Cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once

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.

The movie dominated the 2023 Academy Awards, winning seven of the 11 awards it was nominated for. The result meant that movies like The Banshees of Inisherin, ...

They're not the first duo to win the prize, as Joel and Ethan Coen won for No Country for Old Men in 2007. After Halle Berry, she is also only the second ever woman of color to win the Best Actress award. The result meant that movies like The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis and The Fabelmans went home empty handed.

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.

It was a historic night at the Academy Awards for a truly distinctive and radical film set in the multiverse — with an almost all-Asian cast.

Every year, she covers the Oscars and the Grammy awards for NPR, as well as the Sundance Film Festival and other events. Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based in Los Angeles, covering issues of culture, diversity, and race. As an arts correspondent based at NPR West, Mandalit del Barco reports and produces stories about film, television, music, visual arts, dance and other topics.

The A24 movie Everything Everywhere All At Once didn't just win Oscars, it dominated them. Inside the Academy Awards after-party, the industry took stock of ...

[Ride Wit Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSDWq6HsJE&ab_channel=NellyVEVO)” blared from speakers, the film’s Best Original Screenplay– and Best Director–winning duo, [Daniels](https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/everything-everywhere-all-at-onces-influences-explained.html) (Kwan and Scheinert), boogied up a few stairs to a narrow stage beneath a giant “Oscars 95” banner where engravers carved their names onto their new statuettes. [bellwether awards shows](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-is-oscar-front-runner.html) in the run-up to the Oscars meant that more mainstream fare never had a fighting chance. “This was supposed to be the year ‘Movies are back!’” he said, echoing a rallying call that had gone out throughout the studio and theatrical exhibition communities since the spring. “So it was weird they gave everything to Everything Everywhere All at Once.” “This was the year a bunch of movies that made a lot of money that people actually went to the theater to see got nominated. Viewed that way, the night’s awards benediction was little more than a formality. But there was also a feeling of bloodlessness: that those of us feasting on Moroccan lamb cigars and Oscar-shaped salmon matzahs while traipsing the But less than two hours after the conclusion of the awards presentation, upstairs at the glitzy Governors Ball, the customary first after-party stop for assorted members of the entertainment Fourth Estate — including those newly possessed of Academy hardware — talk of dreams gave way to less aspirational industry summations. That is, for the speechifying of winners who’ve bucked Hollywood’s cultural assumptions and broken out of the industry’s career pigeonholing. To all of you out there, please keep your dream alive!” [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-oscars-history.html)’s record-breaking sweep of Oscars in almost every major category Sunday night, the 95th Academy Awards served as a triumphant showcase for self-styled underdogs with a mic. “Dreams are something you have to believe in,” said Best Supporting Actor winner [Ke Huy Quan](https://www.vulture.com/article/ke-huy-quan-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-profile.html) from the podium while fighting back tears.

The 95th Academy Awards® ceremony was yet another brilliant showcase of the best that cinema has to offer, featuring the biggest stars, filmmakers, ...

Regardless of the situation, you can watch EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE on the big screen once again at AMC Theatres nationwide for a limited time. Prior to closing the show with its Best Picture win, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE dominated the field, with major victories in all the major categories throughout the night. It is hard to imagine going on such a fascinating journey with anyone else besides Yeoh, and her incredibly nuanced and multifaceted portrayal of a woman in crisis. [Best Picture nominee](https://www.amctheatres.com/amc-scene/best-picture-nominees-now-playing-at-amc), EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE won a total of seven awards after receiving 11 total nominations, the most of any movie at this year’s event. And without giving anything away for those who’ve yet to see the movie, this exploration of the multiverse also featured action set pieces and fight scenes that pushed the boundaries of the actors’ abilities and our own perception of reality. The 95th Academy Awards® ceremony was yet another brilliant showcase of the best that cinema has to offer, featuring the biggest stars, filmmakers, and movies of the year.

"As a filmmaker, we were so excited," Kwan told "GMA" co-anchor Lara Spencer backstage at the 95th Academy Awards. "We never thought this would happen," he ...

[Yeoh made history with her win](https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/oscars-2023-michelle-yeoh-makes-history-1st-asian-97723007), becoming the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for best actress. The film from the studio company A24 ultimately took home seven Oscars, including [best picture](https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/wins-best-picture-oscars-97819726), best original screenplay and best film editing. "We never thought this would happen," he continued.

Michelle Yeoh, winner of the Best Actress in a Leading Role award for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once,' poses with her Oscar following the 95th Annual ...

Smith was allowed to stay at the gala, and accept Hollywood’s top male acting prize soon after, but has since been banned from Academy events for a decade. Fraser was a major action star in the late 1990s with films like “The Mummy,” before largely disappearing from public view. “I started in this business 30 years ago, and things – they didn’t come easily to me,” he said. I spent a year in a refugee camp. In the night’s other prizes, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” won best animated film and “Avatar: The Way of Water” won best visual effects. “My journey started on a boat.

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

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.

"Mom, I just won an Oscar." The biggest winners of this year's Academy Awards were the cast and directors of "Everything Everywhere All at Once," but their ...

"My mother and father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories," she said before fighting back tears and looking upward, as if to send her speech's final words to her parents. Her late mother, Janet Leigh, was an Oscar-nominated actor best remembered for starring in the 1960 thriller "Psycho." "Thank you to my mom for the sacrifices she made to get me here,” he said. "And I want to acknowledge my context — my immigrant parents. She said her 84-year-old mother was able to see her shining moment while home in Malaysia. "Specifically my mom and dad, Ken and Becky, thank you for not squashing my creativity when I was making really disturbing horror films or really perverted comedy films or

Rep. Judy Chu, a California Democrat, says people in the AAPI community "held their heads a little higher" after the movie's big night.

For all but the most hardcore movie buffs, Oscars night often brings a sense of déjà vu: for months, you've been meaning to watch all of the films nominated ...

Everything Everywhere All at Once marks Quan’s return to acting after a 20-year absence from the screen. If you’re in the UK, the movie is available right now as part of your [Amazon Prime Video](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B09HZD8NJJ/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r) subscription. After moving to the US, she landed big roles in [Tomorrow Never Dies](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/ranking-pierce-brosnan-james-bond-movies/) (1997) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The directing duo shared Best Director at the Oscars for this one! Occasionally, one of the movies that passed you by even ends up sweeping the Oscars, like Everything Everywhere All at Once did at this year’s ceremony. In 2017, she joined the cast of Star Trek: Discovery, where her character Philippa Georgiou became a fast fan favorite. [Michelle Yeoh](https://www.denofgeek.com/michelle-yeoh/) as Evelyn Wang, a middle-aged Chinese American immigrant who runs a laundromat with her husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan). Where to Watch and Stream Everything Everywhere All at Once She eloped to the US with Waymond when they were younger, and the pair have [a grown-up daughter called Joy](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/everything-everywhere-what-everything-bagel-mean/) (Stephanie Hsu), who is frustrated with her mother’s apathy and plain refusal to accept her relationship with a non-Chinese girl called Becky. If you haven't gotten around to watching the Best Picture winner yet, here's where you can stream it right now! Your resolve has hardened – it’s time to check out the movie everyone’s been raving about! Everything Everywhere All at Once cleaned up at the 2023 Oscars.