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Jon M. Chu, Bong Joon Ho and Charli xcx are among those honored on Gold House’s 2025 Most Impactful Asians A100 list.

The A100 List honors trailblazers across the industry and celebrates the most impactful Asian Pacific leaders across industries, curated by top Asian Pacific organizations, creative and business leaders and multicultural allies.

The A100 List also features special Gold Legend honors for lifetime achievements and 10 New Gold honorees, recognizing the next generation of Asian Pacific trailblazers. Gold House will celebrate the honorees through a slate of events from May 9 to 10, including the A100 Celebratory Reception co-hosted with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and East West Bank as well as the A100 Honorees Dinner exclusively for past and present A100 honorees and judges. The events will culminate with the fourth annual Gold Gala, which will be held May 10 in downtown Los Angeles.

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Gold House has unveiled its annual A100 List, which recognizes the 100 most impactful Asian Pacific leaders across a variety of industries over the last year.

Among the honorees are Wicked director Jon M. Chu with stars Bowen Yang and Michelle Yeoh, with their film becoming the highest-grossing Broadway musical adaptation globally; Squid Game Season 2 stars Lee Byung-hun and Lee Jung-jae with creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, with the show dominating worldwide Netflix viewership; ‘Apt.’ singers Rosé and Bruno Mars, who recorded over 1.5 billion views on their music video; Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya, as well as Nobel prize-winner for literature Han Kang.

Other honorees also include Anita Dongre, Barbie’s first Indian designer; Torri Huske, who became the most-decorated Asian American Olympian at the Paris Games; MLB record-breaker Shohei Ohtani; businesswoman and sports investor Michele Kang as well as Olympic golfer Lydia Ko.

This year’s A100 List also features special...

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Gold House has unveiled its annual A100, the list that honors the 100 Asian Pacific leaders impacting American culture and society. The list includes names like Sandra Oh, Ke Huy Quan, Joanna Gaines and Angels baseball player Shohei Ohtani.

“Gold House’s A100 List is a vital representation of the diverse opportunities and achievements of and for Asian Pacific leaders. Becoming begins with seeing–and it shows how we’re just getting started. I’m so proud to be part of past classes and applaud this year’s class.” said Michelle Yeoh, Academy Award-winning actor, Gold House A100 Hall of Famer, and inaugural Gold Gala Honoree last year.

Gold House will celebrate these honorees through a slate of events from May 5 through May 7, including the Gold Gala on May 6, the premier and most-viewed Asian Pacific gathering, which convenes over 750 Asian Pacific and multicultural luminaries across industries and highlights several major initiatives...

Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Saweetie are among those honored on Gold House’s 2023 Most Impactful Asians A100 list.

The A100 List honors trailblazers across the industry who are at the forefront of what the organization calls the “new gold age.” Gold House will celebrate these honorees and announce several new initiatives at the second annual Gold Gala during Aapi month on May 6 in downtown Los Angeles.

“It’s impossible to fully appreciate the artistic and entrepreneurial renaissance that is currently underway without Gold House,” said honoree Jose Antonio Vargas, the founder of Define American and one of the lead producers of Broadway’s “Here Lies Love.” “With Gold House at the forefront, not only are Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the mainstream — we are helping define what is mainstream.”

Honoree and PBS news anchor Amna Nawaz also stated, “When it comes to the power of journalism, I...

South by Southwest has unveiled additional keynote and featured speakers who will be attending the 34th edition of the conference which will be taking place March 13-22. Songwriter, musician and Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters and producer, director and writer Erin Lee Carr have been set as keynotes for the Austin confab.

Legendary musician Waters composed Pink Floyd’s album, including seminal titles The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. Waters also produced, co-directed and co-wrote Roger Waters: The Wall, a personal road trip that deals with the loss that he has felt throughout his life due to war. In June 2018, Waters filmed Us + Them live show, a story of human rights, liberty and love, in Amsterdam. Us + Them is a story of human rights, liberty and love.

Carr directed the USA gymnastics scandal documentary At the Heart of Gold as well...