Comedy drama Everything Everywhere All At Once has cleaned up at the 2023 Academy Awards – but there was glory for Scotland as a Stirling screenwriter's film was named best international flick.
World champion triathlete Lesley Paterson co-wrote a film adaptation of All Quiet On The Western Front after reading the book as a schoolgirl in Stirling. The German-language film, picked up by Netflix 16 years after Lesley first bought the rights to the novel, won Best International Picture at the Oscars last night.
It also won Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Production Design – but missed out on the coveted Best Picture award after Everything Everywhere All At Once swept the board. The Mirror reports the film won seven Oscars and star Michelle Yeoh made history as the first Asian to win a Best Actress gong.
TV funnyman Jimmy Kimmel took on presenting duties for the 95th edition of the awards, with Florence Pugh, Pedro Pascal and Andrew Garfield among the award presenters. Brendan Fraser bagged his first honour from the Academy for his role in The Whale – a phenomenal comeback after allegedly being blacklisted from the movie industry for speaking out about sexual assault.
Accepting the award, he joked: "So this is what the multiverse looks like. I thank the Academy for this honour...Darren Aronofsky for throwing me a creative lifeline and hauling me aboard the good ship The Whale."
Legendary actress Jamie Lee Curtis paid tribute to her famous parents as she won her first Academy Award on Sunday night. The actress, daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, thanked all of the special people in her life as she yelled: "We just won an Oscar!"
The US actress, 64, said on stage: "I know it looks like I am standing up here on my own but I am not. There are hundreds of people and hundreds of people.
"To my family, my beautiful husband, Christopher Guest, my daughters, Annie and Ruby, my sister Kelly - we just won an Oscar. To all of the people who have supported the genre movies that I have made for hundreds and hundreds of thousands, we just won an Oscar together."
Lady Gaga and Rihanna both missed out on an Oscar, as 'Naatu Naatu' from 'RRR' won the award for Best Original Song and beat the two pop icons and their fellow nominees in the category. Other winners included animated BBC short flick The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse and Avatar: The Way of Water.
Here is the full list of winners of the 2023 awards:
Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Winner
The Fabelmans
Tar
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Tar
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once - Winner
Best Actor
Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale - Winner
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once) - Winner
Brendan Gleeson (Banshees of Inisherin)
Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans)
Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Jamie Lee Curtis - Winner
Angela Bassett
Hong Chau
Kerry Condon
Stephanie Hsu
Best Director
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All At Once - Winner
The Fabelmans
Tar
Triangle of Sadness
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Winner
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Fabelmans
Tar
Triangle of Sadness
Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Women Talking - Winner
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Visual Effects
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water - Winner
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
Best International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front - Winner
Argentina, 1985
Close
EO
The Quiet Girl
Best Animated Feature Film
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - Winner
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Best
Turning Red
Best Animated Short Film
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse - Winner
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe it
Best Documentary Short Film
The Elephant Whisperers - Winner
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Marsha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate
Best Live Action Short Film
An Irish Goodbye - Winner
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase
Best Music (Original Score)
All Quiet on the Western Front - Winner
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Best Music (Original Song)
Naatu Naatu from RRR - Winner
Applause from Tell It Like a Woman
Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick
Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
This is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front - Winner
Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tar
Best Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front - Winner
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans
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