Everything Everywhere All At Once makes Oscars history as the night’s biggest winner
Everything Everywhere All At Once has made history at the Oscars, winning three acting awards and the night’s big prize, for best picture.
The multiverse sci-fi comedy took home seven awards in total, with gongs for stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as the directing prize for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka “the Daniels”.
Other big winners included Brendan Fraser, who was named best actor for his performance as a reclusive, morbidly obese teacher in The Whale, while German anti-war epic All Quiet On The Western Front picked up four awards, including best international feature and cinematography.
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Brendan Fraser was named best actor, while Jamie Lee Curtis (below) was named best supporting actress. Pic: AP/Chris Pizzello
Despite going into the ceremony with nine nominations it was a disappointing evening for The Banshees Of Inisherin, which left empty-handed – as did Austin Butler’s Elvis, which had eight nods. Meanwhile, the three blockbuster sequels – Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way Of Water and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – were all honoured, taking home an award apiece.
But the night belonged to a film about laundry, taxes and exploring other universes – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Yeoh’s best actress win makes her the first Asian woman to win the award in 94 years of the Oscars. Addressing all the women watching, the 60-year-old said: “Ladies, never let anyone tell you you are past your prime.”
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She fought off competition from two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, Ana De Armas, Andrea Riseborough and Michelle Williams to win the award.
“For all the little boys and girls who look like me, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities,” she said in her acceptance speech. “Dream big, dreams do come true.”
She dedicated the award to her mother and “all the mums in the world because they are really the superheroes and without them none of us would be here tonight”.
Yeoh added: “This is history in the making.”
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Former child star Quan, who appeared in The Goonies and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom in the 1980s, received a standing ovation as he took to the stage to accept the award for best supporting actor earlier on in the evening.
And when the cast went on stage to pick up the best film award from none other than Harrison Ford, Quan was reunited with his old pal Dr Jones.
“My mom is 84 years old and she is at home watching,” he told the audience during his own acceptance speech. “Ma, I just won an Oscar!”
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Quan told how his story “started on a boat” and after spending a year in a refugee camp, “somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage”.
He continued: “They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe this is happening to me – this is the American dream.”
For Curtis, 64, the win was about all the people who have supported her along the way.
Rihanna and Lady Gaga (below) were among the night’s performers, but both missed out on the award for best song. Pic: AP/Chris Pizzello
“I know it looks like I am standing up here on my own but I am not,” she said, getting emotional on stage. “There are hundreds of people and hundreds of people – we just won an Oscar.
“To my family, my beautiful husband, Christopher Guest, my daughters, Annie and Ruby, my sister Kelly – we just won an Oscar.
“To all of the people who have supported the genre movies that I have made for hundreds and hundreds of thousands – we just won an Oscar together.”
Fraser’s win completed a dramatic career comeback after years out of the spotlight, and he was also emotional as he accepted his award, thanking director Darren Aronofsky for “throwing me a creative life-line”.
Elsewhere, costume designer Ruth E Carter became the first African-American to win two Oscars for best costume design – for her work on the first Black Panther film and now its sequel, Wakanda Forever.
The award for best documentary feature film went to Navalny, about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the events related to his 2020 poisoning.
Host Jimmy Kimmel Pic: AP/Chris Pizzello
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel, hosting for the third time, kicked off the night by entering the stage attached to a parachute, in a nod to best picture nominee Top Gun: Maverick.
He also made reference to last year’s slap by Will Smith while praising the Irish talent nominated at this year’s ceremony. “Five Irish actors are nominated tonight, which meant the odds of another fight on stage just went way up,” he said, prompting laughter from the audience and the cast members of The Banshees Of Inisherin.
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