A year after one of the most infamous Oscar awards to date, a champagne-coloured carpet welcomed back stars to the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday — and the star power didn’t disappoint as Everything Everywhere All at Once drove the hardware haul.
After Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue alluding to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock onstage in 2022 created a buzz, two veterans who appeared in the sci-fi adventure Everything Everywhere gave award-acceptance speeches that brought cheers and tears.
Ke Huy Quan was named best supporting actor and Jamie Lee Curtis took the supporting actress Oscar. In total, Everything Everywhere won seven awards, including best picture and best actress for Michelle Yeoh.
But Canadians also made their mark.
Brendan Fraser, the son of Canadian parents who was born in the U.S., won his first Oscar, for best actor in The Whale. Fraser portrays a writer and lecturer who lives a reclusive life at home after he spirals into morbid obesity.
Toronto filmmaker and screenwriter Sarah Polley won for adapted screenplay for Women Talking. The film is a tense drama based on Canadian Miriam Toews’s novel by the same name.
Toronto filmmaker Daniel Roher won best documentary for his work in Navalny. It revolves around the 2020 assassination attempt on Alexei Navalny and events leading to the now-imprisoned Russian opposition leader’s poisoning. Later, director James Cameron’s sequel Avatar: The Way of Water won the Oscar for special effects.
Rosemary Barton Live speaks with Daniel Roher, the Canadian director behind the Oscar-nominated documentary Navalny. The documentary follows jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who returned to Russia after an alleged poisoning assassination attempt.
Montreal makeup artist Adrien Morot and the team picked up an award for makeup and hairstyling for their work on The Whale.
The first award of the evening went to Guillermo del Toro, in the best animated feature category for Pinocchio.
“Animation is cinema. Animation is not a genre. Animation is ready to be taken to the next step … we’re all ready for it,” del Toro said in his acceptance speech.
Here are all the winners (in bold) along with the other nominees:
Best animated feature:
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
The Sea Beast.
Turning Red
Best supporting actor:
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway.
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans.
Brendan Gleeson, Banshees on Inisherin.
Barry Keoghan, Banshees of Inisherin.
Best supporting actress:
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Hong Chau, The Whale.
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin.
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Documentary feature:
Navalny.
All That Breathes.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
Fire of Love.
A House Made of Splinters.
Live action short:
An Irish Goodbye.
Ivalu.
Le Pupille.
Night Ride.
The Red Suitcase.
Cinematography:
James Friend, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Darius Khondj, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.
Mandy Walker, Elvis.
Roger Deakins, Empire of Light.
Florian Hoffmeister, Tár.
Makeup and hairstyling:
The Whale.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
The Batman.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Elvis.
Costume design:
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Babylon.
Elvis.
Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.
International feature film:
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany).
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina).
Close (Belgium).
EO (Poland).
The Quiet Girl (Ireland).
Documentary short film:
The Elephant Whisperers.
Haulout.
How Do You Measure a Year?.
The Martha Mitchell Effect.
Stranger at the Gate.
Animated short film:
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
The Flying Sailor.
Ice Merchants.
My Year of Dicks.
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe it.
Production design:
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Avatar: The Way of Water.
Babylon.
Elvis.
The Fabelmans.
Original score:
Volker Bertelmann, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon.
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin.
Son Lux, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
John Williams, The Fabelmans.
Visual effects:
Avatar: The Way of Water.
Top Gun: Maverick.
The Batman.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Original screenplay:
Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The Banshees of Inisherin.
The Fabelmans.
Tár.
Triangle of Sadness.
Adapted screenplay:
Women Talking.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Living.
Top Gun: Maverick.
Sound:
Top Gun: Maverick.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Avatar: The Way of Water.
The Batman.
Elvis.
Original song:
Naatu Naatu from RRR.
Applause from Tell It Like a Woman.
Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick.
Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
This Is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Film editing:
Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis.
Tár.
Top Gun: Maverick.
Best director:
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin.
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans.
Todd Field, Tár.
Ruben Ostlund, Triangle of Sadness.
Best actor:
Brendan Fraser, The Whale.
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin.
Austin Butler, Elvis.
Bill Nighy, Living.
Paul Mescal, Aftersun.
Best actress:
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Ana de Armas, Blonde.
Cate Blanchett, Tár.
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie.
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans.
Best picture:
Everything Everywhere All at Once.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Avatar: The Way of Water.
The Banshees of Inisherin.
Elvis.
The Fabelmans.
Tár.
Top Gun: Maverick.
Triangle of Sadness.
Women Talking.