Oscar

HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA MARCH 12 Elizabeth Banks and Cocaine Bear speak onstage during the 95th Annual Academy. HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 12: (L-R) Elizabeth ...

[infamous slap of Chris Rock](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/chris-rock-will-smith-slap-joke-netflix-special) twelve months ago, Kimmel referred to Irish talent making up twenty-five per cent of this year's nominee slate — in less than flattering terms, alas. [The big Irish betrayal of Oscars 2023](/culture/article/oscars-2023-irish-betrayal) [Hugh Grant's Oscars red carpet weariness isn't rude, he's just British](/culture/article/hugh-grant-oscars-2023-interview) None of that's to say, however, that the Oscars 2023 didn't boast its share of cringe. We back our horses to the hilt (read: [Top Gun: Maverick](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/top-gun-maverick-review), Steven Spielberg, Tár, the cast of The Banshees of Inisherin, [Paul Mescal](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/aftersun-paul-mescal-film-2022)), but even when none of them come up trumps, at least there's a feast of nourishing schadenfreude. Indeed even the

"Malaysia boleh!" Janet Yeoh said, blowing kisses to her daughter. "Boleh" - which means nothing is impossible - certainly captured the mood not just in Los ...

Closing her acceptance speech, Yeoh took on the ageism in Hollywood that is biased against women. "This is proof that dreams - dream big, and dreams do come true," a tearful Yeoh said in her acceptance speech on Sunday night. This, this, is the American Dream." And popular Hong Kong singer-actress Josie Ho Chiu posted a photo of Yeoh's Oscar moment with the words, "Dreams do come true". And billboards on display on the highways of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital, proclaimed her as the pride of the country. At the watch party in Kuala Lumpur, Janet Yeoh was promptly drowned in news camera lights as soon as her daughter was proclaimed the winner.

Winners and also-rans shared cocktails and In-N-Out burgers with moguls, musicians and models at the annual post-awards gala.

Earlier, she had taken the best actress prize for her role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” which made her the first woman of color to win in that category since 2002, when Halle Berry was honored for “Monster’s Ball.” For a moment he seemed to consider taking the burger, only to decide against that, too. Quan’s work dating back to “The Goonies,” which the actor had co-starred in at age 13. “It’s all sort of a haze,” Ms. On the other, holding her statue, was Ms. Perhaps it was the press room, where she had faced a phalanx of interviews. “I want to dance.” The “Ozark” star Julia Garner was to her left. Cate Blanchett arrived in the blue and black Dior gown she had worn to the ceremony. The director seemed happy to see Hailee Steinfeld, a star of the AppleTV+ series “Dickinson” who happens to be the niece of someone Mr. Was he hoping to soft-pitch his way back into the Academy’s good graces? A little ways off, Steven Spielberg stood with his wife, the actress and artist Kate Capshaw.

The seven-time Oscar-winning crew was on hand to celebrate alongside a wide range of luminaries from Hollywood and beyond.

James Murdoch appeared to avoid talking to the multiple cast members from Succession, though he couldn’t help but fall into a long talk with Twin Peaks star Kyle MacLachlan. Justin Bieber, wearing what appeared to be a quilted blanket on his back, arrived with his wife, Hailey Bieber, and immediately went up to Clippers star Russell Westbrook, who was clad in head-to-toe Thom Browne. But it’s pretty clear that at the

The independent studio behind “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “The Whale” became the first to sweep the acting awards and win best director and best ...

The Australian horror film “Talk to Me” was just shown to rave reviews at the SXSW film festival and is scheduled to hit theaters this summer. “I felt like ‘The Whale’ in the theater would be a great experience because it would bring people together to feel in such a deep way and in a different way than the theater has been used for a very long time,” Mr. “It’s actually just amazing, what they’ve done,” said Stephen Galloway, the dean of Chapman University’s film school. The film was made for $3 million and turned into a modest hit, with a worldwide gross of $37 million and Oscar nominations for Mr. “The economics for everyone now are really screwed up,” he added. Darren Aronofsky, director of “The Whale,” said he had the opportunity to sell his film to a streaming service for more money. [Michelle Yeoh](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/movies/michelle-yeoh-oscars-best-actress.html) (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) in the lead categories, along with [Jamie Lee Curtis](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/movies/jamie-lee-curtis-oscars-win.html) and [Ke Huy Quan](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/movies/ke-huy-quan-oscars-win.html), both from “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” for their supporting roles. “It’s clear that they love their movies and they’re proud of their movies and I think that’s how they choose their movies,” he said. “Between him and his partners, they had an instinct to go even edgier — moving into the indie fringes — and they have proven a business that no one else has done, as a true independent, over time.” It felt like a fitting exclamation point to a triumphant evening for his genre-bending film and the studio that helped make it a reality. The company issued a pat statement instead: “It was a special night. They’re helping us and the world realize that it’s OK to be strange.

Ke Huy Quan's comeback story from childhood star of '80s flicks coupled with Michelle Yeoh's historic win as the first Asian best-actress winner Sunday ...

Ngor ("The Killing Fields") and Yuh-Jung Youn ("Minari"), according to Oscar historians. Merle Oberon, a best actress nominee in 1935 for “The Dark Angel," hid her South Asian heritage and passed for white, according to birth records discovered after her death. “This changes that whole mindset for the community — even for our families. But all the movie's Oscars (it also won best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis and film editing) mean a lot to Asian Americans, she said. The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” co-stars bring the total number of Asians who have earned acting Oscars to just six in the awards' 95-year history. The only previous Asian winners of acting Oscars have been Miyoshi Umeki ("Sayonara"), Ben Kingsley (“Ghandi”), Haing S. He called the impact of the wins massive. “It does tell the community that we have done enough ... “I feel like they already like completely made history with being like the most awarded film and just all the other awards that they’ve been receiving,” Cho said of the possibility the two might not have taken home Oscars. To actually see it happen was “phenomenal.” Written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known as the Daniels), who won best-directing and best original screenplay Oscars, the story centers on a glammed-down Yeoh as Evelyn Wang, a frazzled laundromat owner preparing for an IRS audit. It really just kind of lets us feel like we can accomplish things that normally are not in our lane.”

Michelle Yeoh - a ballerina turned beauty queen turned action hero turned Oscar winner - was in no doubt of the significance of the 95th Academy Awards last ...

His first role was in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984 as a child actor playing Short Round. He was just 12 when he appeared as Short Round opposite Ford, now 80, in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster but later quit acting when he found a lack of roles for Asian actors. British actress Lily James said that she had been moved to tears by his performance and said that she was hoping to bump into him at the Vanity Fair party in the Wallis Annenberg Centre for the Performing Arts. I am a product of them and a proud product of them and I know that they would be incredibly proud of me.’ Quan was saluted with an ovation, kissed the Oscar and wept. I knew I was – maybe not Ruby per se – but I knew I was different.’ Ms Curtis has said her daughter’s change of name from Tom was the hardest thing. Daughter Ruby said in an interview: ‘When I was about 16, a friend of mine who is trans asked me what my gender was. ‘And of course, the inclusivity... Ms Yeoh, 60, made history as the first person of Asian descent to win Best Actress for her performance as Evelyn Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once. And all were huge sentimental favourites with the crowd at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. She dedicated it to her parents, saying: ‘This is the thrill of my life. The Oscars showed that actors of a certain age can still achieve long-held dreams

[Clockwise from top left]: The 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' Oscar winners, Sarah Polley, Ruth E. Carter, Edward Berger ...

But the filmmaker, who has best director Oscars for Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List, was unable to make it a hat-trick in the category, losing out to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All At Once. Films directed by white men dominated most of the categories, with no woman nominated in the best directing category, and Mandy Walker missed out on becoming the first woman in the history of the Academy Awards to win the best cinematography prize for Elvis. Carter winning for costume design, making it a double following her win for the first film Black Panther. MGM/United Artists, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros won one award each, as did Variance Films, which distributed RRR (best original song winner for ‘Naatu Naatu’) in the US. Warner Bros’ released doc winner and Sundance 2022 premiere Navalny in the US. Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin went into the evening as the second most nominated film with nine nods, just behind Everything Everywhere All At Once. Netflix scooped five awards: four for All Quiet, plus the animation Oscar for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which also debuted at Venice. It was a largely positive night for representation at the Oscars, headed by the seven wins for Everything Everywhere, Ruth E Carter’s second Oscar for best costume design for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, repeating her win for the original film, and Sarah Polley’s statuette for adapted screenplay for Women Talking. In 2021, the year of Nomadland, the Oscars and Bafta Film Awards picked the same winners in 18 of the 19 feature categories that are common to both. This year, the two sets of awards picked the same winners in just seven – albeit significant – feature categories. Despite similar voting patterns in recent years, the divergence in the major categories this time may be explained by considering the films that became rallying points for voters. But when the US guilds unanimously started anointing Everything Everywhere All At Once, it would have been a jaw-dropper if the Everything didn’t go home from the Oscars, with, well, (nearly) everything.