London, UK - The Best Actress category at the 2023 Academy Awards boasts some stiff competition, and nominee Michelle Yeoh has spoken out about a controversy that rocked the race.

The 60-year-old star has scored a nod for her acclaimed performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The announcement of the Oscar nominations led to a bit of a scandal thanks to the nomination of Andrea Riseborough for To Leslie.

The movie had gone largely under the radar until a last-minute campaign propelled by A-list endorsements brought it to the forefront, conveniently just in time for awards season.

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The controversial nomination led to an investigation by the Academy, which ultimately ruled that Riseborough's nomination would stand, but new regulations about social media-based campaign tactics would be introduced next awards season.

Yeoh gave her two cents on the situation while speaking with BBC Today.

"I know that the Academy has always prided themselves on having regulations where we all play by the rules, and if it was so easy, it could have been done before," she said.

The Crazy Rich Asians star also weighed in on the surprising snubs of Viola Davis (The Woman King) and Danielle Deadwyler (Till), which many argued was evidence of the Academy's history of discrimination towards Black women.

"I love Viola and Danielle Deadwyler to the extreme, and I wish we were all getting Oscars, but it's tough," she said. "It took me 40 years to even get a nomination."

Yeoh is certainly no stranger to the Academy's systemic exclusion of women of color, as she is the first-ever Asian Best Actress nominee.

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She hopes her historic nod can mark the "start of a whole new world" for other Asian actors.

The 95th Academy Awards will be held on March 12 in Los Angeles.