Everything everywhere at the same time: other directing duos won Oscars before Daniels!

Everything everywhere at the same time: other directing duos won Oscars before Daniels!

On March 12, 2023, at the Oscars ceremony, everything everywhere won at once! The work was awarded in 7 of the most prestigious categories, from Best Picture to Best Actress, including Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress and Best Editing.

Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, the film’s directors, share the top honor for this astonishing multiverse feature film that wowed the Academy.

Is this the first time the duo has won the Oscar for Best Director? To see a directing duo win the top honor, you have to go all the way back to 2008 when the Coen brothers won for No Country For Old Men.

Another duo previously won the statue in 1962. This is Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story.

“I want to dedicate this award to all the moms in the world and especially my mom and dad, Ken and Becky. Thank you for not stifling my creativity when I was doing really disturbing horror movies or really funny comedies. Perverted or when I was a drag queen when I was a kid, which didn’t hurt anyone. represents”.Daniel Scheinert said during his speech.

In turn, Daniel Kwan became the 4th Asian director to win the Oscar for Best Director after Ang Lee (Twice for The Odyssey and Brokeback Mountain), Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) and Chloe Zhao (The Nomad). The artist wanted to thank the actors and the film crew who are by his side “His family, his friends.”

“If our film has greatness and genius, it is only because they have greatness and genius. It is all in their hearts and souls, and they have given this precious gift to the project. The world is opening up to the fact that genius is not the work of individuals like us, but that that it arises from the collective”concluded the filmmaker.

Source: Allocine

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