Films

Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once sweeps with 7 wins

By Jordan Robledo

13th March 2023

Everything Everywhere All At Once swept the 2023 Oscars with seven monumental wins.

On 12 March, the highly-anticipated 95th Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Hosted by comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, the event featured appearances from Jessica Chastain, Collin Farrell, Cate Blanchett, Florence Pugh and more.

Alongside the show’s star-studded roster, the evening featured an array of landmark wins, snubs and heartfelt performances.

One of the biggest winners of the evening was the cast and crew of Everything Everywhere All at Once (EEAAO).

Out of the film’s 11 nominations, the sci-fi dramedy took home seven awards, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan were awarded Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor for their performances as Deirdre Beaubeirdre and Waymond Wang, respectively.

“My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp, and somehow I ended up on Hollywood’s biggest stage,” Quan said during his tearful acceptance speech.

“They say stories like this only happen in movies. I can’t believe this is happening to me. This is the American dream.”

Curtis also delivered an emotional speech while accepting her first Academy Award.

“I know it looks like I am standing up here by myself, but I am not. I am hundreds of people,” she exclaimed. “My bae Michelle [Yeoh], Ke [Huy Quan], Stephanie [Hsu] – the entire group of artists who made this movie – we just won an Oscar.”

However, one of the night’s biggest winners was Michelle Yeoh, who took home the coveted award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Due to her landmark and much-deserved victory, the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star has become the first Asian woman to win the category since the Oscars’ inception.

“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof that dreams dream big and dreams do come true,” Yeoh said in between tears.

“And ladies, don’t let anyone ever tell you you’re past your prime.”

Yeoh’s landmark Oscars win came a few weeks after she nabbed the Best Actress accolade at the SAG Awards and Golden Globes Awards.

Outside of EEAAO, Brendan Fraser topped off his film industry comeback by winning the Best Actor award for his performance in The Whale.

“I started in this business 30 years ago, things didn’t come easy to me, but there was a facility that I didn’t appreciate at the time, until it stopped,” he said in his speech.

“I just want to say thank you for this acknowledgement. It couldn’t be done without my cast. It’s been like I’ve been on a diving expedition, and the air on the line to the surface is being watched over by some people in my life, like my sons.”

In addition to the ceremony’s award section, pop icons Lady Gaga and Rihanna delivered riveting performances of their Oscar-nominated songs Hold My Hand and Lift Me Up, respectively.

Stephanie Hsu also performed EEAAO’s original song This Is A Life alongside David Byrne.

Lastly, Disney fans were treated to the first full trailer for the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid – which featured new footage of singer-songwriter Halle Bailey as Ariel.

Check out the full list of winners below.

Best Picture

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Banshees of Inisherin

Elvis

WINNER: Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Fabelmans

Tár

Top Gun: Maverick

Triangle of Sadness

Women Talking

Best Director 

Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)

WINNER: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

Todd Field (Tár)

Ruben Ă–stlund (Triangle of Sadness)

Best Lead Actor

Austin Butler (Elvis)

Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)

WINNER: Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Paul Mescal (Aftersun)

Bill Nighy (Living)

Best Lead Actress

Cate Blanchett (Tár)

Ana de Armas (Blonde)

Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie)

Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)

WINNER: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)

Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans)

Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)

WINNER: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

Hong Chau (The Whale)

Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)

WINNER: Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Best Adapted Screenplay

All Quiet on the Western Front, Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Written by Rian Johnson

Living, Written by Kazuo Ishiguro

Top Gun: Maverick, Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks

WINNER: Women Talking, Screenplay by Sarah Polley

Best Original Screenplay

The Banshees of Inisherin, Written by Martin McDonagh

WINNER: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

The Fabelmans, Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner

Tár, Written by Todd Field

Triangle of Sadness, Written by Ruben Ă–stlund

Best Cinematography 

WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front, James Friend

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Darius Khondji

Elvis, Mandy Walker

Empire of Light, Roger Deakins

Tár, Florian Hoffmeister

Best Documentary Feature Film 

All That Breathes, Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov

Fire of Love, Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman

A House Made of Splinters, Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström

WINNER: Navalny, Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris

Best Documentary Short Film 

WINNER: The Elephant Whisperers, Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga

Haulout, Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev

How Do You Measure a Year? Jay Rosenblatt

The Martha Mitchell Effect, Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison

Stranger at the Gate, Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones

Best Film Editing

The Banshees of Inisherin, Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

Elvis, Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond

WINNER: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Paul Rogers

Tár, Monika Willi

Top Gun: Maverick, Eddie Hamilton

Best International Feature Film 

WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)

Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)

Close (Belgium)

EO (Poland)

The Quiet Girl (Ireland)

Best Original Song 

Applause from Tell It Like a Woman, Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick, Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop

Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler

WINNER: Naatu Naatu from RRR, Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose

This Is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once, Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne

Best Production Design 

WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front, Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper

Avatar: The Way of Water, Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole

Babylon, Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino

Elvis, Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn

The Fabelmans, Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara

Best Visual Effects

All Quiet on the Western Front, Frank Petzold, Viktor MĂĽller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar

WINNER: Avatar: The Way of Water, Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett

The Batman, Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick

Top Gun: Maverick, Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher

Best Animated Feature Film 

WINNER: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Joel Crawford and Mark Swift

The Sea Beast, Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger

Turning Red, Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins

Best Animated Short Film

WINNER: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud

The Flying Sailor, Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Ice Merchants, JoĂŁo Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano

My Year of Dicks, Sara GunnarsdĂłttir and Pamela Ribon

An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It, Lachlan Pendragon

Best Costume Design 

Babylon, Mary Zophres

WINNER: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ruth Carter

Elvis, Catherine Martin

Everything Everywhere All at Once, Shirley Kurata

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Jenny Beavan

Best Live Action Short

WINNER: An Irish Goodbye, Tom Berkeley and Ross White

Ivalu, Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan

Le Pupille, Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso CuarĂłn

Night Ride, Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen

The Red Suitcase, Cyrus Neshvad

Best Makeup and Hairstyling 

All Quiet on the Western Front, Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová

The Batman, Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Camille Friend and Joel Harlow

Elvis, Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti

WINNER: The Whale, Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Annemarie Bradley

Best Original Score 

WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front, Volker Bertelmann

Babylon, Justin Hurwitz

The Banshees of Inisherin, Carter Burwell

Everything Everywhere All at Once, Son Lux

The Fabelmans, John Williams

Achievement In Sound

All Quiet on the Western Front, Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte

Avatar: The Way of Water, Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges

The Batman, Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson

Elvis, David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller

WINNER: Top Gun: Maverick, Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor