{"id":32940,"date":"2018-03-04T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/?p=32940"},"modified":"2018-03-04T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:12:08","slug":"good-luck-to-six-asian-american-academy-award-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/04\/good-luck-to-six-asian-american-academy-award-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Luck to Six Asian-American Academy Award Nominees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The #OscarsSoWhite hashtag seems to have increased visibility and recognition for African-Americans working in the film business, but so far, it&#8217;s still rough for Latinos and Asian filmmakers and actors to get the same level of acclaim.\u00a0 But there ARE six nominees in tonight&#8217;s 2018 Academy Awards of Asian descent, and we&#8217;d like to point them out and wish them well.<\/p>\n<h3>Kazuhiro Tsuji (Best Makeup, <em>Darkest Hour<\/em>)<\/h3>\n<h3>Ru Kuwahata (<em>Negative Space, <\/em>Best Animated Short<em>)<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Ramsey Naito (Best Animated Feature Film,\u00a0<em>Boss Baby<\/em>)<\/h3>\n<h3>Ren Klyce (Best in Sound Editing, <em>Star Wars: The Last Jedi)<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Robert Lopez<em> (who is Filipino-American)<\/em><em> (<\/em>Best Song,<em> \u201cRemember Me\u201d from Coco)<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Kumail Nanjiani (Best Original Screenplay, <em>The Big Sick)<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>We can&#8217;t wait to see if any of these distinguished nominees take home the Oscar, and hope to see more Asians and Asian-Americans on the nominees roster next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #OscarsSoWhite hashtag seems to have increased visibility and recognition for African-Americans working in the film business, but so far, it&#8217;s still rough for Latinos and Asian filmmakers and actors to get the same level of acclaim.\u00a0 But there ARE [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/04\/good-luck-to-six-asian-american-academy-award-nominees\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4455,3442,4516],"tags":[4517,4518,4519],"class_list":{"0":"post-32940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asian-actors","8":"category-entertainment-2","9":"category-motion-pictures","10":"tag-academy-awards","11":"tag-asian-americans","12":"tag-filmmakers"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tsuji.jpg","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZ6qn-8zi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32942,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940\/revisions\/32942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}