Dev Patel, Jason Momoa, Olivia Rodrigo and James Wan are the entertainers topping Gold House’s A100 list of the most influential Asian Pacifics across culture for 2024.
Annually released on the first day of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month since 2018, this year’s A100 also includes Keanu Reeves, Hayao Miyazaki, BTS member Jung Kook, Academy president Janet Yang and — in a sign of the relative plenitude of API-fronted content today — key creatives and cast members from Avatar: The Last Airbender, 3 Body Problem, Past Lives, One Piece, Expats, Elemental, Shōgun and The Sympathizer.
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“This year was special: Asian Pacific leaders had a record number of records broken while building a more inclusive tomorrow for all, particularly in new avenues like AI,” Gold House CEO Bing Chen and COO Jeremy Tran said in a joint statement. “Gold House is honored to celebrate so many new and established leaders who are committed to both equity and excellence.”
Oscar nominee Patel, who made his directorial debut with Monkey Man this year, has been named A1 (most impactful) in the entertainment and media category, alongside NVIDIA co-founder, president and CEO Jensen Huang (A1 in business and technology), LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. chair and CEO Anish Melwani (A1 in fashion and lifestyle), streamer Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter (A1 in gaming and sports) and the Maui wildfires first responders (A1 in social impact).
Momoa, Rodrigo and Wan are among the seven previous A100 honorees who are graduating to the A100 Hall of Fame, joining Shohei Ohtani, Y Combinator president and CEO Garry Tan, AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su and golfer Collin Morikawa.
Both the A100 unveiling and the kickoff of APAHM will be marked by the Gold Lights initiative, wherein select landmark buildings — including the Empire State Building, One World Trade Center, the California State Capitol, Paramount Pictures Water Tower, Chicago’s Willis Tower, Vancouver’s BC Place and the Olympic Cauldron and Toronto’s CN Tower, as well as city halls in Los Angeles, Honolulu and Seoul — will be illuminated in gold light.
The A100 will further be feted at the May 11 Gold Gala, the centerpiece of a weekend’s worth of events in Los Angeles that also will include an A100 Welcome dinner for past and present honorees at Gold Chef Prize winner Katianna Hong’s Yangban the night before and a Gold Women Brunch at the Four Seasons the morning of.
See the full list of this year’s A100 and special honorees at the Gold House website.
