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Synesthesia
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Has an Asian ever won for best Oscar?
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Nell Gwyn
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Not sure about Oscars off the top of my head, but Lea Salonga won a Tony award for Best Actress in a Musical for Miss Saigon back in '88 (I think that's the right year).

Interesting question...I'm intrigued.

*goes off to google*

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Kayla
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You mean Best Actor/Actress? Or any Oscar?

Chinese:

Ang Lee: Best Director

Jessica Yu Best documentary short 1997 Breathing Lessons.

James Wong Howe twice for Cinematography.

Japanese: Miyoshi Umeki in 1957 for Best Supporting Actress in Sayonara,

Cambodian:

Haing Ngor in 1984 for Best Supporting Actor in Killing Fields.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

DB Wong won a Tony for M Butterfly. I think that might actually be better than an Oscar.

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Any for best lead actor?
Oscar firsts make me so mad.

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Nell Gwyn
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And here are the fruit of my labors:

1957 - Miyoshi Umeki won Best Supporting Actress for Sayonara

1982 - Ben Kingsley won Best Actor for Gandhi. (He's half-Indian, which was a surprise to me. He doesn't look particularly Asian, but I'll count him anyway. [Smile] )

1984 - Haing S. Ngor won Best Supporting Actor for The Killing Fields.

And that's all that I found. There were several others who were nominated, but those were the only wins in the acting category.

Edit: Darn it, Kayla beat me! [Razz]

I don't know that I'd agree that a Tony is better than an Oscar - I think the value of both awards has kinda gone downhill lately.

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Kayla
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Well, he won in 1988. That's almost 20 years ago. And he's fabulous. [Razz]
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Kayla
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syn, then no. No Lead Actor or Actress Awards.
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Except for half of Ben Kingsley. At least he was playing an asian role.
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Nell Gwyn
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Kayla:

That I can agree with. [Smile] I have a lot more respect for Tonys won 15-20+ years ago than in the past few years.

And I looked up the Miss Saigon dates - it was 1991, oops. For some reason I thought it was a bit sooner after Les Miserables than that.

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Megan
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A random answer: Fish sticks.
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A random rebuttal of the random answer: Bessmer converters. On the moon.
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Nell Gwyn
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We do have Memoirs of a Geisha this year, though. I haven't seen it yet, but the trailer looks really good. It'll probably get some nominations at least, maybe more.
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A random riposte of the random rebuttal: Blue, in your pants

(edited to remove a random e)

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