“Everything Everywhere All at Once” star Michelle Yeoh has been named the winner of the International Star Award, Actress at the Palm Springs International Film Awards, the Palm Springs International Film Society announced Tuesday.
The award will be presented to Yeoh on January 5, 2023 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, as part of the ceremony that will kick off the 12-day Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Yeoh is a veteran Hong Kong Malaysian actress whose films include “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Crazy Rich Asians” and the 1990s Hong Kong movies that made her a star of action. At the age of 60, she has received some of the loudest notices and most heated awards attention of her career for her role on “Everything Everywhere” as a Chinese immigrant whose laundry faces an IRS audit when she discovers that only she can save the multiverse from a mysterious being.
The film was recently named the best independent film of 2022 at the Gotham Awards, where Yeoh was also nominated in the lead performance category.
Past recipients of the Palm Springs International Star Award have included Saoirse Ronan, Penélope Cruz, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Helen Mirren.
Other honorees at the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Awards include actors Cate Blanchett for “Tar” and Colin Farrell for “The Banshees of Inisherin” and director Sarah Polley for “Women Talking.” More prize winners will be announced in the coming weeks.
