The 95th Academy Awards, held this Sunday in Los Angeles, had a big favorite: Everything Everywhere All At Once, a crazy comedy nominated in 11 categories. Expectations were confirmed, the film left with seven statuettes, including the most prestigious: those for best film and best direction, as well as three of the four acting awards. A mix of action, schoolboy humor and science fiction, this film follows the adventures of an overworked laundromat owner, played by Michelle Yeoh, suddenly immersed in parallel universes.
The Malaysian actress won the Best Actress Oscar for her role, becoming the first actress of Asian descent to bag the award. “For all the little boys and girls like me watching tonight, this is a symbol of hope and possibility,” she said with emotion. “It’s history in the making,” she added.
The directors of the film, which met with great success in theaters with 100 million dollars at the box office, Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan were awarded the Oscar for directing. The two thirty-somethings, for whom this is only the second feature film, notably stole the show from the juggernaut Steven Spielberg, in competition for his very intimate The Fabelmans, left empty-handed despite 7 nominations. «If our film has greatness and genius, it’s only because they have greatness and genius flowing through their hearts, and their souls, and their minds and have given this precious gift to our film.” declared Daniel Kwan, thanking the work of a “collective”.
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The American actor of Vietnamese origin Ke Huy Quan won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his incarnation of a somewhat awkward husband with unsuspected potential. “Mom, I just won an Oscar!” Tearfully launched the comedian, revealed at the age of 12 in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, before a long desert crossing.
A few minutes later, Jamie Lee Curtis in turn received the Oscar for best supporting actress for this same film. It was the first statuette for Jamie Lee Curtis, 64, daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, who spoke, very moved, of her family: “My mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories . And I just won an Oscar.”
To complete the table, Everything Everywhere All At Once was also awarded for its screenplay and editing.
Brendan Fraser, Best Actor
American actor Brendan Fraser won the Best Actor Oscar for The Whale, where he plays an obese professor recluse at home. Former star of blockbuster films in the 1990s as The Mummyhe thus signs a spectacular comeback following having fallen into relative oblivion.
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Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro, a dark version of the famous children’s book set in 1930s Italy, won the Oscar for best animated film. “Animation is cinema. The animation is ready to take the next step,” said the Mexican director
On the documentary side, it is Navalny, devoted to the eponymous Russian opponent, who was rewarded.
“In the West, nothing new” receives four awards
The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film went to In the west, nothing is new, a German production for Netfilx, adapted from the book by Erich Maria Remarque, firefight once morest the First World War. Edward Berger’s film was also awarded for its photography, its sets and its soundtrack.
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The evening, rather long and soothing, was punctuated by the performances on stage of the artists nominated in the category of the best original song, including a rare appearance by Rihanna, interpreting Lift Me Up, which appears in Wakanda Forever. No offense to the Barbados superstar, that’s the song Naatu Naatu you film india RRR which was awarded.
Nominated in nine categories The Banshees of Inisherinby Martin McDonagh left him without the slightest reward, just like the biopic Elvis, with eight nominations.
A “crisis team” behind the scenes
The host of the evening, Jimmy Kimmel, literally parachuted onto the stage. The host of talk-show American might not avoid evoking the most striking element of the previous ceremony, remained in all memories, Will Smith’s famous slap to comedian Chris Rock: “If something unpredictable or violent happens, do what you did last year: nothing.” Will Smith has since been banned from ceremonies for 10 years and this year, but a “crisis team” was announced behind the scenes to prepare for any eventuality.
She will not have had to intervene. In general, Jimmy Kimmel presided over a very wise and unsurprising ceremony, for which the cream of Hollywood show business crowded the red carpet – which was actually beige. Like Lady Gaga, who was originally due to be absent despite a nomination, made a last-minute appearance on stage, to perform her song from the soundtrack of Top Gun: Maverick.
The ceremony counted on the presence of the suites of Top Gun et Avatar, two major blockbusters which each leave with an Oscar (soundtrack for the first and special effects for the second), and on the performance of Rihanna and Lady Gaga to try to counter the general decline in its audience. Because despite a rebound last year, interest in the Oscars has waned considerably since the heyday of the 1990s. Titanicrewarded with 11 statuettes.
The nominees and winners in the main categories
Best film
- In the west, nothing is new
- Avatar 2: The Way of the Water
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The Fabelmans
- Tar
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Without filter
- Women Talking
Best Director
- Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
- Todd Field, Tar
- Ruben Ostlund, Without filter
Best Actress
- Cate Blanchett, Tar
- Ana de Armas, Blonde
- Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
- Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
- Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best actor
- Austin Butler, Elvis
- Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
- Brendan Fraser, The Whale
- Paul Mescal, After sun
- Bill Nighy, Vivre
Best Supporting Actress
- Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Hong Chau, The Whale
- Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
- Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Stephanie Hsu, 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
- Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best International Film
- In the west, nothing is new (Germany)
- Argentina, 1985 (Argentine)
- Close (Belgium)
- EO (Poland)
- The Quiet Girl (Ireland)
Best Animated Film
- Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
- Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
- Puss in Boots 2: The Final Quest
- The Sea Monster
- Red alert
Best Documentary
- All we breathe
- All the beauty and the bloodshed
- Fire of Love
- A House Made of Splinters
- Navalny
