‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ triumphs at the Oscars with seven awards, including best film and directing | This is how we covered the ceremony
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s multiverse film receives awards for Michelle Yeoh and her supporting performers, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Brendan Fraser, best leading actor for ‘The Whale’. Pinocchio’ by Mexico’s Guillermo del Toro, best animated film
The very peculiar film about the multiverse Everything Everywhere All at Once has triumphed at the 95th Oscars with seven awards: best film, leading actress for Michelle Yeoh, direction for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, editing, original screenplay and Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan as supporting actors. Brendan Fraser was named Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Whale. Adapted screenplay went to Sarah Polley for Women Talking. 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. Pinocchio, by Mexico’s Guillermo del Toro, won for best animated film.
Thank you and goodnight
That's it for the Oscars 2023. Everything Everywhere All at Once, the clear favorite at the start is the clear winner at the end, taking home seven statuettes.
Until next time!
Michelle Yeoh after winning the Oscar for Best Actress for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'. / ETIENNE LAURENT / EFE
Michelle Yeoh, Hollywood's franchise woman
Two actors from The Mummy have won Oscars for Best Lead Actor. This has been a year that has brought back stars who have been in Hollywood for a long time, albeit on the sidelines, both inside and outside of franchises. The most notable is Michelle Yeoh, who has two characters in the Marvel universe, premiered The Witcher series last year, had a starring role in Star Trek: Discovery (and a possible spin-off in its future), stars in The Minions, was a Bond girl (who also wanted to give her own saga) and will appear in the upcoming Avatar, Transformers and Kenneth Branagh's Poirot. A career that has given so much that even had a role in the Netflix sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Also coming soon: American Born Chinese, on Disney+, and with much of the cast of Everything Everywhere at Once: Key Hu Quan, Stephanie Hsu and James Hong.
A lacklustre ceremony ends with the triumph of 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'
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. All Quiet on the Western Front won four (including international film), and The Whale won two statuettes (best actor and hair and make-up). Some interesting facts: Michelle Yeoh is the second non-white actress to win the award for leading female performance, and has received the award from the first, Halle Berry. Both were also bond girls with Pierce Brosnan. And Yeoh herself and Brendan Fraser were actors in The Mummy saga.
An actress in her prime
The most celebrated Oscar of the gala? Best actress for Michelle Yeoh, the sixth for Everything Everywhere All at Once. She thanked with a slap on the wrist for CNN anchor Don Lemmon, who a couple of weeks ago got into a controversy that almost cost him his job when he said that Nikki Halley, Republican presidential candidate, "is no longer in her prime." Haley is 51. Yeoh, 60. Her glory was celebrated by a standing ovation at the Dolby Theater.
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang win the Oscar for Best Picture for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once" / CARLOS BARRIA / REUTERS
'Everything Everywhere All at Once' makes it seven out of eleven on the night with Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All at Once is confirmed as the big winner of the 2023 Academy Awards. It won the final award of the evening, Best Picture, which was presented by Harrison Ford, who couldn't be accompanied by Glen Close on this occasion.
Michelle Yeoh accepts the Best Actress award for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' / Kevin Winter / Getty Images
Michelle Yeoh wins the Oscar for best actress
Michelle Yeoh wins the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, becoming the first Asian and second non-white woman to win this category. The statuette was given to her by Halle Berry with whom she shares this honor. After 40 years of career, the actress embarks on this film playing Evelyn, a middle-aged woman who turns out to be the salvation of the multiverse.
Brendan Fraser accepts the Best Actor award for "The Whale" onstage. / Kevin Winter / Getty Images
Brendan Fraser, best leading actor for 'The Whale'
Brendan Fraser has won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Whale. The entire quintet of nominees were making it to the Oscars for the first time. "I wasn't that far away, I'm still here. It's not so easy to get rid of me," he said in Venice, where he won the Volpi Cup for best performance. 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.
Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan (R) after winning their first Oscar of the night. / ETIENNE LAURENT / EFE
The Daniels, Oscar for best direction with 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, for their work for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', won the award for best direction. As much as someone remembers that Spielberg has not won it for 24 years, this was not his edition either. Not since 2017 had an American filmmaker won this award.
'Everything Everywhere All at Once', Best Editing
Paul Rogers, for Everything Everywhere All at Once, wins the Oscar for Best Editing. He had taken all the previous awards: from the editors' Eddie, to the Bafta, the Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit. His work is fundamental in the development of the plot of the Daniels' film, which has now won its fourth statuette.
One of the most commented things in social media is the reaction of Angela Bassett
One of the most talked about jokes on Twitter is the stoic-faced reaction of Angela Bassett, nominated for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, to Jamie Lee Curtis' win. Until a few days ago the actress, nominated for the second time after losing in What's Love Got To Do With It in 1994, was the favorite in this category. Bassett was already a joke at the BAFTAs for a confusing phrase in a rap sung by Ariana Debose.
Naatu Naatu', Best Original Song
Naatu Naatu, by M. M. Keeravaani and Chandrabose, for the Indian film RRR, won Best Song, beating Rihanna and Lady Gaga. RRR (the acronym in several Indian languages for rage, war and blood, and in English and Hindi for uprising, roar and revolt) serves, incidentally, to introduce the rest of the world to Tollywood cinema, made in Calcutta, in eastern India, which multiplies the spectacular nature of Bollywood cinema, created in Bombay, in the west of the country.
'Top Gun: Maverick', Best Sound
Mark Weingarten, James Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, from Top Gun: Maverick have won the Oscar for best sound. It is the first statuette for Tom Cruise's blockbuster at this gala and the second for the saga, which won best original song in 1987.
'Women Talking', Best Adapted Screenplay
Sarah Polley's Women Talking wins the Best Adapted Screenplay award on the night. The award-winner is the third film she has directed, adapting the novel by Miriam Toews. After winning this statuette, the director will also compete in the best film category. She is the only female filmmaker against the nine men who accompany her in the top category of this edition.
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