Complete List of Oscar Winners (and records broken!)
Monday, March 13, 2023 at 9:51AM by Nathaniel R
Everything Everywhere All At Once swept the Oscars last night, winning 7 of its 10 categories (and 11 nominations). While it wasn't a "clean" sweep, it's the only sweep and the biggest haul for a Best Picture winner since the expansion of the Best Picture field changed the Oscar stats story in so many ways back in 2009. (The only other film to win that many Oscars in the current era was 2013's Gravity, which lost Best Picture). The most shocking element of EEAAO's big win in terms of the history books (if not the temperature of awards season) was the fact that it won 3 of the 4 acting Oscars. This has only happened twice before in Oscar's 95 years via A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), and Network (1976).
We'll talk about the ceremony later today but first the prizes and some stats / observations...
PICTURE - Everything Everywhere All At Once
It's the first sci-fi/action-comedy to win.
DIRECTOR -The Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once
They are the third directing duo to win after Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), and the Coen Brothers for No Country for Old Men (2007).
One really fun piece of trivia about this win is that they're now the 6th and 8th youngest filmmakers to win this prize but right inbetween them is Lewis Milestone for the ORIGINAL All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) which is a strange coincidence given this particular Oscar year.
Daniel Kwan, half of the Daniels, is the fourth Asian director to win this prize after Ang Lee (twice), Bong Joon Ho, and Chloe Zhao. All five of those wins are in the past 17 years so in the past 20 years of Oscar history, almost 25% of the winners for Best Director have been Asian.
ACTRESS - Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once
She is the first Asian actress to win this category and the second woman of color after Halle Berry (Monsters Ball). She recently turned 60 so she doesn't quite make the list of "oldest" Best Actress winners since Frances McDormand (in 10th place) was a couple of months older when she won for Nomadland)
ACTOR - Brendan Fraser, The Whale
SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All At Once
She follows in Laura Dern's unique footsteps of being the child of two acting nominees (who had never won) who then went on to win the prize that eluded her parents. She also became the 8th oldest winner of Best Supporting Actress at 64 years of age (just one week older than Judi Dench was when she won for Shakespeare in Love)
SUPPORTING ACTOR - Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
He becomes only the second Asian actor to win this category after Dr Haing S Ngor (The Killing Fields, 1984)
NOTE OF INTEREST: All acting winners were over 50 years old this year with Ke Huy Quan the youngest at 51 and Jamie Lee Curtis the oldest at 64. And again, one film winning three acting Oscars is ultra-rare so this is going down in the history books and might not happen again for another 46 years.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY - Everything Everywhere All At Once
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY - Women Talking
CINEMATOGRAPHY - All Quiet on the Western Front
COSTUME DESIGN - Black Panther Wakanda Forever
The FIFTH sequel to win this category - it's becoming common. The others were Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Elizabeth the Golden Age, Fantastic Beasts, Mad Max Fury Road but this is the first sequel to ever win the category after the original film ALSO won the category. Designer Ruth E Carter has also become the first black woman to win a second Oscar.
PRODUCTION DESIGN - All Quiet on the Western Front
VISUAL EFFECTS - Avatar The Way of Water
James Cameron has made 9 narrative features in his career and six of them have won this category (his only features that didn't were: The Terminator, True Lies, and Piranha II.)
MAKEUP AND HAIR - The Whale
FILM EDITING - Everything Everywhere All At Once
ORIGINAL SCORE -All Quiet on the Western Front
ORIGINAL SONG - "Naatu Naatu" RRR
While Slumdog Millionaire won this category it was a British production. So RRR is the first Indian production to be nominated for and win in this category.
SOUND - Top Gun Maverick
Mirroring the fate of the original 1986 blockbuster, Top Gun Maverick went home with only one Oscar. But it won Sound instead of Song this time.
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE - All Quiet on the Western Front
With four wins All Quiet ties the record for most Oscars for a non-English language movie. It now shares that record with Fanny & Alexander, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Parasite in a four-way tie. If you look at all-time stats in this category, Italy and France lead but in the 21st century (aka only counting 2000 and forward) Denmark and Germany have been in a race for dominance but now Germany has pulled ahead.
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT - An Irish Goodbye
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - Navalny
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT - The Elephant Whisperers
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE - Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
This is only the second stop-motion feature to win this prize (the Academy prefers CG above all else here) after Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
BEST ANIMATED SHORT - The Boy The Mole The Fox and The Horse
Now the longest animated short to ever win this category at its totally unreasonable 32+ minutes
NOTE OF INTEREST: Despite their big presence in the nominations, The Fabelmans, Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, and TAR all went home empty-handed which is a highly unusual outcome considering that they would all arguably have been nominated even in a 5-wide only Best Picture year. Instead Oscar voters were kinder to films with low nomination counts (Women Talking, Avatar The Way of Water) or films that weren't in the Best Picture race at all (Wakanda Forever, The Whale, RRR)
Reader Comments (56)
I think the 2022 Actress race will age like the 2000 race: Like Roberts’ win, Yeoh’s makes perfect sense: It’s a great performance, a popular star turn, hard to say she didn’t deserve it.
But like Burstyn’s performance, Blanchett’s will sneak onto more “all time” lists, people will reference it as a monumental achievement. It’s the one they’ll study in acting school, etc. Few will say she was “robbed” but the esteem for the work will speak for itself.
DK -- agreed. that's a nicely positive way of looking at it. thank you. The truth of the matter with "bests" is that it's all subjective so as long as a performance is special it's mostly fine if it wins :) it's only in cases where the least deservign in the category wins that I tend to become enraged (which did happen a few times last night ;)
So EEAAO is the first film to win 3 acting awards and Best Picture? Wow.
"An Irish Goodbye" is terrible, only bad moment of the night for me.
Feel sorry for Angela Bassett, but she should've mustered enough of her superb acting skills to clap.
I was so happy when JLC won,she had been underestimated as a winner all season long by almost everybody.
Polley gave a lovely speech.
The jokes were obvious and flat.
Agreed that Blanchett will be a discussed performance in the how did they not win kind of way .
Connelly,Berry,Blunt,Mescal for Best Dressed.
Farrell seemed happy for everyone,sad he didn;t win.
It's insane to me that Academy voters seemed to have only watched 3-4 films this year.
Such a shame for Elvis, TAR, Fabelmans, Banshees. :-(
I think Fraser’s win will be forgotten like dust in the win.. nobody will ever reference it again, and he’ll never be in an Oscar-caliber film again.
That said, how about Aranofsky and Oscars for acting: 2 so far (Portman and Fraser), one near miss (Rourke) and a handful of other nominations (Burstyn, Tomei, Chau, am I missing one?). From such a bizarre and infrequent filmography, it’s pretty impressive.
It was an amazing night.
I love Blanchett, she's my number one, but it was Yeoh's year.
She's the heart os EEAAO. Nobody can deny.
I'm still crying for Jamie Lee Curtis. I did it, girl!
(And frankly, what a shame for Bassett. Completely unfair and rude.)
I can accept Fraser winning. At least, it wasn't Butler and his piece of sh** they call a movie.
EEOAO winning 3 acting awards. This is a thing.
I'm also incredibly happy for "All Quiet On the Western Front".
Also, I think the Daniels lucked out with casting (both from the performances themselves and the narratives they set for Oscar). The stars aligned so each performance had a tear-worthy, ready-made story to sell their wins (in addition to being good, which as we know doesn’t always equal a win). First Asian Best Actress, Hollywood royalty without a nod, forgotten child star.. with different backstories none of them could’ve won.
@Paranoid Android,
Good point.
People talk about Blanchett's loss as if she gets these kinds of opportunities every year, forgetting that she hasn't been nominated since 2015. At this point, she probably won't get more than one great role. She might win for a predictable performance just for them to give her the third Oscar. Cate losing for both Elizabeth and Tár for politics reasons is just too much.
"just one week older than Judi Dench" -- my brain just exploded.
Fun fact -- Crouching Tiger won the exact same 4 awards: Cinematography, Score, Art, and Foreign Film.
I'm happy to move on to 2023 and Barbie, Asteroid City, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, May December, and any number of happy discoveries.
An Oscars that produces record-breaking or -tying streaks for All Quiet on the Western Front and EEAAO plus multiple wins for The Whale while ignoring Tar, Banshees, The Fabelmans, and, yes, Elvis is not likely to age well.
I'm so very happy for EEAAO's wins! I predicted it to win 4 thinking the Academy was going to spread the wealth as they usually have done of late though of course I wanted it to win 10. So 7 seems like a perfect compromise -- plus those 3 acting wins! Wow. That Yeoh win in particular probably was a razor thin margin with Blanchett. Glad she was able to make history.
Speaking of history, a sobering stat that Ruth E. Carter is the first black woman to win 2 Oscars. In any category. That's... wow.
@Ad_Mil: It's racist to think Yeoh won "for political reasons."
whunk (he/him)
Yeoh herself reposted an article on Instagram that mentioned how she should win because she won't have another chance and chose a caption such as "vote for me and everyone that looks like me." That's objectively a highly political campaign if there is one.
Her post said no such thing.
whunk (he/him)
Yes, it did. You can read it here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/michelle-yeoh-deletes-oscars-instagram-post-cate-blanchett-2023-3%3famp.
Anyway, that wasn't the point of my post, so I won't be answering further.
Clean ceremony with a lot of beautiful speeches tonight.
I prefer when they spread awards between more movies but I Can't say that I'm not satisfied.
The awards that made me happier were Quan, Curtis, Ruth E. Carter, All Quiet for original score and Sarah Polley.
I would really loved All Quiet to win makeup and hairstyling.
The only head scratched that I had was All Quiet in production DESIGN. Was it deserful?
Even if movies that I loved as All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Tàr or Triangle of sadness went home empty handed at least they all have Cannes and Venice on their library
@Ad_Mil she has two Oscars and two Volpi Cup. We will see her again.
@whunk YOU'RE BORING!
First time all 4 acting winners were first time nominees since 1961 (West Side Story's year).
Paranoid Android - Aranofsky joins a very short list of directors to have directed both a Best Actor and Best Actress winner in different movies. Only ones I could find in recent decades are Scorsese, Norman Jewison, and Milos Forman in the 70s/80s, James Brooks and Jonathan Demme in the 80s/90s, and Clint Eastwood in the 2000s.
Congrats to all that have won yesterday. See you at the 96th Academy Awards and can't wait to see your April Fool's 96th Academy Awards nominations predications Nathaniel.
@Ad_Mil: I read it. It said no such thing as "everyone like me should win."
@PP92: Cope, transphobe.
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The caption was: "This is not just for me, this is for every little girl that looks like me…🙏✨ We want to be seen. We want to be heard." You get the idea.
Have a nice rest of the day.
I think Yeoh is just a competitive person, a total Leo. I get it but I don't relate. Most actors get media trained out of the open eagerness she displayed (that SAG line about being “up against titans” was eeeeeek, it’s unattractive to frame the race in those terms) but ultimately I found it more endearing than annoying. I personally prefer more mystique from my movie stars than the IG age allows, for those who’ve really leaned into social media.
I’m pretty sure the stat about 5 of the Best Picture nominees going home empty-handed is also a record, at least in the modern era (unless I somehow missed something, the last time that many Best Picture nominees won nothing was all the way back in 1942!).
Is EEAAO also now the first Best Picture winner to have been released prior to the previous year’s Academy Awards since Silence of the Lambs? Unless we’re counting festival screenings, I’m pretty sure it is.
-For the entire show, I kept thinking that Mel Brooks was sitting between Michelle Yeoh and JLC. Was he a Producer of that film? I kept cursing ‘him’ for not changing seat and letting those two women be together. My bad.
-Angela Bassett-you can even be bothered to clap or change your sour grapes expression? Weird that she was seated next to Austin Butler and that he was clutching her hands during the Best Actor category.
-The In Memory segment was once again awful. It was more about 90s Nepo Baby Lenny Kravitz that the departed. Ray Liotta/Goodfellas, Irene Cara/Fame and James Caaba/The Godfather were the only three artists whose work was shown.
-ABC/Disney and their shameless Little Mermaid plug?!? This couldn’t be a surprise commercial like during the Super Bowl?
-The Warners Brothers 100 years segment-Singin’ in the Rain (MGM), The Wizard of Oz (MGM), no Bette Davis ‘the Queen of Warner’s?’
In addition to being the fourth Asian winner, Kwan is also notable for being the first U.S. born Asian American to win Best Director
I would like to remind everyone that it is perfectly acceptable for an actor not to pretend to be happy to lose an award they clearly wanted to win. Policing Angela Bassett's genuine response to an obvious disappointment is very weird behavior, especially considering that her big offense was [checks notes] not immediately clapping and jumping to her feet for Jamie Lee Curtis.
Y'all are so used to performative niceness that honest sentiment makes you very uncomfortable, and it's time to start asking yourselves why.
It’s wild that four of the five best director nominees’ films went home empty handed.
Peter- actually, since 2005. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon, George Clooney and Rachel Weisz were all first-time nominees when they won their Oscars that year (Clooney was also up for Director and Original Screenplay for another film, but it was the first time he was ever nominated for anything, so it counts).
Edwin- It also happened in 2013, when 12 Years a Slave won Best Picture and Gravity took most of the techs, there were five Best Picture nominees (American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Nebraska, Philomena and The Wolf of Wall Street) that went home empty-handed.
Such a weird feeling when Jamie won, knowing the Deirdre Beaubeirdre was officially one of my favourite performances to win a supporting prize, while also knowing that my favourite movie (Banshess) was now about to go home empty-handed.
Something about this sweep (all possible top categories) made me think of Schitt's Creek at the Emmys a few years ago. An overwhelming wave of affection and support for a work that overtakes a voting body and creates no room for other works. I wonder if the same thing happened with CODA last year - and it simply had fewer places to reward it.
I hope we don't see a ton of years like that, but it's fun that the movie to make these waves is something as fun and bizarre as EEAAO.
I'm so very pleased with the wins last night! So happy for EEAAO and everyone involved in that weird, unique, beautiful film! It's so rare for a film like that to be embraced so fully.
I am especially happy that Michelle Yeoh pulled off best actress. Agreed that Cate Blanchett was flawless in a more "difficult" role to pull off, but "best" is subjective and Michelle's win wll age well. I love the Julia Roberts reference made earlier and totally agree. When you think of Julia now, Erin Brockovich and her win for it are iconic and will always be remembered and well deserved. I think the same will be said for Michelle Yeoh now. Iconic performance, and so happy to see an undervalued star like her pull it off at age 60.
@Ad_Mil I hear your frustration for Cate losing for a performance as iconic as Tar, but I definitely don't agree that this was her last shot. She is absolutely an academy favorite at this point, and will be back for more than one nomination and likely another win down the road. She's only 53 years old now and has 7 nominations spanning 4 decades already. If anything, I think last night's loss will only make her stick in members heads longer as someone to nominate and vote for in the future. If she won a third acting prize by 53, she could have been seen as over rewarded and potentially overlooked more in the future.
Very happy for Yeoh and all of the EEAO team though I was rooting for Angela in supporting actress. Also, just because the lead role in TAR is incredibly difficult to pull off , so was the lead role in EEAO just in a different way. What Yeoh did in that film was on par with what Cate did in hers in terms of level of acting achievement in my mind and if there was a year I would've been happy with a tie this would be it. What Yeoh did is not a 'lesser performance' which is a narrative I am seeing a lot of today and I totally disagree with.
Also YAY for Sarah Polley
To call Julia Roberts’ win iconic and deserved is a big stretch. But I rarely see my picks win so I shouldn’t be too surprised about last night. I honestly think I’m bad luck for the films/performances I like and root for. Still hurting from last year and Mass and Red Rocket. With this year seeing Tar and Banshees go home empty-handed… I just have to accept my opinions don’t matter in the larger scheme of things haha.
Paranoid Android Fraser is part of Scorsese's Flower Moon next year and will get the best scripts in the post and will be considered for a lot.
Ad-Mil as if someone of Blanchett's standing and skill will only get 1 more great role when she has 30 plus years to act.
All of Judi Dench's nominations came after she was 60 years old.
Aren't Daniels now the third-youngest Best Director winners ever? After Damien Chazelle and Norman Taurog?
@Nathaniel: Not sure if you've noticed, but Oscar has so far picked your silver medalist for Best Actress every year this decade.
Amazingly, this is the first time in ten years that Editing and Picture have matched. This isn't a comparable streak of non-matching anytime in the history of the awards. (It's historically about 50/50 on whether you have the same winner.) Was it the preferential ballot that drove them apart?
@Paranoid Android – Fraser has Killers of the Flower Moon coming out this year. Can’t think of a higher-profile, more Oscar-caliber follow-up film than that.
@Ad-Mil – Blanchett is younger now than Judi Dench was when she got her *first* Oscar nom, than Katherine Hepburn was before she got her last four (and three wins). Moreover, in the seven years since Carol, she has been on stage and screen, racking up Tony and Emmy noms in the process. In short, she’s an awards-magnet wherever she goes, historically. She’ll be back, rest assured.
@Tony L – Roberts’ win *is* iconic: an oft-quoted, $100+ million hit, starring one of our last major movie stars at her height of her powers (record-breaking $20 million payday) as a real-life crusader who was catnip for the Academy (similar noms as TÁR, for example). Look on cable—and in history of Oscar reels—and Erin Brockovich shows up regularly. It’s Norma Rae-level iconic.
It took Cate 8 years to get from Carol to Tár and that was during her 40s, so I hope you understand why I'm pessimistic about this. A combination of career-best performance and an incredible film is not very likely to come her way. It seems she'll get a middling legacy win a la Streep, if that.
A24 took over half of the feature film categories--including all of the top 6 categories.
A24 + Netflix combined took 75% of them.
Not a big fan of EEAAO, to me only JLC and editing was deserving but everyone was gave such a nice speech that I don't mind the sweep, we had a lot worse "career awards" than these in the past.
Cannot say the same about Fraser, even by the clips alone he was the worst in his category, his speech was weird (Hong Chau was the best part of it), a lackluster movie overall. Very shocked that it also won makeup over Elvis.
Costume design was a huge shock to me, Ruth deserves the second win but I think on this site I commented a long time ago that it would be a surprise to me if the winner was neither Elvis nor Babylon and it happened. They really don't like to crown first time winners in this category, in the last two decades, after the LotR duo I think there were only three first time winners and one of them, Mark Bridges is already a two time winner.
Sarah Polley is easily the best win to me, incredible that a child tv star achieved this. Her movie is better than those with the multiple wins plus I was glad AQOTWF didn't win for its lame script. I was wrong about the war guilt votes, I guess that only mattered for the UK.
So acting winners-wise BAFTA ended up 0/4, has that ever happened since the US-UK release dates got matched? SAG was 4/4 in a row, the GG continues to be less important in the 2020s for win predictions.
Also, Martin McDonagh repeats his own history, TBOI won both the BAFTA original screenplay and GG screenplay only to fail at the Oscars, exact same pattern as Three Billboards! In this category he really should have won though, both times...
$100 million hit and movie star at the height of her powers really isn't describing the performance, but i'm gonna just stop commenting and voicing my opinion. thanks
Overall, it was really good night. There was actual suspense in three acting categories and the speeches were amazing. I still can’t quite believe something as gleefully absurdist as EEAAO took Hollywood’s top prize. TÁR had my vote, but this is a delightful, fresh addition to Oscar’s Best Picture pantheon. And as a horror fan, it was pretty spectacular to see Jamie Lee Curtis win an Oscar.
Now I haven’t loved a film as much as TÁR since Parasite, but honestly, it did way better this awards season then I could have hoped for. It’s not an easy film and yet it still managed to win the critics’ trifecta for Best Picture/Actress, BAFTA and Globe wins for Blanchett, and 6 Oscar nominations including Best Picture. Oh, and that incredible NYFCC tribute from Martin Scorsese. I’ll take it.
Elazul -- couldn't agree more re: Polley's win for Women Talking. It's a film for adults: mesmerizing, literate, profound, thorny, precise, storytelling of real consequence. Whereas, in the words of my best friend, Everything Everywhere All at Once is basically an arthouse movie for people who rate the MCU above everything else. Had WT been shut out like so many of the other superior Best Picture nominees, I'd have been very disappointed, indeed.
I'm surprised my neighbors didn't call the police with all the screaming I was doing last night! By and large, I was thrilled with the results!
As much as a sweep is a bummer in that lots of excellent films go home empty-handed, if ever a movie deserves (in the most surprising way possible) to clean up with hardware, EEAAO is that movie. With the most above-the-line wins ever, this might be Oscar's favorite movie of all time, which makes me so very happy. Loved every one of their wins and am so looking forward to listening to all the podcasters eat crow about their doubt that Curtis could win her very well-derserved Oscar. All the love for this movie washes the horrible taste of CODA down the drain where it belongs.
I'm also quite relieved that the two worst best picture nominees I saw (and granted, I didn't see Top Gun or Avatar because oh my god no), Elvis and The Fabelmans, went home without trophies. I sometimes really like Spielberg and Luhrmann, but definitely not the sloppy messes they put out this year.
While I did really like All Quiet, it would have been cool if EO could have surprised. Also slightly sad Babylon got nothing, though I think appreciation for that film, despite being a bit overstuffed, will grow with time. Likewise for TAR and Banshees, both great movies joining the likes of Lady Bird and Beasts of the Southern Wild and other beautiful works without any wins.
@Tony L – What do you think “iconic” means? Regardless of how you may personally feel about Roberts in Erin Brockovich, she became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Golden Globe Award, a National Board of Review Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for a single performance. This, in addition to various other critics wins and notices (including from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and AFI), all point to the quality and impact of the performance—commercial, critical *and* cultural.
People have short (or no) memories, re: Erin Brockovich; it’s not as if Roberts’ win was rubbish or poorly regarded like, say, Sandra Bullock’s is. I would’ve voted for Laura Linney myself, but can’t deny a pretty powerhouse performance/win.
I’ve seen a bunch of outlets echo Jezebel’s position on Sarah Polley: “If you’re going to nominate a movie for best screenplay and best picture, you should also f*cking nominate its director for Best Director.” The New York Times had a shady line with the same observation. They all think they’ve stumbled upon some big “gotcha" injustice.
There are up to 10 Best Picture nominees.
There are 10 nominated screenplays.
There are 5 Best Director nominees.
Why do people refuse to do basic math?
DK: So true but then I recall those Billy Crystal comments from the 1989 season that "those two movies directed themselves" as 2 out of 5 directors didn't have a matching BP nomination. It's like saying BP, screenplay and director nominations should always match but then what's the point? Then they should be merged into one category.
@ Troy H
Well said. It’s gross to see how harsh people are being towards Angela.
@Mark Brinkerhoff - maybe i'm mincing words or we're talking about two different things. I think the performance was Julia Roberts playing Julia Roberts and and it wasn't an iconic performance. Ellen Burstyn's was an Iconic performance in my opinion. If you are saying it is an iconic win, because of all the other awards she won, the only way i see it being iconic is people saying Julia finally has an Oscar. I'm not her biggest fan, i will say, but i like her work better in August, Osage County and even The Pelican Brief from way back when. I almost thought you might compare it to Sandra's - but after reading your comment it made me smile that at least we are agreed on her win LOL. I apologize for being possibly abrupt earlier as i get sometimes a little too passionate about these things HAHA. I will always stand by my Ellen Burstyn deserved it more - but I know that kind of performance is hard for the Academy to award. Agree to disagree and I hope you had a good Oscar night.