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All-American Girl and Fresh Off the Boat) to, well, a handful of major projects in film and TV each year. But more significant is the interdisciplinary coalition of Asian Americans behind the scenes who are finding strength in numbers and making their collective voice heard. And, ironically, they have that racist Oscar joke to thank for bringing them together. "Sometimes you need this galvanizing force," says producer Janet Yang, recalling the shock of hearing the jokes and their implication t...

Nomadland (Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay). Gold House is a nonprofit collective of Asian founders, creative voices and leaders hoping to unify the world’s largest populace–Asians and Pacific Islanders–to enable more authentic multicultural representation. Who are the Gold List voters and and how many are there? They are more secretive than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who number about 90. According to Larisa Jiao, communications fellow at Gold House, the Gold List t...

The Gold List Aims To Make Sure Asian Actors And Filmmakers Strike Oscar Gold Asians have been historically underrepresented at the Oscars and in other major entertainment awards. Last February, in one of the final big cultural moments of the Before Times, “Parasite” won the Oscar for Best Picture, becoming the first non-English-language movie to win the top prize. The film’s director, Bong Joon-ho, also took home Oscars for Best Director, Best International Film (the first South Korean m...

Minari and Sound of Metal were chosen as this initiatives best picture picks. Gold House— the nonprofit organization that seeks to promote Asian-led and multicultural films— is launching a new initiative focused on awards season. The Gold List is a collaboration between CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) and Gold Open, Gold Houses movement to bring Asian-led movies box office success. The list is chosen by the Gold Open advisory council, Gold House members, CAPE board mem...