{"id":61553,"date":"2022-03-29T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=61553"},"modified":"2022-03-29T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:02:56","slug":"oscar-win-for-british-pakistan-actor-riz-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/29\/oscar-win-for-british-pakistan-actor-riz-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Win For British Pakistan Actor Riz Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0cm; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a;\">British Pakistan Actor Riz Ahmed has won his first Oscar for Best Short Film (Live Action) for\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">The Long Goodbye<\/span><\/em> with Aneil Karia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17.3pt; background: white; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">Accepting the award, Ahmed said: \u201cIn such divided times, we believe that the role of story is to remind us there is no \u2018us\u2019 and \u2018them\u2019. There\u2019s just \u2018us\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17.3pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">He continued: \u201cThis is for everyone who feels like they don\u2019t belong. Anyone who feels like they\u2019re stuck in no man\u2019s land. <span style=\"background: white;\">You\u2019re not alone. We\u2019ll meet you there. That\u2019s where the future is. Peace.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a;\">Back in 2020, Ahmed released the concept album\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; --color__token-name: colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/riz-ahmed-the-long-goodbye\/\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">The Long Goodbye<\/span><\/em><\/a>. The LP saw the British-Pakistani actor, musician, and activist recounting what it\u2019s like to be Brown and British in the modern day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Pakistan Actor Riz Ahmed has won his first Oscar for Best Short Film (Live Action) for\u00a0The Long Goodbye with Aneil Karia. Accepting the award, Ahmed said: \u201cIn such divided times, we believe that the role of story is to remind us there is no \u2018us\u2019 and \u2018them\u2019. There\u2019s just \u2018us\u2019.\u201d He continued: \u201cThis is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[401,53,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-latest","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}