The 95th Academy Award: The Night of Everything Everywhere All At Once

Did you watch the Oscar last night? It was such an amazing show. Indeed, it was the night focusing on the celebration of movies and actings. Not the night of drama. There was nothing happened. Everyone was safe. The Oscar this year is a big night of first time nominees and the history was made. Four actors and actresses won their first Oscar on the first time nominated. Everything Everywhere All At Once swept away seven major Oscar categories, including Best Picture. All Quiet On The Western Front won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Film and other categories. And many other memorable moments from the 95th Academy Award.

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Here are some highlights.

Best Picture goes to Everything Everywhere All At Once

As I predicted in the previous post and probably you all agreed, Everything Everywhere All At Once would win the Best Picture and it had become true. Comparing to other amazing nominees (The Fabelmans, Avatar: The Way of Water, Tar, Elvis, Top Gun: Maverick, Women Talking, Triangle of Sadness, The Banshees of Inisherin, and All Quiet On the Western Front),

Everything Everywhere All At Once stood out the most because of the genre, the creativity, the amazing performance of the cast, and the diversity. If other movies only focus on one story from the beginning to the end, Everything Everywhere All At Once is a mash-up of everything. It is the multiverse. There is no doubt that Everything Everywhere All At Once became the most awarded movie, passed The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King. In the movie history, there was never a movie like Everything Everywhere All At Once. So winning the Best Picture is well-deserved. Besides, it won the Oscar for Best Directing, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Screenplay.

First time nominees became the first time winner

Four acting categories belonged to the four first time nominees. Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian actress to win the Oscar for Best Actress in the Leading Role. The first colored actress won Best Actress in the Leading Role was Halle Berry in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball. Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar for Best Actress in the Supporting Role in Everything Everywhere All At Once. She followed the path of her parents. Tony Curtis, who was nominated for Best Actor in the Leading Role in The Defiant Ones. And Janet Leigh, who was nominated for Best Actress in the Supporting Role in the masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho. She made her parents proud to win an Oscar. Ke Huy Quan was the first Asian and Vietnamese descended actor to win the Oscar for Best Actor in the Supporting Role. Brendan Fraser won the Oscar for the Best Actor in the Leading Role in The Whale. Both Quan and Fraser are friends when they starred in The Goonies. They both nominated and won the Oscar. And they both made an amazing comeback. Congratulation!

All Quiet On The Western Front didn't go quiet at all.

The 1930 version of this movie won the Oscar for the Best Motion Picture in 1931. Now, after over 90 years, All Quiet On The Western Front finally had the version of its own, which is a German speaking movie because the author of the novel, Erich Maria Remarque, was a German and it was about WWI under the eyes of German soldiers. The movie retold the horror and cruel of WWI. Every scene in the movie was taken care well to bring the audience the best experience ever, even it was shown on Netflix. Along with the winning of Best Foreign Film, All Quiet On The Western Front won Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Original Score.

Jimmy Kimmel as the host.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome your host, Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel hosted the Oscar for the first time in 2017, which was a controversial one when the Best Picture was announced wrong. Instead of Moonlight, two presenters, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, said the winner was La La Land. And he hosted the 90th Academy Award in 2018 after a year of MeToo movement. Now, third time's a charm. Kimmel came back and better than ever. Besides making the audience laugh without adding offensive or roasted joke, Kimmel of course had to bring up the slap of last year, which Will Smith stormed on the stage and slapped Chris Rock after Rock made fun of his wife. The action of Smith was condemned by everyone else and yet, he made a 19-minute speech after winning the Oscar for the Best Actor in the Leading Role.