95th Academy Awards: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ wins Best Picture and the most Oscars since 2008, Michelle Yeoh makes Oscar history
After a year of film, and months of awards campaigning, the 95th Oscars finally came to a close tonight live from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Hollywood, California where A24’s Everything Everywhere All At Once took home the top prize of Best Picture in a history-making night.
In what became the most awarded film of all time, the Daniels sci-fi family drama ended up taking home seven Oscars, the most since 2008 when Slumdog Millionaire won eight. It marked the first film in Oscar history to premiere at SXSW to go on and win the top prize. Along with Best Picture, directors Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert took home Best Director, making them the third duo to win the award in Oscar history. (other winners were Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for 1961’s West Side Story and Joel & Ethan Coen for 2007’s No Country for Old Men). Daniel Kwan became the first Asian-American male to win Best Director and gave a passionate speech following his directing partner’s remarks.
With 3 acting wins, Best Director and Best Picture (plus Original Screenplay and Film Editing), Everything Everywhere All At Once won more above-the-line Oscars than any movie ever in the 95 years of the Academy Awards.
In the lead performance categories, Michelle Yeoh took home Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once, making her the first Asian actress to win the Best Actress Oscar and only the second woman of color ever in 95 years. Her Oscar was handed by last year’s winner Jessica Chastain and the other Best Actress winner of color, Halle Berry. Yeoh dedicated the award to her mother and all of her family in Hong Kong who were watching. In Best Actor, Brendan Fraser was able to pull out the win for his work in A24’s The Whale. He became just the second Best Actor winner in the preferential ballot era to win without his film being nominated for Best Picture (after Jeff Bridges for 2009’s Crazy Heart).
Both of the supporting performance categories were presented by last year’s winners Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur. The Best Supporting Actor award went to Everything Everywhere All at Once actor Ke Huy Quan. This marked not only the first win for Quan, but this is the first Asian actor to win the supporting actor Oscar since Haing S. Ngor for 1984’s The Killing Fields (which is also the year Quan’s career began with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). In the most nail-biting category going into the night, the Best Supporting Actress Oscar was awarded to Jamie Lee Curtis of Everything Everywhere All at Once. After her emotional speech at the SAG award, the veteran actress dedicated the win to her parents, the Daniels, and to all the ‘genre fans’ that watch her films along the way to this win tonight. With their wins and the lead acting winners, the four winners at SAG carried over their momentum to tonight and carried them to Oscar gold.
Records and history were the theme of the night as A24 became the first studio in Oscar history to sweep all four acting wins and this was the first time since 2005 that the four acting Oscar winners were all first time nominees. Everything Everywhere All At Once also became the first film to win three acting Oscars and Best Picture. Previously, 1951’s A Streetcar Named Desire and 1976’s Network won three acting Oscars but missed out on the top award.
For the screenplay categories, the Daniels took home the win for Best Original Screenplay, marking the first time in the category’s history that a writer of Chinese descent (Quan) took home the win. In the Best Adapted Screenplay category, Sarah Polley won for her work on Women Talking, based on the novel by Miriam Toews of the same name. After over a decade of zero female winners in the screenplay categories, Polley marks the third straight year where a woman has won one of the screenplay prizes, following Emerald Fennell in 2021 and Sian Heder in 2022.
Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front took home four Oscars – the most for a single film in Netflix’s history – including Best International Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Original Score, carrying over its dominant performance from the BAFTA to Oscar night. History was made as Ruth E. Carter took home the award for Best Costume Design for her work on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, making her the first Black/African American woman to win multiple Oscars. She previously won her first Oscar back in 2018 for her work in Black Panther. And Paul Rogers was awarded Best Editing for his work on Everything Everywhere All at Once.
In Best Documentary, Navalny, the film about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, took home the prize, with Navalny’s wife and two children speaking during the acceptance speech, hope to see him return home soon. The team behind The Whale walked away with the Best Make-up and Hairstyling Oscar, and the Best Visual Effects award went to the team behind Avatar: The Way of Water. In Best Sound, Top Gun: Maverick was rewarded its lone Oscar while ‘Naatu Naatu’ danced its way to the Best Original Song win.
Netflix’s Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio for Best Animated Feature, marking the first time the studio has won this category. It also marks the first time a filmmaker has won both the Best Picture and Best Animated Feature categories with Guillermo Del Toro taking home the win alongside his co-director Mark Gustafson.
Notable films to talk home empty handed were The Fabelmans (which became the first TIFF People’s Choice winner since 2011 to not win any Oscars), The Banshees of Inisherin, TÁR, Elvis, Triangle of Sadness. This is the first time in the expanded era that no more than 50 percent of the Best Picture nominees went home with at least one Oscar.
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony for the third time, which was televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide. Kimmel’s monologue kicked off the show expertly, working the room and making light of the nominees as well as the absence of both actor, producer Tom Cruise and director James Cameron. Kimmel also poked fun at last year’s controversy and did exactly what a host is supposed to do; make sure everyone has a fun time at the Oscars.
As the telecast went on, the Oscars brought back many things to make Oscar fans happy like clips with the presentation of the Acting categories, all 23 categories live on the telecast, as well as bringing the costumes for the nominated films for Best Costume Design. We also were treated with highlights of the 100 year anniversaries of Warner Bros. and Disney studios, with even the trailer debut of Disney’s latest live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. By doing this, the telecast showed that it can celebrate Hollywood’s biggest night as well as make viewers anticipate the films releasing within the upcoming months of 2023.
Here is the complete list of winners from the 95th Academy Awards.
Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)
Malte Grunert, Producer
Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century Studios)
James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures)
Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
Elvis (Warner Bros)
Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers – WINNER
The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures)
Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers
TÁR (Focus Features)
Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers
Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)
Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
Triangle of Sadness (NEON)
Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers
Women Talking (United Artists Releasing/Orion Pictures)
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers
Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler in Elvis
Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser in The Whale – WINNER
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Bill Nighy in Living
Actor in a Supporting Role
Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway
Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in TÁR
Ana de Armas in Blonde
Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie
Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau in The Whale
Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Animated Feature Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley – WINNER
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
The Sea Beast
Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
Turning Red
Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins
Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
James Friend – WINNER
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Darius Khondji
Elvis
Mandy Walker
Empire of Light
Roger Deakins
TÁR
Florian Hoffmeister
Costume Design
Babylon
Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Ruth Carter – WINNER
Elvis
Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Shirley Kurata
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Jenny Beavan
Directing
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures)
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24) – WINNER
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures)
Todd Field, TÁR (Focus Features)
Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness (NEON)
Documentary Feature Film
All That Breathes
Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov
Fire of Love
Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman
A House Made of Splinters
Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström
Navalny
Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris – WINNER
Documentary Short Film
The Elephant Whisperers
Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga – WINNER
Haulout
Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
How Do You Measure a Year?
Jay Rosenblatt
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison
Stranger at the Gate
Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Elvis
Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Paul Rogers – WINNER
TÁR
Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick
Eddie Hamilton
International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front
Germany – WINNER
Argentina, 1985
Argentina
Close
Belgium
EO
Poland
The Quiet Girl
Ireland
Makeup and Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová
The Batman
Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
Elvis
Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti
The Whale
Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley – WINNER
Music (Original Score)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Volker Bertelmann – WINNER
Babylon
Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin
Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Son Lux
The Fabelmans
John Williams
Music (Original Song)
“Applause” from Tell It like a Woman
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR
Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose – WINNER
“This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once
Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front
Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper – WINNER
Avatar: The Way of Water
Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole
Babylon
Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
Elvis
Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
The Fabelmans
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
Animated Short Film
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud – WINNER
The Flying Sailor
Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Ice Merchants
João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
My Year of Dicks
Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Lachlan Pendragon
Live Action Short Film
An Irish Goodbye
Tom Berkeley and Ross White – WINNER
Ivalu
Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
Le Pupille
Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
Night Ride
Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
The Red Suitcase
Cyrus Neshvad
Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front
Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte
Avatar: The Way of Water
Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges
The Batman
Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson
Elvis
David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller
Top Gun: Maverick
Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor – WINNER
Visual Effects
All Quiet on the Western Front
Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar
Avatar: The Way of Water
Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett – WINNER
The Batman
Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick
Top Gun: Maverick
Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Written by Rian Johnson
Living
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Top Gun: Maverick
Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Women Talking
Screenplay by Sarah Polley – WINNER
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Banshees of Inisherin
Written by Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – WINNER
The Fabelmans
Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
TÁR
Written by Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness
Written by Ruben Östlund
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