Asian Actors And Filmmakers Dominate Oscar Nominations

This year's awards featured Asian-American projects, and the Oscar nominations announced Tuesday were no exception.

The list is headed by A24's "Everything, Everywhere" with 11 nominations.

Golden Globe winners Michelle Yeoh and Ke Hui Guan were also nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. Stephanie Hsu, who played Yo Jo's daughter, and Jamie Lee Curtis, who played IRS inspector Deirdre, were also nominated for best supporting actress.

These are the first Oscar nominations for Yeoh, Kuan, Hsu and Curtis.

The film was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Costume Design, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Editing and Best Original Song.

Director duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert were also nominated for best director.

The sci-fi comedy about a struggling laundromat owner (Yo) who travels through dimensions with her husband Waymond (Quan) to save the multiverse, won two Golden Globes and five Critics' Choice Awards this year.

"It's been a long time, I turned 60 last year and I think all you women know that the longer the days, years and numbers, the fewer the opportunities," Yeoh said during her moving speech. Gold. The Globes this month. "Then came the best gift. 'Everything, everywhere, at once.'

Hong Chow, who plays Liz alongside A24's Brendan Fraser, was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Naatu Naatu, the Telugu hit film RRR, won the Best Original Song for the song 'Everything Everywhere All Intime'.

The four-and-a-half-minute song also won this month's Golden Globes and Critics' Choice Awards, beating out Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift. RRR also won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Foreign Film.

"Getting Red," the story of Meiling Li, a Chinese-Canadian eighth-grader who is unexpectedly turned into a red panda and must learn to survive adulthood and be a submissive girl, won best animated feature.

In an interview with NBC News last year, director Domi Shea said she hoped immigrant children, especially Asian children, would understand the changes Meiling went through and how she understood those changes.

"They have to understand what kind of world they belong in, how to respect their parents and their family's expectations, but how to form their own independent identity in this new world where their families don't come," he said.

"All That Breathes" (HBO) documentary directed by Shonag Shen was nominated for "Best Short Documentary". The film tells the story of two brothers who run a bird hospital in New Delhi where injured black kites are rescued.

Life, a British drama written by Japanese-English writer Kazuya Ishiguro, was nominated for best adapted screenplay based on the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru.

The awards ceremony will take place on March 12 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live on ABC.

This article originally appeared on NBCNews.com.