Everything Everywhere All at Once Dominates This Year’s Oscars

Everything Everywhere All at Once has broken barriers and made history all award show season, and that streak continued at film’s biggest night, the 95 annual Oscars. After a successful and historic sweep at this year’s SAG Awards, the film was projected to do well. As it turns out, they did more than well, taking home seven awards out of nine nominations.

Four of the film’s awards came from different aspects of filmmaking. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, also known as “The Daniels,” accepted the awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Best Editing went to Paul Rogers, whose work created a cinematic masterpiece.

the daniels won best directing. they took home best editing michelle won best actress ke won best supporting they got best picture EEAAO hive we did it. pic.twitter.com/Pgy2VFoiix

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Regarding the acting categories, EEAAO nabbed three out of the four largest acting categories. Jamie Lee Curtis won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the first time in her career. After Ariana DeBose pronounced Curtis the winner, Curtis was shocked and mouthed, “Oh, shut up.” She spent most of her speech dedicating her award to those influential to the film’s production and Curtis’ career.

“The entire group of artists who made this movie, we just won an Oscar. To my dream team…we just won an Oscar…To my family… we just won an Oscar…To all of the people that supported the genre movies that I have made for all these years, the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, we just won an Oscar,” Curtis exclaimed.

Also overcome with emotion was Ke Huy Quan, who won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Quan tearfully accepted the award and started his speech by thanking his mom. “My mom is 84 years old, and she’s at home watching. Mom, I just won an Oscar,” Quan stated.

“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 can not believe it is happening to me. This is the American dream,” he continued.

That’s what we call a sweep! pic.twitter.com/UJaw6ED7c0

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Later on that night, Michelle Yeoh would go on to make history as the first Asian woman to win Best Actress in a Leading Role, which was presented to her by Halle Berry, the only other woman of color to win that award. For a moment, Yeoh took in the crowd that gave her a standing ovation, then proceeded with her speech.

“For all of the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof to dream big, and dreams do come true. Ladies, don’t ever let anyone tell you that you are past your prime. Never give up,” Yeoh stated.

I guess you could say… Everything Everywhere All at Once won everything everywhere all at once pic.twitter.com/JKdLa6c6Ky

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The cast of EEAAO accepted awards left and right all night, so viewers had a pretty good idea of who was taking the title when it came time for the biggest award of the night. Harrison Ford presented the cast with the Best Picture award, which was truly the best way to end the night.

Producer Jonathan Wang led the acceptance speech and thanked A24 for their year-long theatrical support. “This is for my dad, who, like many immigrant parents, died young. He is so proud of me, not because of this, but because we made this movie with what he taught me to do, which is no person is more important than profits,” Wang mentioned.

Everything Everywhere All at Once has received its well-deserved flowers all year long, and you can relive the cinematic art on Paramount+.