The hit movie was the big winner at Sunday’s Academy Awards, winning Best Picture and several other top prizes.
There were no slaps or any other acts of violence during Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony, a warm and inviting if typically exhausting celebration of Hollywood’s best and brightest.
The zany, internet-minded « Everything Everywhere All at Once » won seven statues, including Best Picture, Best Director and three acting awards — Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan) and Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis) — a remarkable showing for the sci-fi comic-drama mashup, and something of a game changer for the type of film that scores big at the Academy Awards.
Surprises? There weren’t many. Heading into the evening, « Everything Everywhere » was heavily favored to clean up in the night’s big categories. Its chief competition was « All Quiet on the Western Front, » the WWI drama which won four awards and was the most traditional of the nominated films. If there was a push-pull between old and new, it wasn’t overstated, and the decidedly new school « Everything Everywhere » — an inclusive story of a Chinese-American immigrant family that pulls equally from the worlds of comic books, big screen blockbusters and YouTube videos — signals a changing of the guard at the Academy Awards.
