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Can “Everything Everywhere All at Once” actually win everything on Oscar night?
The acclaimed sci-fi comedy starring Michelle Yeoh heads into the 95th Academy Awards as a clear favorite to win best picture but the film also has a good chance to nab other top awards, including best actress, directing and original screenplay after Jamie Lee Curtis wins best supporting actress and Ke Huy Quan gets supporting actor. Or maybe Tom Cruise has an ace up his sleeve and “Top Gun: Maverick” will take night’s top prize. (Weirder things have happened.)
Here are all the winners and highlights from the main Oscar ceremony (airing live on ABC), hosted by Jimmy Kimmel: Brendan Fraser’s ‘The Whale’ wins for best makeup and hairstyling
Digital and physical prosthetics were used to transform Brendan Fraser into the 600-pound main character of “The Whale,” and it pays off with an Oscar for makeup. Fraser is one of the first to get on his feet and excitedly cheer the win. Best cinematography Oscar goes to ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Netflix’s acclaimed German war drama earns its first technical honor of the night. “My fellow nominees, your work is just outstanding and inspiring,” says James Friend, who wins best cinematography for “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Donnie Yen arrives on stage afterward to introduce the next original song nominee: “Everything Everywhere” star Stephanie Hsu, Son Lux and David Byrne doing a weird, ethereal performance of “This Is a Life.” ‘Navalny’ is named best documentary
Director Daniel Roher’s film about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny wins the Oscar for best documentary. “We must not be afraid to oppose dictators,” says Roher while Navalny’s wife Yulia addresses her husband, currently being held in solitary confinement in Russia: “I’m dreaming of the day you will be free and our country will be free.” And the award for live-action short goes to “The Irish Goodbye.” Jamie Lee Curtis wins her first Oscar, for supporting actress in ‘Everything’
“Woo hoo,” Jamie Lee Curtis exclaims, hugging Ariana DeBose and taking her supporting actress trophy for “Everything Everywhere.” “I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself but I am hundreds of people,” Curtis says, shouting out her directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “my bae” Michelle Yeoh, all her horror folks and her late Hollywood parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. “We all just won an Oscar together.” She leaves the stage and then Sofia Carson and Diane Warren arrive with a choir to perform their original song nominee, “Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman.” Ke Huy Quan takes best supporting actor for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
After hugging co-star Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan goes to the stage to take his supporting actor trophy for “Everything Everywhere” and immediately starts crying. “My mom is 84 years old and she’s at home watching. Mom, I just won an Oscar!” he says through tears. He tells how his journey started on a boat, involved spending a year in a refugee camp and “somehow ended up on the Oscar stage. This is the American dream.” He concludes by saying that “dreams are something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on mine. Everyone out there, keep your dreams alive.” Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ wins best animated feature
Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson arrive on stage to give out the first award of the night: best animated feature. And the winner is … director Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix stop-motion feature “Pinocchio”! “Animation is cinema, animation is not a genre. Animation is ready to be taken to the next step. Please help us keep animation in the conversation,” del Toro says, tearing up when thanking his parents. Jimmy Kimmel gets the ‘Top Gun’ treatment to begin the show
Jimmy Kimmel starts the show by being “ejected” out of a fighter jet by Tom Cruise and parachutes onto the Dolby Theatre stage. “Give me a second to adjust my Danger Zone here. My Banshees are caught in my Inisherin,” he jokes. Kimmel shouts out audiences returning to the theater to see movies and is also glad to see Nicole Kidman out of that “abandoned AMC, where she has been held captive for two whole years now.
