It was a huge night for the little indie sci-fi that came from nowhere to take over the world. Everything Everywhere All At Once took a multitude of Oscars back to the multiverse, including Best Picture, Best Director for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh.
There were also Best Supporting wins for the film’s stars, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis, two wildly popular picks, and a Best Original Screenplay win for Kwan and Scheinert. It also won Best Editing for a total tally of seven Academy Awards.
As expected, Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for The Whale to cap another comeback story in a year rich in them.
It was a great night, too, for Netflix’s surprise awards contender All Quiet on the Western Front. It won for Best International Film, Best Score, Best Production Design and Best Cinematography.
There were few big surprises but plenty of feel-good comeback narratives, with Kimmel noting that Quan and Fraser’s wins represented a blue-riband evening for fans of cult 1992 comedy Encino Man (‘It’s a bad night for [co-star] Pauly Shore,’ joked the host).
Sarah Polley picked up Best Adapted Screenplay for her adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel ‘Women Talking’, while Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio won Best Animation and ‘Naatu Naatu’ from RRR won Best Song.
There was love for the year’s big blockbusters, too. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s Ruth Carter won Best Costume Design and Top Gun: Maverick picked up Best Sound.
An enjoyably upbeat Oscars ceremony was handled with a nicely-judged mix of smoothness and gentle snark by third-time host Jimmy Kimmel. There were regular jokes about ‘The Slap’, signalling an obvious determination not to sweep last year’s Will Smith incident under the carpet skirting close to overkill, and a random audience Q&A had A-listers trying to hide in their seats, but by and large, he nailed the tone.
Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Woman Talking
Triangle of Sadness
Best Director
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
The Daniels, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Todd Field, Tár
Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness
Best Actor
Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephenie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Hong Chau, The Whale
Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Best Animated Feature Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red
Best International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close
EO
The Quiet Girl
Best Documentary
Navalny
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Best Original Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Fablemans
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Triangle of Sadness
Tár
Best Adapted Screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun Maverick
Women Talking
Best Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár
Best Make-up and Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale
The Batman
Best Costume Design
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Live Action Short Film
An Irish Goodbye
The Red Suitcase
Night Ride
Le Pupille
Ivalu
Best Documentary Short Film
The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate
Best Animated Short Film
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Best Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Best Original Score
Volker Bertelmann, All Quiet on the Western Front
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Son Lux, Everything Everywhere all at Once
John Williams, The Fabelmans
Best VFX
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Avatar: The Way of Water
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Original Song
‘Applause’ from Tell It Like a Woman, Sofia Carson
‘Hold My Hand’ from Top Gun: Maverick, Lady Gaga
‘Lift Me Up’ from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Rihanna
‘Naatu Naatu’ from RRR, Rahul Sipligunj, Kaala Bhairava and MM Keeravani
‘This Is a Life’ from Everything Everywhere All at Once, Son Lux featuring Mitski and David Byrne
Best Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick
Tár
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