Oscars 2023 Best Picture: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' - All You Need to Know About This Movie

Best Picture Winner of Oscar 2023: The surreal superhero comedy ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ won the Best Picture award at the 95th Academy Awards, along with seven other Oscars on Sunday night. Marking a record-breaking 11 nominations, it won awards for direction, original screenplay, editing, and performances by Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis. 

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ is a combination of absurdist comedy, science fiction, fantasy, martial arts films, and animation. The various aspects making it the best piece of craft include its originality, screenplay, direction, acting, visual effects, costume designs, action scenes, music, and fine editing. 

Michelle Yeoh, the lead actress in the film also became the first Asian woman and the second Person of Colour to win the Oscar for Best Actress. Halle Berry, who took home the prize for ‘Monster's Ball’ in 2002, and Jessica Chastain, the previous year's winner, presented this award to Yeoh.

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About the Film Everything Everywhere All At Once

The 2022 American absurdist comedy-drama film ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, also known by its initials EEAAO, is written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert and co-produced by Anthony and Joe Russo. 

This film is an expedition of life and existence. The two mostly used philosophies include existentialism which explores the issue of humans and other is Nihilism which generally rejects aspects like objective truth, knowledge morality, value, and meaning of human existence.

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The story revolves around Chinese-American immigrant Evelyn Wang, who learns during a tax audit that she must connect with alternate-universe versions of herself to stop a powerful being from wiping out the multiverse. The New York Times referred to the movie as a "swirl of genre anarchy" that combined elements of animation, science fiction, fantasy, and martial arts movies.

The project was started by Kwan and Scheinert in 2010, and its production was announced in 2018. The main filming took place from January to March 2020. Son Lux contributed songs to the soundtrack, working with Mitski, David Byrne, André 3000, John Hampson, and Randy Newman. The movie started a limited theatrical run in the United States before being released widely on April 8, 2022. It was a financial success, earning about $108 million globally, surpassing ‘Hereditary’ (2018) as production house A24's highest-grossing movie, this film became the studio's first movie to cross the $100 million threshold.

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Additionally, the globally praised film has received four Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, five Critics' Choice Awards (including Best Picture), one BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and seven Independent Spirit Awards (including Best Feature).

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