Everything Everywhere All at Once

The 95th Academy Awards was a successful night for the zany sci-fi-comedy-action film, and marked several big wins for Asian representation.

[in Hong Kong](https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/14674/hong-kong-action-films-michelle-yeoh-oscars-everything-everywhere-all-at-once), was the favorite to win, having already picked up the [awards for her performance](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2023/03/12/michelle-yeoh-wins-best-actress-makes-oscar-history/11427037002/) at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards, among others. India celebrated another victory when The Elephant Whisperers won the award for Best Documentary Short. Halle Berry won the Oscar for Monster’s Ball in 2002. She’s 84, and I’m taking this home to her. [Nominated for 11 Oscars](https://qz.com/oscars-2023-nominations-highlights-1850024293), the sci-fi-action-comedy-family drama also dominated the acting categories, winning honors for Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis), and Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan). I’m bringing this home to you.” [Michelle Yeoh](https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a43262840/michelle-yeoh-best-lead-actress-speech-oscars-2023/), accepting the award for Best Actress in Everything Everywhere All at Once at the 95th Academy Awards It was a big night for Asian representation at this year’s show. If you have a genius that is waiting to erupt, you just need to find the right people to unlock that. Thank you so much everyone who has unlocked my genius.” Who else won awards at the 2023 Oscars? [won the Best Actor award](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/13/entertainment/brendan-fraser-oscars-best-actor/index.html) for his performance in The Whale. “The Daniels,” also won Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

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

'Everything Everywhere All At Once' won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 95th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night (March 12).

Accepting the shiny trophies were Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett. Rounding out the sci-fi spectacle's seven-win night, Paul Rogers was honored for his adept cinematic cutting. Michelle Yeoh, who portrays multiversal heroine Evelyn Wang, became the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress. The directing pair also won for Best Original Screenplay. [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.space.com/avatar-the-way-of-water-movie-review)," "The Banshees of Inisherin," "All Quiet on the Western Front," "The Fabelmans," "Elvis," and others, "Everything Everywhere All At Once" shone in a multitude of categories. [science fiction film](https://www.space.com/best-sci-fi-movies) "Everything Everywhere All At Once" swept most of the major categories, winning Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Editing and Best Original Screenplay.

Michelle Yeoh's mom may not have been present in the Dolby Theater on Sunday to see her daughter win an Oscar but cameras were rolling as she watched the ...

Carter](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/ruth-carter-oscar-black-panther-cec/index.html) became the first woman of color to win two Academy Awards on Sunday, she revealed in her speech that her mother recently died at the age of 101. Carter said her work on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” prepared her for the moment and dedicated the award to her late mom. He spoke about spending a year in a refugee camp as a child and finding himself as an adult on Hollywood’s biggest stage. [Ke Huy Quan](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/ke-huy-quan-oscars-acceptance-speech/index.html), who won the award for best supporting actor for his role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” also thanked his mom for the sacrifices she made during his acceptance speech. [“Everything Everywhere All at Once”](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/entertainment/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-academy-awards-takeaways/index.html) is a film about the importance of family and the dynamics of familial relationships, particularly between a mother and daughter (Stephanie Hsu). [Michelle Yeoh’s](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/michelle-yeoh-oscars-winner/index.html) mom may not have been present in the Dolby Theater on Sunday to see her daughter win an [Oscar](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/oscar-winners-2023/index.html) but cameras were rolling as she watched the historic moment live in Malaysia.

Despite increasing use of non-English languages demonstrating broader acceptance of linguistic diversity in a globalized world, films sometimes suggest ...

[language of Wakanda is the real-world language of Xhosa](https://screenrant.com/black-panther-movie-wakanda-language-xhosa-explained), spoken in South Africa, in Wakanda Forever, it was mostly relegated to greetings and asides. Unlike in James Cameron’s [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-the-way-of-water-vfx-oscar-2023-1235343383/), viewers are never explicitly told that what the audience hears has been “translated” for us. In a neat expositional trick, the main character narrates the beginning of the film and explains that he learned the alien language well enough that it just sounds like English to him. In this Marvel Cinematic Universe story, the fictional kingdom of Atlantis was [repositioned as a Mesoamerican-inspired society](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mesoamerican-influences-behind-namor-from-black-panther-wakanda-forever-180981106). There’s much more room for films to highlight both linguistic diversity as well as authentic characterization of characters who speak and sign without resorting to potentially harmful tropes. [Bong Joon-ho](https://www.cjenm.com/en/news/director-bong-joonhos-parasite-wins-the-best-foreign-language-film-at-the-77th-golden-globe-awards/) described in his [Golden Globes acceptance speech for 2019’s Parasite](https://variety.com/2020/film/awards/south-koreas-parasite-crashes-the-subtitles-barrier-1203488979/), when audiences move past the “one-inch tall barrier of subtitles” a richer world of film awaits. [Telling authentic stories](https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947013519551) in a modern, globalized and multicultural world means fairly portraying the languages spoken and signed all throughout our society. Yet, these characters are the primary villains of the story, portrayed as powerful and physically otherworldly. Although the In some of the film’s best scenes, the maestro uses only German during orchestra rehearsals and subtitles are dropped completely. [Oscar for best visual effects,](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/oscars-2023-all-the-kiwis-nominated-at-the-academy-awards-this-year/G7PU6REBKFDRVLTOTUZJ4TEM4A/) the protagonists all speak Na'vi, the language of [the species living across](https://gamerant.com/avatar-creation-human-navi-hybrids-explained/) the fictional Pandora. [language of Talokan is the real-world language of Yucatec Maya](https://globalvoices.org/2023/01/05/indigenous-and-proud-a-maya-speakers-reaction-to-black-panther-wakanda-forever/), spoken by Indigenous people in present-day [Guatemala, Belize and southern Mexico](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yucatec-language).

Michelle Yeoh won the Academy Award on Sunday for best lead actress for her role as a Chinese American laundromat owner dealing with family turmoil in ...

In "Everything Everywhere," Yeoh's character, Evelyn Wang, is struggling to finish her taxes when she is swept into alternate universes. "For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. This was her first Oscar nomination.

Surreal sci-fi film 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' dominated the Oscars on Sunday, winning seven golden statuettes including best picture, ...

I spent a year in a refugee camp. "If anyone in this theater commits an act of violence at any point during the show – you will be awarded the Oscar for best actor, and permitted to give a 19-minute-long speech," joked Kimmel. And somehow, I ended up here on Hollywood's biggest stage... this is the American Dream!" "Thank you to the Academy, this is history in the making!" Brendan Fraser won best actor for playing a morbidly obese teacher in The Whale, capping a remarkable career comeback.

The Malaysian-born actor made history by winning the Academy Award for best actress in a leading role for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at ...

This is the only way we will get more opportunities — if we fight for it and no longer be able to say, OK, I'll turn the other cheek. Michelle Yeoh accepted the Oscar for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, in which she plays Evelyn Wang, the Chinese first-generation immigrant owner of a laundromat around whom the film's absurdist multiverse revolves. We are part of the society and very, very much an intricate part of this whole community.

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.

Best Actress Michelle Yeoh poses with her Oscar at the Governors Ball following the Oscars show at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, ...

She took home Best Costume Design for the Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. All Quiet on the Western Front, the second-biggest winner of the night with four Academy Awards, became the third German film to win Best International Feature Film. Paul Rogers walked away with the Best Film Editing prize for the film.

Brendan Fraser is among nominees at the 95th Academy Awards, which are being hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

The network is also streaming the ceremony on its website and app. Unusually, that means British viewers can watch the Oscars on Freeview and Freesat. He also paid tribute to composer John Williams, the oldest nominee in Oscars history. The Banshees of Inisherin has four acting nominations, including Colin Farrell and Kerry Condon. He most recently presided over the 2018 event. This is the American dream. Interestingly, Halle Berry has also been invited to present. "They say Hollywood is running out of ideas. At the Oscars, the World War One epic is the bookies' second favourite to take the top prize, followed by The Banshees of Inisherin. At this point, Everything Everywhere All at Once is the clear frontrunner, having won nearly every major precursor it needed to - with the notable exception of Bafta. Thank you so much for welcoming me back." Later in the ceremony, Everywhere All at Once is the favourite to win best picture after success on this year's awards' circuit.