‘Everything Everywhere at Once’ wins historic Oscar

The 2023 Oscar sanctioned “Everything in every place at the same time” and especially the A24 studio with a historic victory. Never before in history has a single studio won all the main categories, the so-called noble categories of the awards.

In addition to the best film of the year, the film written and directed by the Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) won the trophies for best director, original screenplay, editing and three for acting, with Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan. And, to complete the cleanup, Brendan Fraser took the Best Actor statuette for ‘The Whale,’ which is also an A24 production.

The win for “Everything and Everywhere at Once” also marked the first Academy accolade for a film about the multiverse and with a predominantly Asian cast.

The award also made Hollywood history at a moment charged with symbolism, when Malaysian Michelle Yeoh, the first Asian and second non-white woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, received her trophy from the hands of the first black actress honored in the category, Halle Berry. Ke Huy Quan, meanwhile, exhibited his portrait at the Academy Museum as the first Asian actor – and first Vietnamese – to be awarded Best Supporting Actor.

After seven Oscars for “Everything and everywhere at once”, the second most awarded film was the German Netflix production “Nothing New on the Front”, which won four awards, including Best International Film. Incidentally, the global opening of the Oscars also brought trophies to two Indian productions: Best Song for “Naatu Naatu”, from the soundtrack of the feature film “RRR” (India’s first win in the category), and Best Documentary Short for ” Como Cuidar de um Bebê Elephant”, another Netflix work.

Netflix also won the Academy Award for Best Animation for Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pinocchio.” But the streaming victories have extended to other platforms, such as HBO Max, represented by “Navalny” with the Oscar for best documentary, and Apple TV+ with “The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse”, best short of animation.

Ultimately, the blockbusters ‘Avatar: The Path of Water’, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ each won only one award: in the Visual Effects, Sound and Costume Design categories, respectively.

Awards aside, the 2023 Oscars featured some seriously heartwarming moments. The highlights were Lady Gaga’s raw presentation, with a clean face, without special sets and lights, and John Travolta’s contained cry during the presentation of the in memoriam segment, when the memory of friends who died choked his voice – Travolta recently lost Olivia Newton-John, with whom he made “Grease,” and Kristy Allen, his partner in three “Look Who’s Talking.”

The speeches that filled the screen with tenderness are due to Ke Huy Quan, who was the first to show his mother that he has an Oscar, and Brendan Fraser, who could not contain his tears. Both represent stories of overcoming obstacles and coming back to life, just like Hollywood dramas. After shooting big hits early in their careers, they were overlooked by Hollywood until they were cast in ‘Everything and Everywhere at Once’ and ‘The Whale’.

And the most curious thing, as host Jimmy Kimmel recalled at the beginning of the ceremony, is that they had already worked together, in the trashy comedy “The Man from California”. The movie was so bad it pretty much ended Quan’s career 31 years ago. But the two can now celebrate their reunion at the pinnacle of their artistic trajectories.

Check out the full list of 2023 Oscar winners below.

The best movie

“Everything everywhere at once”

Best direction

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, for “Everything everywhere at the same time”

Best Actress

Michelle Yeoh, for “Everything Everywhere at Once”

Best Actor

Brendan Fraser for “The Whale”

Best Supporting Actress

Jamie Lee Curtis, for “Everything Everywhere at Once”

Best Supporting Actor

Ke Huy Quan, for “Everything everywhere at the same time”

Best Adapted Screenplay

Sarah Polley, for “Among Women”

Best Original Screenplay

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, for “Everything everywhere at the same time”

Best Photography

James Friend, for “All Quiet on the Front”

Best Editing

Paul Rogers, for “Everything everywhere at once”

Best scenography

Christian M. Goldbeck and Ernestine Hipper, for “Nothing New on the Front”

Best costume designer

Ruth Carter, for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever After”

Makeup and hairstyle

Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley for “The Whale”

Visual effects

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

Best sound

“Top Gun: Maverick”

Best soundtrack

Volker Bertelmann, for “All Quiet at the Front”

Original song

MM Keeravaani & Chandrabose – “Naatu Naatu” (from “RRR”)

Best international film

“All Quiet on the Front” (Germany)

Better animation

“Pinocchio by Guillermo Del Toro”

Best Documentary

“Naval”

Best short film

“An Irish Farewell”

Best Animated Short Film

“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”

Best Documentary Short

“The Elephant Whisperers”

Source: Terra

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