winner! The actress took home the award for her first-ever nomination in the coveted Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy category for her performance in, a heartfelt film about a Chinese family scheduling one last major get-together before their grandmother’s passing.
“This is great. If anything, if I fall upon hard times, I can sell this. So that’s good,” she began with a lighthearted joke. Awkwafina continued to thank the usual suspects: the HFPA voting body, her film’s studio A24, her scene partner Zhao Shuzhen, and her director Lulu Wang. Then Awkwafina turned to a more personal place, thanking her father and her grandmother, and paying homage to her mother, who passed away when the actress was a child. “I’d like to dedicate this to my dad, Wally. I told you I’d get a job, dad,” she joked. “And to my grandma, my best friend, the woman who raised me, and to my mother, Tia, who I always hoped was watching from somewhere above, and I hope she’s watching now.
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