At the 2023 Academy Awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once won seven awards, including Best Picture. Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis all won acting awards, while the Daniels Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won for direction and original screenplay.
Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress for her performance in Everything, Everything, Everywhere. Yeoh (60) won her first Oscar for a performance that was as much about her comic and dramatic chops as it was about her kung-fu skills. Hers is the first non-white actress to win best actress in 20 years. “Ladies, don’t ever let anyone tell you you’re past your prime,” Yeoh, who received a rousing standing ovation, said.
The Daniels, both 35 years old, won best director for only their second and decidedly un-Oscar bait feature. They are only the third directing team to win the award, following Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (West Side Story) and Joel and Ethan Coen (Joel and Ethan Coen) (No Country for Old Men). Scheinert dedicated the award ‘to the moms of the world.’
