却意外地肩负起了拯救多元宇宙免遭毁灭的重任。
"And, ladies, don’t let anybody tell you that you are ever past your prime. Never give up." Yeoh said in her acceptance speech. "I have to dedicate this to my mom — all the moms in the world. Because they are really the superheroes, and without them, none of us would be here tonight."
“女士们,不要听信任何人所说的,你已经过了你的巅峰时期,永远不要放弃!”杨紫琼说,“我想要将这份荣誉献给我的母亲,也献给世界上所有的母亲,因为她们才是真正的超级英雄。如果没有她们,我们中没有人今晚能够来到这里。”
Yeoh first made a name for herself in Hong Kong cinema, becoming a prolific and respected martial arts action icon in the late 1980s and the 1990s.
职业生涯之初,杨紫琼在香港电影界崭露头角。20世纪80年代末和90年代,她出演了大量作品,成为一名备受尊敬的武打演员。
As an actor who managed to buck the typical “damsel in distress” stereotypes in action movies and instead often portrayed crime-fighting heroes, Yeoh became known as a feminist trailblazer in entertainment.
作为一名演员,她也成功打破了动作片中典型的“困境少女”的刻板印象,转而塑造了打击犯罪的英雄形象,成为娱乐界女性主义的先驱。
“We believe in our Asian talent. We believe all of us have stories that need to be told and need to be embraced,” Yeoh said in an interview with NBC.
在接受美国全国广播公司采访时,杨紫琼说:“我们相信我们的亚洲人才。我们相信,我们每个人都有需要被讲述和被接纳的故事。”