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Advertisement The film, which Chung directed as a sort of swan song before leaving filmmaking for a more stable career, makes history with these nominations for a couple of reasons: first, because lead Steven Yeun (“The Walking Dead”) is nominated for Best Actor alongside Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”), making 2021 the first year for two actors of Asian heritage to be nominated for the category. It’s been two decades since the category contained an actor of Asian heritage, and only two actors of Asian descent have been nominated in the category: Yul Brynner, who was born in Russia, for “The King and I,” and Ben Kingsley, whose father is of Gujarati Indian descent, for “Gandhi,” and “House of Sand and Fog.” For many, this year’s nominations mark a departure from the Academy’s history of ignoring excellence outside of a white American male paradigm, a dearth of diversity that spurred the #OscarsSoWhite outcry in 2015.

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