Really happy that the "ex-Mr Madonna", Sean Penn, a Lithuanian-Israeli American, has won Oscar Best Actor for a second time. He last won it six years ago.
The other notable Asian American Oscar Best Actors were Paul Muni (1936 - first Asian, Ukrainian), Yul Brynner (1956 - Mongolian), John Voight (1978 - Russian), Sir Ben Kingsley (1982 - Punjabi), F. Murray Abraham (1984 - Arab-Israeli), Paul Newman (1986 - Russian-Israeli), Michael Douglas (1987 - Russian-Israeli), Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, 2007 - Lithuanian-Israeli), Russell Crowe (2000 - Maori).
In the Best Actress category, the notable names were Vivien Leigh (1939 - first Asian, from India), Cherilyn Sarkissian (1987 - Armenian) and Helen Mirren (2006 - Russian).
