“Everything Everywhere at Once” wins Oscars and makes history

It was the most awarded film since “Slumdog Millionaire” in 2008.

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“Everywhere at the Same Time” was the big winner of a historic Oscar night, taking seven statuettes that included Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor.

It was the most awarded film since “Slumdog Millionaire” in 2008, and established Michelle Yeoh as the first Asian to win the Oscar for Best Leading Actress. It also gave Jamie Lee Curtis his first Academy Award and awarded Ke Huy Quan Best Supporting Actor, only the second Asian ever to win this category.

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At age 64, Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress.

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“This is a historic moment,” said Michelle Yeoh in the interview room after her victory, saying she “broke the glass ceiling” with a Kung-Fu move.

“This is for everyone who has been identified as a minority,” said the actress. “We deserve to be heard, we deserve to be seen and given equal opportunities, so we can have a seat at the table,” she continued. “Let us prove we’re worth it.” Yeoh won against ‘heavyweights’ like Cate Blanchett (“Tár”) and Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”).

Urging all dreamers to “light that fire in their souls”, Yeoh, 60, also sent a message to those who are prejudiced against women past a certain age. “Don’t let them put you in a box, tell you you’re not at your peak anymore,” he said.

The importance of representing and recognizing Asian actors was also addressed by Ke Huy Quan, who won an Oscar after being away from the industry for decades due to lack of opportunities.

“When I started acting as a kid, I remember my agent telling me that it would be easier if I had an American-sounding name,” said Ke Huy Quan. That’s why in the early stages of his career his name appeared as Jonathan Ke Quan.

“When I decided to return to acting three years ago, the first thing I wanted to do was go back to my birth name,” he explained.

Quan was the most exuberant winner of the night in the interview room, where he entered jumping and screaming with joy. “Can you believe I’m holding a [estatueta] Do you have these in your hand?”, he asked. “This is so surreal”.

Ke Huy Quan, left, with the other awardees in the representation category.

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Behind the scenes also passed the ‘two Daniels’, the duo of directors responsible for “Everything in Every Side at the Same Time”, who took home the statuette for Best Original Script, Best Directing (beating Steven Spielberg) and Best Film.

“We are in a mental health crisis, especially the younger generation who don’t have much to look forward to,” said co-director Daniel Kwan. “There’s a desolation that creeps in,” he continued, noting that he himself had a very difficult time as a teenager.

“The radical, transformative power of joy, the absurd and chasing our happiness is something I want to bring to people,” he said, “and this film is a shot of joy, absurdity and creativity.”

Producer Jonathan Wang added that the team’s intention was for the film to culminate in a warm embrace, despite being a story of chaos. “We decided to dedicate our lives to making films that are good and that lead to something good, not just something that will get attention,” he said.

The Academy awarded the work in a way that it had not done for a long time. These are rare nights of consecration for a single film, with few exceptions, which include “Ben-Hur” in 1959, “Titanic” in 1998 and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” in 2004, with 11 Oscars each.

“There’s something so inspiring about making a film that teaches you things along the way,” reflected co-director Daniel Scheinert. Also Paul Rogers, who took the Oscar for Best Editing, underlined the incredible success that this strange and surreal story had.

“We see a lot of movies that tell stories about certain types of people, and they tend to focus on the white male,” he said. “And to have this beautiful story of an emigrant family was incredible.”

The story of “Everything and Everywhere at Once” oscillates between the absurd and the fantastic, centering on a middle-aged Chinese immigrant (“Evelyn Wang”) who finds herself thrust into an adventure across multiple universes and timelines. .

The other winners of the night

With regard to other winners of the night, Brendan Fraser stands out, who received the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in “The Whale”, by Darren Aronofsky.

Actor Brendan Fraser won the Academy Award for Best Leading Actor for his role in ‘The Whale’.

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Fraser’s interpretation had already received this year’s award from the Actors Union, among other distinctions.

In the category of Best Foreign Language Film, the German film “Nothing New in the West” won the golden statuette. Navalny”, Daniel Roher’s film dedicated to the Russian opponent Alexei Navalny, won the Oscar for Best Documentary today.

The film “The Voice of Women” won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and director Guillermo Del Toro won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film with “Pinocchio”.

“Ice Merchants”, the first Portuguese film to be nominated by the Academy, did not win the Oscar at the ceremony this morning, which went to “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”, by Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy, but ‘short’ by João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano left its mark in Hollywood.

Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short Film

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Backstage at the ceremony, writer-director Charlie Mackesy praised the other nominees and previously João Gonzalez had already referred to Lusa that the nomination of “Ice Merchants2 was already a victory and producer Bruno Caetano highlighted the number of people who saw and praised the short, including Disney animation legend Glen Keane.

The 95th Academy Awards took place on Sunday night at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.

See, below, the complete list of winners of the 95th edition of the Oscars:

Best movie
“Everything at the Same Time Everywhere”

Best Achievement
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (The Daniels) – “Everything at the Same Time Everywhere”

Best Actor
Brendan Fraser – “The Whale”

Best actress
Michelle Yeoh – “All At Once Everywhere”

Best Supporting Actor
Ke Huy Quan – “Everything at the Same Time Everywhere”

Best Supporting Actress
Jamie Lee Curtis – “All At Once Everywhere”

Best Original Screenplay
“Everything at the Same Time Everywhere”

Best Adapted Screenplay
“Women’s Voice”

Best International Film
“All New West” by Edward Berger

Best Animated Feature Film
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

Best Animated Short Film
“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse”, de Peter Baynton e Charlie Mackesy

Best Documentary
“Navalny”, de Daniel Roher

Best Documentary Short Film
“The Elephant Whisperers”, de Kartiki Gonsalves

Best Short Film
“An Irish Goodbye”, de Tom Berkeley e Ross White

Best Photography
“Nothing New West”

Best Special Effects
“Avatar: The Way of Water”

best wardrobe
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

Best Characterization
“The whale”

Best Original Song
“Naatu Naatu” – “RRR”, de MM Keeravaani e Chandrabose

Best Original Soundtrack
“Nothing New in the West” by Volker Bertelmann

Best Scenography / Artistic Direction
“Nothing New West”

Best Assembly
“Everything at the Same Time Everywhere”

Best sound
“Top Gun: Maverick”

(With Lusa)

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