Cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once

The metaphysical multiverse comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” wrapped its hot dog fingers around Hollywood's top prize Sunday.

](https://apnews.com/article/film-reviews-entertainment-sports-movies-martial-arts-a0c2c7bfb0a06c2f2f8156c835a84b93) [Telugu action-film sensation "RRR,"](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-india-4d04b6d032cabfc91b6d0beb6642c1ef) an intimate, impassioned performance by Lady Gaga of "Hold My Hand" from "Top Gun: Maverick," and an Super Bowl follow-up by Rihanna. [best supporting actress](https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2023-best-supporting-actress-18481e06d1e3c03d337d100f10b9e382). “The Way of Water” won for visual effects; “Maverick” took best sound. “Thank you to the Academy for recognizing the superhero that is a Black woman,” said Carter. Carter won for the costume design of "Wakanda Forever," four years after becoming the first Black designer to win an Oscar, for "Black Panther." [former action star's return](https://apnews.com/article/brendan-fraser-the-whale-darren-aronofsky-1b3e71f1022f11b26b764f238b421363) to center stage for his physical transformation as a 600-lb. [an improbable Academy Awards heavyweight.](https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2023-best-picture-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-c6db5dc1477c28e2b9e41270a036ac12) The indie hit, A24's second best picture winner following "Moonlight," won seven Oscars in all. Quan, beloved for his roles as Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and Data in "Goonies," had all but given up acting before being cast in ["Everything Everywhere All at Once." Scheinert dedicated the award "to the moms of the world." [back in March 2022](https://apnews.com/article/film-reviews-entertainment-sports-movies-martial-arts-a0c2c7bfb0a06c2f2f8156c835a84b93), helped revive arthouse cinemas after two years of pandemic, racking up more than $100 million in ticket sales with scant initial expectations of Oscar glory. It's the first best actress win for a non-white actress in 20 years.

A combination of old fashioned star power and zeitgeisty marketing captured Oscar voters (and audiences) across the board.

By the autumn, it was clear the film had a real shot at the gongs, and A24 set about securing them. Such strategies encouraged the idea of a grassroots push for an underdog. But Tuesday was the last day of voting, and in a tight race, every little helps. It looks like a film from the future and relies for its pull on the past. Yeoh joined in too, and last Tuesday screenshotted an article on her personal account explicitly comparing the career prospects for herself and fellow nominee Cate Blanchett, should each of them prove triumphant. [declaring](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrDekTrJ13o) “Everything has led to this” - the campaign leant heavily on the zeitgeisty lingo which also defines its aesthetic. Gradually the film’s clout snowballed along with its box office, as more and more critics - as well as industry insiders - declared their love. It was almost everything, almost everywhere, over the course of almost four hours. “I cannot imagine a better audience and crowd for this movie,” said c0-director Daniel Kwan as they took to the stage to present it. Word of mouth began strongly from a crowd at fever-pitch excitement, on the opening night of their first in-person festival in years. [Everything Everywhere All At Once](https://www.theguardian.com/film/everything-everywhere-all-at-once) took the top prize this year, victory felt an inevitability. The strategy slowly began to shift.

The movie dominated the 2023 Academy Awards, winning seven of the 11 awards it was nominated for. The result meant that movies like The Banshees of Inisherin, ...

They're not the first duo to win the prize, as Joel and Ethan Coen won for No Country for Old Men in 2007. After Halle Berry, she is also only the second ever woman of color to win the Best Actress award. The result meant that movies like The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis and The Fabelmans went home empty handed.

Michelle Yeoh the first Asian actress to win Best Actress, · Everything Everywhere All At Once was the first film to win as many above the line Oscars as it did.

The change is, they don’t just default to wins, at least in Picture. We may well be entering a period where it just comes down to the work being too good to ignore. A generation ago, if you’d told an Oscar voter what the film was about, they’d have been confused, to be sure, but also apoplectic at the thought of it winning Best Picture. Everything Everywhere All At Once seemed like the exception to the prestige rule, but that could be changing. That’s a bit of what I want to talk about today, as we begin the post mortem of the season. Not only did this singular work get recognized in this major way, it also stands out in comparison to the films that ended up empty-handed when the night had concluded.

The film, hailed as a breakthrough for Hollywood diversity for its largely Asian cast, swept at the 95th edition of the Academy Awards with seven Oscars ...

It competed with films like Top Gun Maverick, Avatar: Way Of Water, and The Fabelmans, among others that did big at the box office. The film consists of, a multiverse of martial arts, hot dog fingers, a bagel, references to Ratatouille, and an honest connection with your mother, revolves around immigrant parents who run a laundromat getting audited by the IRS. Dominating the Oscars 2023 and making history all the way up was the 2022 American absurdist comedy-drama film Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Not to be reductive about it but, on the surface, this is a genre movie, a weird and quirky sci-fi film about multiverses, featuring hot dog fingers, ...

Everything Everywhere All At Once is a different proposition to Parasite, which was, of course, a groundbreaking victory in that a non-English language movie from Asia could so decisively triumph. It was made by Americans (writer-directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan), financed by an American studio (A24) with American producers (Jonathan Wang among them) and starring, with the exception of Michelle Yeoh, American actors including Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Harry Shum Jr and James Hong. Ke Huy Quan is only the second man of Asian heritage to win in Best Supporting Actor. In the time between Oberon and Yeoh, no other woman of Asian descent was ever nominated in Best Actress. It matters because this is a highly visible international event which gets a lot of attention and which says to kids everywhere, no matter their heritage, that there is space for them in places that haven’t always been welcoming. When she was nominated, she was described as a category-first in the Oscars’ 95-year history for a woman identifying as Asian.

Michelle Yeoh reacts in the audience with excitement as she accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Everything Everywhere ...

[Apple](https://fortune.com/company/apple/) TV’s “CODA” became the first streaming movie to win best picture. [Telugu action-film sensation “RRR,”](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-india-4d04b6d032cabfc91b6d0beb6642c1ef) an intimate, impassioned performance by Lady Gaga of “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick,” and a Super Bowl follow-up by Rihanna. Meanwhile, the Writers [Guild](https://fortune.com/company/guild-instride/) and the major studios are set to begin contract negotiations March 20, a looming battle that has much of the industry girding for a possible work stoppage. “The Way of Water” won for visual effects; “Maverick” took best sound. “Thank you to the Academy for recognizing the superhero that is a Black woman,” said Carter. [best supporting actress](https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2023-best-supporting-actress-18481e06d1e3c03d337d100f10b9e382). Scheinert dedicated the award “to the moms of the world.” [an improbable Academy Awards heavyweight.](https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2023-best-picture-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-c6db5dc1477c28e2b9e41270a036ac12) The indie hit, A24’s second best picture winner following “Moonlight,” won seven Oscars in all. [former action star’s return](https://apnews.com/article/brendan-fraser-the-whale-darren-aronofsky-1b3e71f1022f11b26b764f238b421363) to center stage for his physical transformation as a 600-lb. The audience — including his “Temple of Doom” director, Steven Spielberg — gave Quan a standing ovation as he fought back tears. Jimmy Kimmel, hosting for the third time, pledged a ceremony with “no nonsense.” He said anyone who wanted to “get jiggy with it” this year would have to come through a fearsome battalion of bodyguards, including Yeoh, Steven Spielberg and his show’s “security guard” Guillermo Rodriguez. “Sometimes it’s a little scary knowing that movies move at the rate of years and the world on the internet is moving at the rate of milliseconds.

The A24 movie Everything Everywhere All At Once didn't just win Oscars, it dominated them. Inside the Academy Awards after-party, the industry took stock of ...

[Ride Wit Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSDWq6HsJE&ab_channel=NellyVEVO)” blared from speakers, the film’s Best Original Screenplay– and Best Director–winning duo, [Daniels](https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/everything-everywhere-all-at-onces-influences-explained.html) (Kwan and Scheinert), boogied up a few stairs to a narrow stage beneath a giant “Oscars 95” banner where engravers carved their names onto their new statuettes. [bellwether awards shows](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-is-oscar-front-runner.html) in the run-up to the Oscars meant that more mainstream fare never had a fighting chance. “This was supposed to be the year ‘Movies are back!’” he said, echoing a rallying call that had gone out throughout the studio and theatrical exhibition communities since the spring. “So it was weird they gave everything to Everything Everywhere All at Once.” “This was the year a bunch of movies that made a lot of money that people actually went to the theater to see got nominated. Viewed that way, the night’s awards benediction was little more than a formality. But there was also a feeling of bloodlessness: that those of us feasting on Moroccan lamb cigars and Oscar-shaped salmon matzahs while traipsing the But less than two hours after the conclusion of the awards presentation, upstairs at the glitzy Governors Ball, the customary first after-party stop for assorted members of the entertainment Fourth Estate — including those newly possessed of Academy hardware — talk of dreams gave way to less aspirational industry summations. That is, for the speechifying of winners who’ve bucked Hollywood’s cultural assumptions and broken out of the industry’s career pigeonholing. To all of you out there, please keep your dream alive!” [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-oscars-history.html)’s record-breaking sweep of Oscars in almost every major category Sunday night, the 95th Academy Awards served as a triumphant showcase for self-styled underdogs with a mic. “Dreams are something you have to believe in,” said Best Supporting Actor winner [Ke Huy Quan](https://www.vulture.com/article/ke-huy-quan-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-profile.html) from the podium while fighting back tears.

Paul Rogers, the editor of Everything Everywhere All At Once, has caught the eye of many netizens this award season.

He began his career editing documentaries for public television before moving to Los Angeles where he met Everything Everywhere directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Paul Rogers for EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE! [Top Gun: Maverick](/en-gb/topic/top-gun-maverick/), Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa for Elvis, Monika Willi for Tár, and Mikkel E.G.