Everything Everywhere All at Once

Everything Everywhere All at Once and All Quiet on the Western Front were tonight's big winners at the 95th Academy Awards. Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar for ...

And, ever the champion for animation, Guillermo del Toro made sure to use his Best Animated Feature Film speech to remind everyone that animation is cinema. Between Jamie Lee Curtis’ surprise win for Best Supporting Actress and Paul Rogers’ win for Best Editing, Everything Everywhere All at Once made sure that A24’s presence was known in the room. In his speech for Best Supporting Actor, Ke Huy Quan thanked his wife and brother for keeping him grounded and sticking by him through his Hollywood career, and in her Best Actress acceptance speech, Yeoh utterly rejected the idea of a woman ever being past her prime.

The futuristic film from the studio A24 won seven awards, including for best picture, directing and in three of the four acting categories.

The Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”) and the British-born Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) were honored. “Top Gun: Maverick” collected $1.5 billion, and “Avatar: The Way of Water” took in $2.3 billion. In the days leading up to the Oscars, another in a series of rainstorms soaked Los Angeles, so much so that the academy sent an alert to the news media on Wednesday warning that it may “need to clear the carpet at a moment’s notice.” In the end, the weather cooperated, and it was a sunny 63 degrees. [any women](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/movies/female-directors-oscars.html) in the best director category. Jordan, the “Creed” star, and Pedro Pascal, who plays the title role in “The Mandalorian,” were prepared to intervene. This year, Sarah Polley (“Women Talking”) was left out even though her film was nominated for best picture. (The most-viewed Oscars telecast was in 1998, when 57.2 million people watched “Titanic” win the trophy for best picture.) Carter also won for “Black Panther” in 2019.) “Never give up.” She was the first Asian woman to receive the award. So did the little-seen art films “Triangle of Sadness,” “Women Talking” and “Tár.” Voters also made room for a musical (“Elvis”) and a memory piece (“The Fabelmans”). [95th Academy Awards](https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/awards-season), they may mark it as the start of a new New Hollywood. Curtis was also in tears by the time she reached the fiery conclusion of her acceptance speech.

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" was all over the Oscar ceremony, marking a resurgence for theatrical releases in a year that still saw Netflix -- as the ...

Just before the pandemic took hold [“Parasite,”](https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/entertainment/parasite-oscars/index.html) the South Korean thriller, became the first non-English-language film to be named best picture. [“The Little Mermaid”](http://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/little-mermaid-trailer-oscars/index.html) and a celebration of Warner Bros.’ history, blurring the line between ads for the industry and the show itself. One final takeaway: When it comes to awards, Hollywood’s gratitude to blockbusters only goes so far. Although the awards came as Hollywood seeks promote its theatrical business, Netflix reaped the benefits of its investment in movies with seven awards. (CNN is a unit of Warner Bros. That’s the most hardware for any movie since “Gravity” equaled that total in 2009, a tally last exceeded by a best picture winner with “Slumdog Millionaire” 14 years ago. [“CODA”](https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/27/entertainment/academy-awards-2022/index.html) and “Nomadland,” won best picture in the last two cycles, although last year’s outcome was somewhat overshadowed by Smith walking to the stage to slap Rock. [“Navalny,”](http://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/nalvany-oscar-documentary-feature/index.html) “It’s an emotional year.” [Brendan Fraser](http://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/entertainment/brendan-fraser-oscars-best-actor/index.html) was rewarded for his work in “The Whale” (as was the movie’s makeup team), while “Everything Everywhere’s” Michelle Yeoh received her [history-making lead actress statuette ](http://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/michelle-yeoh-oscars-winner/index.html)as an Asian woman from another trailblazer, Halle Berry, kissing her award for good measure. Carter](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/ruth-carter-oscar-black-panther-cec/index.html) looked skyward and asked the late Chadwick Boseman to look after her mom, who recently died at the age of 101. [crisis-public-relations team](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/23/entertainment/oscars-crisis-will-smith/index.html) that it retained just in case. [all over the Oscar ceremony](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/oscar-winners-2023/index.html), marking a resurgence for theatrical releases in a year that still saw Netflix – as the preeminent streaming option – make its presence felt.

Best picture, best original screenplay, best director, best supporting actor and actress, best actress, and best editing — Everything Everywhere All at Once ...

This was a year in which they didn't try much in terms of change; in fact, the goal seemed to be the most normal Oscars possible. At the same time, it was a reminder that while only a few years ago, Netflix was trying to wedge itself into the Oscars, it's now established a home there. It was perhaps the most utterly traditional choice they could have made in every way except for the fact that it's a film that's not in English. The film perhaps sneaked up on people, but as Oscar night wore on and it started to rake in prizes, including for score, cinematography, production design and international feature, the fondness that Academy voters still have for epic war sequences became perfectly clear. Perhaps it's fitting that Avatar won for visual effects and Top Gun: Maverick for sound — the spectacles won awards that relate, in part, to their status as such. Some montages, a nice In Memoriam segment, an okay monologue, solid musical performances from Lady Gaga and Rihanna among others, and a return to theater seating after last year's cocktail tables and the train station set the year before. That theory might turn out to be right or it might be wrong, but if this year didn't do it, then nominating big movies isn't a solution to the ratings problem as has so often been speculated. [Ke Huy Quan](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1160156811/ke-huy-quan-best-supporting-actor-oscar-everything-everywhere-all-at-once) once found himself shut out of Hollywood after a big start as a child actor in movies like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. The awards for supporting actor and supporting actress went to two very, very different "newcomers." But it's also part of the Academy's effort to revive interest in the ceremony after years of hearing the theory that the ratings were dropping because blockbusters weren't being nominated. What's perhaps most surprising is how many films that once seemed like strong contenders for major awards wound up getting completely shut out: Tár, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans and Elvis all went home empty-handed. Of the 20 acting nominees across lead and supporting categories, 16 were first-time nominees.

Everything Everywhere All at Once” claimed best picture at the Academy Awards as the Oscars rebound from 'The Slap' with a celebratory show.

“I want to thank the academy for not being mortally offended by the words ‘women’ and ‘talking’ so close together like that,” Polley said, accepting the award. After last year’s watershed best picture win for Apple’s “CODA,” the first for a streaming service, streamers As the film’s composer Volker Bertelmann gave his acceptance speech, one attendee at the bar was heard noting, “This is not an American academy anymore.” Following a [bitter backlash ](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-02-24/oscars-awards-live-show-controversy)from the group’s members, academy leaders reversed the decision, which failed to produce a shorter show, and this year all 23 awards were handed out live. “Of course not!” (In an unrolling ceremony days before the show, Kimmel joked that the decision to switch the color “shows how confident we are that no blood will be shed.”) Despite their roles in helping pull Hollywood out of its pandemic slump, “Top Gun” star Tom Cruise and “Avatar” director James Cameron were no-shows at the ceremony — absences that host Jimmy Kimmel sharply called out in his opening monologue: “The two guys who insisted we go to the theater didn’t come to the theater.” As the show headed into its third hour, with many categories still to go, Kimmel cracked that the hour just lost to daylight savings had been added back into the telecast. [fingers made of hot dogs](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-04-14/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-explained-daniels-spoilers) and sex toys used as weapons — initially seemed an unlikely candidate for Oscar glory when it was released nearly a year ago. “We have strict policies in place,” Kimmel said. They say stories like this only happen in the movies.” “And ladies, don’t let anybody tell you you are past your prime.”

All four acting winners—Michelle Yeoh, Brendan Fraser, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan—earned their first Oscars during the ceremony; 16 nominees were first- ...

But this year, three were nominated for the top prize: Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way Of Water and Elvis. The CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Bill Kramer, said the group has implemented a “crisis team” to handle surprises at the event going forward. Will Smith was banned from attending the ceremony for 10 years. Sound: All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way Of Water, Elvis, Top Gun: Maverick (WINNER), The Batman Original Score: All Quiet on the Western Front (WINNER), Babylon, The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Fabelmans Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way Of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, Everything Everywhere All At Once (WINNER), The Fabelmans, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, Triangle of Sadness, Women Talking

The A24 film that premiered at SXSW almost exactly one year ago won seven total Oscars.

EEAAO also swept at the Independent Spirit Awards, winning in every category it was nominated in, for a total of seven awards. All four other films—American Beauty, No Country for Old Men, Slumdog Millionaire, and Argo—went on to win best picture. It is one of only five films to ever win the top prizes at Kwan took the stage upon his film’s best-picture win to celebrate his film’s message of community. Everything Everywhere All at Once, written and directed by now multi-Oscar winners Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, went into the night with 11 nominations, the most of any film. He then thanked his father, “who, like so many immigrant parents, died young.” “He is so proud of me not because of this,” Wang said, gesturing to the trophy, “but because we made this movie with what he taught me to do, which is: No person is more important than profits, and no one is more important than anyone else.”