Oscars 2023 live: All the winners from the Academy Awards
The hit film Everything Everywhere All at Once has cleaned up at the Oscars as all Aussies missed out in a night of high drama. See all the moments and winners.
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The hit film Everything Everywhere All at Once has cleaned up at the Oscars as all Aussies missed out in a night of high drama.
Everything Everywhere All At Once, the most nominated film for the 2023 Oscars, made good on its promise of 11 nominations by picking up seven awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor.
Accepting the award for Best Picture, producer Jonathan Wang dedicated the win to his father, who he said “like many immigrant parents died young”.
Malaysian actress Yeoh stunned Hollywood and made history by taking out the Oscar for Best Actress.
Like her co-star, Best Supporting Actor Ke Huy Quan, she said winning was representation for the Asian community and for artists who spend years waiting for their next big role.
“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is the beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof that dream big and dreams do come true.
“And ladies don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime. Never give up,” Yeoh said.
Yeoh called all mothers “superheroes” and described her win as “history in the making”.
Cate Blanchett, who was nominated in the category for playing Lydia Tar, was among the front-row stars who leapt to their feet when Yeoh’s name was called out.
Some might feel Blanchett was a little hard done by not to add to a third Oscar to her cabinet, with some critics including News Corp’s Leigh Paatsch, calling her performance one of the best of the century so far.
But there has been a sense of inevitability about Yeoh taking out Best Actress for her role as a multiverse hopping mother as Everything Everywhere All At Once gained momentum and few would begrudge the hugely popular and inspirational result.
She becomes the first Asian woman to win the award and the first woman of colour since Halle Berry for Monster’s Ball in 2002.
It’s been quite a journey for the Malaysian-born former ballet dancer turned Hong Kong action star who performed her own stunts alongside the likes of Jackie Chan.
Like Berry, she’s a former Bond girl and many thought she should have been nominated for her scene-stealing roles in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and the all-Asian rom-com, Crazy Rich Asians.
She’s long been an advocate for more diversity in Hollywood, telling News Corp that “it’s time to embrace that we Asians exist and we don’t only represent martial arts movies”.
FRASER WINS BEST ACTOR
The 2023 Oscars continued its redemption arc with Brendan Fraser winning the Best Actor award for his comeback role in The Whale.
Fraser struggled to breathe through his shock at winning the award, comparing his return as a Hollywood leading man after years in the wilderness to being given oxygen while deep diving.
Fraser’s win caps off a remarkable comeback story for the actor.
From his days as a heart-throb in the ‘90s and early 2000s with hits including Encino Man (which also co-starred Everything, Everywhere All At Once co-star and newly minted Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan), George of the Jungle and the hugely successful The Mummy trilogy, Fraser’s career tailed off due to health issues and the fallout from accusations of being sexually assaulted by the then president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
He has continually been working though, with TV roles in The Affair and Doom Patrol, and smaller roles in films such as No Sudden Moves.
His win is also the first time an actor took the top prize for a movie not nominated for Best Picture since Jeff Bridges accomplished the feat for Crazy Heart in 2009.
His performance as the morbidly obese Charlie – he wore an elaborate, Oscar-winning fat suit for the role – hasn’t come without controversy though, with accusations from some corners that it stigmatizes and mocks overweight people.
BEST DIRECTOR GOES TO THE DANIELS
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert have accomplished a mighty feat, taking out the award for Best Director.
The pair beat seven-time Best Director nominee and two-time winner Steven Spielberg, who was the next favourite for his semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans.At the age of just 35 and with only one feature film under their belts - the whacky Swiss Army Man, which famously starred Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe as a farting corpse – the pair have become the seventh youngers recipients of the award, having met at college and starting out as music video directors.
TRAVOLTA’S TRIBUTE TO OLIVIA
John Travolta could not contain his sadness as he paid tribute to his dear friend Olivia Newton-John as he introduced this year’s In Memoriam segment, soundtracked by Lenny Kravitz singing his 2004 song Calling All Angels.
This year’s tribute to Hollywood royalty who have died in the past year also included his Look Who’s Talking co-star Kirstie Alley.
“In this industry we have the rare luxury of getting to do what we love for a living, sometimes getting to do it with people that we come to love,” Travolta said as his eyes filled with tears and his voice cracked.
“Since tonight is a celebration of the work and the accomplishments of our community in
this past year, it is only fitting then that we celebrate those we’ve lost.
“Each of them left an individual and
indelible mark...they’ve touched our hearts, they’ve made us smile, and became dear friends. Who we will always remain hopeless devoted to.”
JAMIE LEE SNUB GOES VIRAL
Social media was divided about Angela Bassett missing out on the Best Supporting Actress award but everyone agreed she was not happy about losing to Jamie Lee Curtis.
Footage of Bassett wearing a blank expression and remaining in her seat as the majority of the theatre got to their feet to applaud Curtis circulated online as the Academy Awards dragged into its third hour.
Bassett had been nominated for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
One Twitter user said: “Angela Bassett not standing up for Jamie Lee Curtis is kinda shady. I get you’re upset for not winning but damn…”
A Black Panther fan wrote: “Angela Bassett’s reaction to Jamie Lee Curtis’ name being called … you can tell how much that Oscar would have meant to her. she is, was, and always will be incredible. I better see her on that stage SOON.”
STAR TRIPS ON ‘COCAINE BEAR’
Cocaine Bear director Elizabeth Banks almost stacked it on the stage as she wrestled with her voluminous gown to make it to the mic.
Followed by her film’s “star” - or an actor in a bear suit - Banks quickly recovered from her trip but then struggled to read out her presenter’s script with a very croaky voice.
Elizabeth Banks stumbles while taking the stage at the #Oscars.
— Variety (@Variety) March 13, 2023
"He tripped me," she jokes of the Cocaine Bear who accompanied her. https://t.co/ndiKiHfmIDpic.twitter.com/ldDmOovz7A
“He tripped me. I recently directed the film Cocaine Bear...without visual effects, this is what the bear would look like. It’s terrifying,” she said.
The bear then did some clunky “acting” to illustrate the importance of visual effects to making movies - and indulged in fake cocaine use.
“Are you trying to score right now? You need to wait until the after party like everybody else,” Banks told the “bear.”
MAJOR UPSET FOR AUSSIES
Student filmmaker Lachlan Pendragon missed out on Best Animated Short for his film An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It which he made at his Brisbane home during Covid.
The Oscar went to The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
There was a double Aussie upset when Elvis designer Catherine Martin missed out on Oscars for production design and costume design.
Martin missed completing her hat-trick of Oscars for costume design after Ruth E. Carter made history with her win for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
The acclaimed war film All Quiet On The Western Front picked up the award for production design.
RIHANNA BRINGS THE MAGIC
Rihanna brought old school glamour - and a costume change - to the stage for the performance of her Best Song nominated track Lift Me Up.
The Love On The Brain pop superstar, who revealed she was pregnant with her second child during her Super Bowl halftime show last month, was the most anticipated performer at this year’s Oscars.
Lift Me Up, her musical comeback for Black Panther: Wakana Forever was the first solo track the beauty and fashion mogul had released in six years.
After her pitch perfect rendition, her partner Asap Rocky joined everyone to give her a standing ovation and raised his champagne glass in tribute to her.
The superstar co-wrote the song with director Ryan Coogler, composer-producer Ludwig Goransson, and Nigerian singer-songwriter Tems.
Coogler said getting Rihanna on board was a team effort through connections with rapper Jay-Z and his Roc Nation empire.
“Rihanna came aboard and added something as a writer and performed it, and it was beautiful, man,” said Coogler.
“When it was all said and done, I feel like everyone was doing it for (late Black Panther star) Chad. That’s who it was for. I think it’s a song that people who hear it think of different things, it’s a contemplative song. For me it’s a lullaby that can be sung from parent to child or from child to parent.”
SURREAL MOMENT AS GAGA PERFORMS ‘LIVE’
She may not have had time to prepare a big stage production for the Oscars but Lady Gaga did still perform her best Song nominated power ballad Hold My Hand “live” at the awards.
The Born This Way pop superstar declined to sing at the awards because she is in the middle of filming Joker: Folie a Deux.
In contrast to the stunning black Versace gown she wore on the red carpet, Gaga sported minimal make-up, a t-shirt and cargo pants in a pre-recorded performance where she emotionally delivered her “personal” song from Top Gun: Maverick.
It must have been surreal for Gaga to watch Gaga perform the song from the theatre.
CURTIS DEDICATES WIN TO PARENTS
Earlier, fan favourite Jamie Lee Curtis took the Best Supporting Actress trophy.
Curtis made a well-considered speech commenting she may have been on the stage alone but told everyone involved in Everything Everywhere All At Once, her five-decades long career and her family “We just won an Oscar!”
The Hollywood veteran, whose actor and filmmaker husband Christopher Guest had tears in his eyes as she made her speech, also paid tribute to the fans of the genre movies which have made her career including the Halloween franchise.
She finally dedicated the trophy to her parents, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.
“And my mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories. I just won an Oscar!” she said battling the emotions which threatened to overwhelm her.
The former Halloween star was arguably the stand-out in the thrillingly bonkers Everything Everywhere All At Once, playing the jaded killjoy Deirdre Beaubeirdre, an IRS inspector; and as several other versions of Deirdre in alternate universes.
Despite a career that stretches back 45 years since she made her film debut in the slasher classic Halloween, it’s the first Oscar nomination, and now win, for the daughter of acting royalty Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh (who were both nominated for Oscars but never won), although she won a BAFTA Award for Trading Places in 1984 and was nominated again in 1989 for A Fish Called Wanda.
Still, at least she was still up to accept it, she declined an invitation for the official Oscars dinner because she likes to get an early night.
“There’s nothing good happening with me after 9 o’clock,” she said. “Nothing. Zero!”.
GOONIES STAR MAKES EMOTIONAL SPEECH
The entire room leapt to their feet and grabbed tissues as Ke Huy Quan was announced as the Best Supporting Actor for his comeback role in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Quan wasn’t the only one crying as he dedicated his win to his mother and celebrated it as a comeback story worthy of a Hollwyood film.
“My mum is 84 years old. And she’s at home watching. Mum! I just won an Oscar!” he said when he was able to compose himself.
“My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp. And somehow, I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage.
“They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe it’s happening to me! “This - this - is the American dream!”
Quan’s win for Best Supporting Actor was the best thing to a sure bet this year, having swept just about every other award on the road to the Oscars as well as being an unbackable favourite with the bookies. It also caps off the comeback story of the year for the former child star of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies and Encino Man (alongside Best Actor nominee and comeback king Brendan Fraser).
Having given up acting due to the lack of opportunities for Asian actors, he gained a film degree and worked as an assistant director and stunt coordinator. But seeing Crazy Rich Asians – fittingly starring his Everything Everywhere All At Once co-star Michelle Yeoh - convinced him that the time might finally have come to get back in the game. His role as Yeoh’s timid but ultimately loyal and loving husband Waymond is just his third role this century.
Quan’s Golden Globes reunion with Steven Spielberg, who directed him in his debut role in the second Indy film, was one of the highlights of this awards season – and the veteran director looked just as pleased for his young charge today as he tearily accepted his Oscar and reaffirmed his American Dream come true.
The feelgood and inclusive tone of this year’s Oscars continued during the Live Action Short film award presentation to An Irish Goodbye.
The film stars James Martin, who has Down syndrome, and the filmmakers chose to dedicate most of their speech to singing Happy Birthday to him on stage.
Only the absurd pop king David Byrne could deliver a performance worthy of the bonkers multiverse of Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Byrne joined with the film’s star Stephanie Hsu to perform the Best Song nominee This Is A Life and it was a lot.
While his voice may have hit a couple of pitchy notes, there was nothing flat about his hilarious hot dog fingers in a nod to one of the alternative universes from the film where all the characters had sausage digits.
KIMMEL CRACKS SLAP JOKE
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel took several minutes into his hilarious monologue before addressing the elephant in the room — The Slap.
Kimmel joked that the multi-nominees for The Bansees of Inisherin upped the potential for on stage violence.
“It was some year for diversity and inclusion. We have nominees from every corner of Dublin,” the television personality said.
“Five Irish actors are nominated tonight. Which means the odds of another fight on stage just went way up.”
While Kimmel’s first mention of the infamous moment Will Smith slapped presenter Chris Rock last year for mentioning Jada Pinkett-Smith’s baldness was a light moment, he took aim at the whole of Hollywood for not their inaction during last year’s ceremony.
“This is a special night. We want you to have fun. We want you to feel safe. And we want me to feel safe. So we have strict policies in place. If anyone in this theatre commits an act of violence at any point during the show, you will be awarded the Oscar for Best Actor,” Kimmel said referencing Smith’s win for his role in King Richard.
“And permitted to give a 19-minute long speech. Seriously. The Academy has a crisis team in place. If anything unpredictable or violent happens, do what you did last year - nothing. Sit there, do nothing. Maybe even give the assailant a hug. If any of you get mad at a joke and decide you want to come up and get jiggy with it...it’s not going to be easy.”
RARE DOUBLE FOR MASTER
Guillermo Del Toro pulled off a rare double with his win in the first award of the night for Pinocchio, having already won a Best Picture Oscar (and Best Director) for The Shape of Water in 2018.
The much loved character with the nose that grows has been adapted multiple times for the screen including Walt Disney’s beloved 1940 animation, (which won two Oscars) and a live action version in 2002 that starred Oscar-winning Italian actor Roberto Benigni.
Earlier, Baz Luhrmann hit the champagne carpet before the ceremony with wife and collaborator Catherine Martin and their 19-year-old daughter Lilly.
Blanchett was nominated for Best Actress for her riveting performance in the haunting film Tar.
The celebrated Australian actor turned to a two-tone, Grecian-style gown by Louis Vuitton for her arrival on the champagne carpet.
“My daughter is here, so we went for a swim and I had a bath,” said Blanchett when asked about her pre-Oscars ritual in 2023.
“It’s pretty regular — you try and make it any other day.”
Originally published as Oscars 2023 live: All the winners from the Academy Awards
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