On March 12, 2023, at the 95th Academy Awards, “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” capped up an unlikely awards season by taking home the top prize.
The film’s makers, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won a combined seven awards including original writing and direction, for their zany tale of a Chinese-American laundrette proprietor facing an IRS audit and extraterrestrial invaders (collectively known as the Daniels).
This is a huge win for A24, the independent studio that helped propel the offbeat film to a staggering $100 million at the box office. This is especially noteworthy considering the declining market for arthouse films.
The studio also accomplished the unprecedented accomplishment of taking home all four acting awards, three of which went to “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” and one to “The Whale.”
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Many people made their way back or reevaluated their positions that evening. Michelle Yeoh, star of “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” made history by being the first Asian woman to win best actress for a major motion picture.
Michelle Yeoh makes history as the first Asian woman to win the Best Actress Oscar. #Oscars95 https://t.co/35YGivGFhF
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 13, 2023
After a successful career in martial arts and action films like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Yes, Madam!” she was finally recognized for her efforts. She said:
“Ladies, don’t ever let anyone tell you that you are past your prime. For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility”.
In “The Whale,” Brendan Fraser played a morbidly obese man who tries to get in touch with his estranged daughter. He won the award for best actor for his performance.
Brendan Fraser accepts the Best Actor Oscar for his incredible performance in ‘The Whale’ #Oscars #Oscars95 pic.twitter.com/ofuc00ckv3
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 13, 2023
Fraser, who was once a popular actor thanks to his roles in popcorn movies like “George of the Jungle” and “The Mummy,” had spent the past decade and a half away from the public coping with health and personal issues.
His victory extends his incredible comeback streak. Fraser said:
“I started in this business 30 years ago and this – they certainly didn’t come easily to me, but there was a facility that I didn’t appreciate at the time until it stopped. He thanked his director Darren Aronofsky for throwing me a creative lifeline and hauling me aboard.”
Ke Huy Quan’s performance as Yeoh’s frantic husband in “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” earned him a nomination for best-supporting actor.
“Mom, I just won an Oscar!”
Ke Huy Quan’s acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor hit us right in the feels. 🥹 pic.twitter.com/CzHuHU45Ip
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 13, 2023
Quan, a former child actor who had roles in films like “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “The Goonies” had stopped performing due to a lack of work. While accepting the medal, he choked back emotions as he talked about his life.
He said:
“My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage. They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe it’s happening to me. This is the American dream.”
He added:
“Dreams are something that you have to believe in. I almost gave up on mine. To all of you out there, please keep your dreams alive.”
Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter of Hollywood royalty Janet Lee and Tony Curtis and a seasoned lead in horror films like “Halloween,” won best supporting actress for her role as an Internal Revenue Service inspector in “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.”
Jamie Lee Curtis accepts the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once.’ #Oscars95 pic.twitter.com/1H3tJEmgGF
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 13, 2023
Curtis addressed her family’s entertainment heritage, saying, “my mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in various categories,” before dedicating her statue to “all of the individuals who have supported the genre movies that I’ve created for all these years.”
She finished her speech with a choked-up “I just won an Oscar”.
If you want to know more about the Recap of Oscar awards you can read our below post:
The complete list of Oscar winners is as follows:
Best Picture
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Elvis
- The Fabelmans
- Tár
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Triangle of Sadness
- Women Talking
Best Lead Actress
- Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- Cate Blanchett (Tár)
- Ana de Armas (Blonde)
- Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie)
- Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
Best Lead Actor
- Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
- Austin Butler (Elvis)
- Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
- Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
- Bill Nighy (Living)
Best Director
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
- Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
- Todd Field (Tár)
- Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness)
Best Film Editing
- Everything Everywhere All at Once — Paul Rogers
- The Banshees of Inisherin — Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
- Elvis — Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
- Tár — Monika Willi
- Top Gun: Maverick — Eddie Hamilton
Best Original Song
- “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR” (music by M.M. Keeravaani, lyric by Chandrabose)
- “Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman” (music and lyric by Diane Warren)
- “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick” (music and lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop)
- “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler)
- “This Is a Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; lyrics by Ryan Lott and David Byrne)
Best Sound
- “Top Gun: Maverick” — Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor
- “All Quiet on the Western Front” — Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte
- “Avatar: The Way of Water” — Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges
- “The Batman” — Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson
- “Elvis” — David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller
Best Adapted Screenplay
- “Women Talking” — Sarah Polley
- “All Quiet on the Western Front” — Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell
- “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” — Rian Johnson
- “Living” — Kazuo Ishiguro
- “Top Gun: Maverick” — screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Best Original Screenplay
- “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
- “The Banshees of Inisherin” — Martin McDonagh
- “The Fabelmans” — Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner
- “Tár” — Todd Field
- “Triangle of Sadness” — Ruben Östlund
Best Visual Effects
- “Avatar: The Way of Water” — Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett
- “All Quiet on the Western Front” — Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar
- “The Batman” — Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy
- “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick
- “Top Gun: Maverick” — Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher
Best Original Score
- “All Quiet on the Western Front” — Volker Bertelmann
- “Babylon” — Justin Hurwitz
- “The Banshees of Inisherin” — Carter Burwell
- “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — Son Lux
- “The Fabelmans” — John Williams
Best Production Design
- “All Quiet on the Western Front” — production design by Christian M. Goldbeck, set decoration by Ernestine Hipper
- “Avatar: The Way of Water” — production design by Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, set decoration by Vanessa Cole
- “Babylon” — production design by Florencia Martin, set decoration by Anthony Carlino
- “Elvis” — production design by Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy, set decoration by Bev Dunn
- “The Fabelmans” — production design by Rick Carter, set decoration by Karen O’Hara
Best Animated Short Film
- “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” — Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
- “The Flying Sailor” — Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
- “Ice Merchants” — João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
- “My Year of Dicks” — Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon
- “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It” — Lachlan Pendragon
Best Documentary Short Film
- “The Elephant Whisperers” — Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
- “Haulout” — Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
- “How Do You Measure a Year?” — Jay Rosenblatt
- “The Martha Mitchell Effect” — Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison
- “Stranger at the Gate” — Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
Best International Feature Film
- “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany)
- “Argentina, 1985” (Argentina)
- “Close” (Belgium)
- “EO” (Poland)
- “The Quiet Girl” (Ireland)
- Best Costume Design
- “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — Ruth E. Carter
- “Babylon” — Mary Zophres
- “Elvis” — Catherine Martin
- “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — Shirley Kurata
- “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” — Jenny Beavan
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- “The Whale” — Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley
- “All Quiet on the Western Front” — Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová
- “The Batman” — Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine
- “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
- “Elvis” — Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti
Best Cinematography
- “All Quiet on the Western Front” — James Friend
- “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” — Darius Khondji
- “Elvis” — Mandy Walker
- “Empire of Light” — Roger Deakins
- “Tár” — Florian Hoffmeister
- Best Live Action Short
- “An Irish Goodbye” — Tom Berkeley and Ross White
- “Ivalu” — Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
- “Le Pupille” — Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
- “Night Ride” — Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
- “The Red Suitcase” — Cyrus Neshvad
Best Documentary Feature Film
- “Navalny” — Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris
- “All That Breathes” — Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
- “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” — Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov
- “Fire of Love” — Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman
- “A House Made of Splinters” — Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström
Best Supporting Actress
- Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)
- Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”)
- Hong Chau (“The Whale”)
- Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
- Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)
Best Supporting Actor
- Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)
- Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
- Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”)
- Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”)
- Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
Best Animated Feature Film
- “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” — Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley
- “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” — Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey
- “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” — Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
- “The Sea Beast” — Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
- “Turning Red” — Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins
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