Michelle Yeoh and Andrea Riseborough
When asked about the swirling speculation that Riseborough’s grassroots Oscar campaign for micro-indie “To Leslie” broke the rules, and the internal investigation at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Yeoh, herself a nominee and frontrunner for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” shrugged it all off.
“The Academy has always prided itself on having regulations and playing by the rules and if cheating them was so easy, it would have done before,” Yeoh told BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program.
“We are always evolving on how to protect our integrity and I have great faith we will continue to do that.”
Riseborough’s dark horse rise to being a Best Actress Oscar nominee for the $27,000-grosser became further embattled after the Jan. 24 nominee announcements when two Black actresses were snubbed.
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