Everything Everywhere All at Once

Michelle Yeoh says she hopes her story is an inspiration to young girls and boys from Asian backgrounds who want to become actors. "This is proof that dream ...

The 95th Academy Awards ceremony was broadcast live on Walt Disney Co's ABC network. A crisis response team was on hand in case of an unexpected twist. To all of you out there, please keep your dreams alive." I spent a year in a refugee camp. "For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching a tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. "My mum is 84 years old and she's at home watching.

Every time anyone involved with this genre-defying film wins an award, they are overcome with emotion. But as Beverley Wang explains, these are healing ...

"The way I see it, these are healing tears we're seeing in the acceptance speeches of the cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once. There is a family story at the core of it, but there's so much other stuff happening going on; there is multiverse-jumping, extraordinary fight scenes. "[They're thinking:] This is going to be an immigrant story about our cultures clashing, which at this point, we've seen so many of those. His Golden Globe speech was one for the ages: "For so many years, I was afraid I had nothing more to offer. Wang adds: "It's so extraordinary that he [Hong] even exists in Hollywood, the persistence that would have taken. And you're not supposed to be here," says Wang. But she first came to Hollywood's attention as a Bond girl in Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997, and then had an incredible turn in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).Loading [he] is [finally] being recognised as a good actor with range." Whichever way you dice it, there's nothing else quite like it in mainstream American cinema at the multiplex." It becomes quickly clear that there's a lot more at stake than her struggling business and personal life (and for those living under a rock, incredible fight to be here today, but I think it's worth it." Maisel) plays the couple's increasingly distant daughter Joy, and Jamie Lee Curtis (

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. 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. [any women](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/movies/female-directors-oscars.html) in the best director category. 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. (The most-viewed Oscars telecast was in 1998, when 57.2 million people watched “Titanic” win the trophy 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.

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The Oscars 2023 was a less scandalous affair than last year, and was defined by huge wins by crowd-favourite films.

In much of the commentary around the film, moral and aesthetic categories are being confused. The genuine emotion offered and elicited across all four categories were a refreshing rebuttal for an Oscars cynic, that the symbolic power of these awards can be put in service of expanding notions of prestige acting and celebrity. Was it actually the best picture of 2022? And this will excite the kinds of mega-corporations that produce indie cinema these days – they can simply recycle and combine material from their VHS collection. Despite its historical winnings at the Academy Awards, it is hard to say that Everything Everywhere All At Once has successfully managed to make new representations of Asian in the big screen. That said, I liked the simplicity of the setting for the song, the strong backlighting isolating her and her band in the space and making the large stage seem more intimate. Cast mainly by Asian actors and actresses, this strangely (sometimes even disturbingly) funny but also moving comedy won most of the major awards, including Best Leading Actress and Best Director. With his Oscar win for Best Actor for The Whale, Brendan Fraser simply proves something most of us have known all along – he’s a great performer. This is one of the first songs from song-rich Indian cinema to break through to the Oscars, but we can hope that it will pave the way for more. In fact it was a relatively wholesome ceremony, defined by great sweeps for films All Quiet On The Western Front and Everything Everywhere All At Once. I miss the days of the orchestra pit. Red (note the carpet was renamed champagne) got a solid look in with Melissa McCarthy, Anni Strenisko, and Cara Delavinge, who stunned in Elie Saab.

The movie claimed three of the four acting Oscars for stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeoh played the lead role of a stressed-out ...

A German remake of World War One epic All Quiet on the Western Front won best international feature. The 95th Academy Awards ceremony was broadcast live on Walt Disney Co’s ABC network. “Maybe give the assailant a hug.” As a boy, Quan starred in a 1984 Indiana Jones movie and The Goonies in 1985. “For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities,” the 60-year-old Malaysian actress said on stage. Yeoh played the lead role of a stressed-out laundromat owner who finds she has superpowers in alternative universes.