A year after one of the most infamous Oscar awards to date, a champagne-coloured carpet welcomed back stars to the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday.
After late-night entertainer Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue created a buzz, two veterans — Ke Huy Quan (supporting actor) and Jamie Lee Curtis (supporting actress) of the sci-fi adventure Everything Everywhere All at Once— accepted their awards in speeches that brought cheers and tears.
Canadians pick up awards
But Canadians also made their mark.
Toronto filmmaker and screenwriter Sarah Polley won for adapted screenplay for Women Talking.
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First of all, I want to thank the academy for not being mortally offended by the words ‘women’ and ‘talking’ so close together like that,” she said on the Oscars stage.
Women Talking is a tense drama based on Canadian Miriam Toews’s novel by the same name.
Toronto filmmaker Daniel Roher won best documentary for his work in Navalny. It revolves around the 2020 assassination attempt on Alexei Navalny and events leading to the now-imprisoned Russian opposition leader’s poisoning. Later, director James Cameron’s sequel Avatar: The Way of Water won the Oscar for special effects.
Rosemary Barton Live speaks with Daniel Roher, the Canadian director behind the Oscar-nominated documentary Navalny. The documentary follows jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who returned to Russia after an alleged poisoning assassination attempt.
Earlier in the evening, Montreal makeup artist Adrien Morot and team picked up an award for makeup and hairstyling for their work on The Whale.
Everything Everywhere All at Once wins early
The Oscar for Quan is his latest honour during a comeback year. The former child star appeared in Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom and The Goonies some 40 years ago.
“They say stories like this only happen in the movies,” he said. “I cannot believe it’s happening to me. This is the American dream.”
In accepting her award, Curtis mentioned her late parents, Oscar-nominated Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.
Kimmel returned as host for the third time, as the first solo emcee in five years. His monologue Sunday touched on the lack of women in the director category and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “crisis team” to avoid any violence on stage.
“The academy has a crisis team in place and if anything unpredictable or violent happens during the ceremony, just do what you did last year. Nothing. Just sit there and do absolutely nothing. Maybe even give the assailant a hug.”
Streaming services are often thought of as a competitor for the movie theatre experience, but some in the industry see streaming as a benefit by keeping films in the conversation longer.
The first award of the evening went to Guillermo del Toro, in the best animated feature category for Pinocchio.
“Animation is cinema. Animation is not a genre. Animation is ready to be taken to the next step … we’re all ready for it,” del Toro said on stage.
Canadians also vying for an Academy Award include Canadian director Sarah Polley for Women Talking in the adapted screenplay and best-picture categories, and Brendan Fraser for best actor in The Whale.
Mind-bending metaverse movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, a big favourite, came into the evening with a leading 11 nominations, including for best picture, Michelle Yeoh for actress in a leading role, Curtis and Stephanie Hsu for actress in a supporting role, and Quan.
CBC News is updating this story with all the winners (shown in bold) throughout the evening.
Best animated feature:
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
The Sea Beast.
Turning Red
Best supporting actor:
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway.
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans.
Brendan Gleeson, Banshees on Inisherin.
Barry Keoghan, Banshees of Inisherin.
Best supporting actress:
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Hong Chau, The Whale.
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin.
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Documentary feature:
Navalny.
All That Breathes.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
Fire of Love.
A House Made of Splinters.
Live action short:
An Irish Goodbye.
Ivalu.
Le Pupille.
Night Ride.
The Red Suitcase.
Cinematography:
James Friend, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Darius Khondj, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.
Mandy Walker, Elvis.
Roger Deakins, Empire of Light.
Florian Hoffmeister, Tár.
Makeup and hairstyling:
The Whale.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
The Batman.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Elvis.
Costume design:
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Babylon.
Elvis.
Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.
International feature film:
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany).
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina).
Close (Belgium).
EO (Poland).
The Quiet Girl (Ireland).
Documentary short film:
The Elephant Whisperers.
Haulout.
How Do You Measure a Year?.
The Martha Mitchell Effect.
Stranger at the Gate.
Animated short film:
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
The Flying Sailor.
Ice Merchants.
My Year of Dicks.
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe it.
Production design:
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Avatar: The Way of Water.
Babylon.
Elvis.
The Fabelmans.
Original score:
Volker Bertelmann, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon.
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin.
Son Lux, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
John Williams, The Fabelmans.
Visual effects:
Avatar: The Way of Water.
Top Gun: Maverick.
The Batman.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Original screenplay:
Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The Banshees of Inisherin.
The Fabelmans.
Tár.
Triangle of Sadness.
Adapted screenplay:
Women Talking.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Living.
Top Gun: Maverick.
Sound:
Top Gun: Maverick.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Avatar: The Way of Water.
The Batman.
Elvis.
Original song:
Naatu Naatu from RRR.
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.
Film editing:
Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis.
Tár.
Top Gun: Maverick.
Best director:
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin.
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans.
Todd Field, Tár.
Ruben Ostlund, Triangle of Sadness.
