Last February, in one of the final big cultural moments of the Before Times, Parasite won the Oscar for Best Picture , becoming the first non-English-language movie to win the top prize. The films director, Bong Joon-ho, also took home Oscars for Best Director, Best International Film (the first South Korean movie to win in the category) and Best Original Screenplay (with his co-writer, Han Jin-won). It was a seismic moment for Korean and Asian representation.

But none of the films cast members were nominated for acting awards, part of a longstanding pattern of Asian actors underrepresentation at the Academy Awards. That same year, Lulu Wangs The Farewell, starring Awkwafina, was shut out of the Oscars completely despite garnering universal critical acclaim and winning other major awards.

A new initiative wants to make sure this year isnt a repeat, convening a group of film industry professionals to give films by Asian directors and featuring Asian stars an added boost.

The Gold List is like a For Your Consideration ad for movies starring Asian actors and/or directed by Asian filmmakers. Each year during awards season, studios, distributors and their publicity teams launch often-costly advertising campaigns to promote their awards contenders. The Gold List, released on Monday, is a collaboration between two nonprofit organizations working to improve AAPI representation in culture: Gold House and Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment. (Read the full list below.)

The goal is to give the films more visibility, according to Gold House co-founder Bing Chen, so that members of various awards bodies will put them on their radars as awards season starts to take off in the coming weeks, leading up to the Oscars in April.

The timing is no coincidence, Chen said. Many of these films, particularly indies, often dont have the budgets to run expensive For Your Consideration campaigns, or their filmmakers or studios and so forth dont have the level of access that may be essential in ensuring nominations and eventual wins.