{"id":15548,"date":"2023-03-13T15:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/elated-proud-india-celebrates-historic-wins-in-2023-oscars-2\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:09:44","slug":"elated-proud-india-celebrates-historic-wins-in-2023-oscars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=15548","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Elated, proud\u2019: India celebrates historic wins in 2023 Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Everything Everywhere All At Once\u2019 wins best picture at the Oscars, dominating ceremony with 7 wins<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\nLOS ANGELES: \u201cEverything Everywhere All At Once\u201d came in the Oscar favorite, and it\u2019s winning like one, too. Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis all won acting honors Sunday while the filmmaking duo known as the Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won for both directing and original screenplay.<\/p>\n
\nYeoh became the first Asian woman to best actress, taking the award for her lauded performance in \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once.\u201d The 60-year-old Malaysian-born Yeoh won her first Oscar for a performance that relied as much on her comic and dramatic chops as it did her kung fu skills. She\u2019s the first best actress win for a non-white actress in 20 years.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cLadies, don\u2019t let anyone ever tell you you\u2019re past your prime,\u201d said Yeoh, who received a raucous standing ovation.<\/p>\n\n\nYeoh became the first Asian woman to best actress. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\nIn winning best director, the Daniels \u2014 both 35 years old \u2014 won for just their second and decidedly un-Oscar bait feature. They\u2019re just the third directing pair to win the award, following Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (\u201cWest Side Story\u201d) and Joel and Ethan Coen (\u201cNo Country for Old Men\u201d). Scheinert dedicated the award \u201cto the moms of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBest actor went to Brendan Fraser, culminating the former action star\u2019s return to center stage for his physical transformation as a 600-lb. reclusive professor in \u201cThe Whale.\u201d The best-actor race had been one of the closest contests of the night, but Fraser in the end edged Austin Butler.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSo this is what the multiverse looks like,\u201d said a clearly moved Fraser, pointing to the \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once\u201d crew.<\/p>\n\n\nCaptionBest actor went to Brendan Fraser. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\nThe former child star Quan capped his own extraordinary comeback with the Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance in the indie hit \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nQuan, beloved for his roles as Short Round in \u201cIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\u201d and Data in \u201cGoonies,\u201d had all but given up acting before being cast in \u201cEverything Everywhere\u00a0All at Once.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nHis win, among the most expected of the night, was nevertheless one of the ceremony\u2019s most moving moments. The audience \u2014 including his \u201cTemple of Doom\u201d director, Steven Spielberg \u2014 gave Quan a standing ovation as he fought back tears.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMom, I just won an Oscar!\u201d said Quan, 51, whose family fled Vietnam in the war when he was a child.<\/p>\n\n\nUS-Vietnamese actor Ke Huy Quan, winner of the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, attends the 95th Annual Academy Awards. (AFP)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n\u201cThey say stories like this only happen in the movies. I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s happening,\u201d said Quan. \u201cThis is the American dream.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMinutes later, Quan\u2019s castmate Jamie Lee Curtis won for best supporting actress. Her win, in one of the most competitive categories this year, denied a victory for comic-book fans.<\/p>\n
\nAngela Bassett (\u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d) would have been the first performer to win an Oscar for a Marvel movie.<\/p>\n
\nIt also made history for Curtis, a first-time winner who alluded to herself as \u201ca Nepo baby\u201d during her win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. She\u2019s the rare Oscar winner whose parents were both Oscar nominees, something she emotionally referenced in her speech. Tony Curtis was nominated for \u201cThe Defiant Ones\u201d in 1959 and Janet Leigh was nominated in 1961 for \u201cPsycho.\u201d Curtis thanked \u201chundreds\u201d of people who put her in that position.<\/p>\n\n\nUS actress and author Jamie Lee Curtis poses with the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in the press room during the 95th Annual Academy Awards. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\nThe German-language WWI epic \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front\u201d \u2014 Netflix\u2019s top contender this year \u2014 took four awards as the academy heaped honors on the craft of the harrowing anti-war film. It won for cinematography, production design, score and best international film.<\/p>\n
\nThough Bassett missed on supporting actress, Ruth E. Carter won for the costume design of \u201cWakanda Forever,\u201d four years after becoming the first Black designer to win an Oscar, for \u201cBlack Panther.\u201d This one makes Carter the first Black woman to win two Oscars.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThank you to the Academy for recognizing the superhero that is a Black woman,\u201d said Carter. \u201cShe endures, she loves, she overcomes, she is every woman in this film.\u201d Carter dedicated the award to her mother, who she said died last week at 101.<\/p>\n\n\nUS costume designer Ruth E. Carter accepts the Oscar for Best Costume Design for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” onstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\nThe telecast, airing live on ABC, opened traditionally: with a montage of the year\u2019s films (with Kimmel edited into a cockpit in \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201c) and a lengthy monologue. Kimmel, hosting for the third time, didn\u2019t dive right into revisiting Will Smith\u2019s slap of Chris Rock at last year\u2019s ceremony. The late-night comedian struggled to find lessons from last year\u2019s incident, which was followed by Smith winning best actor. If anyone tried any violence this year, Kimmel said, \u201cyou will be awarded the Oscar for best actor and permitted to give a 19-minute-long speech.\u201d But Kimmel, hosting for the third time, said anyone who wanted to \u201cget jiggy with it\u201d this year will have to come through a fearsome battalion of bodyguards, including Michael B. Jordan, Michelle Yeoh, Steven Spielberg and his show\u2019s \u201csecurity guard\u201d Guillermo Rodriguez. After landmark wins for Chlo\u00e9 Zhao (\u201cNomadland\u201c) and Jane Campion (\u201cThe Power of the Dog\u201c), no women were nominated for best director. Sarah Polley, though, won best adapted screenplay for the metaphor-rich Mennonite drama \u201cWomen Talking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nBest Adapted Screenplay winner for “Women Talking,” Sarah Polley is seen backstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n\u201cThank you to the academy for not being mortally offended by the words \u2018women\u2019 and \u2018talking,\u2019\u201d said Polley. Daniel Roher\u2019s \u201cNavalny,\u201d about the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, took best documentary. The film\u2019s win came with clear overtones to Navalny\u2019s ongoing imprisonment and Vladimir Putin\u2019s continued war in Ukraine. Yulia Navalnaya joined the filmmakers on the stage. \u201cMy husband is in prison just for telling the truth,\u201d said Navalnaya. \u201cStay strong my love.\u201d Some big names weren\u2019t in attendance for other reasons. Neither Tom Cruise, whose \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d is up for best picture, nor James Cameron, director of best-picture nominee \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water,\u201d were at the ceremony. Both have been forefront in Hollywood\u2019s efforts to get moviegoers back after years of pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\nYulia Navalnaya attends the 95th Annual Academy Awards. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n\u201cThe two guys who asked us to go back to theater aren\u2019t in the theater,\u201d said Kimmel, who added that Cruise without his shirt on in \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d was \u201cL. Ron Hubba Hubba.\u201d After last year\u2019s Oscars, which had stripped some categories from being handed out in the live telecast, the academy restored all awards to the show and leaned on traditional song and and dance numbers. That meant some show-stopping numbers, including the elastic suspenders dance of \u201cNaatu Naatu\u201d from the Telugu action-film sensation \u201cRRR,\u201d an intimate, impassioned performance by Lady Gaga of \u201cHold My Hand\u201d from \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d and an Super Bowl follow-up by Rihanna. Best song went to \u201cNaatu Naatu.\u201d It also meant a long show. \u201cThis kind of makes you miss the slapping a little bit, right?\u201d Kimmel said mid-show. The night\u2019s first award went to \u201cGuillermo del Toro\u2019s Pinocchio\u201d for best animated film. That handed Netflix its first Oscar in the category. After last year\u2019s slap, the academy created a crisis management team to better respond to surprises. Neither Rock, who recently made his most forceful statement about the incident in a live special, nor Smith, who was banned by the academy for 10 years, attended.<\/p>\n\n\nTV host Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\nThe Academy Awards is attempting to recapture some of its old luster. One thing working in its favor: This year\u2019s best picture field was stacked with blockbusters. Ratings usually go up when the nominees are more popular, which certainly goes for \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d and \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water.\u201d Neither won much, though. \u201cThe Way of Water,\u201d with more than $2.28 billion in box office, won for best visual effects. The \u201cTop Gun\u201d sequel ($1.49 billion), took best sound. Last year, Apple TV\u2019s \u201cCODA\u201d became the first streaming movie to win best picture. But this year, nine of the 10 best picture nominees were theatrical releases. After the movie business cratered during the pandemic, moviegoing recovered to about 67 percent of pre-pandemic levels. But it was an up and down year, full of smash hits and anxiety-inducing lulls in theaters. This year, ticket sales have been strong thanks to releases like \u201cCreed III\u201d and \u201cCocaine Bear\u201d \u2014 which made not one but two cameos at Sunday\u2019s show. But there remain storm clouds on the horizon. The Writers Guild and the major studios are set to begin contract negotiations March 20, a looming battle that has much of the industry girding for the possibility of a work stoppage throughout film and television. The Oscars, too, are seeking steadiness. Last year\u2019s telecast drew 16.6 million viewers, a 58 percent increase from the scaled-down 2021 edition, watched by a record low 10.5 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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