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Los Angeles (AFP) – As a teenager, Shirley Kurata worked in the Aratani Theatre in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. On Sunday, the venue will host an Oscars watch party for her film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — and she could be one of the winners. Kurata is up for her first Academy Award for best costume design for the mind-bending sci-fi fantasy, for which she dressed Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis. “It feels like coming full circle,” Kurata told AFP in an interview ahead of the Oscars gala. “I’m so honored. I’m in the company of just very, ve…