It was a historic evening for "Everything Everywhere All at Once." The film took home seven Oscars, including three of the four acting Oscars and best picture. The film tells the story of a Chinese immigrant family and mother-daughter relationship via a martial arts extravaganza.
The only previous Asian winners of acting Oscars have been Miyoshi Umeki (“Sayonara”), Ben Kingsley (“Ghandi”), Haing S. Ngor (“The Killing Fields”) and Yuh-Jung Youn (“Minari”), according to Oscar historians. Only Kingsley's was for a leading role.
His leading lady, Michelle Yeoh, also thanked her own mother. “I have to dedicate this to my mom, all the moms in the world because they are really the superheroes, and without them, none of us would be here tonight,” said Yeoh, who made history Sunday night as the Oscars' first Asian best actress winner.
Ke Huy Quan wins the Oscar for best supporting actor for 'Everything Everywhere' The former child star capped off a successful awards season with an unsurprising win. Quan is only the second Asian performer to receive this award after Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields in 1985.
Youn's win for her role as matriarch Soonja in Minari, director Lee Isaac Chung's masterful drama about a Korean American family's move to Arkansas in search of the American Dream, marked the first time a Korean actress won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
First gongs roll in early for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Two supporting actors in "Everything Everywhere All at Once," Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis, won the Oscars for best supporting actor and best supporting actress, respectively. It is the first Academy Award win for either actor.
You read that right. With a total of 69 submissions and 32 nominations, Italy has the highest number of Best International Feature Film Oscars — a total of 14 trophies to call its own.
The foreign language films with the most awards are Sweden's Fanny and Alexander, Taiwan's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, South Korea's Parasite, and Germany's All Quiet on the Western Front with four awards each, including the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
The person who has triumphed more times at the Oscars than anyone else in history is Walt Disney. America's most iconic filmmaker racked up a whopping 26 Oscars, four of which were honorary awards, and he also holds the record for the most nominations on record – 59.
Brennan became the first to receive three or more Academy Awards (winning the third in 1940), followed by Hepburn (1968), Bergman (1974), Nicholson (1997), Streep (2011), Day-Lewis (2012), and, most recently, McDormand (2020). Of the seven, only Nicholson, Streep, Day-Lewis, and McDormand are still living.
Daniel Day-Lewis became the first and currently only man to win three best actor Oscars, while Frances McDormand became only the second woman and third of her counterparts overall to achieve the same. Finally, Walter Brennan won his three supporting actor Oscars every other year between 1937 and 1941.
The Golden Rooster Awards (Chinese: 金鸡奖; pinyin: Jīnjī Jiǎng) are film awards given in mainland China. The awards were originally given annually, beginning in 1981.
This is a list of people have won multiple Academy Awards in a single year in the standard competitive categories. To date, a total of 82 individuals have achieved this feat on 95 distinct occasions with the multiple winners having won more than one awards that year.
South Korea has submitted 33 films for consideration in its entire history, and only two have ever been shortlisted in the category (with Parasite being the only one to ever earn the recognition).
What was the first non American movie to win an Oscar?
Marie-Louise (1944) This 1944 Swiss, German, and French film became the first international film to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Swiss screenwriter Richard Schweizer took home the gold for this World War II tale, making him the first person to ever win an Oscar for a foreign language film.
It went on to win four awards including Best Picture, Best Director, (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Supporting Actor (Bardem), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ethan and Joel Coen). The Coen brothers became the second pair of individuals to win Best Directing for helming the same film.
As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time. While the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" star scored four acting accolades during her career, six fellow actors tied for the second spot with three wins each.
The 74th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, takes the cake as the longest Oscar ceremony in the show's history. Taking place on 24 March 2002, the show lasted 4 hours and 23 minutes, all of which were broadcasted live on ABC.
Just six have won. This was the first year that four Asian performers were nominated for Oscars at the same time. Another milestone was made on Sunday when both Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan from “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won. Before this year, only one Asian actor has won in a single year.
Who won a Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once?
The metaphysical multiverse comedy "Everything Everywhere All at Once" wrapped its hot dog fingers around Hollywood's top prize Sunday, winning best picture at the 95th Academy Awards, along with awards for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.
