“Everything, everywhere, all at once” domina los Oscar

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The multiverse metaphysical comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” put its hot dog fingers on Hollywood’s top prize on Sunday, winning the Best Picture Oscar at the 95th Academy Awards, along with awards for actors Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Though far from the classic Oscar lure, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s anarchic ballet of bagels, doe-eyed rocks, and messy tax audit emerged as an unlikely Oscar heavyweight. The indie hit, studio A24’s second winner for Best Picture after “Moonlight,” won seven Oscars in all.

Fifty years after ‘The Godfather’ won the Oscars, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ triumphed with a very different immigration experience. Her eccentric story about a family of Chinese descent, is the second feature from The Daniels, as the filmmaking duo are called, blending science fiction and alternate realities in the story of an ordinary woman, owner of a laundromat. automatique.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” released in March 2022, helped revive arthouse theaters after two years of the pandemic, racking up more than $100 million in ticket sales. And despite initially low expectations for his arrival at the Oscars, he knocked down both blockbusters like ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ and reviews like ‘Tar’ and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’. (“Spirits of the Island”). ___

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Journalist Lindsey Bahr contributed to this report.