The resounding victory of the film with Duong Tu Quynh taking the lead role at the Oscars 2023 established more memorable milestones in the history of the film awards, which have been held 95 times.
By genre, Everything Everywhere All at Once is the first action-comedy or sci-fi film to win the award for Best Feature Film. This is also considered the first movie to win big (sweep) at the Oscars with 7 wins since the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) expanded the category for Best Feature Film. up to 10 nominations since 2010. The last time there was a “sweep” movie was Slumdog Millionaire (2008) with 8 wins out of 10 nominations.
Duong Tu Quynh in the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once.
For Everything Everywhere All at Once , directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won Best Director . This is only the third pair of matching songs to take the throne in this category after Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins with West Side Story (1961) and the Coen brothers with No Country for Old Men (2007). One half of the duo – Daniel Kwan – is the fourth Asian to hold the Best Director gold statue, after Ang Lee (twice with Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi ), Bong Joon-ho (with Parasite) ) and Chloe Zhao (with Nomadland ). All of these victories have occurred in less than 20 years.
The cast of Oscar winners 2023 (from left): Quan Ke Huy, Duong Tu Quynh, Brendan Fraser, Jamie Lee Curtis
Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman and the second black woman to win the Best Actress category for Everything Everywhere at Once. The first and last time this award honors a woman of color is Halle Berry with Monster’s Ball (2001).
The Best Supporting Actress category goes for Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere at Once. She is the second person whose parents have been nominated for an Oscar but not win, after Laura Dern. In addition, at the age of 64, Curtis is also among the 10 oldest actresses ever honored in this category.
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The excellent role in Everything Everywhere All at Once helped Quan Ke Huy bring home the golden statue of Best Supporting Actor. He is the second Asian to ever win this award after Dr Haing S Ngor (Cambodian) with The Killing Fields (1984).
In addition to the three names mentioned above, Brendan Fraser took the throne in the Best Actor category with The Whale . All four recipients of this year’s Oscars for acting are over 50 years old, with Guan Ke Huy the youngest (51) and Jamie Lee Curtis ( 64) the oldest. Besides, it’s been 46 years since Network (1976) that the public has seen a movie that won 3 Oscars for acting like Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was named the winner in the Costume Design category. This is the fifth sequel or spinoff film to receive this honor, after Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2008), Fantastic Beasts (2016) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2014). However, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the first film to have a golden statuette after the previous episode ( Black Panther , 2018) also won the same.
A scene from the movie Avatar: The Way of the Water (2022).
Not only is the “king of the box office”, James Cameron can also be considered the “king” of the excellent Cinematography category. Over the course of his career, six out of nine Cameron-directed films have won the award, with Avatar: The Way of the Water (2022) being the latest. Only three of his films did not receive this honor: Piranha II: The Spawning (1981), The Terminator (1984) and True Lies (1994).
Although Jai Ho in Slumdog Millionaire (2008) received the award for Best Original Song , Danny Boyle’s film is actually still counted for Britain. Therefore, Naatu Naatu in this year’s RRR (2022) can be considered the first Indian musical product to hold this golden statue.
Top Gun: Maverick has only one award at the 95th Academy Awards. That is the category of Outstanding Sound. The number of golden statues of the blockbuster that earned nearly $ 1.5 billion worldwide is also equal to the first part. Top Gun (1986) once won a single win with Take My Breath Away in the category of Best Original Song.
All Quiet on the Western Front can happily leave with 4 Oscars, including Best International Film . The war work from Germany shares the record for most wins for a non-English film with Fanny and Alexander (1982), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Parasite (2019). Italy and France are still the two countries with the record number of wins in the category with 14 and 12 times respectively. However, if only in the 21st century, Germany is temporarily taking the lead with 3 victories.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022 ) is the second stop-motion animated film to win the Best Animated Feature category. The first film to be honored was Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).