Everything Everywhere All At Once wins seven Oscars in three and a half incident-free hours
After a brief All Quiet On The Western Front interlude, Everything Everywhere All At Once dominates the major categories
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Everything Everywhere All At Once made good on all those Oscar predictions, winning seven awards out of 11 nominations Sunday night at the 95th Academy Awards. The multiverse-spanning epic won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing, and its stars won Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Supporting Actor.
The only other movie that even came close to winning as many awards was All Quiet On The Western Front, which broke up EEAAO’s sweep with an hour of technical award wins and a Best International Picture trophy.
It was an incident-free night (if you ignore Jimmy Kimmel lying about the identity of a particular donkey), which meant the focus could be on history-making wins, like Michelle Yeoh taking home Best Actress, the first woman of color to do so in over 20 years, the first Southeast Asian woman to win the category, and the first Malaysian woman to win.
“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight,” Yeoh said in her acceptance speech, “this is a beacon of hope and possibilities this is proof that dreams do come true and ladies don’t let anyone tell you you’re past your prime. Never give up.”
“I have to dedicate this to my mom, to all the moms in the world. They are really the superheroes without whom none of us would be here tonight.”
Everything Everywhere’s cast won in all nominated categories, picking up early wins for Ke Huy Quan for Best Supporting Actor and Jamie Lee Curtis for Best Supporting Actress.
Presenter and Oscar-winner Ariana Debose’s voice broke as she read the winner of this year’s Best Supporting Actor, “Ke Huy Quan,” signaling to everyone watching that it was time to start crying for this wonderful guy. First, he got the role of a lifetime as Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All At Once. Now he’s got the statue to top that cake.
“My mom is 84 years old and she’s at home watching,” Quan, America’s newest sweetheart, said in his acceptance speech. “Mom, I just won an Oscar! My journey started on a boat, I spent a year in a refugee camp, and somehow, I ended up here, on Hollywood’s biggest stage. They say, stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe it’s happening to me. This—this is the American dream!”
The Academy was plenty pleased with the support work in EEAAO, particularly Best Supporting Actress, nominating stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu. In a surprise win, if you can call an actor’s overdue victory a surprise, Jamie Lee Curtis won the second award of the night, and the second for Everything Everywhere All At Once. Sorry, Stephanie Hsu. If there were another supporting Oscar to give out, you’d be a lock. This was Curtis’ first nomination despite being a nepo baby of the highest order.
In addition, the Daniels picked up trophies for Best Screenplay and Best Director. “The world is opening up to the idea that genius stems from the collective,” Daniel Kwan said as he accepted the award for Best Director. “I want to acknowledge my context, my immigrant parents.”
The wins didn’t stop there for EEAAO, which also won Best Editing. Editor Paul Rogers admitted that this was his second film, surely irritating everyone in the audience.
However, Everything Everywhere’s dominance was interrupted in the middle of the show by All Quiet On The Western Front. James Friend won Best Cinematography for All Quiet On The Western Front, once again proving that a grimy World War I movie is a lock for the category.
All Quiet On The Western Front also overcame donkey bias by winning Best International film, shutting EO out, and denying audiences a chance to look at those cute mules. All Quiet also won Best Production Design and Best Score. Oscar voters really loved this thing.
Breaking the All Quiet winning streak up, Avatar: The Way Of Water picked up a well-deserved win for Visual Effects. As beautiful as it was to watch Lo’ak and Payakan come together, it was just nice to stop hearing that All Quiet theme. But, in classic Oscars fashion, Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett were among the only winners to get played off so that Jimmy Kimmel could make a “CGI Fridays” joke. Moments later, after talking to Malala Yousafzai, Kimmel said she won for “Malala land” and moved on to Colin Farrell. Yeah, it sucked. But shortly after, they brought out Rihanna to perform “Lift Me Up” from Wakanda Forever, so that’s something.
Considering all the nominations for Elvis, Tár, and The Banshees Of Inisherin, the only other movie to win multiple awards was The Whale, which won Best Makeup and Best Actor. Those visual effects paid off because Brendan Fraser won for The Whale. Fraser gave a beautiful, emotional speech that likely pleased even the most ardent Whale detractors. It’s just lovely to see the guy win. “So this is what the multiverse looks like,” he said. “I’m grateful to Darren Aronofsky for throwing me a creative lifeline and hauling me aboard the good ship The Whale.”
Adding to his trophy case, Guillermo Del Toro nabbed a win for Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio. He was the first history-maker of the evening, becoming the first person to win Best Animated Feature, Best Picture, and Best Director. “Animation is cinema,” he said. “Animation is not a genre. Animation is ready to go to the next step.”
Women Talking writer Sarah Polley won Best Adapted Screenplay for a movie that’s definitely not called “Women Are Talking,” no matter what Mark Wahlberg tells you. “I just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words ‘Women’ and ‘Talking’ so close together like that,” Polley said. “Miriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical act of democracy in which people who don’t agree on every single issue manage to sit together in a room and carve out a way forward together free of violence. They do so not just by talking but also by listening.”
Ruth E. Carter won her second Oscar for her second Black Panther movie, earning Wakanda Forever its only award of the night. Carter is the first Black woman to win two Oscars. And despite six nominations, Top Gun: Maverick only came home with one, Best Sound. That’s a good win until you consider how good Batman’s squishy boots sounded in The Batman.
RRR won the only award it was nominated for, Best Original Song, with “Naatu Naatu.” Along with lyricist Chandrabose, composer M. M. Keeravani accepted the prize, giving big shouts to The Carpenters before singing his acceptance speech for the first Indian production ever to win an Oscar. As actor Deepika Padukone said, the song is a “total banger.”
Navalny won Best Documentary, which should irritate one Oscar watcher: Vladimir Putin. Alexei Navalny, still in solitary confinement, could not accept the award, but Navalny’s family was on hand, sending words of encouragement for the political prisoner. “My husband is in prison just for telling the truth,” Yulia Navalnaya said on stage. “My husband is in prison just for defending democracy. Alexey, I’m dreaming of the day when you will be free, and our country will be free. Stay strong, my love.”
An Irish Goodbye picked up a win for Best Documentary Short. Celebrating the birthday of the film’s star James Martin, director Tom Berkely and Ross White led the audience in an unlicensed rendition of “Happy Birthday To You.” The Oscars will be hearing from the Hill sisters’ lawyers. Speaking of shorts, The Elephant Whisperers won Best Documentary Short, and The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse won Best Animated Short.
The night ran a little long but did not end in any misread envelopes or slaps across the face. Instead, a bunch of filmmakers won some awards, thanked their peers, and left the stage. If only every award show could be so simple.
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… without incident in this universe maybe.
“Get Brendan Gleeson’s name out of your fucking mouth!” – Alternate Universe Colin Farrell, slapping Alternate Universe Hugh Grant.
It’s pronounced ‘fecking’.
“Fecking” is milder than “fucking.” They even use both variants in Banshees.
Is this the universe with the hot dog fingers?
Love to say I told you so
Come on man, I’ve seen it three times (first two times at the movies) so far plus given away two copies to people who loved it, I was going to watch it again before the ceremony but I was tired and fell asleep after watching another (shorter) film I also really loved for the 8th time. I will get to that fourth viewing as soon as I can, I am still trying to do my part!
Haha. I’m only up to 15th viewings (6 in the theatre) so far. Working on it
NPR has immediately made things cringey by calling Yeoh the first Best Actress winner who “identifies as Asian.” It’s about 50/50 they’re deliberately trying to trigger both sides because they’re desperate for attention.
99/1 they’re just being more precise than most people. The Hollywood Reporter used the same phrasing because Cher and Natalie Portman have known Asian heritage but don’t identify as Asian (it’s also not the part of the continent most Americans think of as Asian). Nominees Merle Oberon, Salma Hayek, and Vivian Leigh also had known or possible Asian parents or grandparents.
It’s simple. In 1939 Merle Oberon became the first actress with part Asian ancestry to get nominated, than Vivien Leigh later became the first actress with partial Asian ancestry to win. They both hid their Asian ancestry.
I read somewhere that Merle Oberon tried to pick somewhere so remote that no one in Hollywood could contradict her story and even to this day Tasmania is pretty remote to us mainlanders (one of two states I’m still to get to) but what are the odds that someone else from the same time she was in Hollywood, Errol Flynn, was actually from not just Australia but specifically Tasmania?So, from what I recall reading, obviously he knew she was lying but apparently he found the whole thing funny as shit so didn’t blow her cover.
I don’t know if the fact that Errol Flynn was a utter psychopath (seriously, look up his biography, dude was a MONSTER) makes this less or more believable.
Well, as an Australian as well, I have heard a thing or two …
I know the “nepo-baby” thing feels all new, hip, and oh-so snarky, but FFS, to call Jamie Lee Curtis a nepo-baby – even jokingly/ironically – is just stupid. She’s been working as an actress for fucking decades.
I mean,…..but she is.That’s not to diminish her career or body of work.It’s merely to point out that were she not Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh’s daughter, she wouldn’t be where she is today.To deny that is to,…..well,….lie.
Normally I’d agree, but it’s a joke Curtis herself has been making throughout this awards season, so it feels like a fair gag.
I suppose her husband, Christopher Guest, makes cracks about being a flipping Baron and having served in the House of Lords until the British Government got rid of hereditary membership.
But of course she wouldn’t be making the joke throughout the awards season if…
“I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby. I’ve never understood, nor will I, what qualities got me hired that day, but since my first two lines on Quincy as a contract player at Universal Studios to this last spectacular creative year some 44 years later, there’s not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars. The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt.”
Hilarious joke
It’s been a while now. It doesn’t feel that hip anymore.But maybe I’m just a jaded-baby.
The most overrated movie ever. Not that it was bad, just meh, and if you think it was crazy and original you probably did not watch a lot of movies in your life.
Counterpoint, I’ve seen thousands of films across numerous genres and countries and I thought it was fucking fantastic every single time I saw it, as did everyone I’ve given a copy to.
I was really not. I really have no idea what was supposed to be great about this movie. A nice little story about family and kindness, and nothing more. I felt I had seen it or something like it 100 times. I don’t know anybody who liked it particularly. Now I am not American, and the people I know aren’t neither, so that may be part of the reason.
And you are still wrong. I’ve seen 1000s of movies, graduated from film school, written screenplays (some that made it into production), and it’s still the most heart-wrenching, original movie I have seen in my life. It literally changed my life – and many many others too.
I am not wrong, my opinion is still mine. This movie as mostly boring for me and there was nothing I never saw, this is a fact, I am happy for you if you liked it. The thing is usually I can understand why people like a movie I don’t – Avatar for example – but in this case I can’t.
You started off trying to state your opinion as fact. Everyone else has since pointed out what you’re calling fact is actually just opinion.
1. I never stated my opinion as fact but as my opinion.2. “Everyone else” is 3 people. You are a little pathetic.
I’m not American either and I loved EEAAO. Maybe we’re just fundamentally different people, but I also feel like cinema could do with more films about family and kindness, if they’re willing to approach those topics with the raw honesty that this film did.
*desperately scrounging for a reason to not be wrong*“I’m… not American. Yeah… that’s relevant. We don’t have families or whatever I’m on about in Notmerica; we spring from the Earth fully grown and clad in armor.”
“Now I am not American, and the people I know aren’t neither”
All those non-Americans in the cast probably didn’t like it either.
You’re allowed to be indifferent to even not like it, opinions are subjective and all that but by that token, you do you and I’ll do me and so on for everyone everywhere in this thread and others.
bring the list of those 100 movies…
PS: Missed that earlier – I’m not American nor are any of the other people I gave a copy too. Also, even though most of the characters in the film are likely American citizens (or at least permanent residents), many of the main ones have a background of growing up in another country and then coming to the US, possibly that’s contributing to why it appeals to many people outside the US (or originally from outside the US), especially those from Asian families as well who can relate to much of the experience.
No, that has nothing to do with it, I don’t care about the origins of the cast. That was still an American movie that spoke mostly to Americans and their sensibilities. The fact is this movie was a failure outside the USA, it’s not very common that a movie has 70% of its box office from the USA only. Now this is just a theory, but that’s what I feel.
“That was still an American movie that spoke mostly to Americans and their sensibilities.”No, it’s also spoken to people who’ve gone from one country to another (with neither country being the US) and the struggles of dealing with the difference as well, we know this because they’ve said so publicly including on forums like this one.
How do you know ? You are in their heads ? You are the one stating facts that you pull out of your ass. This movie was nice. It was also nothing more and will not be remembered as a great movie. It’s a fade. It happens. The Artist was also not a great movie (and I love Jean Dujardin, in particular in his younger comedy roles) and everybody agrees today that it did not deserve the Oscar. That will be the same.
same, but i knew it was gonna be the winner
It was the apex of the sappy action-comedy, a genre I’ve never loved all that much but plenty of people do.
Can it be somewhere between “most overrated” and “best film ever!!”? Getting hung up on these critical binaries is not helpful.
Fuck off with the nepo baby bullshit with jamie lee fucking curtis. its so god damn annoying that all you guys throw that shit in every fucking article
The biggest snub of the night? Racacoonie. Unbelievable.
Puppeteering never gets the respect it deserves.
Fantastic deep reference that really reaches all the way to my being if you know what I mean, I doff my cap to your foot!
The Sorvino exclusion from In Memoriam was odd, especially since his daughter almost certainly was there someplace; he did a decent amount of TV, but also plentiful film creditsJessica Chastain being the only A list, orchestra seat celeb still masking up took courage; I have little doubt she’s going to get social media polarized about something so common sense, probably with equal amounts of hate and praise.Kimmel did an extended, higher priced, better guest version of his standard talk show shtick that I normally like, so I can’t complain about most of the hosting save for the Malala question. Those can be funny but shouldn’t really be tossed at people you don’t have a preexisting relationship with, and while she nailed the answer unexpectedly she shouldn’t have had that kind of awkwardness.
A lot of tv work, but I would say the role he’s best known for is Paulie from Goodfellas, so yeah, kind of an odd choice to leave him out.
Jessica Chastain is starring on Broadway right now. If she’s out sick the whole production loses money – she’s “above the title” meaning if she doesn’t perform the entire audience is allowed to request a refund – so she’s been masking at all the recent events she’s attended.
Jamie Lee Curtis goes far beyond being a nepo baby—she’s the second generation of a Hollywood dynasty.Even if her Dad did fall for a German actress when she was four….
I’m glad that such a swing for the fences as EEAAO is being so handsomely rewarded, but I must say I found the film fairly tiresome.
Makes sense, I’m sure there’s someone somewhere who just doesn’t “get” the Sistine Chapel
I the info about the Navalny win, why are both the spellings Alexi and Alexey used?
It was the best movie I saw in 2022, but rarely does the Oscars vote for the actual Best Movie