“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is one of the few films in Oscars history to win Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editing plus prizes for acting and writing. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won Best Director and Best Original Screenplay while they shared in the Best Picture win with Jonathan Wang. Paul Rogers took home Best Film Editing while the film claimed three acting victories: Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, Best Supporting Actress for Jamie Lee Curtis, and Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan.
“Forrest Gump” was the last movie to win these top awards. it won Best Picture in 1995 for Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, and Steve Tisch while Robert Zemeckis won Best Director, Tom Hanks won Best Actor, Eric Roth won Best Adapted Screenplay, and Arthur Schmidt won Best Editing.
Several other movies have come close to achieving this feat, with “American Beauty” (2000), “A Beautiful Mind” (2002), ” “No Country For Old Men...
“Forrest Gump” was the last movie to win these top awards. it won Best Picture in 1995 for Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, and Steve Tisch while Robert Zemeckis won Best Director, Tom Hanks won Best Actor, Eric Roth won Best Adapted Screenplay, and Arthur Schmidt won Best Editing.
Several other movies have come close to achieving this feat, with “American Beauty” (2000), “A Beautiful Mind” (2002), ” “No Country For Old Men...
- 2/15/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
How does one repay a team of producers for launching its highest grossing film of all time? Give them the key to the studio — literally.
On Monday, “Barbie” producers, LuckyChap’s Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara inked a first-look deal at Warner Bros., which distributed the $1.4 billion-grossing movie. So, to celebrate, Warner Bros. Pictures Group Co-Chairs and CEO Pam Abdy and Michael De Luca decided to resurrect an old tradition, started by WB co-founder Jack Warner.
“Every once in a while, when a significant piece of talent signed a deal with the studio, he presented that company, that talent, with a key to the studio,” De Luca said as he and Abdy raised a toast to the trio. “We are so delighted to have our first key to our studio be given to LuckyChap.”
This historical artifact, De Luca noted, was particularly special, as the LuckyChap team received...
On Monday, “Barbie” producers, LuckyChap’s Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara inked a first-look deal at Warner Bros., which distributed the $1.4 billion-grossing movie. So, to celebrate, Warner Bros. Pictures Group Co-Chairs and CEO Pam Abdy and Michael De Luca decided to resurrect an old tradition, started by WB co-founder Jack Warner.
“Every once in a while, when a significant piece of talent signed a deal with the studio, he presented that company, that talent, with a key to the studio,” De Luca said as he and Abdy raised a toast to the trio. “We are so delighted to have our first key to our studio be given to LuckyChap.”
This historical artifact, De Luca noted, was particularly special, as the LuckyChap team received...
- 2/13/2024
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
One of the biggest challenges of the Sundance Film Festival is trying to fit it all in and be everywhere all at once in Park City. On Sunday morning at The Park, a group of festival insiders stayed in one place for about two hours to take in a keynote from Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Oscar-winning producer Jonathan Wang and witness two producers being singled out with awards and $10,000 grants.
It all went down as part of a producers award collaboration between the Sundance Institute and Amazon MGM Studios. The prizes — one for fiction, one for nonfiction — were awarded to producers Brad Becker-Parton of Stress Positions and Toni Kamau of The Battle for Laikipia, two films that premiered in this year’s lineup.
Becker-Parton’s other credits include Tina Satter’s Reality, starring Sydney Sweeney, and Mariama Diallo’s Master, starring Regina Hall, a Sundance selection released by...
It all went down as part of a producers award collaboration between the Sundance Institute and Amazon MGM Studios. The prizes — one for fiction, one for nonfiction — were awarded to producers Brad Becker-Parton of Stress Positions and Toni Kamau of The Battle for Laikipia, two films that premiered in this year’s lineup.
Becker-Parton’s other credits include Tina Satter’s Reality, starring Sydney Sweeney, and Mariama Diallo’s Master, starring Regina Hall, a Sundance selection released by...
- 1/22/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Sunday, January 21, festival attendees gathered to celebrate the unique triumphs and struggles of independent film producers at the Sundance Producers Celebration. In addition to honoring the producers of the films in this year’s festival, the event featured a keynote address from “Everything Everywhere All at Once” producer and frequent Daniels collaborator Jonathan Wang and presented the 2024 Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Awards.
Brad Becker-Parton (“Stress Positions”) received the Amazon Studios Fiction Producers Award, while Toni Kamau (“The Battle for Laikipia”) received the Amazon Studios Nonfiction Producers Award. IndieWire shares Wang’s keynote exclusively below.
Jonathan Wang: In 2015, I attended Sundance for the first time with an interactive short film called “Possibilia.” It was made by some unknown music-video nerds working under the pretentious pseudonym ‘Daniels.’ All of three people watched the film, two were Daniel Scheinert’s parents, and the third was probably a glitch in the tech.
Brad Becker-Parton (“Stress Positions”) received the Amazon Studios Fiction Producers Award, while Toni Kamau (“The Battle for Laikipia”) received the Amazon Studios Nonfiction Producers Award. IndieWire shares Wang’s keynote exclusively below.
Jonathan Wang: In 2015, I attended Sundance for the first time with an interactive short film called “Possibilia.” It was made by some unknown music-video nerds working under the pretentious pseudonym ‘Daniels.’ All of three people watched the film, two were Daniel Scheinert’s parents, and the third was probably a glitch in the tech.
- 1/21/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Ghetto Film School, the 23-year-old nonprofit that develops students for top universities and careers in the creative industries, held its annual Fall Benefit on Thursday night, honoring a starry trio of Quinta Brunson, Sandra Oh and Danielle Brooks.
The event was held at the Los Angeles home of Veronica and Brian Grazer, with guests including Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski, Sebastian Stan, John David Washington, Bryce Dallas-Howard, Jeffry Wright, Casey Affleck and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
In her speech, Brunson celebrated places like Gfs for even existing, with her version having been the education she got from Second City and Buzzfeed.
“This is just very inspiring. I just started up my writers room again because WGA was successful in their strike. We started last week, and I already was inspired to get back to my show, but sometimes I really worry about the future,...
The event was held at the Los Angeles home of Veronica and Brian Grazer, with guests including Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski, Sebastian Stan, John David Washington, Bryce Dallas-Howard, Jeffry Wright, Casey Affleck and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
In her speech, Brunson celebrated places like Gfs for even existing, with her version having been the education she got from Second City and Buzzfeed.
“This is just very inspiring. I just started up my writers room again because WGA was successful in their strike. We started last week, and I already was inspired to get back to my show, but sometimes I really worry about the future,...
- 10/13/2023
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the names of its newest round of invitees, increasing the number of voting members past 10,000, should everyone accept.
With the addition of the 398 artists and executives that the Academy extended invitations to (totaling one more invite than last year), the Academy now boasts a membership that is 34 percent women, 18 percent from underrepresented ethnic and racial communities, and 20 percent from countries or territories outside of the United States. Though their invites have a rolling deadline, they must accept them and pay dues in order to vote for the Oscars and gain access to benefits like the Academy Screening Room.
Among the list of possible new members are, predictably, many of the filmmakers behind Best Picture winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” including Best Supporting Actor winner Ke Huy Quan, Best Supporting Actress nominee Stephanie Hsu, Best Film Editing winner Paul Rogers,...
With the addition of the 398 artists and executives that the Academy extended invitations to (totaling one more invite than last year), the Academy now boasts a membership that is 34 percent women, 18 percent from underrepresented ethnic and racial communities, and 20 percent from countries or territories outside of the United States. Though their invites have a rolling deadline, they must accept them and pay dues in order to vote for the Oscars and gain access to benefits like the Academy Screening Room.
Among the list of possible new members are, predictably, many of the filmmakers behind Best Picture winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” including Best Supporting Actor winner Ke Huy Quan, Best Supporting Actress nominee Stephanie Hsu, Best Film Editing winner Paul Rogers,...
- 6/28/2023
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
It’s that time of year again — the break between Cannes and the fall festivals, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences makes its membership invitations. The Oscars group said today that it has extended offers to 398 artists and execs — one more than last year — who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to motion pictures.
The list includes actors, directors, writers, producers, musicians, executives, artist reps, publicists and below-the-liners such as casting directors, cinematographers, costume designers, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, production designers and sound pros.
“The Academy is proud to welcome these artists and professionals into our membership,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang said in a statement. “They represent extraordinary global talent across cinematic disciplines and have made a vital impact on the arts and sciences of motion pictures and on movie fans worldwide.”
As usual, the invitees include newly minted Oscar winners,...
The list includes actors, directors, writers, producers, musicians, executives, artist reps, publicists and below-the-liners such as casting directors, cinematographers, costume designers, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, production designers and sound pros.
“The Academy is proud to welcome these artists and professionals into our membership,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang said in a statement. “They represent extraordinary global talent across cinematic disciplines and have made a vital impact on the arts and sciences of motion pictures and on movie fans worldwide.”
As usual, the invitees include newly minted Oscar winners,...
- 6/28/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Jane Fonda, Quinta Brunson and Daniels, aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, were among the stars who took part in the 2023 Hollywood Climate Summit on Thursday, leading conversations about environmentalism in their projects and the culture at large.
Held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, the two-day conference kicked off with keynote conversation “We’re All In: Why You Should Be Excited About the Hollywood Climate Movement,” with Brunson, Kwan and Scheinert. Everything Everywhere All at Once producer Jonathan Wang started things off with an opening statement, noting that on their Oscar-winning film, the team “did some good, we made some baby steps. We hired an eco-coordinator, we made sure that our food went to farms or to homeless shelters, we made sure that we could do the best we could. But these were all very, very small, teeny, tiny steps. As we finished the movie and we...
Held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, the two-day conference kicked off with keynote conversation “We’re All In: Why You Should Be Excited About the Hollywood Climate Movement,” with Brunson, Kwan and Scheinert. Everything Everywhere All at Once producer Jonathan Wang started things off with an opening statement, noting that on their Oscar-winning film, the team “did some good, we made some baby steps. We hired an eco-coordinator, we made sure that our food went to farms or to homeless shelters, we made sure that we could do the best we could. But these were all very, very small, teeny, tiny steps. As we finished the movie and we...
- 6/23/2023
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Daniels and Brittany Snow were among those named Wednesday as panelists for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ career development program, the Academy Gold Rising program.
Now in its seventh year, the initiative is for students and young professionals from underrepresented communities. Through a series of orientations and panels, upstart filmmakers will get a firsthand crash course into the creation of feature films and moviemaking, with Gold Rising participants paired with an Academy member for an eight-week mentorship. Academy members from every branch will be on hand to support the program.
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Panelists include recent Oscar winners Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schienert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”), composer Michael Abels, actor Brittany Snow (“Pitch Perfect”), sound editor Bobbi Banks, composer Kris Bowers, cinematographer Michael Goi, sound editor Greg Hedgepath, Oscar-winning editor Paul Rogers and producer Jonathan Wang.
“We...
Now in its seventh year, the initiative is for students and young professionals from underrepresented communities. Through a series of orientations and panels, upstart filmmakers will get a firsthand crash course into the creation of feature films and moviemaking, with Gold Rising participants paired with an Academy member for an eight-week mentorship. Academy members from every branch will be on hand to support the program.
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Panelists include recent Oscar winners Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schienert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”), composer Michael Abels, actor Brittany Snow (“Pitch Perfect”), sound editor Bobbi Banks, composer Kris Bowers, cinematographer Michael Goi, sound editor Greg Hedgepath, Oscar-winning editor Paul Rogers and producer Jonathan Wang.
“We...
- 6/7/2023
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its seventh year of the Academy Gold Rising career development program. Gold Rising teams up with several studios and organizations to aid students and young professionals from underrepresented communities develop their careers in the film industry.
This year’s slate includes 90 students and 21 film and entertainment companies. The eight-week program kicked off on Wednesday with a two-day orientation process, consisting of a presentation on the Academy Film Archive and tours of the Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
The Gold Rising program will commence with a graduation ceremony on August 10. After completion of the program, participants will be matched up with an Academy member for an eight-month mentorship experience.
“We are incredibly honored to host a new group of emerging filmmakers who will undoubtedly bring their passion, stories and insights to the program each day,” said Academy...
This year’s slate includes 90 students and 21 film and entertainment companies. The eight-week program kicked off on Wednesday with a two-day orientation process, consisting of a presentation on the Academy Film Archive and tours of the Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
The Gold Rising program will commence with a graduation ceremony on August 10. After completion of the program, participants will be matched up with an Academy member for an eight-month mentorship experience.
“We are incredibly honored to host a new group of emerging filmmakers who will undoubtedly bring their passion, stories and insights to the program each day,” said Academy...
- 6/7/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay and McKinley Franklin
- Variety Film + TV
Apple TV+ dropped the official trailer for “Hijack,” the upcoming thriller series that is set to premiere with two episodes on Wednesday, June 28. The seven-episode season will be available on the streamer, with the remaining five episodes dropping the following five weeks, until the finale on August 2.
According to the official logline, “’Hijack’ is a thriller that follows the journey of a hijacked plane as it makes its way to London over a seven-hour flight, and authorities on the ground scramble for answers.”
“Hijack” stars Idris Elba as Sam Nelson, the business negotiator who steps up to save the lives of his fellow passengers. Elba is joined by Christine Adams, Max Beesley, Eve Myles, Neil Maskell, Jasper Britton, Harry Michell, Aimee Kelly, Mohamed Elsandel and Ben Miles.
Created by writer George Kay and director Jim Field Smith; the two also serve as executive producers alongside Elba, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta and Kris Thykier.
According to the official logline, “’Hijack’ is a thriller that follows the journey of a hijacked plane as it makes its way to London over a seven-hour flight, and authorities on the ground scramble for answers.”
“Hijack” stars Idris Elba as Sam Nelson, the business negotiator who steps up to save the lives of his fellow passengers. Elba is joined by Christine Adams, Max Beesley, Eve Myles, Neil Maskell, Jasper Britton, Harry Michell, Aimee Kelly, Mohamed Elsandel and Ben Miles.
Created by writer George Kay and director Jim Field Smith; the two also serve as executive producers alongside Elba, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta and Kris Thykier.
- 5/26/2023
- by Charna Flam, McKinley Franklin and Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
Hey, TV fans. Happy Friday and weekend. We are back in action to let you know what will be airing tonight, May 26, 2023 on the major networks: ABC, Fox, NBC and ABC. There's a couple of new shows airing tonight, but for the most part, you're getting reruns since the Fall/Spring season is over. ABC is going to air a New Face Of Hollywood special, and a 20/20 repeat episode." The New Face of Hollywood -- A Soul of a Nation Presentation is brand new. ABC's official description for it reads like this: "Delving into the rise of Asians in Hollywood, in honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month; featuring interviews with actors Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, and Oscar-winning producer Jonathan Wang." It's airing at 7 pm central standard time.
- 5/26/2023
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Saweetie are among those honored on Gold House’s 2023 Most Impactful Asians A100 list.
The A100 List honors trailblazers across the industry who are at the forefront of what the organization calls the “new gold age.” Gold House will celebrate these honorees and announce several new initiatives at the second annual Gold Gala during Aapi month on May 6 in downtown Los Angeles.
“It’s impossible to fully appreciate the artistic and entrepreneurial renaissance that is currently underway without Gold House,” said honoree Jose Antonio Vargas, the founder of Define American and one of the lead producers of Broadway’s “Here Lies Love.” “With Gold House at the forefront, not only are Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the mainstream — we are helping define what is mainstream.”
Honoree and PBS news anchor Amna Nawaz also stated, “When it comes to the power of journalism, I...
The A100 List honors trailblazers across the industry who are at the forefront of what the organization calls the “new gold age.” Gold House will celebrate these honorees and announce several new initiatives at the second annual Gold Gala during Aapi month on May 6 in downtown Los Angeles.
“It’s impossible to fully appreciate the artistic and entrepreneurial renaissance that is currently underway without Gold House,” said honoree Jose Antonio Vargas, the founder of Define American and one of the lead producers of Broadway’s “Here Lies Love.” “With Gold House at the forefront, not only are Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the mainstream — we are helping define what is mainstream.”
Honoree and PBS news anchor Amna Nawaz also stated, “When it comes to the power of journalism, I...
- 5/1/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
As Asian Pacific American Heritage Month kicks off, Gold House has unveiled this year’s A100, the Api leadership coalition’s sixth annual list of the Asian Pacific leaders who have most significantly impacted American culture and society in the last year.
Among the five categories included in the list — activism and journalism; business and technology; entertainment and media; lifestyle and fashion; and sports and gaming — one person tops each category as an overall A1 (maximum impact).
“Gold House’s A100 List is a vital representation of the diverse opportunities and achievements of and for Asian Pacific leaders,” said Michelle Yeoh, a Gold House A100 Hall of Famer and inaugural Gold Gala Honoree last year. “Becoming begins with seeing — and it shows how we’re just getting started. I’m so proud to be part of past classes and applaud this year’s class.”
This year, Bela Bajaria, the chief content officer at Netflix,...
Among the five categories included in the list — activism and journalism; business and technology; entertainment and media; lifestyle and fashion; and sports and gaming — one person tops each category as an overall A1 (maximum impact).
“Gold House’s A100 List is a vital representation of the diverse opportunities and achievements of and for Asian Pacific leaders,” said Michelle Yeoh, a Gold House A100 Hall of Famer and inaugural Gold Gala Honoree last year. “Becoming begins with seeing — and it shows how we’re just getting started. I’m so proud to be part of past classes and applaud this year’s class.”
This year, Bela Bajaria, the chief content officer at Netflix,...
- 5/1/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Recent Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan and actor-producer Sandra Oh will be honored at the second annual Gold House Gala in May. Quan will be honored with the Leading Man Award, while Oh will receive the SeeHer Award.
The event, taking place at the Jerry Moss Plaza at the Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles, is a celebration of Aapi excellence and heritage, honoring the most impactful Asians on the company’s A100 list.
Other award recipients include Netflix’s chief content officer Bela Bajaria, author and trans rights activist Geena Rocero and Vanity Fair’s editor-in-chief Radhika Jones.
The cast and creators of A24’s Oscar-winning “Everything Everywhere All at Once” will be honored with the Gold Icon Award, commemorating the film’s transformative achievements for the Asian Pacific community. Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Harry Shum Jr. and producer Jonathan Wang will accept the award.
A cast and crew...
The event, taking place at the Jerry Moss Plaza at the Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles, is a celebration of Aapi excellence and heritage, honoring the most impactful Asians on the company’s A100 list.
Other award recipients include Netflix’s chief content officer Bela Bajaria, author and trans rights activist Geena Rocero and Vanity Fair’s editor-in-chief Radhika Jones.
The cast and creators of A24’s Oscar-winning “Everything Everywhere All at Once” will be honored with the Gold Icon Award, commemorating the film’s transformative achievements for the Asian Pacific community. Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Harry Shum Jr. and producer Jonathan Wang will accept the award.
A cast and crew...
- 4/19/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
“This is my nightmare.”
That’s how filmmaker Ari Aster kicked off his interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Monday night while standing on the red carpet ahead of the L.A. premiere of his latest film, Beau Is Afraid. It was in reference to the obligation of doing press, something he clearly does not enjoy. Same goes for his star, Joaquin Phoenix, who turned up to the DGA Theatre to pose for photos and make a brief appearance on stage with the rest of the cast as Aster introduced the A24 epic.
“I still can’t quite believe I was given the resources and the freedom to make this in the way that we did,” Aster said during those remarks in front of a capacity crowd that included Pedro Pascal; Jenna Ortega; Jesse Williams; Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Daniel Kwan, Daniel Schienert, Jonathan Wang and Harry Shum Jr....
That’s how filmmaker Ari Aster kicked off his interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Monday night while standing on the red carpet ahead of the L.A. premiere of his latest film, Beau Is Afraid. It was in reference to the obligation of doing press, something he clearly does not enjoy. Same goes for his star, Joaquin Phoenix, who turned up to the DGA Theatre to pose for photos and make a brief appearance on stage with the rest of the cast as Aster introduced the A24 epic.
“I still can’t quite believe I was given the resources and the freedom to make this in the way that we did,” Aster said during those remarks in front of a capacity crowd that included Pedro Pascal; Jenna Ortega; Jesse Williams; Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Daniel Kwan, Daniel Schienert, Jonathan Wang and Harry Shum Jr....
- 4/11/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Beef” has raised the stakes.
Variety has learned exclusively that Netflix and the creative teams behind the new dark comic series have chosen to seek Emmy Awards consideration as a limited or anthology series instead of a comedy, where many pundits had assumed it would campaign.
Starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, the series dropped on the streaming platform on April 6, garnering positive reviews from critics and audiences. Currently, the show sits at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 92% from audiences.
Created by Lee Sung Jin, best known for writing and producing HBO’s “Silicon Valley” (for which he received an Emmy nom for outstanding comedy series in 2015), the darkly comical romp was announced in March 2021 and commissioned as an anthology series for Netflix.
A move into limited doesn’t mean “Beef” won’t return. On the contrary, while a second season has yet to be announced, shows in the...
Variety has learned exclusively that Netflix and the creative teams behind the new dark comic series have chosen to seek Emmy Awards consideration as a limited or anthology series instead of a comedy, where many pundits had assumed it would campaign.
Starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, the series dropped on the streaming platform on April 6, garnering positive reviews from critics and audiences. Currently, the show sits at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 92% from audiences.
Created by Lee Sung Jin, best known for writing and producing HBO’s “Silicon Valley” (for which he received an Emmy nom for outstanding comedy series in 2015), the darkly comical romp was announced in March 2021 and commissioned as an anthology series for Netflix.
A move into limited doesn’t mean “Beef” won’t return. On the contrary, while a second season has yet to be announced, shows in the...
- 4/11/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Director Ari Aster says it took about six months for Joaquin Phoenix to sign on to star in his new movie, “Beau Is Afraid.”
“You get on your hands and knees and beg,” Aster jokes about his first meeting with the Oscar winner. “He’s the best. He’s the greatest. He’s the prince. And those eyes. He could be so naked, so exposed, and he’s funny. He’s a funny guy.”
Aster (“Hereditary” and “Midsommar”) and his cast celebrated the Los Angeles premiere of the A24 film Monday night at the DGA in West Hollywood.
“It’s when I first saw ‘I’m Still Here’ that I knew I needed to work with this guy,” Aster said. “One, it’s such a funny film, and two, that performance is really a brilliant comic performance. But it’s also because as a gesture that movie is suicidal. What he...
“You get on your hands and knees and beg,” Aster jokes about his first meeting with the Oscar winner. “He’s the best. He’s the greatest. He’s the prince. And those eyes. He could be so naked, so exposed, and he’s funny. He’s a funny guy.”
Aster (“Hereditary” and “Midsommar”) and his cast celebrated the Los Angeles premiere of the A24 film Monday night at the DGA in West Hollywood.
“It’s when I first saw ‘I’m Still Here’ that I knew I needed to work with this guy,” Aster said. “One, it’s such a funny film, and two, that performance is really a brilliant comic performance. But it’s also because as a gesture that movie is suicidal. What he...
- 4/11/2023
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
The epic journey of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" may span the entire multiverse, but despite its fantastical, kaleidoscopic lens, the core theme of the film's story is about dealing with the cold, isolating effects of nihilism. Directors and screenwriters Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert had been working on the concept for more than a decade, so the script went through numerous changes in the years leading up to its production. According to producer Jonathan Wang, though, Daniels (as they're collectively known) were always invested in delving into the emotional conflict that results from trying to find meaning in a meaningless multiverse.
A year after its theatrical debut, "Everything Everywhere All At Once" has emerged as one of the most financially and critically successful independent films in recent times. That's probably because it feels so relatable to modern filmgoers, capturing the paradoxical sense of sensory overload and ennui resulting from an interconnected digital world.
A year after its theatrical debut, "Everything Everywhere All At Once" has emerged as one of the most financially and critically successful independent films in recent times. That's probably because it feels so relatable to modern filmgoers, capturing the paradoxical sense of sensory overload and ennui resulting from an interconnected digital world.
- 4/2/2023
- by Andrew Housman
- Slash Film
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert have leapt from the multiverse to a galaxy far, far away. The Oscar-winning directing duo, known as Daniels, have helmed an episode of the upcoming “Star Wars” series “Skeleton Crew” for Disney+.
After kicking off filming last summer, production has reportedly wrapped in recent months. While the complete list of directors on “Skeleton Crew” remains unannounced, sources indicate that Daniels helmed one episode of the upcoming season.
“Skeleton Crew” stars Jude Law and is created by Jon Watts. While most narrative details remain under wraps, the Disney+ series will take place in the New Republic era, following the events of 1983’s “Return of the Jedi.” “The Mandalorian” team of Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni serve as executive producers.
Daniels completed principal photography on their episode of “Skeleton Crew” before the duo became Oscar winners earlier this month, taking home trophies for original screenplay, director and best picture.
After kicking off filming last summer, production has reportedly wrapped in recent months. While the complete list of directors on “Skeleton Crew” remains unannounced, sources indicate that Daniels helmed one episode of the upcoming season.
“Skeleton Crew” stars Jude Law and is created by Jon Watts. While most narrative details remain under wraps, the Disney+ series will take place in the New Republic era, following the events of 1983’s “Return of the Jedi.” “The Mandalorian” team of Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni serve as executive producers.
Daniels completed principal photography on their episode of “Skeleton Crew” before the duo became Oscar winners earlier this month, taking home trophies for original screenplay, director and best picture.
- 3/20/2023
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
The 95th Academy Awards are in the books, with “Everything Everywhere All at Once” making history for lots of reasons. There were celebrations everywhere, in fact, plus gifting lounges, viewing parties and everyone eventually ended up at the Vanity Fair party. “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” premiered, too, and two charity events raised lots of cash for very good causes in this busy week that was.
16th Annual Wif (Women in Film) Oscar Party
NeueHouse Hollywood, Hollywood
Ruth E. Carter attends 2023 Wif (Women In Film) Oscar Party at NeueHouse Los Angeles on March 10, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)
Hollywood’s women joined hands in solidarity by kicking off Oscar weekend at the 16th Annual Wif (Women in Film) Oscar party, celebrating the 65 women nominated for Academy Awards for their work in 2002.
Solidarity is still needed, as the dismal recent studies that show women received only 27% of the possible non-acting nominations,...
16th Annual Wif (Women in Film) Oscar Party
NeueHouse Hollywood, Hollywood
Ruth E. Carter attends 2023 Wif (Women In Film) Oscar Party at NeueHouse Los Angeles on March 10, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)
Hollywood’s women joined hands in solidarity by kicking off Oscar weekend at the 16th Annual Wif (Women in Film) Oscar party, celebrating the 65 women nominated for Academy Awards for their work in 2002.
Solidarity is still needed, as the dismal recent studies that show women received only 27% of the possible non-acting nominations,...
- 3/18/2023
- by Jenny Peters
- The Wrap
Critics can debate just how diverse the 2023 Oscars really were. Alongside a record number of winners of ethnically Chinese and Indian decent — including Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, director-screenwriter Daniel Kwan and producer Jonathan Wang for Everything Everywhere All At Once, and a best song trophy for “Naatu Naatu” composer M.M. Keeravaani and lyricist Chandrabose — the 95th Academy Awards includes just a single Black winner, costume designer Ruth Carter, who picked up her second Oscar for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and just one Oscar for a Latino filmmaker, going to Mexican director Guillermo del Toro for his animated feature Pinocchio.
On one measure, however, the 2023 Oscars get top marks. This year’s event was one of the most globally diverse in the event’s history.
Winners in 13 of 24 Oscar categories hailed from outside the U.S. — 15 if you include Ke Huy Quan, (who was born in Vietnam and immigrated...
On one measure, however, the 2023 Oscars get top marks. This year’s event was one of the most globally diverse in the event’s history.
Winners in 13 of 24 Oscar categories hailed from outside the U.S. — 15 if you include Ke Huy Quan, (who was born in Vietnam and immigrated...
- 3/17/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The makers of Everything Everywhere All at Once had a celebratory solution for the task of transporting everyone everywhere all at once on Oscar night: a fleet of party buses.
The best picture-winning team hit the town in supersized rides, traversing from the 95th Oscars to afterparties including Vanity Fair’s event at the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts in Beverly Hills and A24’s private bash at Soho House West Hollywood.
Days before the show, producer Jonathan Wang touched down on the blue carpet at the Spirit Awards (where the film dominated the show by winning seven of the eight awards it was nominated for) where he explained the decision to THR. “We’ve rented a party bus to get the whole cast and crew together so we could all show up together,” he noted with an asterisk that “the legendary icons with big beautiful gowns” (aka star...
The best picture-winning team hit the town in supersized rides, traversing from the 95th Oscars to afterparties including Vanity Fair’s event at the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts in Beverly Hills and A24’s private bash at Soho House West Hollywood.
Days before the show, producer Jonathan Wang touched down on the blue carpet at the Spirit Awards (where the film dominated the show by winning seven of the eight awards it was nominated for) where he explained the decision to THR. “We’ve rented a party bus to get the whole cast and crew together so we could all show up together,” he noted with an asterisk that “the legendary icons with big beautiful gowns” (aka star...
- 3/16/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There’s a scene in Clueless that finds Alicia Silverstone’s Cher fielding a surprise phone call from her father, Mel Horowitz, played by the late and great Dan Hedaya, who wants her home immediately. “I expect you to walk in this door in 20 minutes,” he demands, a tall order considering Cher is a party in the Valley and far from home in the 90210. “Everywhere in L.A. takes 20 minutes.”
That line manages to sneak its way into many L.A. conversations, and it was perhaps never more true than during the crush of the early pandemic when streets were fairly empty and freeways more so. Those days are done and the city is more congested than ever, especially on an Oscar weekend like the one we just had with a dizzying number of parties. Things are so back to normal that people everywhere were saying it felt like “the before times,...
That line manages to sneak its way into many L.A. conversations, and it was perhaps never more true than during the crush of the early pandemic when streets were fairly empty and freeways more so. Those days are done and the city is more congested than ever, especially on an Oscar weekend like the one we just had with a dizzying number of parties. Things are so back to normal that people everywhere were saying it felt like “the before times,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
To have a film centered on a Chinese American family, and more specifically the conflict between an immigrant mother and her queer daughter, win the Oscar for Best Picture is undeniably a sign of progress in the movement to get the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize more art that comes from people from marginalized backgrounds.
On Sunday night, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” made Academy Awards history on multiple fronts, most of all with lead Michelle Yeoh becoming the first Asian woman to ever win Best Actress. Her victory ended a 21 year streak of all white winners since African American actress Halle Berry became the first woman of color to win the award in 2002. Similarly, her co-star Ke Huy Quan became the second Asian man to win Best Supporting Actor, nearly 40 years after “The Killing Fields” star Haing S. Ngor became the first.
It is important...
On Sunday night, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” made Academy Awards history on multiple fronts, most of all with lead Michelle Yeoh becoming the first Asian woman to ever win Best Actress. Her victory ended a 21 year streak of all white winners since African American actress Halle Berry became the first woman of color to win the award in 2002. Similarly, her co-star Ke Huy Quan became the second Asian man to win Best Supporting Actor, nearly 40 years after “The Killing Fields” star Haing S. Ngor became the first.
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- 3/14/2023
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
On the way into the Governors’ Ball, Darren Aronofsky happily accepted congrats for two Oscar wins for “The Whale,” for comeback kid Best Actor Brendan Fraser and his makeup transformation. “All Quiet on the Western Front” star Felix Kammerer was ecstatic about the German film’s four wins, even if Germany and his home country Austria couldn’t celebrate a Best Picture trophy. (Netflix came tantalizingly close.) And the A24 team, led by co-founder David Fenkel, were beaming, even if true to form they refused to pose for a celebratory group photo.
Finally, the night marked a changing of the guard. Yes, A24 had scored Oscars before, even taking Best Picture (“Moonlight”). But “Everything Everywhere All at Once” dominated Oscar season, finally winning seven out of 11 possible Oscars, the most wins for a Best Picture winner since Searchlight’s “Slumdog Millionaire” took home eight. (The last film to win seven...
Finally, the night marked a changing of the guard. Yes, A24 had scored Oscars before, even taking Best Picture (“Moonlight”). But “Everything Everywhere All at Once” dominated Oscar season, finally winning seven out of 11 possible Oscars, the most wins for a Best Picture winner since Searchlight’s “Slumdog Millionaire” took home eight. (The last film to win seven...
- 3/13/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The 2023 Oscars week brought with it days of A-list celebrations leading up to Sunday night’s 95th annual Academy Awards. Parties returned in full force this year for the first time since before the Covid-19 pandemic, with studios, agencies, fashion houses and other organizations like Vanity Fair, Elton John and MPTF all hosting their own soirees.
Below are some insider highlights from the 2023 festivities.
Governors Ball
The Oscars’ official afterparty, held just upstairs from the Dolby Theatre, welcomed big winners including the Everything Everywhere All at Once team, Sarah Polley and Brendan Fraser, who had their new trophies engraved and posed for photos with their statues, as Ke Huy Quan’s excitement could be contained to the ground as he stood on the engraving station table. Harrison Ford, Angela Bassett, Ariana DeBose, Ava DuVernary, Brian Tyree Henry, Brendan Gleeson, Miles Teller, Riz Ahmed, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver and Troy Kotsur...
Below are some insider highlights from the 2023 festivities.
Governors Ball
The Oscars’ official afterparty, held just upstairs from the Dolby Theatre, welcomed big winners including the Everything Everywhere All at Once team, Sarah Polley and Brendan Fraser, who had their new trophies engraved and posed for photos with their statues, as Ke Huy Quan’s excitement could be contained to the ground as he stood on the engraving station table. Harrison Ford, Angela Bassett, Ariana DeBose, Ava DuVernary, Brian Tyree Henry, Brendan Gleeson, Miles Teller, Riz Ahmed, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver and Troy Kotsur...
- 3/13/2023
- by Chris Gardner and Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Vanity Fair’s annual Oscar party took place Sunday at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. I have all the details from inside the event, which as usual attracted the most elite of the Hollywood set who poured in after watching Everything Everywhere All at Once score seven Oscar trophies including Best Picture.
We managed to get our hands on the guest list for the event, held in a 3,000-square-foot indoor reception area, with additional courtyards and other outdoor lounge spaces. The main bar, a prime gathering spot, was 40 feet long. The guests danced into the early-morning hours.
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We managed to get our hands on the guest list for the event, held in a 3,000-square-foot indoor reception area, with additional courtyards and other outdoor lounge spaces. The main bar, a prime gathering spot, was 40 feet long. The guests danced into the early-morning hours.
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- 3/13/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Three years after “Parasite” became the first non-English-language movie to win Best Picture, the Oscars went international across many categories, and turned the ceremony into a global village. The evening reflected an awards season and industry where Hollywood matters more as a portal and less as a source. Not everyone is happy about this — on Facebook, Paul Schrader groused about “the scramble to be woke” and a loss of the ceremony’s “provincial” origins — but that’s selective memory: Hollywood is the invention of immigrants.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” made the most noise, but one of the biggest historical achievements was played off the stage. In the acceptance speech for documentary short film “The Elephant Whisperers,” producer Guneet Monga yelled into the microphone that her movie was the first Indian production to win an Oscar. The front row, filled with A-listers, heard her and cheered; everyone at home heard a blaring orchestra.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” made the most noise, but one of the biggest historical achievements was played off the stage. In the acceptance speech for documentary short film “The Elephant Whisperers,” producer Guneet Monga yelled into the microphone that her movie was the first Indian production to win an Oscar. The front row, filled with A-listers, heard her and cheered; everyone at home heard a blaring orchestra.
- 3/13/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Go figure: The ugliest Oscars ceremony ever was followed a year later by perhaps the warmest celebration ever.
The 95th edition — which was held Sunday night, at a perilous moment for the motion picture industry and the Academy, the latter now under the new management team of CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang — was dominated by Everything Everywhere All at Once, a film that certainly isn’t for everyone, but apparently is for enough of the 10,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to prevail over formidable competition on the preferential (read: weighted/ranked-choice) ballot that the organization uses to determine its best picture.
This film from the warped minds of the Daniels — as in, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, colorful characters who were previously best known for “the farting corpse movie,” 2016’s Swiss Army Man — was made by a diverse and lovable company of artists...
The 95th edition — which was held Sunday night, at a perilous moment for the motion picture industry and the Academy, the latter now under the new management team of CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang — was dominated by Everything Everywhere All at Once, a film that certainly isn’t for everyone, but apparently is for enough of the 10,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to prevail over formidable competition on the preferential (read: weighted/ranked-choice) ballot that the organization uses to determine its best picture.
This film from the warped minds of the Daniels — as in, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, colorful characters who were previously best known for “the farting corpse movie,” 2016’s Swiss Army Man — was made by a diverse and lovable company of artists...
- 3/13/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For all but the most hardcore movie buffs, Oscars night often brings a sense of déjà vu: for months, you’ve been meaning to watch all of the films nominated for Best Picture, but for whatever reason, you just didn’t get around to it. Occasionally, one of the movies that passed you by even ends up sweeping the Oscars, like Everything Everywhere All at Once did at this year’s ceremony. Your resolve has hardened – it’s time to check out the movie everyone’s been raving about!
After being nominated for 11 awards, Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Actress, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay at the 95th Academy Awards, and there’s never been a better time to hop aboard the hype train and find out why the movie has become such a runaway success.
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After being nominated for 11 awards, Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Actress, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay at the 95th Academy Awards, and there’s never been a better time to hop aboard the hype train and find out why the movie has become such a runaway success.
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- 3/13/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
As far as this year’s Oscars goes, it was undoubtedly the year of the comeback.
It was a huge comeback for Best Actor and Supporting Actor winners Brendan Fraser and former child actor Ke Huy Quan (who co-starred way back in in 1991’s Encino Man) who in 2023 have risen — finally — to the pinnacle of their profession.
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It was also a huge comeback for actresses in their 60s, Best Actress Michelle Yeoh and Supporting Actress Jamie Lee Curtis,...
It was a huge comeback for Best Actor and Supporting Actor winners Brendan Fraser and former child actor Ke Huy Quan (who co-starred way back in in 1991’s Encino Man) who in 2023 have risen — finally — to the pinnacle of their profession.
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It was also a huge comeback for actresses in their 60s, Best Actress Michelle Yeoh and Supporting Actress Jamie Lee Curtis,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
A combination of old fashioned star power and zeitgeisty marketing captured Oscar voters (and audiences) across the board
• Everything Everywhere All at Once owes its smashing Oscars victory to its amazing resonance
• Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once triumphs with major sweep
• What Everything Everywhere All At Once’s Oscars win means for Asian-American representation
By the time Everything Everywhere All At Once took the top prize this year, victory felt an inevitability. It had been leader of the pack for weeks. Then, once the Oscars finally began being handed out, those hot dog fingers were in all the pies.
Ke Huy Quan took the first, for supporting actor; producer Jonathan Wang the last, for best picture. In between, we saw Jamie Lee Curtis (supporting actress), both Daniels twice (screenplay and directing) and Michelle Yeoh (actress). It was almost everything, almost everywhere, over the course of almost four hours.
• Everything Everywhere All at Once owes its smashing Oscars victory to its amazing resonance
• Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once triumphs with major sweep
• What Everything Everywhere All At Once’s Oscars win means for Asian-American representation
By the time Everything Everywhere All At Once took the top prize this year, victory felt an inevitability. It had been leader of the pack for weeks. Then, once the Oscars finally began being handed out, those hot dog fingers were in all the pies.
Ke Huy Quan took the first, for supporting actor; producer Jonathan Wang the last, for best picture. In between, we saw Jamie Lee Curtis (supporting actress), both Daniels twice (screenplay and directing) and Michelle Yeoh (actress). It was almost everything, almost everywhere, over the course of almost four hours.
- 3/13/2023
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Because of the unimaginable-a-year-ago dominance of Everything Everywhere All at Once and the perception bias in which deviations from the norm appear more outsized than they actually are, the 2023 Oscars might be remembered as the most Asian Academy Awards yet.
Winners of Asian descent — namely, of Chinese and Indian ethnicity — took home statuettes in eight categories, the most ever in a single year (Asian winners showed up in five races in 2009 and 2020, aka the Slumdog Millionaire and Parasite years, respectively, and in four in 2001 and 2021, aka the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Nomadland/Minari years).
Daniel Kwan, whose parents hail from Hong Kong and Taiwan, was responsible for three category wins: original screenplay, directing (both shared with Daniel Scheinert) and best picture, which the Daniels shared with producer Jonathan Wang, whose late father was Taiwanese. Kwan and Wang are the first U.S.-born Asians to win their Oscar categories.
Winners of Asian descent — namely, of Chinese and Indian ethnicity — took home statuettes in eight categories, the most ever in a single year (Asian winners showed up in five races in 2009 and 2020, aka the Slumdog Millionaire and Parasite years, respectively, and in four in 2001 and 2021, aka the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Nomadland/Minari years).
Daniel Kwan, whose parents hail from Hong Kong and Taiwan, was responsible for three category wins: original screenplay, directing (both shared with Daniel Scheinert) and best picture, which the Daniels shared with producer Jonathan Wang, whose late father was Taiwanese. Kwan and Wang are the first U.S.-born Asians to win their Oscar categories.
- 3/13/2023
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After a whopping three hours and 35 minutes, the 2023 Oscars ended with a wave. Best Picture (and Director and Screenplay) winner Daniel Scheinert used his few seconds of stage time (following “Everything Everywhere All At Once” producer Jonathan Wang and fellow director Daniel Kwan) to look directly into the camera, thank the audience for watching, and wave goodbye. Like his movie, the parting words were a little cheesy, and like the ceremony that honored the A24 hit with seven trophies, it was delivered with low-key sincerity — maybe you won’t remember his wave next year, but that’s Ok.
Why? Because it wasn’t a slap.
The less said about last year’s Oscars incident the better — after a year of reacting, analyzing, investigating, and revisiting Will Smith’s assault on Chris Rock, we simply must move on — but it would be disingenuous to act as though it didn’t affect...
Why? Because it wasn’t a slap.
The less said about last year’s Oscars incident the better — after a year of reacting, analyzing, investigating, and revisiting Will Smith’s assault on Chris Rock, we simply must move on — but it would be disingenuous to act as though it didn’t affect...
- 3/13/2023
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Backstage at the Oscars, speaking to the press following his win for Best Supporting Actor in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ke Huy Quan recalled how it felt to change his name back from an Americanized one suggested to him by a manager long ago.
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“You know, when I started as a kid, it was my birth name Ke Huy Quan,” he said. “And then I remember, when it got really tough, my manager told me, ‘Maybe it would be easier if you were to have an American-sounding name.’ And I was so desperate for a job that I would do anything. And it’s insane that I, at one point, would try a different name, not the name that was given to me, but it can only show you how desperate I was to try to make things different.”
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“You know, when I started as a kid, it was my birth name Ke Huy Quan,” he said. “And then I remember, when it got really tough, my manager told me, ‘Maybe it would be easier if you were to have an American-sounding name.’ And I was so desperate for a job that I would do anything. And it’s insane that I, at one point, would try a different name, not the name that was given to me, but it can only show you how desperate I was to try to make things different.”
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- 3/13/2023
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
In an appearance backstage at the Oscars following seven wins for Everything Everywhere All at Once — the most in a year for any title since 2013’s Gravity — filmmaker Dan Kwan and producer Jonathan Wang spoke about their drive to use the explosively joyful feature to address some of the more dark and difficult aspects of life.
The question was directed to the pic’s writer, director and producer Kwan, with reference to mention he’d made on stage earlier in the night of his struggles with insecurities and mental health issues. “I think we’re in a mental health crisis right now,” observed the creative. “Especially the younger generation, they don’t have much to look forward to. When you talk to students these days, there’s a bleakness that kind of is all-pervasive.”
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The question was directed to the pic’s writer, director and producer Kwan, with reference to mention he’d made on stage earlier in the night of his struggles with insecurities and mental health issues. “I think we’re in a mental health crisis right now,” observed the creative. “Especially the younger generation, they don’t have much to look forward to. When you talk to students these days, there’s a bleakness that kind of is all-pervasive.”
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- 3/13/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2023 show went off without controversy, although as usual overshot its planned three-hour running time by more than 30 minutes.
Everything Everywhere All At Once capped its triumphant awards season with seven Oscars – including best picture, best directors and three acting prizes - at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night (March 12).
Apparently reflecting the taste of a younger, more international Academy voting body, the multiverse comedy became the first film to win seven Oscars since Gravity in 2013; and first best picture winner to take more than four awards since The Artist’s five in 2012.
Oscars 2023: Full list of...
Everything Everywhere All At Once capped its triumphant awards season with seven Oscars – including best picture, best directors and three acting prizes - at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night (March 12).
Apparently reflecting the taste of a younger, more international Academy voting body, the multiverse comedy became the first film to win seven Oscars since Gravity in 2013; and first best picture winner to take more than four awards since The Artist’s five in 2012.
Oscars 2023: Full list of...
- 3/13/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The biggest night in Hollywood, the Oscars star Jenny The Donkey, music icon David Byrne donning hotdog hands), read through _Empire’s live blog of the 2023 Oscars.
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04:20am That's a wrap, folks – an end to an emotional Oscars, sure to go down for its excellent wins and outstanding live performances. If you stayed up this late, well done! Rest now, and get ready to rewatch Everything Everywhere All At Once in the morning. Thanks for reading... and get ready for the Oscars 2024.
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03:33am There it is! Everything Everywhere All At Once has won Best Picture at the Oscars. This is momentous, stupendously well deserved. The Daniels are on their feet straight away – seven wins for their film through the night. Jamie Lee Curtis is bouncing up and down on the stage. Ke Huy Quan is on stage with Harrison Ford who presented the award. Producer Jonathan Wang gives an emotional speech,...
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04:20am That's a wrap, folks – an end to an emotional Oscars, sure to go down for its excellent wins and outstanding live performances. If you stayed up this late, well done! Rest now, and get ready to rewatch Everything Everywhere All At Once in the morning. Thanks for reading... and get ready for the Oscars 2024.
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03:33am There it is! Everything Everywhere All At Once has won Best Picture at the Oscars. This is momentous, stupendously well deserved. The Daniels are on their feet straight away – seven wins for their film through the night. Jamie Lee Curtis is bouncing up and down on the stage. Ke Huy Quan is on stage with Harrison Ford who presented the award. Producer Jonathan Wang gives an emotional speech,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
Image Source: Getty / Kevin Winter
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" won best picture at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, March 12, taking home the biggest award of the night. It wasn't exactly a surprise, though, since the movie also won best actress for Michelle Yeoh, best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan, best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis, best director and best original screenplay for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and best film editing for Paul Rogers earlier in the night. The film had 11 nominations total, including another best supporting actress nod for Stephanie Hsu. Best actor went to Brendan Fraser for his performance in "The Whale."
Harrison Ford presented the group with the best picture award, which was appropriate since he worked with Quan on "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" in 1984. During his speech, producer Jonathan Wang thanked the movie's "brilliant and big-hearted" cast and crew - both...
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" won best picture at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, March 12, taking home the biggest award of the night. It wasn't exactly a surprise, though, since the movie also won best actress for Michelle Yeoh, best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan, best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis, best director and best original screenplay for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and best film editing for Paul Rogers earlier in the night. The film had 11 nominations total, including another best supporting actress nod for Stephanie Hsu. Best actor went to Brendan Fraser for his performance in "The Whale."
Harrison Ford presented the group with the best picture award, which was appropriate since he worked with Quan on "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" in 1984. During his speech, producer Jonathan Wang thanked the movie's "brilliant and big-hearted" cast and crew - both...
- 3/13/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
The victory of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” at the 95th Oscars on Sunday is a milestone for Asian talent in front of and behind the camera. It’s also a sign that the Academy Awards is unafraid to make bold, unconventional bets and to embrace a movie that, on paper, could not be farther removed from typical Oscar bait.
And yet the A24 film walked away with the most Oscars with seven, including statues for best picture, director and original screenplay for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, actress for Michelle Yeoh, supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis and supporting actor Ke Huy Quan. This marked A24’s second best picture win since the stunning upset of “Moonlight” (2016) over “La La Land,” also known as “envelope gate.”
Kwan became the second Asian to pull off the “hat trick” — winning picture, director and screenplay — after Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite” (2019). He...
And yet the A24 film walked away with the most Oscars with seven, including statues for best picture, director and original screenplay for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, actress for Michelle Yeoh, supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis and supporting actor Ke Huy Quan. This marked A24’s second best picture win since the stunning upset of “Moonlight” (2016) over “La La Land,” also known as “envelope gate.”
Kwan became the second Asian to pull off the “hat trick” — winning picture, director and screenplay — after Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite” (2019). He...
- 3/13/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Everything Everywhere All at Once has taken home best picture at the 2023 Oscars, capping a remarkable journey for the scrappy indie film turned awards season juggernaut.
“This is for my dad, who like so many immigrant parents, died young, and he is so proud of me — not because of this,” said producer Jonathan Wang, holding his statuette, “but because we made this movie with what he taught me to do, which is: No person is more important than profits, and no one is more important than anyone else.”
The feature from Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) debuted a year ago at South by Southwest and became a surprise box office hit, grossing $106.3 million on a $15 million budget.
Dealing with multiple realities, the quirky A24 film centers on a laundromat owner (Michelle Yeoh) who transcends universes in order to defeat an ultimate evil. The martial arts-heavy project reinvigorated the career of Ke Huy Quan,...
“This is for my dad, who like so many immigrant parents, died young, and he is so proud of me — not because of this,” said producer Jonathan Wang, holding his statuette, “but because we made this movie with what he taught me to do, which is: No person is more important than profits, and no one is more important than anyone else.”
The feature from Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) debuted a year ago at South by Southwest and became a surprise box office hit, grossing $106.3 million on a $15 million budget.
Dealing with multiple realities, the quirky A24 film centers on a laundromat owner (Michelle Yeoh) who transcends universes in order to defeat an ultimate evil. The martial arts-heavy project reinvigorated the career of Ke Huy Quan,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In at least one universe, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a Best Picture winner!
The lauded absurdist film took home the top honor at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday, following wins earlier in the night for Jamie Lee Curtis‘s Best Supporting Actress, Ke Huy Quan‘s Best Supporting Actor, Michelle Yeoh‘s Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, the Daniels’ Best Director and Best Editing.
“There is no movie without our brilliant and big-hearted cast and crew,” producer Jonathan Wang said. “I never thought I would get to say this, so I say this with one voice: Thank you to the Academy.”
Wang went on to dedicate the win to his wife, quoting one of his film’s most famous lines, “In another life, I would have really liked doing laundry and taxes with you.”
The Daniels gave similarly moving speeches when accepting Best Director.
“Our fellow nominees,...
The lauded absurdist film took home the top honor at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday, following wins earlier in the night for Jamie Lee Curtis‘s Best Supporting Actress, Ke Huy Quan‘s Best Supporting Actor, Michelle Yeoh‘s Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, the Daniels’ Best Director and Best Editing.
“There is no movie without our brilliant and big-hearted cast and crew,” producer Jonathan Wang said. “I never thought I would get to say this, so I say this with one voice: Thank you to the Academy.”
Wang went on to dedicate the win to his wife, quoting one of his film’s most famous lines, “In another life, I would have really liked doing laundry and taxes with you.”
The Daniels gave similarly moving speeches when accepting Best Director.
“Our fellow nominees,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Everything Everywhere All at Once was named best picture at the 95th annual Academy Awards, which were handed out Sunday night.
Everything Everywhere also collected three acting awards, best leading actress for Michelle Yeoh, best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan and best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis. The film also won the best original screenplay Oscar and the best director trophy for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — aka Daniels — as well as best film editing for Paul Rogers. Heading into the show, Everything Everywhere led the nominees for the 2023 Oscars, with a total of 11, winning seven.
Elsewhere, Brendan Fraser was named best actor in a leading role for The Whale. German film All Quiet on the Western Front also scooped up four awards, including Oscars for best original score, production design, cinematography and international feature. Avatar: The Way of Water won best visual effects, while Top Gun: Maverick won the sound Oscar.
Everything Everywhere also collected three acting awards, best leading actress for Michelle Yeoh, best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan and best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis. The film also won the best original screenplay Oscar and the best director trophy for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — aka Daniels — as well as best film editing for Paul Rogers. Heading into the show, Everything Everywhere led the nominees for the 2023 Oscars, with a total of 11, winning seven.
Elsewhere, Brendan Fraser was named best actor in a leading role for The Whale. German film All Quiet on the Western Front also scooped up four awards, including Oscars for best original score, production design, cinematography and international feature. Avatar: The Way of Water won best visual effects, while Top Gun: Maverick won the sound Oscar.
- 3/13/2023
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Everything Everywhere All At Once completed its awards-season victory march on Sunday night, taking home seven trophies at the 95th annual Academy Awards, including Best Picture. That was the biggest haul for a Best Picture winner since Slumdog Millionaire‘s eight Oscars in 2009.
Producer Jonathan Wang was the first to give a speech as the cast and crew gathered on stage. He dedicated the award to his father, “who, like so many immigrant parents died young.”
“He’s so proud of me. Not because of this, but because we made this movie with what he taught me to do, which is no person is more important than profits, and no one is more important than anyone else. And these weirdos right here supported me in doing that,” he said.
The film, which A24’s highest-grossing movie of all time, also claimed the golden statuettes for Film Editing, Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan...
Producer Jonathan Wang was the first to give a speech as the cast and crew gathered on stage. He dedicated the award to his father, “who, like so many immigrant parents died young.”
“He’s so proud of me. Not because of this, but because we made this movie with what he taught me to do, which is no person is more important than profits, and no one is more important than anyone else. And these weirdos right here supported me in doing that,” he said.
The film, which A24’s highest-grossing movie of all time, also claimed the golden statuettes for Film Editing, Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan...
- 3/13/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
Everything Everywhere All at Once took home the Best Picture trophy at the Academy Awards on Sunday, bringing the film’s total awards of the night won to seven and capping off a remarkable awards season run.
Producer Jonathan Wang accepted the prize, saying in his speech, “I never thought I would get to say this, so I say it with one voice, with all of these people: Thank you to the Academy.” He added, “This is for my dad, who like so many immigrant parents died young, and he...
Producer Jonathan Wang accepted the prize, saying in his speech, “I never thought I would get to say this, so I say it with one voice, with all of these people: Thank you to the Academy.” He added, “This is for my dad, who like so many immigrant parents died young, and he...
- 3/13/2023
- by Althea Legaspi and Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Oscars 2023In a big moment for India, Naatu Naatu from Rrr won the award for best original song, and The Elephant Whisperers directed by Kartiki Gonsalves won the best documentary short award.Twitter/RRRMovieThe 95th Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, March 12, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Television host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony for the third time. Naatu Naatu from Rrr won the award for best original song. The Elephant Whisperers, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and co-produced by Guneet Monga, won the best documentary short award. Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, a film about two brothers in Delhi who care for injured black kites, was nominated for best documentary feature but lost to Navalny. Here’s the full list of Oscar nominees and winners: Best Picture Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, producers - Winner All Quiet on the Western Front...
- 3/13/2023
- by AzeefaF
- The News Minute
The 95th Annual Academy Awards were presented on Sunday night, March 12, during a ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel that aired live on ABC at 8:00pm Eastern/5:00pm Pacific. So who were the big winners? Scroll down for the complete list of champs in all 23 categories, updated throughout the night.
SEEOscar nominee profile: The Daniels (‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’) would be 3rd duo to win for directing
The outlandish sci-fi family film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” entered these awards with the most nominations. It picked up 11 bids including Best Picture, Best Director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), and Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh). And it has been a good season for the film overall. Though it lost the Golden Globe for Best Film Comedy/Musical to fellow Oscar nominee “The Banshees of Inisherin,” it then went on a (mostly) uninterrupted winning streak. It took the Critics Choice Award...
SEEOscar nominee profile: The Daniels (‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’) would be 3rd duo to win for directing
The outlandish sci-fi family film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” entered these awards with the most nominations. It picked up 11 bids including Best Picture, Best Director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), and Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh). And it has been a good season for the film overall. Though it lost the Golden Globe for Best Film Comedy/Musical to fellow Oscar nominee “The Banshees of Inisherin,” it then went on a (mostly) uninterrupted winning streak. It took the Critics Choice Award...
- 3/13/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Our forum posters, many of whom are Hollywood insiders shielded by clever screen names, didn’t waste any time voicing their opinions regarding the 2023 Oscar winners. As the awards were handed out during the March 12 ceremony, they celebrated the success of their favorite films while lamenting several painful losses.
As has been true over 94 years of Academy Awards history, it would have been impossible to please everybody this time. Below is just a sampling of the brutally honest comments of our sassy forum posters concerning the 2023 Oscar winners. Take a read and then jump in here if you’re brave enough.
Best Picture
“All Quiet on the Western Front” – Malte Grunert, producer
“Avatar: The Way of Water” – James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers
“The Banshees of Inisherin” – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh, producers
“Elvis” – Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss, producers
X – “Everything Everywhere All at Once...
As has been true over 94 years of Academy Awards history, it would have been impossible to please everybody this time. Below is just a sampling of the brutally honest comments of our sassy forum posters concerning the 2023 Oscar winners. Take a read and then jump in here if you’re brave enough.
Best Picture
“All Quiet on the Western Front” – Malte Grunert, producer
“Avatar: The Way of Water” – James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers
“The Banshees of Inisherin” – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh, producers
“Elvis” – Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss, producers
X – “Everything Everywhere All at Once...
- 3/13/2023
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
It turned out that “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was pretty much everything to every Oscar voter. Of its 11 nominations, it won seven, including the big one: Best Picture. The last Best Picture winner to win that many statuettes was “Gravity” in 2014.
“Eeaao” started off strong when Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Actor. Then Jamie Lee Curtis nabbed Best Supporting Actress and, later in the evening, the Daniels took home Best Original Screenplay. By the time it won Film Editing, the seemingly unstoppable breakout hit‘s momentum was undeniable. It then went on to triumph in Best Director, Best Actress and finally, Best Picture.
Much of the evening went according to Steve Pond‘s predictions in his final analysis of the race. “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” won Best Animated Feature, the first award of the night, and “Navalny” won Best Documentary. During his acceptance speech, “Navalny” director Daniel Roher...
“Eeaao” started off strong when Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Actor. Then Jamie Lee Curtis nabbed Best Supporting Actress and, later in the evening, the Daniels took home Best Original Screenplay. By the time it won Film Editing, the seemingly unstoppable breakout hit‘s momentum was undeniable. It then went on to triumph in Best Director, Best Actress and finally, Best Picture.
Much of the evening went according to Steve Pond‘s predictions in his final analysis of the race. “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” won Best Animated Feature, the first award of the night, and “Navalny” won Best Documentary. During his acceptance speech, “Navalny” director Daniel Roher...
- 3/12/2023
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
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