Everything Everywhere All at Once

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.

'Everything Everywhere All At Once' won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 95th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night (March 12).

Accepting the shiny trophies were Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett. Rounding out the sci-fi spectacle's seven-win night, Paul Rogers was honored for his adept cinematic cutting. Michelle Yeoh, who portrays multiversal heroine Evelyn Wang, became the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress. The directing pair also won for Best Original Screenplay. [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.space.com/avatar-the-way-of-water-movie-review)," "The Banshees of Inisherin," "All Quiet on the Western Front," "The Fabelmans," "Elvis," and others, "Everything Everywhere All At Once" shone in a multitude of categories. [science fiction film](https://www.space.com/best-sci-fi-movies) "Everything Everywhere All At Once" swept most of the major categories, winning Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Editing and Best Original Screenplay.

Despite increasing use of non-English languages demonstrating broader acceptance of linguistic diversity in a globalized world, films sometimes suggest ...

[language of Wakanda is the real-world language of Xhosa](https://screenrant.com/black-panther-movie-wakanda-language-xhosa-explained), spoken in South Africa, in Wakanda Forever, it was mostly relegated to greetings and asides. Unlike in James Cameron’s [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-the-way-of-water-vfx-oscar-2023-1235343383/), viewers are never explicitly told that what the audience hears has been “translated” for us. In a neat expositional trick, the main character narrates the beginning of the film and explains that he learned the alien language well enough that it just sounds like English to him. In this Marvel Cinematic Universe story, the fictional kingdom of Atlantis was [repositioned as a Mesoamerican-inspired society](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mesoamerican-influences-behind-namor-from-black-panther-wakanda-forever-180981106). There’s much more room for films to highlight both linguistic diversity as well as authentic characterization of characters who speak and sign without resorting to potentially harmful tropes. [Bong Joon-ho](https://www.cjenm.com/en/news/director-bong-joonhos-parasite-wins-the-best-foreign-language-film-at-the-77th-golden-globe-awards/) described in his [Golden Globes acceptance speech for 2019’s Parasite](https://variety.com/2020/film/awards/south-koreas-parasite-crashes-the-subtitles-barrier-1203488979/), when audiences move past the “one-inch tall barrier of subtitles” a richer world of film awaits. [Telling authentic stories](https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947013519551) in a modern, globalized and multicultural world means fairly portraying the languages spoken and signed all throughout our society. Yet, these characters are the primary villains of the story, portrayed as powerful and physically otherworldly. Although the In some of the film’s best scenes, the maestro uses only German during orchestra rehearsals and subtitles are dropped completely. [Oscar for best visual effects,](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/oscars-2023-all-the-kiwis-nominated-at-the-academy-awards-this-year/G7PU6REBKFDRVLTOTUZJ4TEM4A/) the protagonists all speak Na'vi, the language of [the species living across](https://gamerant.com/avatar-creation-human-navi-hybrids-explained/) the fictional Pandora. [language of Talokan is the real-world language of Yucatec Maya](https://globalvoices.org/2023/01/05/indigenous-and-proud-a-maya-speakers-reaction-to-black-panther-wakanda-forever/), spoken by Indigenous people in present-day [Guatemala, Belize and southern Mexico](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yucatec-language).

They are both 35. ) The film, which received a field-leading 11 nominations, also won Oscars for film editing, best actress and best supporting actor and ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spread nominations remarkably far and wide this year. ) The film, which received a field-leading 11 nominations, also won Oscars for film editing, best actress and best supporting actor and actress, with The Daniels, the young filmmaking duo behind the racially diverse Everything Everywhere All at Once , won Oscars for their original screenplay and directing.