Oscars 2023: Michelle Yeoh may have broken one of the rules of the Academy

‘All at Once Everywhere’ star Michelle Yeoh, nominated for an Oscar in the best actress category, You may have violated one of the rules by sharing a post on your Instagram account that directly references Cate Blanchettanother of the actresses nominated for the award.

Yeoh shared on social network, a few hours before the deadline to votea series of images referencing a Vogue article titled: “It’s been more than two decades since we’ve had a non-white Best Actress winner. Will that change in 2023?”. In general, the article deals with the lack of representation at the Academy Awards, but there is a paragraph (included in Yeoh’s post) that directly references the protagonist of ‘Tár’.

In the publication retrieved from Yahoo! News, said paragraph states that: “Detractors would say Blanchett’s performance is the strongest – the veteran actress is undoubtedly formidable as prolific director Lydia Tár – but It should be noted that he already has two Oscars (one for Best Supporting Actress for ‘The Aviator’ in 2005 and another for Best Actress for ‘Blue Jasmine’ in 2014). Could a third party confirm her status as an industry titan, but considering her extensive and unrivaled body of work, do we need further confirmation yet? Meanwhile, for Yeoh, an Oscar would change his life.: Her name would always be preceded by the phrase ‘Oscar winner’ and could result in her being awarded more valuable roles, after a decade of being criminally underutilized in Hollywood.”

Specifically, this part of the publication would be the one that would violate the Academy’s rule number eleven, which states so “Ads, mailings, websites, social media (including Facebook and Twitter) or any other form of public communication from anyone directly associated with an eligible film will not be tolerated attempting to express a negative or derogatory opinion about a competing film or achievement. In particular, it remains any tactic that refers to “the competition” by name or title is expressly prohibited”. Yes, he deleted the post as people started reacting online, and it’s not yet known if the Academy will take action.

Michelle Yeoh isn’t the only one

Something similar happened with the nomination of Andrea Riseborough, who was also accused of breaking Academy rules to get her name on the shortlist. First, since the distributor of “To Leslie” didn’t have a large budget to run the campaign, the film crew used their industry connections to promote themselves and may have violated the second rulewhich refers to the number of messages (via mail or snail mail) that can be made to promote the film, e the tenth, in case any of those contacts belong to the Academy. Also, as in the case of Michelle Yeoh, the rule number eleven might as well have been broken by actress Frances Fisher’s campaign by supporting Riseborough and her film, by engaging directly with other actresses who have been or could have been nominated.