Besides costume design, let's talk production design. Nelson Coates brought to life wealthy Singapore through a luxurious and colorful set. The movie has beaches and jungles, along with extravagant parties and decadent mansions. The most beautiful scene in the movie is undoubtedly Araminta's dazzling $40 million wedding, which is decked out with three-foot grass blades, eight-foot bamboo fans, and hand-painted lanterns. Coates is a veteran in the industry, earning an Emmy bid for The Stand in 1994 and recently helming production design in Fifty Shades Freed and On the Basis of Sex.
With powerful projects such as Roma, Crazy Rich Asians, and Widows, the members of the Academy Awards have a chance to meaningfully address and ameliorate the ongoing #OscarsSoWhite debacle by recognizing films by artists of color. That said, even if Crazy Rich Asians doesn't sweep the floor at the Oscars, it's raked in a whopping $237.9 million worldwide. This shows that Asians have stories to tell, and obviously people want to hear them.
