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)
As Gold Derby noted, it's kind of an interesting coincidence that both Halle Berry and Michelle Yeoh won over Oscar-winning frontrunners from a Todd Field film. Hopefully Todd Field doesn't take another 16 years to give us another great female performance.
Some Best Animated Short records:
No, An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It didn't win, but that doesn't mean we get a couple of records with The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse winning this year. In fact, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse ties the record for longest title (in words), previously held by A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (1966), Unless, of course, you want to include the subtitle for The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics, then that would still hold the record.
But even without that record, The Boy the Mole, the Fox and the Horse would still break another record. Previously the stop motion Peter & the Wolf (2007) had the record for longest winning film at 32 minutes 30 seconds. However, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse clocks in at just over 34 minutes, so yes we have a new record holder for longest film to win in the Best Animated Short category!
@TOM: You're probably not a racing fan. The person sitting between JLC en Michelle Yeoh was Jean Todt, Yeoh's partner, a former rally driver and former director of racing teams for Peugeot & Ferrari for almost 30 years. And the last decade he was the president of FIA.
Mmmh, I wouldn't compare Burstyn/Robrerts to Blanchett/Yeoh.
Let's just say that Blanchett was a 10 and Yeoh was a 9.5.
9.5 won
I wrote previously in ISA thread that I don't like sweeps no matter how much I like the movie but there is something about EEAAO sweeping. As I mentioned before, the crew and the stars are all so endearing so it's hard not to be happy for them. Maybe the fact that EEAAO was never conceived as an award movies that really make me believe that they were all genuinely surprised and elated that their movie is the little movie that could. Really happy for all of them.
And I am on the record saying I like Blanchett's performance a bit better but how can anyone not be happy with Michelle wining? It's a great performance; fun, touching and adored by general public. It will be remembered fondly. I know some don't like Jamie Lee Curtis win but I thought it's such an inspired win; true comic supporting performance from a veteran who is often undervalued. Even Fraser, whose performance I like the least, I am happy for him.
We all know Oscar is combination of performance and other factors but all in all, I think this is a great set of winners with none of them delivering less than good performance.
Also, anybody can confirm that A24 is the first studio with all acting wins in one ceremony? Also, they won all above the line category except adapted screenplay where they don't have nominees there.
So we all know the Daniels are the first directing duo to win since the Coens back in 2008, but since then, excluding these two duos, only *two* other Americans have won in directing: Kathryn Bigelow (2010) and Damien Chazelle (2017). Pretty crazy!