Everything Everywhere All At Once triumphs as The Banshees Of Inisherin goes home empty-handed

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Everything Everywhere All At Once Triumphs As The Banshees Of Inisherin Goes Home Empty-Handed
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By PA reporters

Michelle Yeoh made history at the 95th Oscars as Everything Everywhere All At Once took home a clutch of major awards.

The multiverse sci-fi epic, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, claimed seven prizes including three acting gongs, best directing and best picture, the biggest of the night.

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It was a disappointing evening for Irish talent with The Banshees Of Inisherin going home empty-handed despite its nine nominations.

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Jessica Chastain, left, and Halle Berry, right, present Michelle Yeoh with the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Yeoh claimed the Oscar for best leading actress, fending off competition from two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett to become the first woman from an Asian background to win the prize.

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Taking to the stage, she said: “For all the little boys and girls who look like me, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities.

“Dream big, dreams do come true. Ladies, never let anyone tell you you are past your prime.”

She added: “This is history in the making.”

Speaking in the winners room later, she told reporters that she had “kung-fud” the “glass ceiling” with her win.

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“I think this is something that we have been working so hard towards for a very long time and tonight we frigging broke that glass ceiling,” she said.

“I kung-fud it out and shattered it, and we need this because there are so many who have felt unseen or unheard.”

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Yeoh’s co-star Jamie Lee Curtis, 64, won her first Oscar, for supporting actress, and paid tribute to all the special people in her life.

The actress, who is the daughter of Hollywood stalwarts Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, added: “And my mother and father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories, I just won an Oscar.”

Kwan and Scheinert, jointly known as “The Daniels”, took home the award for best directing – only the third time it has gone to a duo.

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Brendan Fraser poses with the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for The Whale (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Vietnam-born American star Ke Huy Quan received a standing ovation as he took to the stage after claiming best supporting actor for his role in Everything Everywhere All At Once, becoming the first person from an Asian background to win the category.

“My journey started on a boat,” he said. “I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage.”

Brendan Fraser won the best actor Oscar for his performance as a reclusive English teacher with morbid obesity in The Whale, completing a dramatic career comeback after years out of the spotlight.

The Mummy actor, 54, was visibly emotional as he thanked director Darren Aronofsky for “throwing me a creative life-line”.

Costume designer Ruth E Carter became the first African-American to win two Academy Awards for best costume design – for her work on the first Black Panther film and now its sequel, Wakanda Forever.

All Quiet On The Western Front also enjoyed a successful night, continuing its runaway success at the Baftas last month, by securing four awards including best cinematography and original score.

The UK’s tally of four Oscars is the lowest since 2017, when the country came away with just a single award. Last year the UK won six.

The co-directors of An Irish Goodbye led a chorus of Happy Birthday for the film’s star James Martin from the stage after the film won best live action short film.

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Ross White, from left, James Martin, Tom Berkeley and Seamus O’Hara accept the award for best live action short film for An Irish Goodbye (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis failed to capitalise on its eight Oscar nominations, going home empty handed despite its star Austin Butler being touted as a favourite to take best actor.

Elsewhere on the night, Elizabeth Banks tripped as she took to the stage to present the award for best visual effects, which went to Avatar: The Way Of Water, but quickly managed to steady herself.

She was joined by a person wearing a bear costume in reference to her recent film Cocaine Bear and quipped: “Oh my God. He tripped me.”

John Travolta became emotional as he introduced an in memoriam segment which began with a tribute to his late Grease co-star Dame Olivia Newton-John.

The award for best documentary feature film went to Navalny, about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the events related to his 2020 poisoning.

Director Daniel Roher dedicated the award to Navalny and political prisoners around the world, saying: “Alexei, the world has not forgotten your vital message to the world.”

Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, added: “Alexei, I am dreaming of the day you will be free and our country will be free, stay strong my love.”

Host Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the night by entering the stage attached to a parachute, in a nod to best picture nominee Top Gun: Maverick and made references to last year’s slap incident which involved Will Smith and Chris Rock.

In a departure from previous years, the Oscars swapped its usual red carpet for a champagne carpet, with stars including Bill Nighy and Cate Blanchett wearing a blue ribbon as part of an initiative from the United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR.

Full list of the Oscar winners at the 95th Academy Awards

Best picture
Everything Everywhere All at Once (winner)
• 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

Best actor
Brendan Fraser, The Whale (winner)
• Paul Mescal, Aftersun
• Bill Nighy, Living
• Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Austin Butler, Elvis

Best actress
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once (winner)
• Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
• Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
• Ana de Armas, Blonde
• Cate Blanchett, Tar

Best actor in a supporting role
Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once (winner)
• Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brian Tyree Henry - Causeway
• Judd Hirsch - The Fabelmans
• Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin

Best actress in a supporting role
Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All at Once (winner)
• Angela Bassett - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Hong Chau - The Whale
• Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
• Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best director
Daniel Kwan with Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once (winner)
• Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
• Todd Field, Tar
• Ruben Ostlund, Triangle of Sadness
• Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best original song
Naatu Naatu, Kaala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj (RRR) (winner)
• Applause, Sofia Carson and Diane Warren (Tell It Like a Woman)
• Lift Me Up, Rihanna (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
• Hold My Hand, Lady Gaga (Top Gun: Maverick)
• This is a Life, Son Lux (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Best original score
All Quiet on the Western Front (winner)
• Babylon
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Fabelmans

Best makeup and hairstyling
The Whale (winner)
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Elvis

Best costume design
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (winner)
• Babylon
• Elvis
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Mrs Harris Goes To Paris

Best cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front (winner)
• Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
• Elvis
• Empire of Light
• Tár

Best original screenplay
Everything Everywhere All at Once (winner)
• Triangle of Sadness
• The Fabelmans
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Tar

Best adapted screenplay
Women Talking (winner)
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Living
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best sound
Top Gun: Maverick (winner)
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Avatar: The Way of the Water
• The Batman
• Elvis

Best film editing
Everything Everywhere All at Once (winner)
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Elvis
• Tar
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best production design
All Quiet on the Western Front (winner)
• Avatar: The Way of the Water
• Babylon
• Elvis
• The Fabelmans

Best visual effects
Avatar: The Way of Water (winner)
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best international feature film
All Quiet on the Western Front (winner)
• Argentina, 1985
• Close
• EO
• The Quiet Girl

Best animated feature
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley (winner)
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes on - Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
• The Sea Beast - Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
• Turning Red - Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins

Best documentary feature
Navalny (winner)
• All That Breathes
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Fire of Love
• A House Made of Splinters

Best live action short
An Irish Goodbye (winner)
• Ivalu
• Le Pupille
• Night Ride
• The Red Suitcase

Best documentary short
The Elephant Whisperers (winner)
• Haulout
• How Do You Measure a Year?
• The Martha Mitchell Effect
• Stranger at the Gate

Best animated short
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (winner)
• The Flying Sailor
• Ice Merchants
• My Year of Dicks
• An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It

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