Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once Best Film, 5 prizes for Netflix

In Hollywood, nothing new? Oh yes ! While the supreme trophies of this 95th Oscars ceremony seemed promised to Steven Spielberg and The Fabelmans, since the director’s triumph at the Toronto Film Festival with his most personal film, it is a multiverse story that has created the surprise: Everything Everywhere All at Once, broad winner with seven awards (out of eleven possible). Including those for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh) or Best Supporting Female and Male Roles, awarded to Jamie Lee Curtis and a tearful Ke Huy Quan.

But can we really speak of surprise? Yes and no. Six months ago, this possibility seemed as far-fetched as the opus produced by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan. Even when their film was most cited when the Oscar nominations were announced.

And then the changeover took place in a few weeks, spoiled by the PGA, DGA, SAG and other WGAs, submitted by the unions of producers, directors, performers and screenwriters. Reliable indicators that saw them achieve a breathtaking Grand Slam, which ended this Sunday, March 12. A year and a day after the very first screening of their baby at the SXSW festival, on March 11, 2022.

In the space of 366 days, Everything Everywhere All at Once brought together the public (106.7 million dollars in revenue worldwide for a budget oscillating between 14 and 25), critics and voters from the Academy, sensitive to the campaign led by the A24 studio, which won its second Oscar for Best Film after Moonlight.

Under Steven Spielberg’s nose and beard, despite the symbol that a prize would have represented for The Fabelmans, the culmination of the career of ET’s dad, the only filmmaker to have been named over six different decades.

NETFLIX, SO NEAR SO FAR

In the end, the only competitor of Everything Everywhere All at Once also had a long title: In the West, nothing new. A German war film adapted from the homonymous novel by Erich Maria Remarque, it once thought it could offer Netflix its first supreme trophy. It will not be this time, despite his four awards (including Best Foreign Language Film) which make him the second big winner of a list with political overtones.

Because the victory of Everything Everywhere All at Once is not just that of the geeks hailed by Jamie Lee Curtis. It is also that of youth and diversity. From a desire to shake up Hollywood like Steven Spielberg, a big fan of the feature film, had done in his debut.

The four trophies of In the West, nothing new echo the news and this war in Ukraine which has lasted for more than a year, just like the Oscar for Best Screenplay awarded to Women Talking by Sarah Polley, on the word of women and the status of women.

History is being written

In the same vein, the Best Actor award given to Brendan Fraser for The Whale can also refer to #MeToo, whose actor had been one of the most outstanding voices, explaining the reasons for his empty passage. few years ago.

Back on the front of the stage, he is today at the heart of one of those beautiful stories that make the salt of the Oscars. A resounding comeback of which Mickey Rourke, also in front of Darren Aronofsky’s camera, was deprived in extremis by Sean Penn and Harvey Milk in 2009.

That year, the first Avatar was released at the cinema, before winning three Oscars. That’s two more than its sequel, which escapes zero points thanks to that of the Best Special Effects which could not decently escape it. In the same way that Top Gun: Maverick, after saving the loaves of Hollywood according to Steven Spielberg, saved his thanks to the Best Sound award. Consolation prizes for the two biggest hits of 2022, which will nevertheless have succeeded in this mission, which we thought was almost impossible, to bring the public back to theaters.

“History is being written”exclaimed Michelle Yeoh, second actress of color to receive the trophy for Best Actress, at the end of an edition where Netflix won five times, between Pinocchio and In the West nothing new, while ‘Elvis, The Banshees of Inisherin and The Fabelmans left empty-handed.

What if the actress was right? If the Oscars became a little less predictable? See you in a year with, perhaps, another unexpected winner on paper.

OSCARS 2023: THE COMPLETE WINNERS

Best film : Everything Everywhere All at Once

Also named were:

Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Best actor : Brendan Fraser – The Whale

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Best Supporting Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Best Achievement: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Best Original Screenplay: Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

Also named were:

• The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
• The Fabelmans – Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg
• Without filter – Ruben Östlund
• Tar – Todd Field

Best Adapted Screenplay: Women Talking – Sarah Polley

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Best animated film: Pinocchio

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Best Foreign Language Film: In the West, nothing new (Germany)

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Best Cinematography: In the West, nothing new – James Friend

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Best sets: In the west, nothing is new

Also named were:

• Avatar – The Waterway
• babylon
• Elvis
• The Fabelmans

Best costumes: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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Best makeup and hairstyles: The Whale

Also named were:

• In the west, nothing is new
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Elvis

Best editing: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Also named were:

• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Elvis
• Tar
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best Sound: Top Gun: Maverick

Also named were:

• In the west, nothing is new
• Avatar – The Waterway
• The Batman
• Elvis

Best visual effects: Avatar – The Waterway

Also named were:

• In the west, nothing is new
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best Original Score: Volker Bertelmann – In the West, nothing new

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Best Original Song: RRR- “Naatu Naatu”

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• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – “Life Me Up”
• Everything Everywhere All at Once – “This Is A Life”
• Tell It Like a Woman- “Applause”
• Top Gun: Maverick- “Hold My Hand”

Best Documentary: Navalny

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Best documentary short: Those who whispered in the elephant’s ear

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Best short film: An Irish Goodbye

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Best Animated Short Film: The Child, the mole, the fox and the horse

Also named were:

• An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
• The Flying Sailor
• Ice Merchants
• My Year of Dicks