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Everything Everywhere: The metaphysical multiverse comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won the best picture Oscar at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday. Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis also received honors.
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s chaotic ballet of everything bagels, googly-eyed rocks, and one nasty tax audit emerged as an unlikely Academy Awards heavyweight while being far from Oscar bait.
The independent smash, which came in second for a best picture behind “Moonlight,” won seven Oscars in total.
Only two other movies, “A Streetcar Called Desire” and “Network,” have garnered three acting Oscars.
The Oscar-winning film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” triumphed with a completely different portrayal of immigration fifty years after “The Godfather” won the award. This unique story about a Chinese immigrant family, the Daniels’ second feature film, combined science fiction and parallel dimensions with the tale of an everyday housewife and laundromat proprietor.
The world is changing quickly, and Kwan, who shared best director and best original script with Scheinert, expressed concern that his stories were not keeping up. Knowing that the world on the internet moves at a millisecond rate while movies move at a rate of years can be a little frightening at times. But I firmly believe our stories.
Yeoh won the prize for best actress and made history as the first Asian woman to do so for her work in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Yeoh, 60, a Malaysian native, won her first Oscar for a performance that incorporated both her comedic and dramatic talents as well as her kung fu prowess. It’s the first time in 20 years that a non-white actress has won best actress.
Yeoh, who drew a boisterous standing ovation, remarked, “Women, don’t allow anyone ever tells you you’re past your prime.
Yeoh won the prize for best actress and made history as the first Asian woman to do so for her work in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Yeoh, 60, a Malaysian native, won her first Oscar for a performance that incorporated both her comedic and dramatic talents as well as her kung fu prowess. It’s the first time in 20 years that a non-white actress has won best actress.
Yeoh, who drew a boisterous standing ovation, remarked, “Women, don’t allow anyone ever tells you you’re past your prime.
Brendan Fraser won the award for best actor, capping his comeback to the spotlight for his physical transformation into a 600-lb. reclusive professor in “The Whale.” One of the tightest races of the evening was for best actor, but in the end, Fraser defeated Austin Butler.
Fraser, who was visibly touched, pointed to the “Everything Everywhere All at Once” cast and stated, “So this is what the multiverse looks like.
Hollywood was able to move on from The Slap, one of the most infamous events in Oscar history, thanks to the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which served as a breath of fresh air in a sequel- and reboot-heavy industry. For the third time, Jimmy Kimmel promised a ceremony with “no nonsense.”He claimed that anyone looking to “get jiggy with it” this year would have to pass through a terrifying squad of bodyguards, including Yeoh, Steven Spielberg, and the “security guard” for his show, Guillermo Rodriguez.
The Oscar for best-supporting actor went to the former child star Quan for his role in the independent blockbuster “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” capping off his own remarkable comeback. Before being cast in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Quan, who is well-known for his appearances as Short Round in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and Data in “Goonies,” had all but given up acting.
Even though his triumph was one of the most anticipated of the evening, it was still one of the most touching parts of the ceremony. Quan fought back tears as he received a standing ovation from the audience, which included his “Temple of Doom” director, Steven Spielberg.
“Mum, I just got an Oscar!” recalled Quan, 51, whose family fled Vietnam in the war when he was a child.
Some claim that tales like these only appear in movies. Quan remarked, “I can’t believe it’s happening. The American dream is represented here.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Quan’s co-star, won the award for best supporting actress a short while later. Her victory in one of the year’s most competitive categories prevented comic book lovers from winning. The first actor to win an Oscar for a Marvel film would have been Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”). Tony Curtis was nominated for “The Defiant Ones” in 1959, and Janet Leigh was nominated for “Psycho” in 1961, making Curtis one of the uncommon Oscar winners whose parents were also candidates.
The Academy bestowed accolades on the craft of the devastating anti-war picture, and Netflix’s top contender this year, the German-language WWI epic “All Quiet on the Western Front,” won four of them. It took home awards for best international film, production design, score, and cinematography.
Carter expressed her gratitude to the Academy for honoring the Black woman superhero. She is every woman in this movie because she perseveres, loves, and triumphs.
Traditional openings for ABC’s show included a montage of the year’s movies (with Kimmel cut into a cockpit in “Top Gun: Maverick”) and a protracted monologue. When Will Smith hit presenter Chris Rock the previous year and went on to win best actor, Kimmel found it difficult to draw any conclusions from the incident. According to Kimmel, “you will be awarded the Oscar for best actor and entitled to deliver a 19-minute monologue” if anyone attempted any violence this year.
