Everything Everywhere

Sci-fi comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once sweeps the 95th Academy Awards, with Michelle Yeoh becoming the first Asian woman to win best actress.

"They say stories like this only happen in the movies. "My journey started on a boat. "My mum is 84-years-old and she's at home watching," Quan said. The film was nominated for 11 awards. "I started in this business 30 years ago. "I know it looks like I'm standing up here by myself but I am not.

, Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan) and Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis). Malaysian-born Yeoh, 60, who plays Chinese immigrant and laundromat ...

"We’re committed to supporting authentic storytelling from, about, and featuring people from under-represented groups ... "Asian women, they have these double barriers; we have to fight against sexism, which is quite deeply embedded in Australian culture, but then another layer is the racism. "In the past, only Jackie Chan’s films were shown ... "Michelle Yeoh ... and then I saw one journalist, Alison Fan, who was in Perth. Australian stories have the power to resonate with audiences here and around the world and we want to see more representation of our diverse communities." Dr Song said while the image of Asian culture and people is shifting, "we don't actually hear a lot about the success stories Asian Australians are making for Australian society". Mainstream portrayals of Asian characters have also been "misrepresented" and "mischaracterised" in the past, Dr Song said, but it is changing. So you have to break the glass ceiling and after that, the bamboo ceiling is waiting for you." "It's taken decades for this change to occur, even with politics and culture, the arts, we need representation in order for change to happen." "I think the more we see Asians represented in television and film and in theatre, the more people feel that Asians are part of the community." The experience "traumatised" her and she stayed home for the next two weeks.

The metaphysical multiverse comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” wrapped its hot dog fingers around Hollywood's top prize Sunday.

](https://apnews.com/article/film-reviews-entertainment-sports-movies-martial-arts-a0c2c7bfb0a06c2f2f8156c835a84b93) [Telugu action-film sensation "RRR,"](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-india-4d04b6d032cabfc91b6d0beb6642c1ef) an intimate, impassioned performance by Lady Gaga of "Hold My Hand" from "Top Gun: Maverick," and an Super Bowl follow-up by Rihanna. [best supporting actress](https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2023-best-supporting-actress-18481e06d1e3c03d337d100f10b9e382). “The Way of Water” won for visual effects; “Maverick” took best sound. “Thank you to the Academy for recognizing the superhero that is a Black woman,” said Carter. Carter won for the costume design of "Wakanda Forever," four years after becoming the first Black designer to win an Oscar, for "Black Panther." [former action star's return](https://apnews.com/article/brendan-fraser-the-whale-darren-aronofsky-1b3e71f1022f11b26b764f238b421363) to center stage for his physical transformation as a 600-lb. [an improbable Academy Awards heavyweight.](https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2023-best-picture-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-c6db5dc1477c28e2b9e41270a036ac12) The indie hit, A24's second best picture winner following "Moonlight," won seven Oscars in all. Quan, beloved for his roles as Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and Data in "Goonies," had all but given up acting before being cast in ["Everything Everywhere All at Once." Scheinert dedicated the award "to the moms of the world." [back in March 2022](https://apnews.com/article/film-reviews-entertainment-sports-movies-martial-arts-a0c2c7bfb0a06c2f2f8156c835a84b93), helped revive arthouse cinemas after two years of pandemic, racking up more than $100 million in ticket sales with scant initial expectations of Oscar glory. It's the first best actress win for a non-white actress in 20 years.

A combination of old fashioned star power and zeitgeisty marketing captured Oscar voters (and audiences) across the board.

By the autumn, it was clear the film had a real shot at the gongs, and A24 set about securing them. Such strategies encouraged the idea of a grassroots push for an underdog. But Tuesday was the last day of voting, and in a tight race, every little helps. It looks like a film from the future and relies for its pull on the past. Yeoh joined in too, and last Tuesday screenshotted an article on her personal account explicitly comparing the career prospects for herself and fellow nominee Cate Blanchett, should each of them prove triumphant. [declaring](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrDekTrJ13o) “Everything has led to this” - the campaign leant heavily on the zeitgeisty lingo which also defines its aesthetic. Gradually the film’s clout snowballed along with its box office, as more and more critics - as well as industry insiders - declared their love. It was almost everything, almost everywhere, over the course of almost four hours. “I cannot imagine a better audience and crowd for this movie,” said c0-director Daniel Kwan as they took to the stage to present it. Word of mouth began strongly from a crowd at fever-pitch excitement, on the opening night of their first in-person festival in years. [Everything Everywhere All At Once](https://www.theguardian.com/film/everything-everywhere-all-at-once) took the top prize this year, victory felt an inevitability. The strategy slowly began to shift.

Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times/Getty Images; PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP/Getty Images (2); Kevin ...

[the ceremony a quarter-century ago](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/titanic-oscars-oral-history-1235343150/) at which Titanic was expected to dominate, and did, was and remains the most watched ever, whereas the last two ceremonies, held during the darkest days of the pandemic, when moviegoing was decimated, attracted the two lowest figures ever. [Top Gun’s Tom Cruise](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tom-cruise-jokes-top-gun-scientology-2023-oscars-1235349713/) and Avatar’s James Cameron apparently saw the writing on the wall and opted to skip the ceremony altogether — not the nicest thing to do when one’s studio has spent a fortune campaigning for one’s movie, when one’s colleagues are up for many awards, and when the Academy is desperate for big names to help draw viewers to the Oscars. A full half of the best picture nominees were completely shut out: Searchlight’s Banshees went 0-for-9; Warners’ Elvis went 0-for-8 (with lead actor Austin Butler’s loss probably partly the result of voters assuming that he will have more chances in the future than Fraser); Universal’s The Fabelmans went 0-for-7 (Steven Spielberg probably would have won his third directing Oscar and first in 24 years but for the Daniels); Focus’ Tár went 0-for-6 (lead actress Cate Blanchett was not helped by the fact that she already has two Oscars on her mantelpiece); and Neon’s Triangle of Sadness went 0-for-3. While the 95th Oscars was dominated by an indie distributor — out of 23 categories, A24 films won nine — it wasn’t a bad night for the streamers that are increasingly central to the business. Given the real-world popularity of this year’s top contenders — Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar, Elvis and yes, Everything Everywhere — I would be very surprised and, frankly, concerned, if this year’s ratings don’t tick up quite a bit from the last two. People in Ireland had plenty of reason to care about this year’s ceremony, too, given that five of the 20 acting nominees — four from The Banshees of Inisherin and one from Aftersun — and the team behind the eventual winner of best live-action short, An Irish Goodbye, all hail from the Emerald Isle. It’s especially remarkable that A24 — which previously backed one other film that went on to win best picture, Moonlight — managed to keep Everything Everywhere in the conversation for more than a year. Everything Everywhere — which has grossed $106.7 million, the most of any release of A24 Films ever — also exemplifies the strides that the Academy has made over the seven years since the second consecutive installment of #OscarsSoWhite. The film premiered at SXSW on March 11, 2022, and was then released in the U.S. on April 8, 2022; no eventual best picture winner had that early of a theatrical release since The Silence of the Lambs came out Feb. And A24 appears to have spent less on Everything Everywhere’s [President Janet Yang](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/podcast-janet-yang-academy-president-oscars-2023-will-smith-1235348650/) — was [dominated by ](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-winners-list-1235349224/) [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/everything-everywhere-all-at-once/), a film that certainly isn’t for everyone, but apparently is for enough of the 10,000 members of the [Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/academy-motion-picture-arts-sciences/) to prevail over formidable competition on the preferential (read: weighted/ranked-choice) ballot that the organization uses to determine its best picture.

Michelle Yeoh won the Academy Award for best actress for her performance in "Everything Everywhere All At Once," but she has many iconic roles to her name.

with the help of Yeoh's Wai Lin. In December 2022, she was sentenced to 33 years in prison, per the Yeoh has also starred in a Bond film opposite Pierce Brosnan's iteration of 007 in the 1997 film Tomorrow Never Dies. [Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings](https://www.newsweek.com/marvel-shang-chi-fala-chen-interview-fight-scene-1624607). In the film Yeoh portrays Mameha, the matriarch who helps train Sayuri (Zhang Ziyi) and other young women in the arts of being a geisha. Yeoh starred opposite Chow Yun Fat and Zhang Ziyi in the film, and it saw Yeoh's warrior try and fight thief Jen (Zhang) to get a fabled sword known as the Green Destiny.

March 13, 2023 6:38 a.m.. Directors ...

This was a year in which they didn't try much in terms of change; in fact, the goal seemed to be the most normal Oscars possible. At the same time, it was a reminder that while only a few years ago, Netflix was trying to wedge itself into the Oscars, it's now established a home there. It was perhaps the most utterly traditional choice they could have made in every way except for the fact that it's a film that's not in English. The film perhaps sneaked up on people, but as Oscar night wore on and it started to rake in prizes, including for score, cinematography, production design and international feature, the fondness that Academy voters still have for epic war sequences became perfectly clear. Some montages, a nice In Memoriam segment, an okay monologue, solid musical performances from Lady Gaga and Rihanna among others, and a return to theater seating after last year's cocktail tables and the train station set the year before. Perhaps it's fitting that Avatar won for visual effects and Top Gun: Maverick for sound — the spectacles won awards that relate, in part, to their status as such. That theory might turn out to be right or it might be wrong, but if this year didn't do it, then nominating big movies isn't a solution to the ratings problem as has so often been speculated. [Ke Huy Quan](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1160156811/ke-huy-quan-best-supporting-actor-oscar-everything-everywhere-all-at-once) once found himself shut out of Hollywood after a big start as a child actor in movies like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. The awards for supporting actor and supporting actress went to two very, very different "newcomers." But it's also part of the Academy's effort to revive interest in the ceremony after years of hearing the theory that the ratings were dropping because blockbusters weren't being nominated. What's perhaps most surprising is how many films that once seemed like strong contenders for major awards wound up getting completely shut out: Tár, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans and Elvis all went home empty-handed. Of the 20 acting nominees across lead and supporting categories, 16 were first-time nominees.

The film took home seven Oscars on Sunday night, making it the most-awarded best picture winner since “Slumdog Millionaire” took eight wins in 2008 – the last ...

No other film in 95 years has won seven above-the-line Oscars. The film took home seven Oscars on Sunday night, making it the most-awarded best picture winner since “Slumdog Millionaire” took eight wins in 2008 – the last year the Best Picture winner was limited to five films. Though it won Best Picture as the Academy Awards last night, the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once” also achieved something that hasn’t been done in the history of the Oscars before.

Michelle Yeoh reacts in the audience with excitement as she accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Everything Everywhere ...

[Apple](https://fortune.com/company/apple/) TV’s “CODA” became the first streaming movie to win best picture. [Telugu action-film sensation “RRR,”](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-india-4d04b6d032cabfc91b6d0beb6642c1ef) an intimate, impassioned performance by Lady Gaga of “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick,” and a Super Bowl follow-up by Rihanna. Meanwhile, the Writers [Guild](https://fortune.com/company/guild-instride/) and the major studios are set to begin contract negotiations March 20, a looming battle that has much of the industry girding for a possible work stoppage. “The Way of Water” won for visual effects; “Maverick” took best sound. “Thank you to the Academy for recognizing the superhero that is a Black woman,” said Carter. [best supporting actress](https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2023-best-supporting-actress-18481e06d1e3c03d337d100f10b9e382). Scheinert dedicated the award “to the moms of the world.” [an improbable Academy Awards heavyweight.](https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2023-best-picture-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-c6db5dc1477c28e2b9e41270a036ac12) The indie hit, A24’s second best picture winner following “Moonlight,” won seven Oscars in all. [former action star’s return](https://apnews.com/article/brendan-fraser-the-whale-darren-aronofsky-1b3e71f1022f11b26b764f238b421363) to center stage for his physical transformation as a 600-lb. The audience — including his “Temple of Doom” director, Steven Spielberg — gave Quan a standing ovation as he fought back tears. Jimmy Kimmel, hosting for the third time, pledged a ceremony with “no nonsense.” He said anyone who wanted to “get jiggy with it” this year would have to come through a fearsome battalion of bodyguards, including Yeoh, Steven Spielberg and his show’s “security guard” Guillermo Rodriguez. “Sometimes it’s a little scary knowing that movies move at the rate of years and the world on the internet is moving at the rate of milliseconds.

The futuristic film from the studio A24 won seven awards, including for best picture, directing and in three of the four acting categories.

The Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”) and the British-born Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) were honored. “Top Gun: Maverick” collected $1.5 billion, and “Avatar: The Way of Water” took in $2.3 billion. [any women](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/movies/female-directors-oscars.html) in the best director category. In the days leading up to the Oscars, another in a series of rainstorms soaked Los Angeles, so much so that the academy sent an alert to the news media on Wednesday warning that it may “need to clear the carpet at a moment’s notice.” In the end, the weather cooperated, and it was a sunny 63 degrees. Jordan, the “Creed” star, and Pedro Pascal, who plays the title role in “The Mandalorian,” were prepared to intervene. This year, Sarah Polley (“Women Talking”) was left out even though her film was nominated for best picture. Carter also won for “Black Panther” in 2019.) “Never give up.” She was the first Asian woman to receive the award. So did the little-seen art films “Triangle of Sadness,” “Women Talking” and “Tár.” Voters also made room for a musical (“Elvis”) and a memory piece (“The Fabelmans”). [95th Academy Awards](https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/awards-season), they may mark it as the start of a new New Hollywood. Curtis was also in tears by the time she reached the fiery conclusion of her acceptance speech. They are both 35.) The film, which received a field-leading 11 nominations, also won Oscars for film editing, best actress and best supporting actor and actress, with Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis honored for their performances.

At this point in awards-season history, you don't want to be “The Fabelmans.” The Oscar race is above all an expectations game, and “Everything Everywhere ...

(This was when I knew the film could win.) Once the precursors began in earnest, they pitched a perfect game. In the old days, Best Picture was an award for Best Artistic Achievement. The film was a rare beacon of light during a dark spring for theatrical moviegoing, [breaking A24’s box-office record](https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-beat-uncut-gems-a24-box-office-record.html) and inspiring a rabid cult following who saw it over and over and over again. One of the film’s biggest weaknesses was the fact that its fans were, well, a little annoying. The rest of the night was a coronation. The EEAAO campaign proved equally effective at meeting the demands of the day. It was simply too strange not to feel like an underdog, even when it started racking up the nominations befitting a major contender. [To Leslie](https://www.vulture.com/article/andrea-riseborough-to-leslie-oscar-buzz-timeline.html), we’ve spent the past few months debating over the true meaning of “grassroots” campaigns. But there was also the cast, which — Curtis aside — was almost entirely Asian or Asian American, and almost entirely made up of actors who were either unknown The Oscars race is above all an expectations game, and Everything Everywhere benefited all season long from the sense that it was playing with house money. That’s two different Oscar records broken: the most trophies won by a Best Picture winner since the category expanded in 2009, and the most awards a film has ever won in the above-the-line categories. (The film also tied A Streetcar Named Desire and Network as the only films to win three acting trophies.) It was the kind of old-fashioned Oscars sweep I didn’t think we’d see again, to go along with

Michelle Yeoh made history with her win for Best Actress in an emotional, joyous Academy Awards.

Everything Everywhere All At Once ended the evening with seven wins (out of its 11 nominations), the most wins or nominations for a film co-directed by an Asian man and featuring a cast that was almost entirely Asian. There were plenty of emotional moments that didn’t directly involve Everything—Brendan Fraser’s emotional acceptance speech for his Best Oscar win for The Whale stood out. For a relentlessly inventive sci-fi romp, Everything Everywhere All At Once struck a chord with audiences and the Academy because its central messages and most enduring themes were about acceptance and love. These were messages that came across loud and clear in Quan’s beautiful acceptance speech and were mentioned by the people we spoke to who worked on the film, from Quan, a child actor who flourished in Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, had a long hiatus from acting, which he described in his emotional, moving acceptance speech that set the tone for the entire night. The multiversal drama from the directing duo the Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) is centered on Yeoh’s Evelyn Wang, a laundromat owner under duress as the target of an overzealous IRS agent (played by newly minted Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis) and a fraying relationship with her daughter, Joy (a phenomenal, Oscar-nominated Stephanie Hsu).

In May 2022, Marvel Studios released Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a movie that promised the return of schlocky horror director Sam Raimi to ...

Is Everything Everywhere All at Once a sign the tide is shifting, and that original, bold movies could be embraced by studios again? Marvel’s recent releases are the polar opposite of what Everything Everywhere All at Once proves: audiences will embrace movies that take risks. [best parts of the movie](https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/oral-history-raccacoonie-everything-everywhere-all-at-once). A dumb joke about hot dog fingers becomes one of the most unexpectedly moving parts. [most beloved movie of the year](https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/best-movies-2022). A gag about Yeoh’s Evelyn Wang misremembering Pixar’s Ratatouille became one of the

'Everything Everywhere All At Once' won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 95th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night (March 12).

Accepting the shiny trophies were Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett. Rounding out the sci-fi spectacle's seven-win night, Paul Rogers was honored for his adept cinematic cutting. Michelle Yeoh, who portrays multiversal heroine Evelyn Wang, became the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress. The directing pair also won for Best Original Screenplay. [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.space.com/avatar-the-way-of-water-movie-review)," "The Banshees of Inisherin," "All Quiet on the Western Front," "The Fabelmans," "Elvis," and others, "Everything Everywhere All At Once" shone in a multitude of categories. [science fiction film](https://www.space.com/best-sci-fi-movies) "Everything Everywhere All At Once" swept most of the major categories, winning Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Editing and Best Original Screenplay.

Michelle Yeoh's mom may not have been present in the Dolby Theater on Sunday to see her daughter win an Oscar but cameras were rolling as she watched the ...

Carter](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/ruth-carter-oscar-black-panther-cec/index.html) became the first woman of color to win two Academy Awards on Sunday, she revealed in her speech that her mother recently died at the age of 101. Carter said her work on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” prepared her for the moment and dedicated the award to her late mom. He spoke about spending a year in a refugee camp as a child and finding himself as an adult on Hollywood’s biggest stage. [Ke Huy Quan](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/ke-huy-quan-oscars-acceptance-speech/index.html), who won the award for best supporting actor for his role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” also thanked his mom for the sacrifices she made during his acceptance speech. [“Everything Everywhere All at Once”](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/entertainment/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-academy-awards-takeaways/index.html) is a film about the importance of family and the dynamics of familial relationships, particularly between a mother and daughter (Stephanie Hsu). [Michelle Yeoh’s](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/michelle-yeoh-oscars-winner/index.html) mom may not have been present in the Dolby Theater on Sunday to see her daughter win an [Oscar](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/oscar-winners-2023/index.html) but cameras were rolling as she watched the historic moment live in Malaysia.

Despite increasing use of non-English languages demonstrating broader acceptance of linguistic diversity in a globalized world, films sometimes suggest ...

[language of Wakanda is the real-world language of Xhosa](https://screenrant.com/black-panther-movie-wakanda-language-xhosa-explained), spoken in South Africa, in Wakanda Forever, it was mostly relegated to greetings and asides. Unlike in James Cameron’s [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-the-way-of-water-vfx-oscar-2023-1235343383/), viewers are never explicitly told that what the audience hears has been “translated” for us. In a neat expositional trick, the main character narrates the beginning of the film and explains that he learned the alien language well enough that it just sounds like English to him. In this Marvel Cinematic Universe story, the fictional kingdom of Atlantis was [repositioned as a Mesoamerican-inspired society](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mesoamerican-influences-behind-namor-from-black-panther-wakanda-forever-180981106). There’s much more room for films to highlight both linguistic diversity as well as authentic characterization of characters who speak and sign without resorting to potentially harmful tropes. [Bong Joon-ho](https://www.cjenm.com/en/news/director-bong-joonhos-parasite-wins-the-best-foreign-language-film-at-the-77th-golden-globe-awards/) described in his [Golden Globes acceptance speech for 2019’s Parasite](https://variety.com/2020/film/awards/south-koreas-parasite-crashes-the-subtitles-barrier-1203488979/), when audiences move past the “one-inch tall barrier of subtitles” a richer world of film awaits. [Telling authentic stories](https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947013519551) in a modern, globalized and multicultural world means fairly portraying the languages spoken and signed all throughout our society. Yet, these characters are the primary villains of the story, portrayed as powerful and physically otherworldly. Although the In some of the film’s best scenes, the maestro uses only German during orchestra rehearsals and subtitles are dropped completely. [Oscar for best visual effects,](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/oscars-2023-all-the-kiwis-nominated-at-the-academy-awards-this-year/G7PU6REBKFDRVLTOTUZJ4TEM4A/) the protagonists all speak Na'vi, the language of [the species living across](https://gamerant.com/avatar-creation-human-navi-hybrids-explained/) the fictional Pandora. [language of Talokan is the real-world language of Yucatec Maya](https://globalvoices.org/2023/01/05/indigenous-and-proud-a-maya-speakers-reaction-to-black-panther-wakanda-forever/), spoken by Indigenous people in present-day [Guatemala, Belize and southern Mexico](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yucatec-language).

Entertainment guru Peter Ford told Millsy and Karl on 6PR Breakfast the awards ceremony was an “extra special one” due to the amount of milestones and powerful ...