Suspicion of Kan Ke Huy and Michelle Yeoh being discriminated against by Hollywood stars at the Oscar award ceremony caused public anger.

The Oscars 2024, the most prestigious award ceremony on the planet (Academy Awards – Academy Awards) took place and ended brilliantly with a series of golden statues awarded to the most deserving stars on the morning of November 11. /3 (Hanoi time). In addition to the attention-grabbing results, this year’s awards ceremony also made the public angry when Hollywood stars were suspected of openly discriminating against Asian colleagues.

The 2 moments when Guan Ke Huy and Michelle Yeoh were “beautifully ignored” by stars and actors like Robert Downey Jr., Emma Stone or Jennifer Lawrence on the Oscars stage received backlash from the public. On social networks, audiences are angry and constantly criticize the racism that takes place in Hollywood – where black artists have to endure coldness, prejudice and discrimination from white stars. Netizens wonder why an ugly image of discrimination appears at a prestigious film event like the Oscars, and high-caliber stars like Robert Downey Jr., Emma Stone or Jennifer Lawrence abet the discrimination. modern racism.

The suspicion that Guan Ke Huy and Michelle Yeoh were discriminated against by Hollywood stars right on the Oscars stage is a hot topic on social networks.

Quan Ke Huy and Michelle Yeoh were publicly “discriminated”.

Two Asian stars, Guan Ke Hui and Michelle Yeoh, received the prestigious Oscar gold statue in 2023 for the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. They come to Oscar 2024 as actors with high status in Hollywood, having been honored in the history of the most prestigious awards ceremony on the planet. However, the resounding artistic achievements of Quan Ke Huy and Michelle Yeoh cannot destroy the “Asian” prejudice in Hollywood.

On the stage of this year’s Oscar ceremony, Quan Ke Huy appeared to announce the winner of the Best Supporting Actor award for actor Robert Downey Jr.. However, when Robert Downey Jr. Stepping up to receive the award, he completely ignored Quan Ke Huy. Robert Downey Jr. “Shaking hands happily” with the people around, excitedly speaking. But the actor did not greet, did not interact, and did not even glance at the trophy presenter, Quan Ke Huy, twice in a row. Robert Downey Jr.’s actions making Quan Ke Huy “embarrassed”, the smile appeared and then disappeared on his lips twice.

Robert Downey Jr. Do not talk or interact with award presenter Quan Ke Huy. The actor received the trophy without even looking at Quan Ke Huy once

Robert Downey Jr. continued to “ignore” Quan Ke Huy for the second time. This made the Asian actor “spray glue” on the spot, the smile disappeared from his lips.

At the award ceremony for Best Actress, Michelle Yeoh also fell into the same situation of being treated disrespectfully by her colleagues like Quan Ke Huy. As last year’s winner, the star born in 1962 stood on stage waiting to present this year’s Oscar statuette to Emma Stone. However, when Emma Stone stepped on stage to receive the award, she completely ignored Michelle Yeoh, only interacting and smiling with Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer Lawrence then snatched the trophy from Michelle Yeoh’s hand to give it to her close friend Emma Stone even though she was not the main trophy presenter.

Close-up of the moment Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence were accused of discriminating and belittling Michelle Yeoh

On social networks, the disrespectful behavior of the three stars mentioned above towards Quan Ke Huy and Michelle Yeoh received a lot of “criticism” from the online community. Many netizens have flooded their personal pages to leave countless critical comments, criticizing Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone’s discriminatory actions towards Michelle Yeoh on the Oscars stage.

“What strange behavior? What action are you taking with the whole world watching?”, “Look at the way they treat Asian stars, it’s unacceptable”, “They consider Michelle Yeoh and Guan Ke Huy to be human.” serve, assist in awarding trophies or something?”, “So discriminatory, Quan Ke Huy, Michelle Yeoh didn’t even get a single glance from the winner”, “Really impressive, anyone who doesn’t know would think Shouldn’t Jennifer Lawrence be the one presenting the award?”, “Isn’t it okay for Jennifer to take the trophy like it belongs to her? Robert Downey Jr. then treated Quan Ke Huy like air, grabbed the trophy as if it were displayed on a shelf. Don’t want to see Asian people giving awards or what?”, netizens criticized.

Robert Downey Jr….

…Emma Stone

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and Jennifer Lawrence received fierce criticism from the public after the Oscars

Racial prejudice in Hollywood

It is not uncommon for black actors to encounter prejudice, racism, unreasonable demands and injustice when working in Hollywood. This is even considered a prominent problem, repeatedly condemned in Hollywood but still unable to be eliminated. According to Global News, after decades, black actors have increasingly higher status and reputation, but they still have to struggle with the racial prejudices that exist in Hollywood without receiving legitimate protection.

In 2023, the image of black actress Halle Bailey transformed into a mermaid received 1.2 million dislikes in just 1 day on social networks. The reason is that the audience believes that Halley Bailey is not suitable and “overthrows” the mermaid image that was familiar to the audience’s childhood compared to the original 1989 animated version. This shows a distinction. profound treatment of a group of white people towards actors of color.

Just because her skin color is different, unlike the white version of the mermaid that is deeply ingrained in the audience’s mind, Halle Bailey was once subjected to intense racial slurs.

Katie Leung (Luong Boi Thi) shared that she was a victim of racism in Hollywood. The actress was scorned even during and after playing the role of Cho Chang – Harry Potter’s lover – in 4 parts of the popular Harry Potter film series. Katie Leung once complained to the producer about being unjustly attacked and hoped to receive protection, but the actress’ request was ignored.

Katie Leung said she once asked the producer for protection when she was seriously discriminated against but was ignored

In 2017, Zhang Ziyi said she shed tears because of humiliation while filming a Hollywood movie. She assessed the cooperation as “famous but no food”. According to the Chinese star, Asian actors like her are only given simple roles that require appearance. Not only that, Asian artists are also exploited for their labor, paid only half as much as native actors. Famous Chinese stars such as Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen have repeatedly expressed their frustration and dissatisfaction with the image of Asians being portrayed as weak and prejudiced, having to serve as the basis for stars. white stars in the script sent to them by Hollywood.

Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen, and Jackie Chan once “exposed” Hollywood’s prejudice against Asian actors