“Everything Everywhere All At Once” Shines at 2023 Academy Awards with Seven Wins

Everything Everywhere All At Once entered this year’s Academy Awards as the clear front-runner, and it managed to live up to the hype. The absurdist sci-fi epic walked away with a total of seven Oscars, including the biggest award of the night—best picture.

Everything Everywhere entered the ceremony with a total of eleven nominations in ten categories, and eventually walked away with seven Oscars—most for any film since Slumdog Millionaire won eight back in 2009.

The directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert collected three trophies for their work on this film—best picture alongside Jonathan Wang, best director, and best original screenplay.

Everything Everywhere was the biggest winner of the night in the acting categories, as well, with Michelle Yeoh making history as the first Asian woman to win best actress. Her co-stars Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis dominated the supporting categories, while Brendan Fraser won the Oscar for best actor for The Whale.

With Everything Everywhere and The Whale, A24 was definitely the biggest winner of the night, but Netflix also had a reason to celebrate. The streamer’s anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front collected four trophies, including best international feature film, original score, production design, and cinematography.

The 95th Academy Awards took place on March 12 at LA’s Dolby Theatre, and Jimmy Kimmel was in charge of hosting the show for the third time.

FULL LIST OF WINNERS AT THE 2023 ACADEMY AWARDS:

BEST PICTURE
Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
A Hot Dog Hands Production
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once
(A24)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Brendan Fraser in The Whale
(A24)

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once
(A24)

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once
(A24)

DIRECTING
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)

FILM EDITING
Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
Paul Rogers

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
Naatu Naatu from RRR
(Variance Films/Sarigama Cinemas)
Music by M.M. Keeravaani Lyric by Chandrabose

SOUND
Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount)
Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Women Talking (Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing)
Screenplay by Sarah Polley

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Way of Water (Walt Disney)
Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)
Volker Bertelmann

PRODUCTION DESIGN
All Quiet on the Western Front
(Netflix)
Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck
Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (BBC and Apple Original Films)
A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production
Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM 
The Elephant Whisperers (Netflix)
A Netflix Documentary/Sikhya Entertainment Production
Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
A Netflix/Amusement Park Film in co-production with Gunpowder Films in association with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Production

COSTUME DESIGN
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Walt Disney)
Ruth Carter

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
The Whale (A24)
Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley

CINEMATOGRAPHY
All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)
James Friend

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
An Irish Goodbye (Network Ireland Television)
A Floodlight Pictures Production
Tom Berkeley and Ross White

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Navalny (Warner Bros./CNN Films/HBO Max)
A Fishbowl Films/RaeFilm Studios/Cottage M Production
Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
(Netflix)
Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley