Surreal comedy starring Michelle Yeoh and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka “the Daniels”, takes top prize at the Academy Awards.
Everything Everywhere All at Once triumphed in a ten-strong field at the Oscars, beating contenders that included Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, Cate Blanchett-starring Tár, and German war drama All Quiet on the Western Front. Written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, AKA “the Daniels”, Everything Everywhere All at Once stars Michelle Yeoh as a laundromat owner who stumbles into alternate universes as she tries to deal with tax and marital difficulties. Everything Everywhere All at Once has won best picture at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
The movie also broke new ground for Asian representation in Hollywood.
It was [reported](https://variety.com/2021/film/news/inside-a24-billion-dollar-sale-1235018988/)that the studio was exploring a sale for up to $3 billion. - "Coda" became the first film with a predominantly deaf cast to win best picture in 2022. - "Parasite" became the first foreign-language film to win best picture in 2020. - "Moonlight" became the first film to win best picture with an all-black cast in 2017. Between the lines: In addition to winning the award for best picture, "Everything Everywhere All at Once," also won prizes for best actress, best supporting actor, editing, best supporting actress, directing and best original screenplay, [Michelle Yeoh](https://www.axios.com/2023/03/13/oscars-2023-michelle-yeoh-best-actress-asian-history) becoming the first self-identified actress of Asian descent to win the award for best actress and Ke Huy Quan becoming the second Asian ever to win the award for best supporting actor.
Every time anyone involved with this genre-defying film wins an award, they are overcome with emotion. But as Beverley Wang explains, these are healing ...
"The way I see it, these are healing tears we're seeing in the acceptance speeches of the cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once. There is a family story at the core of it, but there's so much other stuff happening going on; there is multiverse-jumping, extraordinary fight scenes. "[They're thinking:] This is going to be an immigrant story about our cultures clashing, which at this point, we've seen so many of those. His Golden Globe speech was one for the ages: "For so many years, I was afraid I had nothing more to offer. Wang adds: "It's so extraordinary that he [Hong] even exists in Hollywood, the persistence that would have taken. And you're not supposed to be here," says Wang. But she first came to Hollywood's attention as a Bond girl in Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997, and then had an incredible turn in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).Loading [he] is [finally] being recognised as a good actor with range." Whichever way you dice it, there's nothing else quite like it in mainstream American cinema at the multiplex." It becomes quickly clear that there's a lot more at stake than her struggling business and personal life (and for those living under a rock, incredible fight to be here today, but I think it's worth it." Maisel) plays the couple's increasingly distant daughter Joy, and Jamie Lee Curtis (
Producer Jonathan Wang was the first to give a speech as the cast and crew gathered on stage. He dedicated the award to his father, “who, like so many immigrant ...
However, the race was still a tossup heading into Sunday’s ceremony, considering All Quiet on the Western Front won the BAFTA, which is often another strong predictor for which film will prevail at the Oscars. Sometimes it’s a little scary knowing that movies move at the rate of years and the world on the internet is moving at the rate of milliseconds. EEAAO’s Oscars sweep comes after it pulled off a clean sweep at the major quartet of PGA, DGA, SAG, and WGA awards. I think one of the things that I realized growing up is that one of the best things we can do for each other is shelter each other from the chaos of this crazy world we live in. That was the biggest haul for a Best Picture winner since Slumdog Millionaire‘s eight [Oscars](https://deadline.com/tag/oscar/) in 2009. “The world is changing rapidly, and I fear that our stories are not keeping at pace.
Michelle Yeoh reacts in the audience with excitement as she accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Everything Everywhere ...
[Apple](https://fortune.com/company/apple/) TV’s “CODA” became the first streaming movie to win best picture. [Telugu action-film sensation “RRR,”](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-india-4d04b6d032cabfc91b6d0beb6642c1ef) an intimate, impassioned performance by Lady Gaga of “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick,” and a Super Bowl follow-up by Rihanna. Meanwhile, the Writers [Guild](https://fortune.com/company/guild-instride/) and the major studios are set to begin contract negotiations March 20, a looming battle that has much of the industry girding for a possible work stoppage. “The Way of Water” won for visual effects; “Maverick” took best sound. “Thank you to the Academy for recognizing the superhero that is a Black woman,” said Carter. [best supporting actress](https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2023-best-supporting-actress-18481e06d1e3c03d337d100f10b9e382). Scheinert dedicated the award “to the moms of the world.” [an improbable Academy Awards heavyweight.](https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2023-best-picture-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-c6db5dc1477c28e2b9e41270a036ac12) The indie hit, A24’s second best picture winner following “Moonlight,” won seven Oscars in all. [former action star’s return](https://apnews.com/article/brendan-fraser-the-whale-darren-aronofsky-1b3e71f1022f11b26b764f238b421363) to center stage for his physical transformation as a 600-lb. The audience — including his “Temple of Doom” director, Steven Spielberg — gave Quan a standing ovation as he fought back tears. Jimmy Kimmel, hosting for the third time, pledged a ceremony with “no nonsense.” He said anyone who wanted to “get jiggy with it” this year would have to come through a fearsome battalion of bodyguards, including Yeoh, Steven Spielberg and his show’s “security guard” Guillermo Rodriguez. “Sometimes it’s a little scary knowing that movies move at the rate of years and the world on the internet is moving at the rate of milliseconds.
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. [any women](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/movies/female-directors-oscars.html) in the best director category. 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. 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. 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. They are both 35.) The film, which received a field-leading 11 nominations, also won Oscars for film editing, best actress and best supporting actor and actress, with Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis honored for their performances.
At this point in awards-season history, you don't want to be “The Fabelmans.” The Oscar race is above all an expectations game, and “Everything Everywhere ...
(This was when I knew the film could win.) Once the precursors began in earnest, they pitched a perfect game. In the old days, Best Picture was an award for Best Artistic Achievement. The film was a rare beacon of light during a dark spring for theatrical moviegoing, [breaking A24’s box-office record](https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-beat-uncut-gems-a24-box-office-record.html) and inspiring a rabid cult following who saw it over and over and over again. One of the film’s biggest weaknesses was the fact that its fans were, well, a little annoying. The rest of the night was a coronation. The EEAAO campaign proved equally effective at meeting the demands of the day. It was simply too strange not to feel like an underdog, even when it started racking up the nominations befitting a major contender. [To Leslie](https://www.vulture.com/article/andrea-riseborough-to-leslie-oscar-buzz-timeline.html), we’ve spent the past few months debating over the true meaning of “grassroots” campaigns. But there was also the cast, which — Curtis aside — was almost entirely Asian or Asian American, and almost entirely made up of actors who were either unknown The Oscars race is above all an expectations game, and Everything Everywhere benefited all season long from the sense that it was playing with house money. That’s two different Oscar records broken: the most trophies won by a Best Picture winner since the category expanded in 2009, and the most awards a film has ever won in the above-the-line categories. (The film also tied A Streetcar Named Desire and Network as the only films to win three acting trophies.) It was the kind of old-fashioned Oscars sweep I didn’t think we’d see again, to go along with
Rep. Judy Chu, a California Democrat, says people in the AAPI community "held their heads a little higher" after the movie's big night.
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's multiverse film receives awards for Michelle Yeoh and her supporting performers, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Paul Rogers, for Everything Everywhere All at Once, wins the Oscar for Best Editing. Decades ago, he was the actor of The mummy, and was not nominated for supporting actor (at the time he deserved it) for Gods and Monsters. Best actress for Michelle Yeoh, the sixth for Everything Everywhere All at Once. Mark Weingarten, James Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, from Top Gun: Maverick have won the Oscar for best sound. Brendan Fraser has won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Whale. Bassett was already a joke at the BAFTAs for a confusing phrase in a rap sung by Ariana Debose. Everything Everywhere All at Once is confirmed as the big winner of the 2023 Academy Awards. All Quiet on the Western Front won four (including international film), and The Whale won two statuettes (best actor and hair and make-up). The most celebrated Oscar of the gala? Edward Berger’s German film, All Quiet on the Western Front, won the Oscar for Best International Film, a category in which Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985 was also competing, and won four statuettes. In a long and unfunny ceremony of three hours and 35 minutes, Everything Everywhere All At Once, which would be the opposite of this gala, takes the main awards: film, direction, three acting, original screenplay and editing. That's it for the Oscars 2023.
Oscars 2023 frontrunners Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh, and Stephanie Hsu reunite in the trailer for the Disney Plus show American Born Chinese, ...
“When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.” [Shang-Chi’s](https://www.polygon.com/reviews/22633102/shang-chi-review) Destin Daniel Cretton, American Born Chinese and its unique blend of myth and coming-of-age tale will hit Disney Plus on May 24. [Oscars 2023](https://www.polygon.com/entertainment/23636440/oscars-2023-winners-speeches-opening-best-picture-movies) broadcast got the first real look at [American Born Chinese](https://www.polygon.com/22666560/shang-chi-comics-fu-manchu-marvel-history-gene-luen-yang-interview), the forthcoming Disney Plus TV series that just also happens to be a reunion for the stars of Oscar frontrunner [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23006000/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-review).
Everything everywhere cast made history at the 93rd academy awards with 7 Oscars. Now the iconic Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are coming together to take ...
The cast also includes Yeo Yann Yann, Chin Han, Daniel Wu, Sydney Taylor and Poppy Liu. Now the iconic Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are coming together to take on another project. This time with Disney+.
After sweeping the Oscars on March 12, the cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once—including Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan—is set to reunite in Disney+'s ...
'Everything Everywhere All at Once' won top awards at Oscars 2023, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor.
This is the first win for an Indian film in the category. Keeravani and lyricist Chandrabose made history for India when they won the award for Best Original Song for “Naatu Naatu” from the movie RRR. Sarah Polley won the Best Adapted Screenplay for Women Talking. Ruth Carter won the Oscar for Best Costume Design for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The film had a clean sweep at the ceremony, winning in all the categories. Both Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu were nominated in the best supporting actress category. Of the six nominations, Everything Everywhere All at Once won two Golden Globe awards. The film earned three of the unprecedented four nominations for Asian actors in the acting categories at the Oscars 2023. Ngor was the first when he won in 1984 for his performance in The Killing Fields. Of the 14 nods the picture received, it won five. Yeoh, the first Asian to win in the category, accepted the trophy with an emotional and inspiring speech. Everything Everywhere All at Once was the biggest winner at the 95th Academy Awards, or Oscars 2023, on 12 March.