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Model-turned-actor Shu Qi scores jury role at the Oscars after the Berlin, Cannes and Venice film festivals
Model-turned-model Shu Qi has just been invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to be an Oscars jury member in the Actors category. She will be eligible to vote for the winners of the Academy Awards.
This year, 487 jury member invitations were sent out; and the number of jury members totals nearly 20 thousand. This is a nearly 65 per cent increase from the reported voting membership total a decade ago, and Shu’s joining is an example of AMPAS’s initiatives to invite more women, people of colour and filmmakers from around the world.
Other than Shu, Korean American actor Greta Lee, South Korean actor Teo Yoo and Japanese actor Kōji Yakusho are some of the invitees of Asian descent this year.
Prior to her Oscars role, Shu was also a judge at the Venice Film Festival in 2023, Cannes in 2009 and the Berlin Film Festival in 2008—she follows in Gong Li’s and Maggie Cheung’s footsteps to have served on juries at three major European film festivals.
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Zabrina is the Senior Editor, Arts and Culture of Tatler Hong Kong. She specialises in performing arts, visual art and film. Her wanderlust was first fuelled by the Mighty Rovers Antarctica Expedition 2010. Over the years, she has interviewed A-list artists and filmmakers, including Oscar winners Chlóe Zhao and Tim Yip, Golden Horse winner Sylvia Chang, In the Mood for Love cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Pachinko author Min Jin Lee, and Coachella’s first Chinese solo singer Jackson Wang. She won gold at the WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards for her 2021 feature on the waves of hate crimes targeting Asian Americans.
